Research @ NEXTCON is funded by (includes current
and previous supports)
 
QUALCOMM
(through
Wireless Internet of Things Lab at Clarkson)
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Previous Members
Graduate Students (Ph.D and Master’s in
chronological order)
Former Ph.D
Students
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Former Master’s Students
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Safa Otoum, University of Ottawa, Ph.D in
Electrical and Computer Engineering awarded in June 2019.
Current Position and Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Zayed
University-Abu Dhabi
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Sedevizo
Kielienyu (Master of Computer Science, uOttawa,
August 2020)
Current Position: Data Scientist, Coastal
Resource Mapping (CRM), Vancouver, BC
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Maryam
Pouryazdanpanah, Clarkson University, Ph.D
in ECE awarded in August 2018.
Current Position and Affiliation: IoT-Data Scientist, Watts
Water Technologies (Boston, MA)
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Ji Chu Jiang (Master of Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
uOttawa, December 2020)
Current Position: Software Engineer at Lytica Inc., Ottawa, ON
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Fazel
Anjomshoa, Clarkson University, Ph.D
in ECE awarded in May 2018
Current Position and Affiliation: Data Scientist at Roku Inc., (Boston ,MA)
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Kyle Quintal (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, August 2020)
Current Position and Affiliation: Data Scientist, AedoAI (Calgary,
AB)
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Yueqian Zhang (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Dec 2019)
Current Position and Affiliation: Recent graduate
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Claudio Fiandrino University of Luxembourg (visiting phd student),
PhD in Computer Science awarded in November 2017
Current Position and Affiliation: Postdoctoral researcher, Imdea
Networks (Madrid, Spain)
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Ahmed Omara (Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Dec 2019)
Current Position and Affiliation: Ph.D student, University of
Ottawa
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Riccardo Venanzi (Visiting PhD student from University of Ferrara, Italy)
Current Position and Affiliation: Ph.D candidate in Computer
Science, University of Ferrara, Italy
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Ertugrul Kara (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, July 2019)
Current Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer, Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
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Dimitri Belli (Visiting PhD student from University of Pisa, Italy)
Current Position and Affiliation: Ph.D candidate in Computer
Science, University of Pisa, Italy
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Venkat Surya
Dasari (Master of Applied Science in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, July 2019)
Current Position and Affiliation: Researcher
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Ankkita Sood (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, June 2019)
Current Position and Affiliation: Data analyst, Kinaxis (Ottawa,
ON)
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Cem Kaptan (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, August 2018)
Current Position and Affiliation: Software Developer, Wirkn (Montréal, QC) (also continuing Ph.D
at NEXTCON)
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Zachary I.
Rauen (M.Sc in
Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, May 2018)
Current Position and Affiliation: Firmware/Security Team member, IBM (Schenectady, NY)
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Wendong Yuan (Master of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, June 2018)
Current Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer at Fortinet Inc. (Ottawa, ON)
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George Patrick
Xavier (Master of Computer Science, University
of Ottawa, June 2018)
Current Position and Affiliation: Digital Integration Solutions Developer at Deloitte Canada
(Montréal, QC)
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Damanpreet
Singh (Master of Computer Science, University of
Ottawa, June 2018)
Current Position and Affiliation: Software
Development Engineer, IBM (Ottawa, ON)
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Oliver Benning (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honours Project), June
2020
Current
Position: Master of Computer Science student, University of Ottawa, ON
Xuankai Chen (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, January 2020, 2nd Winner of Cognos Prize, Fall 2019)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer,
Capital One, Toronto, ON
Mark Traquair (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, June 2019, Winner
of Cognos Prize
winter 2019)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Machine Learning
Developer, Summatti, Waterloo, ON
Asish Khiani (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, June 2019)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Associate Software
Engineer, Capital One, Toronto, ON
Alek Hadzidedic (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, June 2019)
Current
Position and Affiliation:
Nicholas Jordan (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, Dec. 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Data Forensic Analyst
Nikita Pekin (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, Dec. 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Kandy Software
Designer, Ribbon Communications
Irem Ural (Visiting
student from Bilkent University- Department of Computer Engineering in Summer
2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: 4-th year student
in Computer Engineering major at Bilkent University, Turkey
Kyle Quintal (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Master of Computer
Science student, University of Ottawa (continuing Master’s at NEXTCON)
Philip A. K. Lorimer (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer, Communication Security Establishment
Canada
Alan Ross-Ross (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer at
Ribbon Communications, Ottawa, ON
Shawn Lamothe (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Software Engineer,
Electronic Arts-EA, (Vancouver, BC)
Zachary Paquette (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation:
Jing Yi Dai (University
of Ottawa, Capstone project in Software Engineering, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation:
Michael Abourahal (University
of Ottawa, Computer Science Honors Project, May 2018)
Current
Position and Affiliation: 4-th year student at
University of Ottawa
Samer Akiki
(Clarkson-ECE Honors Student. Graduated in May 2017)
Current
Position and Affiliation: Product Engineer
at Globalfoundaries, San Diego, CA
Alexander
Cartier, (Clarkson-CompE undergraduate, Graduated in May 2016. Directed Study
in Spring 2015, on Scalable Platforms for Internet of Things)
David
Lee, (Clarkson-CompE undergraduate, Graduated in 2016. Directed Study in
Spring 2015, on Scalable Platforms for Internet of Things)
Kevin
Carr (Clarkson-SoftE graduate, Cloud Systems and Networks in Spring 2015,
co-author of a paper on Cloud and Smart cities)
--Collaborator
Connor D. Pearsall (Clarkson-SoftE graduate, Cloud Systems and
Networks in Spring 2015, co-author of a paper on Cloud and Smart cities)
-- Collaborator
P.
M. Glasser (Clarkson-EE MSc graduate, Cloud Systems and Networks in Spring
2015 co-author of a paper on mobile social networks in IEEE GLOBECOM 2015)
--Collaborator
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