Faisal Qureshi
Faisal Qureshi
Professor
Computer Science
Visual Computing Lab
Faculty of Science
Ontario Tech University (formerly UOIT)
UA4000, 2000 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, ON L1G OC5 Canada
faisal.qureshi@uoit.ca
(905) 721-8668 x 3626

Students

I have been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with an exceptional group of students.

Current

Ph.D.

Kiran Mantriprigada
Kiran Mantriprigada
Hyperspectral imaging
Shima Rezasoltani
Shima Rezasoltani
Hyperspectral image compression

M.Sc.

Hafiz Arslan Amjad
Hafiz Arslan Amjad
M.Sc. CS
Giancarlo Giannetti
Giancarlo Giannetti
M.Sc. CS
Alexie Linardatos
Alexie Linardatos
M.Sc. CS, Co-supervised with Prof. H. Davoudi
Neel Samirkumar Shah
Neel Samirkumar Shah
M.Sc. CS, Co-supervised with [Prof. C. Collins](https://vialab.ca)

Past

Ph.D.

Adam Lycksam
Adam Lycksam
Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Mid Sweden University, co-supervised with Prof. M. O’Nils, last at SCA
From Concepts to Conditions: Bridging the Gap in AI-Based Maintenance Systems
June 2025
Mohamed Helala
Mohamed Helala
Ph.D. CS, co-supervised with Prof. K. Pu, last at CIBC
Towards Efficient and Scalable Computer Vision Systems
August 2018
Luis Zarrabeitia
Luis Zarrabeitia
Last at Google
3D Multi-target Tracking in High-Speed Cameras (ABD)

M.Sc.

Chirag Karia
Chirag Karia
M.Sc. CS, co-supervised with Prof. K. Derpanis, last at TerraSense Analytics Ltd.
Predicting multi-person dynamics (Best thesis award nominee)
December 2023
Mohamed Zayed
Mohamed Zayed
M.Sc. CS (ABD), last at Scale AI
Anomaly detection dashboard
Mir Afgan Talpur
Mir Afgan Talpur
M.Sc. CS, last at Twilio
A Modular Approach to Image Matting
November 2022
Michael Lombardo
Michael Lombardo
M.Sc. CS, last at TerraSense Analytics Ltd.
Parsing Genetic Models
January 2022
Mohammed Baeenh
Mohammed Baeenh
M.Sc. CS
Multi-character Prediction Using Attention
February 2020
Wesley Taylor
Wesley Taylor
M.Sc. CS, last at Legion Development Group
Achieving real-rime video summarization on commodity hardware
April 2018
Ryan Shanks
Ryan Shanks
M.Sc. CS, last at Softcom Technologies Corporation
Towards parallax-based unencumbered displays
Dec. 2015
Ernesto Reina
Ernesto Reina
M.Sc. CS, co-supervised with Prof. K. Pu, last at Amazon
An index structure for fast range search in hamming space
November 2014
Nurjahan Parvin
Nurjahan Parvin
M.Sc. CS, co-supervised with Prof. K. Pu
Robust curved road boundary detection using hierarchical clustering
October 2013
Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang
M.Sc. CS, last at Calibration Technologies Ltd.
Topic models for image localization
August 2013
Christopher Little
Christopher Little
M.Sc. CS, co-supervised with Prof. M. Green, last at Qlik
Ray tracing large distributed Datasets using ray caches
December 2011
Gavin Lobo
Gavin Lobo
MCS, co-supervised with Prof. D. Aruliah, last at Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited
Investigation into Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Non-Newtonian Droplet Modelling
August 2011

