Group Members

Principal Investigator

Kimon Fountoulakis

Assistant 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 - September 2022)

Graduate Members

Artur Back de Luca

MMath in Computer Science
Duration: September 2022 - 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

Chris Bobotsis

Masters student in Data Science
Duration: September 2020 - Now
email: cbobotsi@uwaterloo.ca

  • Bachelor of Applied Science, Mechanical (Mechatronics) Engineering, University of Toronto

Aseem Baranwal

PhD student
Duration: September 2020 - Now
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

Shenghao Yang

PhD student
Duration: April 2020 - Now
email: shenghao.yang@uwaterloo.ca

  • Honors B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Western University
  • Masters in Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Former Members

Rishabh Anand

Research assistant
email: mail.rishabh.anand@gmail.com

  • Bachelors of Computing, Computer Science (with Honours), Double Major in Pure Mathematics, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS)

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

Jerry Huang

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

  • B.S.E in Software Engineering, University of Waterloo

Dongshu (Eric) Luo

Undergraduate research fellow
email: d33luo@uwaterloo.ca

  • B.S. Computer Science and Statistics, University of Waterloo

Nathaniel Brown

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

  • Bachelor of Computer Science Honours, Dalhousie University

Chufeng Hu

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

  • Currently Chufeng is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ziqi Zhou

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

  • Bachelor in Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo