Shahryar Rahnamayan

Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan

BSc, MSc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng, SMIEEE

Department Chair and Associate Professor

Director of Nature Inspired Computational Intelligence (NICI) Lab

Doctoral Students

    • Name: Ms. Hanan Hiba
    • Thesis topic: Designing Optimal Artificial Neural Netwroks
    • Date: Sept. 2015 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Khaled Ahsan Talukder (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Opposition-based Many-objective Optimization
    • Date: Sept. 2014 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: ECE, Michigan State University, MI, USA
    • Name: Mr. Robert Zadeh (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Cars
    • Date: Sept. 2013 - Dec. 2014 (part-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Ms. Sedigeh Mahdavi (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Co-evolutionary Co-operative Large-Scale Optimization
    • Date: Dec. 2012 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: Amirkabir University of Technology
    • Name: Mr. Amin Ibrahim (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Merit-based Evolutionary Algorithms to Solve Multi-objective Optimization Problems Efficiently
    • Date: Sept. 2012 - present (part-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Saaed Mehdizadeh-Bakshmand (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Vision-Based Control of Catheter in Heart Invasive Surgery
    • Date: Jan. - Sept. 2012
    • Institute: Ryerson University
    • Name: Dr. Farid Bourennani (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Leadership-Based Multi-Objective Optimization with Applications in Energy Systems
    • Date: Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2013 (graduated)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Dr. Fares S. Al-Qunaieer (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Automated Resolution Selection for Image Segmentation
    • Date: Sept. 2009 - Jan. 2014 (graduated)
    • Institute: University of Waterloo
    • Name: Dr. Hui Wang (unofficial co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Accelerating of Population-based Algorithms Using Opposition based Schemes
    • Date: Sept. 2008 - May 2011 (graduated, lecturer in School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology, China)
    • Institute: Wuhan University, Wuhan, China