Honor Thesis Students

Srivathsan Sivakumar
Srivathsan Sivakumar
Last at Aletha Health
WS-Efficient ViT: Cluster Weight Shared Efficient Vision Transformer
April 2025
David Houle-Tymeczko
David Houle-Tymeczko
Co-supervised with Prof. S. Livingstone, continued as graduate student at Ontario Tech
EAT and Audio2Head: Categorical Emotional Talking Head Generation with Predicted Head Poses (Best CS Undergradute Honours Thesis Award 2025, Data Science Track)
April 2025
Aaveg Shangari
Aaveg Shangari
Tracking Shape-Changing Worms (C. Elegans) in Video Using Skeleton-Based Particle Tracking
April 2025
Daniel Zajac
Daniel Zajac
Joined VCLab as graduate student
Skeleton-Based Action Prediction Using Knowledge Transfer
April 2025
Mohammad Mushfequr Rahman
Mohammad Mushfequr Rahman
Co-supervised with Prof. K. Pu, last at Deloitte
Visualizing Zero-Shot Learning
April 2022
Kathryn Mei-Yu Chen
Kathryn Mei-Yu Chen
Last at Scotiabank
Something-Somthing Human-Object-Interaction Detection In Video Reasoning
April 2021
Pulkit Madan
Pulkit Madan
Last at Qualcomm
Skeleton-Based Action Recognition Using Attention Mechanisms
April 2021
Harrish Thasarathan
Harrish Thasarathan
Last at York University
A Kinematic Framework for the Analysis and Visualization of Motion Discontinuities
April 2021
Raphael Nation
Raphael Nation
Last at leap tools
Point Cloud Reconstruction Using Deep Learning Techniques
April 2021
Mir Afgan Talpur
Mir Afgan Talpur
Continued as my graduate student
Deep Learning on the Go. Pastiche.
April 2020
Nathan Beals
Nathan Beals
Co-supervised with Prof. C. Collins, last at Synctera
A Vision-Based System for Non-Intrusive Posture Correction Notifications
April 2020
Jonathan Perry
Jonathan Perry
Co-supervised with Prof. C. Collins
Gamer Skill Prediction using Gaze Tracking
April 2020
Michael Lombardo
Michael Lombardo
Continued as my graduate student
Exploring LSTMs for Video Analysis
April 2019
Matt McColeman
Matt McColeman
Last at TD Bank
Human Joint Prediction using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
April 2019
Michael Stergianis
Michael Stergianis
Stereo vision: Cost-volume filtering meets deep learning
April 2018
Hunter Thompson
Hunter Thompson
Last at FDM Group
Video summarization with early superframe segmentation
April 2018
Jose Miguel Mendez
Jose Miguel Mendez
Last at Deloitte
A Cloud-based Service for Comparative Genomics
April 2017
Robert de Bruyn
Robert de Bruyn
Last at Royal Canadian Air force
An iOS app for Document Scanning
April 2017
Wesley Taylor
Wesley Taylor
Continued as my graduate student
Vision-Based High-Performance Highway Vehicles Analytics
April 2015
Pat Goebel
Pat Goebel
Last at Wayfair
Fast Image Matching using ORB and Multi-Index Hashing
April 2014
Carly Marshall
Carly Marshall
Last at AffinityClick Inc.
Privacy Protected Video Surveillance
April 2014
David Nemirovsky
David Nemirovsky
Continued as my graduate student
Object Detection and Annotation in Videos for Location Recall
April 2014
Stephanie Gloin
Stephanie Gloin
Last at SkyAlyne
Blood Droplet Analysis Using Image Processing and Ellipse Fitting Techniques
April 2013
Jordan Stadler
Jordan Stadler
Continued as my graduate student
Interactive Online Image Stitching for Panoramic Image Generation
April 2012
Tony Chuang
Tony Chuang
Dynamic Crowd Simulation
April 2012
Jonathan Elliot
Jonathan Elliot
Co-supervised with Prof. K. Pu Last at Shopify
Regression of Graph Images using Piecewise Interpolation
April 2012
Wiktor Starzyk
Wiktor Starzyk
Continued as my graduate student
Virtual Vision Simulator for Smart Camera Network Research
April 2011
M. Tanvir Kaykobad
M. Tanvir Kaykobad
Last at SportStats Canada
A Study on Simulating Formation and Movement of a Group of Agents
April 2011
Alex Wijtowych
Alex Wijtowych
Last at Wayfair
A Sliding Model for Estimating Traffic Density
April 2010
Bradley Chicoine
Bradley Chicoine
Last at Ontario Tech University
An Online System for Visualizing UOIT Class Schedules
April 2010

Undergraduate Students

Bohdan Perederei
Bohdan Perederei
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2024 (National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute")
Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
Ghazi Shazan Ahmed
Ghazi Shazan Ahmed
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2023 (IIIT Bangalore Electronics City)
Deep Learning for Cloud Removal in Hyperspectral Imagery
Soham Chitnis
Soham Chitnis
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2023 (BITS Pilani)
Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Analysis
Priyadharshini Ramalingam
Priyadharshini Ramalingam
Workstudy student 2019
Mohammad Mushfequr Rahman
Mohammad Mushfequr Rahman
Research Assistant 2019/2020
Michael Lombardo
Michael Lombardo
NSERC USRA, Summer 2018
Content Aware Video Segmentation
Michael Stergianis
Michael Stergianis
NSERC USRA, Summer 2016; NSERC USRA Summer 2017
Long-term Activity Recognition in Construction Sites (2016); Depth Map Estimation using Slanted Windows (2017)
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour
UTRECS, UofT, Summer 2015, last graduate student at Vector Institute
Surface proposals
Ekaterian Datensko
Ekaterian Datensko
UTRECS, UofT, Summer 2015, last Software Engineer at Google
Surface proposals
Piyush Dugar
Piyush Dugar
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2015 (IIT, Jodhpur)
Machine Learning Approaches to Action Recognition
Subham Singhal
Subham Singhal
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2015, (BITS, Pilani)
Temporal superpixels
Wesley Taylor
Wesley Taylor
Summer 2013; NSERC USRA, Summer 2014; Summer 2015
Intelligent context-aware video editing; New tools for automatic video editing; Vehicle detection and tracking in traffic cameras
Ryan Shanks
Ryan Shanks
Summer 2013
Investigations into High-Performance Rendering Using CUDA
David Nemrovsky
David Nemrovsky
Summer 2013
LED based indoor localization
Jordan Stadler
Jordan Stadler
Summer 2011
Vision-based lift analysis using Microsoft Kinect
Wiktor Starzyk
Wiktor Starzyk
Summer 2010; Summer 2011
A Cognitive Camera Network; Learning proactive control strategies for PTZ cameras
Adam Domurad
Adam Domurad
Summer 2010; NSERC USRA, Summer 2011, Best poster, Student research showcase, Faculty of Science
Color based pedestrian tracking; Pedestrian tracking using a visual analysis pipeline
M. Tanvir Kaykobad
M. Tanvir Kaykobad
Summer 2010, last graduate student at CGLab, Carleton University
Dynamic path planning for crowd simulation

Graduate Student Theses