The School of Computing Science is committed to maintaining a top-ranked research environment, and such an environment requires new ideas, people, and connections to other universities worldwide. The Ebco/Epic Visiting Chairs program supports the School of Computing Science in hosting many scientists of national and international prominence. The program is funded by an endowment from Hugo and Helmut Eppich. The Ebco/Epic endowment is leveraged with research funds from an SFU faculty host and support that the Visitors receive from their home institutions to offer attractive conditions for top-quality outside researchers. The visiting researchers stay for a least a month to collaborate with SFU faculty and students. Each visitor gives a lecture as part of the Ebco/Epic seminar series that brings cutting-edge ideas in computer science to SFU.
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Meiji University
Area: Algorithmic Graph Theory.
Dates of Visit: August 24 September 23, 2010Hosts: Gu, Qianping
SFU Location: Contact Information: tamaki@cs.meiji.ac.jp
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Seoul National University, South Korea
Area: Wireless Sensor Networks & Ubiquitous Computing.
Dates of Visit: August 1, 2010 - August 31, 2010Hosts: Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: minchen@ieee.org
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Mobile Agent Based Ubiquitous Networks and Services
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Area: Real-time wireless/wired network infrastructure.
Dates of Visit: August 1, 2010 - August 31, 2010Hosts: Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: csqwang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: ORTEGA: An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area: Data Privacy research.
Dates of Visit: July 15 August 15, 2010Hosts: Wang, Ke and Liang, Jie
SFU Location: Contact Information: adafu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Two Problems in Social Network Analysis
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area: Not Available
Dates of Visit: July 1 August 31, 2010Hosts: Pei, Jian
SFU Location: Contact Information: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Space
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Public University of Navarre, Campus Arrosadia
Area: Not Available
Dates of Visit: July 1 August 31, 2010Hosts: Atkins, Stella
SFU Location: Contact Information: avilla@unavarra.es
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: CoGaIn: Communication by Gaze Interaction
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Zuse Institute, Berlin (ZIB)
Area: Visualization and Data Analysis.
Dates of Visit: July 1 August 15, 2010Hosts: Moeller, Torsten
SFU Location: Contact Information: hege@zib.de
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Uncertain Isocontours
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Area: Computer Vision, Multimedia Content Analysis, Mobile Robots, Sensor Networks.
Dates of Visit: June 28 August 2, 2010Hosts: Hefeeda, Mohamed
SFU Location: Contact Information: wamageed@umiacs.umd.edu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Sabanci University
Area: Computational Biology.
Dates of Visit: March 1 April 15, 2010Hosts: Sahinalp, Cenk
SFU Location: Contact Information: ugur@sabanciuniv.edu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Fudan University
Area: Data Mining.
Dates of Visit: February 27, 2010 February 26, 2011Hosts: Pei, Jian
SFU Location: Contact Information: zhhwang@fudan.edu.cn
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Wuhan University
Area: Data mining.
Dates of Visit: February 25, 2010 February 28, 2011Hosts: Pei, Jian
SFU Location: Contact Information: glhe@whu.edu.cn
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU (eff Oct/09)
Area: Randomized algorithms, Stochastic processes, Parallel and distributed algorithms, Graph theory, Game theory.
Dates of Visit: October 1/09 - September 30 /10 Hosts: Berenbrink, Petra
SFU Location: Contact Information: sauerwal @ upb.de
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU
Area: Computational Biology.
Dates of Visit: September 15 December 15, 2009Hosts: Sahinalp, Cenk
SFU Location: Contact Information: ekarakoc@uwaterloo.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU
Area: Combinatorial Optimization & Approximation on Algorithms.
Dates of Visit: September 1, 2009 August 31, 2010 Hosts: Bhattacharya, Binay and Krishnamurti, Ramesh
SFU Location: Contact Information: yhu1@sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral FellowHome Institution: Vienna University of Technology
Area: Visualization of high-dimensional data
Dates of Visit: July 1/09 - July 1/10 Hosts: Möller, Torsten
SFU Location: Contact Information: bruckner @ cg.tuwien.ac.at
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution:Sahid Bahoner University of Kerman
Area: Natural Language Processing.
