Student Supervision
If you are a student interested in a directed studies or research in databases, sensor networks, or software development, please contact me.
Current Students
Ph.D. Students
Master's Students
Undergraduate Students
Past Students
Ph.D. Students
- Scott Fazackerley, "A Low Overhead and Consistent Flash Translation Layer for Embedded Devices Utilizing Serial NOR Flash", NSERC PGS D, Sept. 2010 to Sept. 2016. College Professor at Okanagan College.
- Terrence Mason, "Schema-Free SQL: Providing freedom from the schema knowledge required to query in SQL", Sept. 2002 to May 2006. Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Master's Students
- Debangsha Sarkar, "Improved Sampling Strategy for Coreset Construction", co-supervised September 2019 to December 2021.
- Matthew Fritter, "Development of the Canadian Agri-food Lifecycle Data Centre with Data Format Interoperability Requirements, September 2017 to July 2020.
- Heath Caswell
- Giuseppe Burtini, ""One Weird Trick" for Advertising Outcomes: An Exploration of the Multi-Armed Bandit for Performance-Driven Marketing", Presentation, UGF scholarship winner and multiple paper author, September 2013 to October 2015.
- Ryan Trenholm, "Improving Park Management Efficiency by Mobile Management Software", Presentation, NSERC PGS M, winner of MURC (Multi-disciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference - UBCV and UBCO) Top 3 Presentation and Top Oral Presenter award during the second day of Universitas 21 (U21) International Undergraduate Research Conference, September 2015 to January 2015.
- Michael Henderson, "Multi-Way Hash Join Effectiveness", Presentation, NSERC PGS M winner, September 2008 to July 2013.
- Tyler Cossentine, "An Efficient External Sorting Algorithm for Flash Memory Embedded Devices", Presentation, September 2009 to January 2012.
- Scott Fazackerley, "Reducing Water Consumption for Residential Turfgrass with Adaptive Irrigation Controllers", Presentation, September 2008 to April 2010.
- Bryce Cutt, "Improving Hash Join Performance By Exploiting Intrinsic Data Skew", Presentation, September 2007 to May 2009.
Master's of Computer Science Projects (University of Iowa)
- Yang Wang - 2005 - "Implementation of UnityJDBC query optimizer"
- Chadwick Johnson - 22C:198 (3 credit hours) in Spring 2005 - "Distributed Network Traffic Controller" - Proposal
- Project Plan
- High-Level Design
- Project Summary
- Smitha Nair - 22C:198 (3 credit hours) in Spring 2004 - "XML Compression" - Project Summary
- Jeff Hoft - 22C:198 (2 credit hours) in Spring 2004 - "Query Parser for Unity"
- Hehuang Xie - 22C:197 (6 credit hours) in Spring 2003 - "Identification of CpG Islands and
Potential Promoters in Human Genome" - Project Summary
- Min Wang - 22C:198 (6 credit hours) in Spring 2003 - "Development of a
co-regulated gene expression analysis tool (CREAT)" - Project
Summary
- Jian Jia - 22C:190 - Master's Project (1 credit hour) Fall 2002 - "A JDBC Driver Supporting
Data Integration and Evolution" - Proposal - Project Summary - Presentation
- Alina Bejan - 22C:290 - Readings for Research (3
credit hours) Spring 2002 - "Peer-to-Peer Cooperative Driving" - Technical Report 02-04.pdf, Peer-to-Peer Cooperative Driving - ISCIS
2002 Paper
Undergraduate Projects and Theses
- Tatiana Urazova, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Building a System for Automated Question Generation and Evaluation to Assist Students Learning UML Database Design", Presentation, Sept. 2021 - Apr. 2022.
- Emily Medema, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Bovine Event Detection: Analysis of
Bovine Data and Cycles", Presentation, Sept. 2021 - Apr. 2022.
- Ivan Carvalho, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Towards Parallel Learned Sorting", Presentation, Sept. 2021 - Apr. 2022.
- Jaden Balogh, Directed Studies, "Unity Cloud Inventory - A simple solution to item storage as a service", Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021.
- Matthew Currie, IKBSAS URA, Summer 2020, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Matching Techniques for Historical Datasets", Presentation, Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021.
- Liam Tarr, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Using Codeboard and Mantra to Run and Grade SQL Assignments", Presentation, Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021.
- Jon Gresl, NSERC USRA, Summer 2019, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Improving Sustainability in Agriculture using Wireless Sensor Networks", May - Sept 2020.
- Meredith Lister, Directed Studies, UBC Okanagan Softball live game streaming project, Jan. 2020 - Apr. 2020.
- Liam Tarr, Directed Studies, WCSA Softball web site design, Jan. 2020 - Apr. 2020.
- Ethan Godden, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Construction of a Data Collection Network using RF95 Radio Modules", Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2020.
- Yuhao Huang, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Data Anonymization and Management Pipeline for Validation of Volumetric Breast Density as an Imaging Biomarker for Predicting Breast Cancer Risk and Prognostication", Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2020.
- Puck Wang, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2020.
- Michael Sheroubi, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Benchmarking performance for Neo4j in a Social Media Application", Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2020.
- Marlie Russell, Directed Studies, Website design for non-profit organization, Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019.
- Andrew Feltham, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Adapting Linear Hashing for Flash Memory Resource-Constrained Embedded Devices", Presentation, Sept 2018 - May 2019. One publication.
- Riley Jackson, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Faster Sorting for Flash Memory Embedded Devices", Presentation, Sept 2018 - May 2019. One publication.
- David Osemegie, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Grubite", Presentation, Sept 2018 - May 2019.
- Joseph Pruner, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Redesign of the British Columbia Amateur Softball Association Player and Team Management Website", Presentation, Sept 2018 - May 2019.
