Students

"Do only what only you can do." - Edgar Dijkstra

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According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, the students below can trace back their "academic roots" as follows: Hao Zhang (Toronto), Eugene Fiume (Toronto), Alain Fournier (UT Texas), Zvi Kedem (Technion), Azaria Paz (Technion), Michael Rabin (Princeton), Alonzo Church (Princeton), Oswald Veblen (Chicago), E. H. Moore (Yale), H. A. Newton (Yale), Michel Chasles (Ecole Polytechnique), Simeon Poisson (Ecole Polytechnique), Joseph Lagrange (Pierre-Simon Laplace, too), Leonard Euler (Universitat Basel), Johann Bernoulli (Universitat Basel), Jacob Bernoulli (Universitat Basel), and Gottfried Leibniz (Universitat Altdorf, 1666).

See a version with pictures from David Mould's page and a version with graph-vis from Mario Sousa's page.

Oh, by the way, my Erdös number is at most 5.

Current students

Postdoc's

Oliver van Kaick, M. Sc., Federal Univ. of Parana, Brazil; Ph.D., SFU (2011)
MITACS Elevate Postdoc Fellowship with PDFTron Inc., 2011-2013

Ph.D.'s

Ibraheem Alhashim, B. Sc., Portland State University; M. Sc., SFU;
Ph.D., May 2011 - current
Honghua (Howard) Li, B. Sc. and M. Sc.: National University of Defense Tech., China;
China Scholarship Council Scholarship for four years
Ph.D., September 2010 - current
Andrea Tagliasacchi, B. Sc. and M. Sc., Politecnico di Milano;
NSERC's Alexander Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2011
Best Student Paper Award for MITACS-related research, 2009
Gold medal for best graduate student in computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano, 2007;
Ph.D.: September 2008 - current
Hui Wang, M. Sc., Dalian University of Tech., China
Visiting via China Scholarship Council Scholarship, September, 2011 - August, 2012

M.Sc.'s

Nima Aghdaii, B. Sc., University of Tehran, Iran;
M. Sc., September 2009 - current;
MITACS Internship with Softree Inc., 2010
Xiaoming (Amy) Li, B. Sc., Simon Fraser University, Canada;
M. Sc., September 2010 - current
MITACS Accelerate Internship with PDFTron Inc., 2011-2012;
M.Sc. Thesis Topic: A Comparative Study of Spectral Embedding Methods
Yuan (Karen) Liu, B. Sc., Beijing University of Tech., China;
M. Sc., September 2009 - current
Anna Mewhort, B. Sc., Thompson River University, Canada;
M. Sc., September 2010 -
Shuya Yao, B. Sc., Tianjin University, China;
M. Sc., September 2009 - current

Students supervised

Oliver van Kaick, M. Sc., Federal Univ. of Parana, Brazil;
Ph.D., September 2005 - November 2011
Ph.D. Thesis: Matching Dissimilar Shapes
Now: MITACS Elevate Postdoc with PDFTron Inc., 2011-2013;
Yanzhen (Eric) Wang, M. Sc., National Univ. of Defence Tech., China
Visiting via China Scholarship Council Scholarship, October, 2009 - September 2010; June 2011 - October 2011.
Matt Olson, B. Sc.: Alberta; Ph.D., September 2004 - April 2011;
Precarn Scholarship 2008;
Ph.D. Thesis: A Plane View of Geometric Silhouettes
Ibraheem Alhashim, M. Sc., January 2009 - February 2011.
M. Sc. thesis: Detail-replicating shape stretching (demo video | code);
Now Ph.D. at SFU.
Kevin (Kai) Xu, M. Sc., National Univ. of Defence Tech., China
Visiting via China Scholarship Council Scholarship, November, 2008 - October, 2010
Now assistant professor at NUDT, China, 2011 -
Ramsay Dyer, Ph.D., Jan. 2003 - Feb. 2010, (co-supervision with Dr. Torsten Moeller );
Best Paper Award at SGP 2008 and Best Student Paper Award for MITACS-related research, 2008;
Ph.D. Thesis: Self-Delaunay Meshes for Surfaces;
Now Postdoc at INRIA, 2011 -
Joe Kahlert, B. Sc., UBC; M. Sc., September 2007 - May 2009;
Accelerate BC Internship with Automated Systems Research, 2007, 2008;
M. Sc. thesis: Tiling surfaces using straight strips;
Research personnel for NSERC Engage Grant, March 2010 - September 2010
Rong (Frank) Liu, M. Sc.: BUAA; Ph.D., Sep. 2003 - March 2009
MITACS Internship with Radical Entertainment Inc., 2007, 2008;
Ph.D. thesis: Spectral mesh segmentation
Now at PDFTron, Vancouver, Canada.
Shy Shalom, Department of Computer Science,
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Visiting student: September 1, 2008 - January 2, 2009
Jeff (Jun) Yu, M. Sc., September 2006 - June 2008
M. Sc. project: A Prototype Sketch-Based Architecture Modelling System with Traditional Design Habits
John Y. S. Li, M. Sc., September. 2004 - December 2006
M. Sc. thesis: Nonobtuse Meshes with Guaranteed Angle Bounds (12/11/06)
Now at Slant Six Games, Vancouver, Canada.
Ginger (Xiaoxing) Li, M. Sc., September. 2004 - November 2006
Award of Excellence (Technology) from MITACS internship program, 2007, Brightside Technologies Inc.;
MSc. thesis: Towards Expression-Invariant Face Recognition using Multiple Adaptive Attributes (11/28/06)
Now at GE Global Research, NY.
Andrew Clements, M. Sc., Sep. 2003 - May 2006
M. Sc. thesis: Minimum ratio contours for meshes (05/31/06)
Now at Action Pants Inc., Vancouver, Canada.
Varun Jain, M. Sc., Jan. 2004 - May 2006
M. Sc. thesis: Robust correspondence and retrieval of articulated shapes (05/26/06)
Now at Google Inc., Waterloo, Canada (was at Google Labs in India and D-Wave Systems Inc.)
Justin Price, NSERC USRA Student, Sep. 2003 - Dec. 2003
Project: Local parameterizations used in mesh geometry compression
Last known at: Electronic Arts
Hedric Blok, NSERC USRA Student, Sep. 2003 - Dec. 2003
Project: Permutation-based Geometry Mesh Coding
Last known at: Electronic Arts