Dates of Visit:July 1, 2009 July 30, 2010Hosts: Popowich, Fred
SFU Location: Contact Information: hkhosravi@mail.uk.ac.ir
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution:University of Calgary
Area: Computer Networks, network coding in peer-to-peer streaming systems
Dates of Visit:July 1/09 - July 31/09 Hosts: Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: zongpeng@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Constraints, MMSNP and Expander Relational Structures
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Meiji University, Japan
Area: Algorithmic Graph Theory
Dates of Visit: July 1/09 - July 31/09 Hosts: Gu, Qianping
SFU Location: Contact Information: tamaki @ cs.meiji.ac.jp
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Area: Image Processing
Dates of Visit: June 1/09 - July 31/09 Hosts: Möller , Torsten
SFU Location: Contact Information: laurent.condat @ greyc.ensicaen.fr
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Senior Lecturer Home Institution: King's College, University of London
Area: Random structures and algorithms
Dates of Visit: April 12/09 - May 12/09 Hosts: Berenbrink, Petra
SFU Location: Contact Information: colin.cooper @ kcl.ac.uk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting ScholarHome Institution: Holon Institute of Technology
Area: Formal aspects of knowledge representation
Dates of Visit: April 1/09 - April 30/09 Hosts: Delgrande, James P.
SFU Location: Contact Information: bochmana@hit.ac.il
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral FellowHome Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU
Area:
Dates of Visit: March 1, 2009 March 31, 2010 Hosts: Sahinalp, Cenk
SFU Location: Contact Information:
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Research Associate Home Institution: University of Durham
Area: Applications of Algebra to Theoretical Computer Science
Dates of Visit: Oct 1/08 - Apr 30/09 Hosts: Bulatov, Andrei
SFU Location: Contact Information: c.a.carvalha @ durham.ac.uk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, PIMS Home Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU
Area: Mathematics/Statistics, Biological Applications
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/08 - Aug 31/09 Hosts: Ester, Martin
SFU Location: TASC1 9207 Contact Information: asa86@cs.sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: PhD Student Home Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Area: Explicit constructions of pseudorandom objects, in particular randomness extractors
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/08 - Aug 31/09 Hosts: Kabanets, Valentine
SFU Location: Contact Information: ariel.gabizon @ gmail.com
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Adjunct Professor Home Institution: University of Potsdam
Area: Theoretic foundations to the practical implementation of methods for reasoning from incomplete and/or inconsistent information, in particular Answer set programming.
Dates of Visit: Aug 20/08 - Sept 20/08 Hosts: Delgrande, James P.
SFU Location: Contact Information: torsten @ cs.umi-potsdam.de
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Research Associate Home Institution: INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Area: Combinatorial optimization: from graph theory to integer programming, Exact and approximate algorithms, Design of fault tolerant networks, reliability, Traffic grooming, routing and wavelength assignment, Sustainable wireless network design and provisioning
Dates of Visit: Aug 1/08 - Aug 31/08 Hosts: Peters, Joseph
SFU Location: TASC1 9205Contact Information: David.Coudert @ sophia.inria.fr
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Reseach Consultant Home Institution: CREATE-NET International Research Consortium
Area: Random structures and algorithms
Dates of Visit: July 1/08 - June 30/09 Hosts: Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: hongfei.du @ ieee.org
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Senior Research Associate Home Institution: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Area: Medical imaging: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), EEG, PET, functional imaging, Mathematical imaging: compartmental modeling, extended depth-of-field, fluorescent particle tracing, object-model based deconvolution, inverse problems, Interpolation and multi-resolution: splines, wavelets, alternative sampling grids.
