GRADUATE PROGRAM PROPOSAL OF MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MASTER OF MATHEMATICS IN DATA SCIENCE Submitted to the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance VOLUME II – FACULTY CURRICULA VITAE SEPTEMBER 2018 Curriculum Vitae – M. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and M.Math in Data Science TABLE OF CONTENTS Ben-David, Shai ............................................................................................................................... 2 Browne, Ryan ................................................................................................................................ 14 Chenouri, Shoja ............................................................................................................................. 20 Coleman, Thomas (Tom) ............................................................................................................... 30 Cormack, Gordon (Gord) ............................................................................................................... 37 Fukasawa, Ricardo ........................................................................................................................ 41 Ghodsi, Ali ..................................................................................................................................... 51 Grossman, Maura.......................................................................................................................... 62 Hoey, Jesse .................................................................................................................................... 78 Hofert, Marius ............................................................................................................................... 99 Ilyas, Ihab .................................................................................................................................... 110 Koenemann, Jochen .................................................................................................................... 126 Larson, Kate................................................................................................................................. 138 Li, Yuying ..................................................................................................................................... 147 Lin, Jimmy.................................................................................................................................... 155 Lysy, Martin ................................................................................................................................. 198 Oldford, Wayne ........................................................................................................................... 206 Ozsu, Tamer ................................................................................................................................ 214 Poupart, Pascal ............................................................................................................................ 230 Sanita, Laura ................................................................................................................................ 247 Schonlau, Mathias ....................................................................................................................... 262 Steiner, Stefan ............................................................................................................................. 271 Swamy, Chaitanya ....................................................................................................................... 281 Tuncel, Levent ............................................................................................................................. 296 van Beek, Peter ........................................................................................................................... 307 Vavasis, Stephen ......................................................................................................................... 316 Wan, Justin .................................................................................................................................. 321 Wolkowicz, Henry ....................................................................................................................... 330 Yu, Yaoliang ................................................................................................................................. 347 Zhu, Mu ....................................................................................................................................... 356 Zhu, Yeying .................................................................................................................................. 366 Appendix A: Graduate Courses Taught by Faculty Members ..................................................... 373 ii Professor Shai Ben-David Professor Shai Ben-David Cheriton School of Computer Science Language Skills Language Read Write Speak Understand Peer Review English Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hebrew Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Degrees 1983/9 - 1987/4 Doctorate, Mathematics, mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Degree Status: Completed Supervisors: Shelah, S, 1983/9 - 1987/4 1975/9 - 1976/10 Master's Thesis, Mathematics (with distinction), mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Degree Status: Completed Supervisors: Shelah, S, 1975/9 - 1972/10 - 1975/7 Bachelor's Honours, Mathematics and Physics (with distinction), mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Degree Status: Completed Recognitions 2011/7 - 2011/7 Best Student Paper award (Canadian dollar) COLT 2011 Distinction This paper has won the Best Student Paper award in COLT 2011 2006/7 COLT Best student paper award Distinction The paper with my student David Pal won the COLT 2006 Best Student Paper award User Profile Fields of Application: Foundations and Knowledge Acquisition Areas of Research: Computer Science and Statistics Research Specialization Keywords: theoretical machine learning, clustering Research Disciplines: Computer Science 2 Professor Shai Ben-David Employment 2004/9 - 2014/12 Professor Computer Science, University of Waterloo Full-time, Professor Tenure Status: Tenure, 2004/9 - 2014/12 2001/8 - 2004/7 Visiting Professor ECE, Cornell University Full-time, Visiting Professorship, Associate Professor Tenure Status: Non Tenure Track, 2002/8 - 2004/7 1998/1 - 2004/4 Associate Professor Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Full-time, Associate Professor Tenure Status: Tenure, 1997/1 - 2004/4 1997/9 - 1998/8 Visiting Professor Computer Science, Australian National University Full-time, Visiting Professorship, Associate Professor Tenure Status: Non Tenure Track, 1997/9 - 1998/8 1987/9 - 1996/4 Assistant Professor Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Full-time, Assistant Professor Tenure Status: Tenure Track, 1987/9 - 1996/4 1985/9 - 1987/4 Postdoctoral Fellow Computer Science, University of Toronto Full-time, Lecturer Tenure Status: Non Tenure Track, 1985/9 - 1987/4 Affiliations The primary affiliation is denoted by (*) (*) 2009/6 - 2012/7 President of the Association for Computational Learning (ACL), President of the Association for Computational Learning (ACL) Research Funding History Completed [n=3] 2011/1 - 2014/3 Google research award, Scholarship Principal Applicant Funding Sources: 2011/1 - 2013/3 Google Total Funding - 25,000 Portion of Funding Received - 100 Funding Competitive?: Yes 2009/4 - 2014/3 NSERC Discovery, Grant Principal Applicant 3 Professor Shai Ben-David Funding Sources: 2008/4 - 2014/3 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Total Funding - 200,000 Portion of Funding Received - 100 Funding Competitive?: Yes 2008/4 - 2013/3 Discovery Accelerator Supplement, Grant Principal Applicant Funding Sources: 2008/4 - 2013/3 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Total Funding - 120,000 Portion of Funding Received - 100 Funding Competitive?: Yes Student/Postdoctoral Supervision Master’s Thesis [n=10] 2014/9 - 2016/7 Hao (Michael) Yang (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Expected Date: 2016/7 Thesis/Project Title: To b edetermined Present Position: Masters studnet 2014/4 - 2015/7 Ali, Rabail (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2014/4 Student Degree Expected Date: 2015/7 Thesis/Project Title: N/A 2013/9 - 2017/4 Szepasvari, David (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2013/9 Student Degree Expected Date: 2017/4 Thesis/Project Title: N/A 2012/1 - 2014/8 Kushagra, Shrinu (Completed) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2013/3 Thesis/Project Title: Niceness Properties for Learning Algorithms Present Position: PhD student, University of Waterloo 2011/9 - 2013/8 Haghtalab, Nika (Completed) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 Student Degree Received Date: 2013/8 Thesis/Project Title: N/A 2011/9 - 2013/8 Luu, Teresa (Completed) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 Student Degree Received Date: 2013/8 Thesis/Project Title: N/A 2011/9 - 2013/8 Lu, Tayler (Completed) , University of Waterloo Principal Supervisor Student Degree Start Date: 2011/9 Student Degree Received Date: 2013/8 Thesis/Project Title: N/A 4 Professor Shai Ben-David