Research Interests
- Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning,
- Responsible Data Science and AI
- Data-Driven Systems and Stream Processing
- Web Search, Graph Data and Knowledgebases
- Data Quality and Data Integration
“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” –The Economist, Leaders Section
Awards
- Research Enhanced Faculty within Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society (2024)
- Appointed till 2030 with $100K research startup support and an additional $25K per year of research allowance
- Supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and 50+ industry, hospital, and community partners
- IBM CAS Faculty of the Year (2023)
- Best Paper Honourable Mention at the ACM CIKM conference (2022)
- BLUTune: Query-informed Multi-stage IBM Db2 Tuning via ML
- STU CLARK Distinguished Speaker Series Asper School of Business (2022)
- Runner-up IBM CAS Project-of-the-Year (2021)
- Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence (2019)
- IBM CAS Faculty Fellow (2017)
- IBM CAS Research Student-of-the-Year (2013)
- CeBIT Business Award for Innovation (2007)
- OCEAN GenRap Tool (ERP Optima)
Current and Past Collaborators
- Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Lab-Research)
- Vincent Corvinelli, Wenbin Ma, Piotr Mierzejewski, and Calisto Zuzarte (IBM Lab)
- Lukasz Golab and Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
- Fei Chiang (McMasters)
- Michael Böhlen (University of Zurich)
- Renée Miller (University of Toronto)
- Aijun An, Parke Godfrey and Jarek Gryz (York University)
- Ebrahim Bagheri, Mehdi Kargar, and Morteza Zihayat (Toronto Metropolitan University)
- Amirali Abari and Ken Pu (Ontario Tech University)
Current Projects
- Self-driven Data Systems (Alexander Bianchi, Andrew Chai, Rafael Dolores, Justin So)
- Explainable AI (Katherine Ling, Joel Rorseth, Andy Yu)
- Graph Search (Radin Hamidi Rad)
Future Students
Data & AI Lab is hiring again.
We are looking for talented graduate students in the broad areas of Big Data Analytics / Machine Learning / Data Science. Please, send an e-mail if you are interested in applying.