Dates of Visit: Jul 1/08 - Jul 31/08 Hosts: Möller, Torsten
SFU Location: TASC1 9409Contact Information: dimitri.vandeville @ epfl.ch
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Assistant Research Scientist Home Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Area: Computer/Robot Vision, Sensor Networks, Medical Image Processing
Dates of Visit: Jun 15/08 - Jul 30/08 Hosts: Hefeeda, Mohamed
SFU Location: SurreyContact Information: wamageed @ umiacs.umd.edu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Professor Home Institution: Tel Aviv University
Area: Computer Graphics
Dates of Visit: Jun 1/08 - Aug 31/08 Hosts: Zhang, Richard (Hao)
SFU Location: TASC1 9205Contact Information: dcor @ tau.ac.il
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Faculty Home Institution: Wayne State University
Area: High performance computing, distributed systems and mobile computing
Dates of Visit: May 1/08 - May 31/08 Hosts:Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: weisong @ cs.wayne.edu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Faculty Home Institution: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Area: Comparative bioinformatics, sequence alignment, phylogeny reconstruction, and phylogenomics
Dates of Visit: Jan/08 - Feb 1 /08 Hosts: Sahinalp, Cenk
SFU Location: Contact Information: usman @ cs.njit.edu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Faculty Home Institution: Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Area: Graph theory, information theory, extremal combinatorics, and particulary, the behaviour of information theoretic functionals on graphs
Dates of Visit: Jan 1 /08 - Apr 30 /08 Hosts: Tardos, Gabor
SFU Location: Contact Information: simonyi @ renyi.hu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: SFU Discrete Math Day @ IRMACS
Title: Visiting Faculty Home Institution: Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
Area: Computer Graphics and visualization
Dates of Visit: Jan 1/08 - Mar 15 /08 Hosts: Möller, Torsten
SFU Location: Contact Information: Anders.Ynnerman @ itn.liu.se
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Rendering and Interacting with Large Scale Volumetric Data for Medical applications
Title: Associate Professor Home Institution: Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Area: Computer Graphics (Modeling, Rendering, Animation and Interaction), Scientific Computations, Visualization
Dates of Visit: Jan 1/08 - Feb 28/08 Hosts: Moller/Zhang
SFU Location: Contact Information: samavat @ cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Assistant Professor Home Institution:Tsinghua University
Area: Networking, Internet development
Dates of Visit: Nov 20/07 - Dec 20/07 Hosts: Arvind Gupta/Liu, Jiangchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: cuiyong @ tsinghua.edu.cn
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Area: Graph Algorithm
Dates of Visit: Oct 2/07 - Nov 30/07 Hosts: Krishnamurti, Ramesh
SFU Location: Contact Information: saswata @ tcs.tifr.res.in
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: University of Rome, "La Sapienza"
Area: Theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-directed issues in various branches of Artificial Intelligence, in particular in the areas of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and combinatorial problem solving. Also, Automated negotiation among intelligent agents, Game theory, Software engineering, and Cognitive robotics.
Dates of Visit: Sept 20/07 - Jan 20/08 Hosts: Mitchell, David
SFU Location: Contact Information: tmancini @ dis.uniroma1.it
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: Ural State Univeristy
Area: Combinatorial Complexity of Formal Languages, Combinatorics of Partial Words, Combinatorics of ()-free Words and Languages, Syntactic semigroups
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Dec 31/07 Hosts: Bulatov, Andrei
SFU Location: Contact Information: Arseny.Shur @ usu.ru
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: Simon Fraser University
Area: Bounded arithmetic, finite model theory, descriptive complexity, computational logic and complexity theory
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/06 - Aug 31/07 Hosts: Ternovska, Eugenia
SFU Location: Contact Information: akol @ cs sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: On complexity of fragments of existential second-order logic
Title: Professor . Home Institution: Carleton University
Area: Theoretical computer science, bioinformatics, computer security, and computer networks
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Aug 31/08 Host: Krishnamurti, Ramesh
SFU Location: Contact Information: kranakis @ scs.carleton.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution:
Area: Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Universal Algebra, Graph Theory
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Aug 31/08 Hosts: Bulatov, Andrei
SFU Location: Contact Information: kungabor @ cs.elte.hu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Constraints, MMSNP and Expander Relational Structures
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: Royal Holloway University of London
Area: Graph Theory, Graph Homomorphism, Computational Biology, Algorithms in Digraphs, Probabilistic Method, Combinatorial optimization and Extremal graph theory
