Graduated Students

14 PhDs · 26 MASc · 1 Post-doc · 5 MEng · 4 Visiting students
For current lab members, see the Dependable Systems Lab.

PhD Students (14)

Name	Year	Thesis	Papers
Kumseok Jung Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan. Internship: Microsoft Research	2026	A middleware framework for quality of service management and information flow control across the cloud-edge continuum SEC'21 Best Demo	Link
Abraham Chan Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan. NSERC PGS(D) and FYF awardee	2026	Building resilient ML applications using ensembles against faulty training data DSN'26 Best PaperQRS'21 Best PaperBest of SELSE'23	Link
Pritam Dash First: Senior Researcher, Huawei Canada. FYF awardee	2025	Software solutions for mitigating physical attacks against robotic autonomous vehicles William Carter Award DSN'21 Best Paper CPS Rising Star 2024	Link
Zitao Chen First: Asst. Prof., U. Kansas. FYF awardee	2025	Advancing Privacy and Accountability in Machine Learning DSN'21 Best PaperDSN'21 Best Paper Runner-Up IEEE TPTR 2024 DaaD Fellowship	Link
Asem Ghaleb First: Research Engineer, Huawei Canada. Co-advised with Julia Rubin. FYF awardee	2023	Static Analysis Approaches for Finding Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts	Link
Mohammad Rafiuzzaman First: Instructor, BCIT. Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan. IDF awardee	2023	An observation-based runtime configuration framework for the front-end network edge	Link
Mehdi Karimibiuki First: Sr. Security Eng., Sierra Wireless. Current: CTO, Fractional Inc. Main advisor: Andre Ivanov. FYF awardee	2020	Addressing Security in Drone Systems Through Authorization and Fake Object Detection	Link
Bo Fang First: PNNL → Asst. Prof., UT Arlington. Co-advised with Matei Ripeanu	2020	Approaches for Building Error Resilient Applications William Carter Award SIGHPC Honorable Mention NSERC PDF (#2 in CS)	Link
Guanpeng (Justin) Li First: Post-doc, UIUC → Asst. Prof., U. Iowa, → Assoc. Prof., U. Florida. FYF awardee	2019	Understanding and Modeling Error Propagation in Programs SPEC Dixit Dissertation Award DSN'18 Runner-Up NSERC PDF TCHPC Early Career 2024	Link
Saba Alimadadi First: Post-doc, Northeastern → Asst. Prof., SFU. Main advisor: Ali Mesbah. NSERC PDF (#1 in CS)	2017	Understanding Motifs of Program Behavior and Change ICSE'14 Distinguished Paper	Link
Farid Molazem Tabrizi First: Google, Mountain View	2017	Security Analysis and Intrusion Detection for Smart Embedded Systems EDCC'15 Best Paper TECS Best Paper 2020	Link
Frolin Ocariza Jr. First: SAP, Vancouver. Co-advised with Ali Mesbah. NSERC CGS(D) and FYF awardee	2016	On the Detection, Localization and Repair of Client-Side JavaScript Faults	Link
Shabnam Mirshokraie First: Startup co-founder. Current: Software Eng., Salesforce. Main advisor: Ali Mesbah	2015	Effective Test Generation and Adequacy Assessment for JavaScript-based Web Applications ICST'13 Runner-Up	Link
Layali Rashid First: Qualcomm → DL Architect, NVIDIA. Co-advised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan. NSERC CGS(D) and FYF awardee	2013	Tolerating Intermittent Hardware Errors: Characterization, Diagnosis & Recovery	Link

MASc Students (26)

