Participating Researchers

The following researchers are members of the project team.

Faculty

Alex López-Ortiz, principal investigator, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Alex is an Associate Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Ian Munro, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Ian is a University Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Brad Nickerson, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
Brad is a Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick. He is currently a visiting professor at the Center Leader for the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus. Brad's research interests include algorithms and data structures for efficient search of multi-dimensional data, sensor networks, and knowledge-based systems.

Norbert Zeh, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Norbert is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science of Dalhousie University.

Lars Arge, MADALGO, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
Lars is a Professor of Computer Science and Center Leader for the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Stephane Durocher, project manager, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Steph is an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include algorithms and computational geometry, with a focus on geometric problems in mobile computing.

Matthew Skala, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Matthew is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include computational geometry, high-dimensional spaces, and artificial intelligence.

Diego Arroyuelo, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Diego is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Diego's research interests include succinct data structures, indexed text searching, and compressed self-indexes for text.

Bardia Sadri, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Bardia is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Graduate Students

Bob Fraser, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Bob is a Ph.D. student working with Alex López-Ortiz in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include computational geometry and bioinformatics, including pattern matching and spatial data structures.

Arash Farzan, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Arash is a Ph.D. student working with Ian Munro and Alex López-Ortiz in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include data structures and algorithms for massive data sets, computational geometry, external memory algorithms, and data structures.

Reza Dorrigiv, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Reza is a Ph.D. student working with Alex López-Ortiz in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Alejandro Salinger, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Alejandro is a Ph.D. student working with Ian Munro and Alex López-Ortiz in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include parallel computation, text indexing, and information retrieval.

Francisco Claude, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Francisco is a Ph.D. student working with Ian Munro in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Francisco's research interests include succinct data structures, pattern matching, and web graph compression.

Patrick Nicholson, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Patrick is a Ph.D. student working with Ian Munro in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include data structures, computational geometry, and knapsack problems.

Thomas Mølhave, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
Thomas is a Ph.D. student working with Lars Arge in the School for Basic Research in Computer Science and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus.

Thuy Le, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
Thuy is a Ph.D. student working with Brad Nickerson in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick.

Jeremy Moses, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Jeremy is a Masters student working with Norbert Zeh in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University.

Chris Hamilton, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Chris is a Ph.D. student working with Norbert Zeh in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Barbara Macdonald, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Barbara is an undergraduate research assistant working with Alex López-Ortiz in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.