Faculty

Prof. Stacey Scott, Director Dr. Scott is a Full Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph and Adjunct Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. She was formerly a faculty member in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo. She is also a founding Member of Waterloo's Games Institute. Her background is in human-computer interaction, computer-supported collaboration, and computer science. Her research focuses on interaction and user interface design, and user experience design of emerging technologies, especially collaborative and social technologies. Much of her early career was focused on the design of interactive large displays and multi-display systems that support collaboration in a wide variety of application domains, including tabletop gaming, military command and control, and emergency response. Since joining the University of Guelph in 2016, Dr. Scott's research interests have expanded to include the design of emerging technologies in farming contexts, especially livestock farming. Her work in this area intersects with the two emerging fields of precision livestock farming and animal-computer interaction, combining her experience in emerging technologies and user-centred design with her passion for animal health and welfare.

Postdoctoral Fellows

This could be you!  If you are a highly motivated graduating or recently graduated PhD student with expertise in the areas of HCI, Surface Computing, and/or Information Visualization, are great with people, and are seeking a Postdoctoral position, please see the CSL Positions Available page for current funded positions. If you have your own funding, please contact CSL Director, Dr. Stacey Scott (stacey.scott@uoguelph.ca).

Current Graduate Students

	Hoodad Farhad Hoodad is a Computer Science Master's student at the University of Guelph. He completed a Bachelor's of Science, majoring in Software Engineering, from IAUCTB in Iran, graduating in the top 3% of his class. His Master's thesis focuses on augmenting machine translation outputs to better support live stream events. His research intersects Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically understanding the impact of accuracy and subtitle availability on comprehension in the machine translation field. Hoodad has also presented posters twice at the Graphics Interface (GI) conference.
	Vishvam Porwal Vishvam is a Computer Science Master's student at the University of Guelph completing the Collaborative Specialization in Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) program. He is co-supervised by CSL Director, Dr. Scott in the School of Computer Science, and Dr. Asim Biswas, Professor and OAC Chair in Soils and Precision Agriculture from the School Environmental Sciences at Guelph. He completed a Bachelor of Technology, majoring in Software Engineering, from Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (State Technological University of Madhya Pradesh) in India. During his undergraduate studies, he completed a Mitacs Globalink Research Internship in the Biswas Soil Lab. His Master's thesis focuses on precision agriculture, specifically focused improving the classification of agricultural land in satellite imagery using computer vision and deep learning. Vishvam has presented early results from his thesis at the at the Conference on Robots and Vision and at the Canadian Conference on AI.
	Kristina Kacmarova Kristina is a Computer Science Master's student at the University of Guelph. Kristina completed a Bachelor's of Science degree with an Honours Specialization in Integrated Science with Computer Science at Western University. Her Master's thesis is focused on the creation of synthetic data using virtual simulation to train deep learning models for precision livestock farming applications, such as monitoring the health and welfare of farm animals.
	Zayn Abbas Zayn is a Computer Science Master's student at the University of Guelph, where he completed an Honours Software Engineering degree. He has worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant (URA) with CSL since summer 2021, assisting on projects related to machine vision-based livestock monitoring. His research intersects Psychology, HCI, and AI, focusing on emotion detection machine learning applications on text-based social media platforms. In his first year of master's, Zayn presented at the Canadian AI conference and at poster sessions in both the Canadian AI and Graphics Interface conferences.
	Keerthana Madhavan Keerthana is a cybersecurity professional pursuing a master's in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She received her Honours bachelor's degree in Computer Science with Software Engineering from the University of Windsor in 2022. Focused on solving cybersecurity issues like privacy and internet safety, Keerthana is currently working on her product, PatchIT, aimed at modernizing vulnerability management. Her research involves developing a framework to detect manipulative misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) in election contexts using Large Language Models. She aspires to foster environments that connect young minds, spark new ideas, and change lives.
	Mahek Patel Mahek is a Computer Science Master's student at University of Guelph. Mahek completed Bachelor's of Computing degree with an Honours in Software Engineering at the University of Guelph. She was a part of CSL since Summer 2023 as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. She assisted in a research project at CSL that explored the experiences of global K-pop fans when watching live stream events ("lives") or archived lives.
	This could be you!  If you are a highly motivated student with expertise or interest in the areas of HCI, Information Visualization, and/or the use of technology to improve animal health and welfare, and are not afraid of hard (but very interesting!) work please see the CSL Positions Available page for current funded graduate positions

