Group Members

Principal Investigator

Kimon Fountoulakis

Associate professor, started November 2018
email: kimon.fountoulakis@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.Sc. in Management Science and Technology at Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Master in Operational Research and Computational Optimization at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh
  • PhD in Numerical Optimization with Jacek Gondzio at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh
  • Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute with Michael Mahoney
  • Visiting faculty researscher at Google (May - October 2022)

Graduate Members

Muhammad Fetrat Qharabagh

PhD student
Duration: September 2023 - Now
email: m2fetrat@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta

Artur Back de Luca

PhD student
Duration: September 2023 - Now
email: abackdel@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina
  • M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Sapienza University of Rome

Former Members

George Giapitzakis Tzintanos

MMath student
email: ggiapitz@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.Sc. in Pure Matehmatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Masters in Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  • Now a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Shenghao Yang

PhD student
email: shenghao.yang@uwaterloo.ca

  • Honors B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Western University
  • Masters in Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
  • Now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Michael Mahoney

Aseem Baranwal

PhD student
email: aseemrb@gmail.com

  • B.Tech. in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
  • Masters in Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  • Now at XTX Markets

Chris Bobotsis

Masters student in Data Science
email: cbobotsi@uwaterloo.ca

  • Bachelor of Applied Science, Mechanical (Mechatronics) Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Currently at Polyalgorithm Machine Learning (PolyML)

Edward Poon

Masters student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
email: edward.poon@uwaterloo.ca

  • Joint Honours BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics
  • MMath, Pure Mathematics
  • Currently at Uber

Chufeng Hu

MMath student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
email: chufeng.hu@uwaterloo.ca

  • Currently at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jerry Huang

Undergraduate research fellow
email: Njerry.huang@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.S.E in Software Engineering, University of Waterloo
  • Currently a Masters student at MILA

Dongshu (Eric) Luo

Undergraduate research fellow
email: d33luo@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.S. Computer Science and Statistics, University of Waterloo
  • Currently at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Nathaniel Brown

Undergraduate research fellow
email: Nathaniel.Brown@dal.ca

  • Bachelor of Computer Science Honours, Dalhousie University
  • Currently a Ph.D student at Johns Hopkins University

Ziqi Zhou

Undergraduate research assistant
email: z229zhou@edu.uwaterloo.ca

  • Currently at Puzzle Ventures