Graduate Students of Anna Lubiw

Postdocs

• Jayson Lynch, co-supervised with the Algorithms and Complexity group, September 2020 - August 2022
• Ahmad Biniaz, co-supervised with Therese Biedl, September 2018 - August 2019.
  currently Assistant Prof., School of Computer Science, University of Windsor.
• Philipp Kindermann, co-supervised with Therese Biedl, March 2018 - August 2018.
  currently Universit\"at Trier, Germany
• Debajyoti Mondal, Sep. 2016 - Dec. 2017.
  currently Associate Prof., Dept. Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
• Megan Owen, Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013.
  currently Associate Prof., Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lehman College, CUNY
• Stephan Durocher, 2007-2008.
  currently Prof., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Winnipeg.

Ph.D.

• Anurag Murty Naredla, Ph.D. 2023,
  thesis: Algorithms for Geometric Facility Location: Centers in a Polygon and Dispersion on a Line
• Zuzana Masarova, PhD 2020 at IST Austria, jointly supervised with Uli Wagner and Herbert Edelsbrunner
  thesis: "Reconfiguration Problems"
• Hamideh Vosoughpour, Ph.D. 2016,
  thesis: Straight Line Movement in Morphing and Pursuit Evasion.
  Hamideh works at Google Waterloo.
• Vinayak Pathak, Ph.D. 2014,
  thesis: "Reconfiguring Triangulations".
  Vinayak is currently Associate Director, Quantitative Developer/Architect at Scotiabank in Toronto.
• Fidel Barrera-Cruz, PhD 2014,
  informal co-supervision with supervisor P.E. Haxell,
  thesis: "Morphing Planar Triangulations''.
  Fidel is currently a software engineer at Google.
• Krishnam Raju Jampani, Ph.D. 2011,
  thesis: "Simultaneous Graph Representation Problems".
  Raju is currently working at Crescendo Technology.
• Mustaq Ahmed, Ph.D. 2009,
  thesis: "Constrained Shortest Paths in Terrains and Graphs".
  Mustaq works for Google, Waterloo.
• Michael Spriggs, PhD 2007
  co-supervised with Therese Biedl, thesis: "Morphing Parallel Graph Drawings".
  Michael works at IBM Canada.
• Erik Demaine, Ph.D. 2001,
  co-supervised with J.I. Munro, thesis: "Folding and Unfolding," winner of a 2003 NSERC Doctoral Prize.
  Erik is a faculty member at MIT.
• Claudia Iturriaga, PhD 1999,
  thesis: "Map Labeling Problems."
  Claudia works at Agfa.
• Naji Mouawad, PhD 1996,
  thesis: "Interval Graphs as Visibility Graphs of Simple Polygons."
• Hari Titan, PhD 1993,
  co-supervised with A. Vannelli, thesis: "MaxCuts in Circuit Layout, Bitmaps and Ising Models: Algorithms and Computational Experience."

Master's

• Jack Spalding-Jamieson, M.Math 2023,
  thesis: Graph Morphing via Orthogonal Box Drawings
  co-supervised with Therese Biedl.
• Reza Bigdeli, M.Math 2022,
  thesis: Connectivity Properties of the Flip Graph After Forbidding Triangulation Edges
• Graeme Stroud, M.Math 2022,
  thesis: Computing Realistic Terrains from Imprecise Elevations
• Owen Merkel, M.Math 2020
  co-supervised with Therese Biedl
  thesis: "Building a larger class of graphs for efficient reconfiguration of vertex colouring"
• Kshitij Jain M. Math 2018,
  thesis: ``Minimum Shared-Power Edge Cut".
• Shikha Mahajan, M. Math 2017,
  thesis: ``Interval Representations of Edge Weighted Graphs".
• Sweta Barman M. Math, 2017.
• Stephen Kiazyk, M. Math, 2014,
  thesis, ``The Star Unfolding from a Geodesic Curve''.
  Stephen currently works for Google.
• Yizhe Zeng, M. Math, 2014,
  thesis, ``The Visibility Freeze-Tag Problem''.
  Yizhe works at Amazon, Vancouver.
• Taylor Gordon, M. Math 2010,
  co-supervised with J.I. Munro, thesis: ``Simultaneously Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations".
  Taylor works at Google, Mountain View.
• Steve Bahun, M. Math 2008
  thesis: "Algorithms for Optimizing Search Schedules in a Polygon"
• Mina Razaghpour, M. Math 2008
  thesis: "The Steiner Ratio for the Obstacle-Avoiding Steiner Tree Problem"
• Ben Lafreniere, M.Math 2008
  thesis: "Packing Unit Disks"
  Ben is currently at Microsoft Research, after completing a PhD at UofT.
• Brendan Lucier, M.Math 2006,
  co-supervised with Ian Munro, thesis: "Unfolding and Reconstructing Polyhedra"
  Brendan is currently in the PhD program at UofT.
  
• Luke Tanur, M.Math 2005,
  thesis: "A Geometric Approach to Pattern Matching in Polyphonic Music."
  
• Julie Sun, M.Math 1999,
  thesis: "Folding Orthogonal Polyhedra."
• Nora Sleumer, M.Math 1993, sleumer@perspectix.com
  thesis: "Outerplanar Graphs as Proximity Graphs."
  Nora completed her PhD at ETH, Zurich and is currently working at Perspectix in Zurich.
• Prosenjit Bose, M.Math 1991,
  co-supervised by J.I. Munro, thesis: "Visibility in Simple Polygons."
  Jit completed his PhD at McGill University, and is a faculty member at Carleton University.
• Paul Colley, M.Math 1991,
  thesis: "Visibility Graphs of Uni-monotone Polygons."
  Paul completed his PhD at Queen's University.
• Michael Hutton, M.Math 1990,
  thesis: "Upward Planar Drawing of Single Source Acyclic Digraphs."
  Mike completed his PhD at U of T, and is working for Altera.
• Krishna Gopinathan, M.Math 1988,
  essay: "Decomposing a Graph Uniquely into Triconnected Components."
  Krishna is CEO of Global Analytics.