Research Assistants; Co-op Students; Visiting Students

	Jonas Matulis Jonas is an Undergraduate Research Assistant in CSL for the Summer 2024 term. Jonas is a Software Engineering Honours Co-op student at the University of Guelph. For his co-op term, he is developing a proof-of-concept web-based livestreaming software platform tailored to serve as a tool for future CSL research on user experience (UX) design that support establishing and maintaining human connections in multilingual, multicultural contexts, such as global K-pop fandoms.
	Peter Bertone Peter is an Undergraduate Research Assistant in CSL for the Summer 2024 term. Peter is Software Engineering Honour Co-op student at the University of Guelph. Peter is working with Jonas on developing the proof-of-concept K-pop livestreaming software platform.
	Aditi Satsangi Aditi is completing a Mitacs Globalink Research Internship in CSL for the Summer 2024 term. Aditi is a Bachelor of Technology student in the Faculty of Engineering at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in Dayalbagh, Agra, Upper Pradesh, India. She is assisting in a research project at CSL that is using machine learning, natural language processing, and topic modeling methods to identify occurrences of different types of social support within online fandom communities, for instance, among fans of Korean popular music (K-pop) who interact together on social media platforms.
	Krish Garg Krish is an Undergraduate Research Assistant in CSL for the Summer 2024 term. Krish is a completing a Bachelor of Computing in Software Engineering at the University of Guelph. He is assisting in a research project at CSL that is using machine learning, natural language processing, and topic modeling methods to identify occurrences of different types of social support within online fandom communities, for instance, among fans of Korean popular music (K-pop) who interact together on social media platforms.
	Gunpreet Singh Gunpreet is a Master of Data Science student at the University of Guelph. He was completing his DATA*6400 MDS Project in CSL, working with Aditi and Krish on NLP analysis and topic modeling of social media data from K-pop fandoms engaged on the Reddit and Twitter / X social media platforms. He specifically investigated the use of LLMs such as BERTopic for topic modeling on these data.
	This could be you!  If you are a highly motivated student with expertise or interest in the areas of HCI, Information Visualization, and/or the use of technology to improve animal health and welfare, and are not afraid of hard (but very interesting!) work please contact the CSL Director, Dr. Stacey Scott (stacey.scott@uoguelph.ca). ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: PLEASE SEE THE "Positions Available" PAGE FOR A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR SUMMER 2024

Alumni

	Dr. Leila Homaiean  (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2022-2023		Vibhuti Bajaj (UofG Graduate Research Assistant / MEng Student), 2023
	Melissa Williams (UofG Animal Biosciences PhD Student; Research Assistant) 2019-2020		Emily Conlin (UofG Animal Biosciences Master's Student; Research Assistant) 2019-2020
	Garrett Holmes (UofG Computer Science) 2022		Muhammad Muhaiminul Islam (UofG Computer Science Master's Student), 2018-2020 (Full-time Research Associate), 2020-2021
	Feerass Ellid  (UofG Computer Science) 2021		Marvin Pafla (UofG Research Assistant / UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2017-2020
	Eli-Henry Dykhne (UofG Computer Science) 2020		Ayoola Makinde  (UofG Computer Science Master's Student) 2018-2020
	Fanny Febriana Susilo  (UofG Computational Sciences Ph.D. Student) 2018-2019		Nathan Chan (UofG Research Assistant/Software Developer) 2019
	Kassidy Marsh  (UofG Computer Science) 2018-2019		Anemmeabasi Bassey  (UofG Software Engineering) 2019
	John Harris (UW PhD Student) 2013-2019		Dema Abu Adas (UofG Software Engineering) 2018
	Jonas Bakelaar (UofG Software Engineering) 2017		Dr. Riaan Oberholzer   (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2018-2019
	Anetia Camacho (UofG Animal Biology and Microbiology) 2017		Mojgan Ghare (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2015-2017
	Victor Cheung, Ph.D. (UW Systems Design Engineering Ph.D. Student) 2010-2016		Y.-L. Betty Chang, Ph.D. (UW Systems Design Engineering Ph.D. Student) 2010-2016
	Danniel Varona-Marin (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2014-2016		Nippun Goyal (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2013-2016
	Quin Millard (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2016		Ethan Liang (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2016
	Wayne Wu (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2015		Caroline Wong (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2015-2016
	Anastasia Kuzminykh (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2014-2015		Mark Martinez (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2015
	Raphael Cheng (UW Computer Engineering Undergraduate) 2015		Demi Olagoke (UW Software Engineering Undergraduate)  2015
	Feng Edmund Liu (UW Computer Engineering Undergraduate) 2014		Jay Chilibecki (UW Computer Science Undergraduate) 2014
	Kris Onderwater (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2014		Marcus Osobase  (UW Software Engineering Undergraduate)  2014-2015
	Brian Parfett (UW Computer Science Undergraduate) 2013		Shrey Khosla (UW Software Engineering Undergraduate) 2014
	Julie Tournet (Visiting student from Telecom Bretagne in Brest, France, through the LEIF Exchange Program) 2012-2013		Mylène Mengual (Visiting student from Telecom Bretagne in Brest, France, through the LEIF Exchange Program) 2012-2013
	H.X. William Zhang (UW Computer Science and Actuarial Undergraduate) 2013		Guillaume Besacier (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2011-2013
	Phil McClelland (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2010- 2013		Faizan Haque (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2013
	Jim Wallace, PhD (UW Systems Design Engineering Ph.D. Student) 2007- 2012		Sepinood Gashti (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2009-2012
	Alexandra Ion (Visiting student from Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria, through the LEIF Exchange Program) 2012		David Lindlbauer (Visiting student from Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria, through the LEIF Exchange Program) 2012
	Mindy Seto (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2009-2012		Katie Cerar (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2009-2011
	Nader Cheaib (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2010-2011		Andy Phan (SurfNet Research Assistant) 2010-2011
	Carla Midence (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2010		Antoine Allavena (Visiting student from TELECOM-Bretagne in Brest, France) 2009-2010
	George Dumitrel (High School Student) 2009-2010		Simon Whitmell  (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2009-2010
	Khaled Tangao (Visiting student from TELECOM-Bretagne in Brest, France) 2008-2009		Majd Al-Shihabi (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2008
	Farzan Sasangohar (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2007-2009		Paul McKay (UW Systems Design Engineering Master's Student) 2007-2009
	Lin Chen (UW Management Science Master's Student) 2009		Eugene Lai (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2009
	Taryn Stutz (UW Psychology Undergraduate) 2008		Trisha Enns (UW Systems Design Engineering Undergraduate) 2008