Name	Year	Thesis	Papers
Yuqi Liu First: TBD	2026	The evolution and automated analysis of reentrancy attacks on EVM blockchainsBlockchain Pathways Fellowship	Link
Seyedmani Sadati First: Huawei Canada	2025	Reliability Analysis of Deep Learning Accelerators via Software-Level Fault InjectionDSN'26 Best Paper	Link
Mohammadreza Hallajiyan First: Seaspan LLC, Vancouver	2024	System-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security for AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices	Link
Amirhossein Ahmadi First: Huawei, Vancouver. Main advisor: Matei Ripeanu	2024	EdgeEngine: a thermal-aware optimization framework for edge inference EdgeSys'23 Best Paper	Link
Yingao (Elaine) Yao First: PhD student, Cornell University	2023	Framework for discovering GPS spoofing attacks in drone swarms	Link
Udit Agarwal First: Huawei, Vancouver	2023	Assessing the Resilience of Machine Learning Models Best of SELSE'23	Link
Ali Asgari First: Electronic Arts, Vancouver. Co-advised with Prashant Nair	2022	Structural Coding: a low-cost scheme to protect CNNs from large-granularity memory errors	Link
Rui Xi First: PhD student, UBC	2022	A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Low-Level Function Use in Ethereum Smart Contracts and Automated Replacement	Link
Niranjhana Narayanan First: Neat Inc., Norway	2021	Fault Injection in Machine Learning Applications QRS'21 Best Paper	Link
Kumseok Jung → PhD student, UBC	2021	Platform-independent live process migration for edge computing applications	Link
Pritam Dash → PhD student, UBC	2020	Security Analysis of Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Techniques	Link
Aarti Kashyap → PhD student, UBC CS.	2020	Security Analysis of Deep Neural Network-Based Cyber-Physical SystemsHeidelberg Laureate Forum invitee	–
Abdul Rehman Anwer First: Huawei Canada	2020	Efficient Modeling of Error Propagation in GPU Programs	Link
Zitao Chen → PhD student, UBC	2020	Understanding and Improving the Error Resilience of Machine Learning Systems	Link
Lucas Palazzi First: Data Realm Inc.	2019	Experimental evaluation of software-implemented fault injection at different levels of abstraction	Link
Ekta Aggarwal First: Clio. Current: Amazon, Vancouver. Main advisor: Andre Ivanov	2019	CORGIDS: A Correlation-based Generic Intrusion Detection System	Link
Maryam Raiyat Aliabadi First: PhD student, Shahid Beheshti Univ. Current: Post-doc, UBC CS	2018	Multi-Dimensional Invariant Detection for Cyber-Physical System Security	Link
Abraham Chan First: Huawei → PhD student, UBC	2017	Error Propagation Analysis for Multi-threaded Programs	Link
Nithya Narayanamurthy First: Oracle Labs → Amazon, Vancouver	2015	Finding resilience-friendly compiler optimizations using meta-heuristic search techniques EDCC'16 Best Paper	Link
Qining Lu First: Google Canada	2015	Configurable Error Detection for SDC causing Errors	Link
Kartik Bajaj First: Hootsuite. Current: WonderFI, Vancouver. Co-advised with Ali Mesbah. FYF and MITACS Globalink awardee	2014	Mining Web Application Developers' Questions	Link
Sheldon Sequeira First: SAP, Vancouver. Main advisor: Ali Mesbah	2014	Understanding Test Failures in JavaScript-Based Web Applications ICSE'14 Distinguished Paper	Link
Xin Chen First: CCB Fintech, China	2014	Failure Characterization and Prediction in Compute Clouds Highlights of ISSRE	Link
Majid Dadashi First: 1QBit. Current: Salesforce, Vancouver	2014	Integrated Hardware-Software Diagnosis of Intermittent Faults	Link
Anna Thomas First: IBM Canada. Current: Azul Systems	2013	Error Detection for Soft Computing Applications	Link
Jiesheng Wei First: Microsoft Canada. Current: Meta, US	2012	Hardware Error Detection in Multicore Parallel Programs	Link

Post-Doctoral Researcher (1)

Name	Year	Current Position	Papers
Julien Gascon-Samson	2016–2018	Associate Prof., CS Dept., ETS Montreal. Marcelle Gauvreau Engineering Chair. NSERC PDF awardee	Link

Visiting Graduate Students (4)

Name	Year	Home Institution	Papers
Gargi Mitra	2021	IIT Madras (MITACS-SCI Fellowship) → Post-doc, UBC	–
Arpan Gujarati	2020	MPI-SWS → Asst. Prof., UBC CS ACM SIGBED Dissertation Award	Link
Yong (Alex) Yang	2019	Peking University → Post-doc, Peking University	Link
Behrooz Sangchoolie	2016	Chalmers → Researcher, RISE	Link

MEng Students (5)

Name	Year	First Position
Haoran Yang	2025	TBD
Dan Jin	2024	Firmware Engineer, Intel Canada
Bill Yan	2020	—
Ahmed Effat	2019	SDE, AbeBooks (Amazon) Canada
Jose Thomas	2018	Data Engineer, LotLinx Canada