- Kai Neubauer, IonDB Development, May 2018 - Dec 2018.
- Dana Klamut, NSERC USRA award winner, Top graduating student in Computer Science for 2018, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Developing the SQL IonDB Query Language", Presentation, May 2016 - May 2018. One publication.
- Kyla Reid, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Efficient Querying on Networked Embedded Devices", Sept 2017 - May 2018.
- Maria Guenter, NSERC USRA award winner, May 2017 - Sept 2017.
- Ryan McQueen, Directed Studies, "Detection and Speed Estimation of Vehicles Using Resource Constrained Embedded Devices", January to April 2018.
- Eric Huang, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Efficient Interactive Text Playback for Code Sharing and Tutorials"
, Presentation, May 2015 - May 2017. Two publications. Top CS Graduating Student for 2017.
- Spencer MacBeth, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Linear Hashing for Flash Memory on Resource-Constrained Microprocessors", Presentation, Sept 2016 - May 2017.
- Shan Rajapakshe, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Extracting Patient Events from Clinical Text Using Natural Language Processing", Presentation, Sept 2016 - May 2017.
- Eliana Wardle, NSERC USRA award winner.
- Wade Penson, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "TEFS: A Flash File System for Use on Memory Constrained Devices"
, Presentation, May 2015 - Sept. 2016. Two publications. NSERC USRA award winner. Runner-up: Top CS Graduating Student for 2017.
- Matthew Fritter, Undergraduate Research Assistant on Digital Archive Database Project, May 2015 to May 2017.
- Jorge Garcia, Directed Studies, May to August 2016.
- Kevin Eger, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Rally, a One Stop-Shop for Reddit data and Insights" , Sept. 2015 to April 2016.
- Emily Millard, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "The Digital Divide and the Government: Developing a Tool for the Analysis of Government Data", Presentation (2016 Undergraduate Research Conference),Sept. 2015 to April 2016.
- Kenny Raharjo, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Applying Multi-Armed Bandit on Game Development, Presentation (2016 Undergraduate Research Conference), Sept. 2015 to April 2016.
- Ethan Willoner, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "AES Cryptosystem Acceleratoin Using Graphics Processing Units", Presentation (2016 Undergraduate Research Conference), Sept. 2015 to April 2016.
- Graeme Douglas, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "LittleD: A Relational Database Management System for Resource Constrained Computing Devices", Sept. 2013 to April 2014. Three publications. NSERC USRA award winner.
- Raffi Kudlac, Directed Studies, Embedded Sensor Database Development, May 2014 to August 2014.
- Tim Rutherford, Directed Studies, Java/JSP Development, May 2014 to December 2014.
- Alex Yakovlev, Directed Studies, AngularJS UI Development, January 2015 to April 2015.
- Madison Cunning, Directed Studies, Metis Database Development, January 2015 to April 2015.
- Wilco Oberholzer, Directed Studies, GIS Web Site Development, May 2015 to August 2015.
- Derrick Pelletier, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Kelowna Irrigation Parks Management System", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- Paul Moore, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Multiplayer Math on the go with Factor Friends", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- Cody Clerke, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Managing City of Kelowna Parks to Improve Sustainable Water Use", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- William Lee, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "DBA* - A Real-Time Path Finding Algorithm", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- Andrew Moldovan, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Statistical Data Mining - Applications in Student Learning", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- Eric Wein, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "AutoEd 2.0 - An Online Courseware and Motivation System", Sept. 2012 to April 2013.
- Jessica Weeres, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "The Use of Internet Marketing by Independent Restaurants in Kelowna", Sept. 2011 to April 2012.
- Andrew Campbell, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "An Energy Efficient Environmental Sensor Network for Data Collection", Sept. 2011 to April 2012.
- Ryan Trenholm, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Saving Water: There's an App for That!", Sept. 2010 to April 2011.
- Alyosha Pushak, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "AutoEd: An Online Assignment Generation and Marking System", Sept. 2010 to April 2011.
- Jesse Slamka, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "3D Video Game Creation in C#", Presentation (2011 Undergraduate Research Conference), Sept. 2010 to April 2011.
- Geoffrey Appleby, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "KelownaGigs: Constructing a Social Publishing Application to Support a Local Music Community", Presentation (2010 Undergraduate Research Conference), Sept. 2009 to April 2010.
- Stephen Smithbower, Directed Studies, "Real-Time Indirect Illumination",
Presentation (2010 Undergraduate Research Conference Best Presentation), Jan. 2010 to April 2010.
- Jacob Orr, Undergraduate Honours Thesis, "Schedule Viewer: A Scheduling Tool for UBC Okanagan Administration",
Poster (Undergrad Research Conference 2009), Presentation, Sept. 2008 to April 2009.
- Jocelyn Charland - Directed studies (Winter Term 1 2007)
- Timothy Montoya - Undergraduate Honours Thesis (7 credit hours total) - Summer 2003 to Spring 2004 - "A Patient
Management Application for the Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders"
- Project Proposal, Undergraduate Honors
Thesis
- Elizabeth Heithoff - Undergraduate Honours Thesis (7 credit hours total) - Summer 2002 to
Spring 2003 - "The Construction of a C++ Teaching Aide"
- Project Proposal, Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- Jose Jimenez - 22C:090 - Honours in Computer Science - (7 credit hours total) - Spring 2002 to
Fall 2002 - "Data Retrieval and Documentation Using Unity in a UniVerse Environment"
- Project Proposal - Spring 2002 Status Report - Summer 2002 Status Report - Undergraduate Honors Thesis - IREU Report
- Michael Schmitz - Programming Project (22C:198 3 credit hours) - Summer 2002 - "Interface
Development in an Internet Age"
- Proposal
Summer Student Transfer Program (SSTP)
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