Guanghui Wang

Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Department of Computer Science
Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto Ontario Canada

Faculty

Guanghui (Richard) Wang
Associate Professor
Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Toronto Metropolitan University
wangcs@torontomu.ca

Team Members


	Hasib Zunair, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre hasib.zunair@torontomu.ca Hasib obtained his Ph.D. from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2024. His goal is to develop and democratize AI systems that learn with less data and computation while gaining a deeper understanding of the world. He is focused on addressing challenges in deploying AI tools, driven by their real-world potential across various domains, including autonomous systems, assistive technologies, and healthcare.

	Niaz Ahmad, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre niazhmad89@torontomu.ca Niaz received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Hanyang University, South Korea, in 2024. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research focuses on real-time AI systems, including robotic scene understanding, sensing, and multi-task learning. Specifically, he is interested in human visual analysis encompass 2D/3D human pose estimation, and action recognition.

	Tae Hyun Kim, Research Fellow, 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre taehyunkim@hanyang.ac.kr Tae Hyun received his PhD. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2016. He is currently a Research Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is also an Associate Professor at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include computer vision, computational imaging, and visual intelligence.

	Milad Khademi Nori Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre mkn@torontomu.ca Milad received his PhD in Deep Learning from Queen's University in 2014, focusing on Non-IID Deep Learning: Federated Learning and Incremental Learning. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research is focused on incorporating human brain learning into empowering deep learning models to achieve incremental learning.

	Xiaojiao Xiao, Postdoctoral Fellow (with Dr. Hu), 2022- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre xiaojiao@torontomu.ca Xiaojiao obtained both her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Taiyuan University of Technology, China. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research interests include medical image analysis, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.

	Hatem Ibrahem, Research Associate (part-time), 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre hatem.hosam1991@gmail.com Hatem received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Chungbuk National University, South Korea. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interests include multimedia, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision.

	Amirul Islam, Research Associate (part-time), 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre amirul507@gmail.com Amirul obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Toronto Metropolitan University. His primary research interests are Generative AI, multi-modal learning, and human-centric AI, e.g., explainability, interpretability, generalization, fairness and bias.

	Christopher Indris, Ph.D. student, 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre christopher.indris@torontomu.ca Christopher obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interests are computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning.

	Tejas Vyas, Ph.D. student, 2023- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre tejas.vyas@torontomu.ca Tejas obtained his Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA, and his Master's degree in Computer Science from Toronto Metropolitan University. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at TMU. His research interests are computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning.

	Leihan Chen, Ph.D. student, 2023- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre leihan.chen@torontomu.ca Leihan obtained his Master's degree in Earth & Space Science from York University, Canada, and Bachelor's degree in Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry from Wuhan University, China. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interest is in computer vision and intelligent systems.

	Dennis Miklos, Ph.D. student (with Dr. G. Liu), 2023- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre dmiklos@torontomu.ca Dennis obtained his Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree with a focus on the navigation and control of indoor UAVs. His research interest mainly includes control systems, computer vision, and machine learning.

	Fady Ibrahim, Ph.D. student, 2022- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre f1ibrahim@torontomu.ca Fady obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, USA, and Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interest is in computer vision and intelligent systems.

	Naeimeh Atabakilachini, Ph.D. student, 2022- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre naeimeh.atabakilachi@torontomu.ca Naeimeh obtained her Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from Sabanci University, Turkey, and Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Iran. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research interest is in computer vision and artificial intelligenc.

	Mohsena Chowdhury, Ph.D. student, 2021- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre mohsena.chowdhury@torontomu.ca Mohsena obtained her Master's degree in Data Science and Analytics from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is currently doing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at TMU focusing on Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests include deep learning and the applications of computer vision and image processing.

	Alaa Asfour, Msc. student, 2024- ENG-211, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre alaa.asfour@torontomu.ca Alaa earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from York University, Canada, in 2021. Following graduation, he gained valuable industry experience as a Solutions Engineer at a wealth management firm. He is currently pursuing his Msc. degree in Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializing in computer vision and machine learning.

Alumni


Song Wang	Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024. Current Position: Assistant Professor at Zhengzhou University.
Hatem Ibrahem	Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024. Current Position: Research Fellow at Private Industry.
Alireza Javaheri	Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2023. Current Position: Research Fellow at Queens's University.
Miao Yu	Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2020. Current Position: Research Fellow at the University of Kansas.
Yao Sui	Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017. Current Position: Research Fellow, Harvard University.