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Aug 31/08 Hosts: Arvind Gupta/Pavol Hell
SFU Location: Contact Information: arafieyh @ cs.sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: University of Cologne
Area: Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Markovian Sources, Information Theory, Statistical Modeling/Learning and Networks
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Aug 30/08 Hosts: Ester, Martin
SFU Location: Contact Information: schoenhuth @ cs.sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: School of Computing Science, SFU
Area: I am interested in applying motion planning tools to problems in structural molecular biology, specifically RNA structure prediction and RNA-RNA and RNA-Protein interaction prediction
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/07 - Aug 1/08 Hosts: Sahinalp, Cenk
SFU Location: TASC1 9209 Contact Information: hrc4 @ sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution: Universitι de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Area: Modeling practical issues by combinatorial structures (mainly graphs) and solving and studying the theoretical problems so defined. Main application of my work is telecommunication networks
Dates of Visit: June 10/07 - July 10/07 Host: PETERS, Joseph
SFU Location: Contact Information: Stephane.Perennes @ inria.fr
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Fault Tolerant Flow Networks
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: University of Chicago
Area: Computational Complexity, Derandomization, Algorithms, Theory of Networks
Dates of Visit: May 1/07 - Apr 30/08 Hosts: Kabanets, Valentine
SFU Location: Contact Information: rsanthan @ cs.sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Circuit Lower Bounds Within the Polynomial Hierarchy
Title: Full Professor Home Institution: University of Alberta
Area: Computational Decision Theory
Dates of Visit: Feb 14/07 - March 14/07 Host: Schulte, Oliver
SFU Location: TASC 9023 Contact Information: greiner @ ualberta.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: An Alternative Approach to Designing Clinical Trials: Budgeted Learning of Probabilistic Classifiers
Title: Visiting Scholar Home Institution:
Area: Computational complexity, propositional proof complexity, approximation algorithms, derandomization
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/06 - Dec 31/06 Hosts: Tardos, Gabor
SFU Location: Contact Information: deszegh @ eotvoscollegium.hu
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Coloring the Delaunay-graph with respect to simple regions
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution:
Area: Reasoning about Actions, Belief Revision and Update, Non-monotonic Reasoning, Computational Complexity
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/06 - Aug 31/06 Hosts: Delgrande, James P.
SFU Location: Contact Information:
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Home Institution: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Area: Combinatorics, Discrete and Computational Geometry
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/06 - Aug 31/07 Hosts: Tardos, Gabor
SFU Location: Contact Information: ackerman @ cs.technion.ac.il
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: On the maximum number of edges in $k$-quasi-planar graphs
Title: Senior Performance Engineer Home Institution:
Area: Computational complexity, propositional proof complexity, approximation algorithms, derandomization
Dates of Visit: Sept 1/06 - Aug 31/07 Hosts: Mitchell, David
SFU Location: Contact Information: jburesho @ cs.sfu.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Making Hard Problems Harder
Title: Assistant Professor Home Institution: University of Alberta
Area: Building algorithms that learn from experience, to be able to perform their tasks better. Most of my current work has a strong application pull -- ie., is motivated by some specific tasks. Some other projects are more technology push -- where the goal is more exploring some fouondation or mathematical framework, rather than solving some application
Dates of Visit: Jun 1/06 - Jun 28/06 Hosts: Liu, Jianchuan
SFU Location: Contact Information: chxw@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Professor Home Institution: Shandong Economic University
Area: Networking technologies and applications
Dates of Visit: Feb 1/07 - July 31/07 Hosts: Gu, Qianping
SFU Location: Contact Information:
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available
Title: Assistant Professor Home Institution: Laval University
Area: Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, Agent-based software engineering, Multi-agent interaction, dialogue and argumentation, Formal methods, Validation and automatic verification (Model Checking), Non-classical logics (Temporal logic, Spatial logic, Dynamic logic, Epistemic logic), Temporal and spatial reasoning, Decision Theory, Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, Security in multi-agent systems and Semantic Web and semantic grid computing.
Dates of Visit: 2006 Hosts: Delgrande, James P.
SFU Location: Contact Information: jamal.bentahar @ ift.ulaval.ca
Ebco/Epic Seminar Title: Not Available