Tianxiao Zhang	Ph.D. 2019-2025. Current Position: Research Fellow, University of Kansas.
Xiangyu Chen	Ph.D. (honours), 2019-2024. Current Position: Research Fellow, MERL.
Kaidong Li	Ph.D. (honours), 2019-2024. Current Position: Research Scientist, Samsara.
Krushi Patel	Ph.D. 2019-2024. Current Position: Research Scientist, Spectral AI.
Usman Sajid	Ph.D. (honours), 2017-2021. Current Position: Research Scientist, Samsung Research America.
Xi Mo	Ph.D., 2017-2021. Current Position: Researcher, University of Kansas.
Wenchi Ma	Ph.D., 2016-2021. Current Position: Research Scientist, Rekor Systems.
Yuanwei Wu	Ph.D., 2015-2019. Current Position: Research Scientist, ObjectVideo Labs.
Wenju Xu	Ph.D. (honours), 2015-2019. Current Position: Research Scientist, Amazon Research.
Jie Huo	Ph.D. at UWindsor, 2015-2019. Current Position: Researcher, i-5O Inc.
Lei He	Ph.D. at CAS, 2015-2018. Current Position: Researcher, Baidu.

Sean Kurian	M.Sc, 2024-2024. Current Position: Software Engineer, Google.
Christopher Indris	M.Sc, 2022-2024. Current Position: Ph.D. student, TMU.
Raiyan Rahman	M.Sc, 2021-2023. Current Position: Research Engineer, Google.
Tejas Vyas	M.Sc, 2021-2023. Current Position: Ph.D. student, TMU.
Kamala Gajurel	M.Sc, 2019-2021. Current Position: Engineer, Chicago.
Yiju Yang	M.Sc, 2019-2021. Current Position: Engineer, China.
Brian McClannahan	M.Sc, 2019-2020. Current Position: Engineer, Lucd.AI.
Xiaohan Zhang	M.Sc, 2018-2020. Current Position: Engineer, Huawei.
Thomas Woodruff	M.Sc, 2019-2020. Current Position: Engineer, Honeywell.
Mohammad I.Fathan	M.Sc, 2017-2019. Current Position: Engineer, Cerner Corporation.
Lokesh Kaki	M.Sc, 2017-2019. Current Position: Engineer, Menufy.
Sushil Pratap Bharati	M.Sc (honours), 2017-2019. Current Position: Engineer, Xyken, LLC.
Hammam A. Alshazly	Fulbright scholar, 2017-2017. Current Position: Research Assistant, South Valley University.
Soumyaroop Nandi	M.Sc, 2014-2016. Current Position: Ph.D. student, University of Southern California.
Soumyajit Sarkar	M.Sc, 2014-2016. Current Position: Engineer, Walmart Labs.
Arijit Basu	M.Sc, 2014-2016. Current Position: Engineer, DST Systems.
Kristofer Von Ahen	M.Sc, 2014-2015. Current Position: Engineer, Cerner Corporation

Daehyun Kim	Visiting Student, 2024. Current Position: PhD Candidate, Hanyang University.
Donggoo Jung	Visiting Student, 2024. Current Position: PhD Candidate, Hanyang University.
Fattah Alizadeh	Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023. Current Position: Professor, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr.
Hui Zeng	Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018. Current Position: Professor, Beijing Science and Technology University.
Feng Cen	Visiting Scholar, 2016-2017. Current Position: Professor, Tongji University .
Ming Zhang	Research Assistant, 2015-2016. Current Position: Researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Alif Munim	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2022-2023,Toronto Metropolitan University.
Chauncey D. Hester	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2018-2020, University of Kansas.
Shaina Krumme	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2018-2019, University of Kansas.
Paul C. McElroy	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2017-2019, University of Kansas.
Arjan Gupta	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2016-2017, University of Kansas.
Juda T. Santos	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2015-2015, University of Kansas.
Danilo S. Oliveira	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2015-2015, University of Kansas.
Kristopher K. Goering	Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2015, University of Kansas.

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Computer Vision and Intelligence Systems Laboratory
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Toronto, ON M5B 2K3

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