Shahryar Rahnamayan

Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan

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

Department Chair and Associate Professor

Director of Nature Inspired Computational Intelligence (NICI) Lab

Master Students

    • Name: Mr. Jonathan Gillett (sole-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Utilizing Evolutionary Computation for Convex Pentagons Tiling
    • Date: Sept. 2014 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Hassan Rabbani (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Designing Optimal Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
    • Date: May 2014 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Hojjat Salehinejad (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Micro-Differential Evolution: Diversity Enhancement and Comparative Study
    • Date: Sept. 2013 - July 2014 (graduated)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Raazi Rizvi (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Designing Optimal Hydrophobic Surfaces
    • Date: Sept. 2013 - present (part-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Harris Mushtaq (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Content-based Image Retrieval
    • Date: May 2013 - Feb. 2014 (withdrew)
    • Institute: Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo
    • Name: Ms. Zakiya Alfughi (co-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Designing Optimal Three-dimensional Photovoltaics
    • Date: Jan. 2013 - present (full-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Shaho ShahbazPanahi (sole-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Learning Image Enhancement and Object Localization Using Evolutionary Algorithms
    • Date: Jan. 2012 - Mar. 2014 (graduated)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Zaid Mohamad (sole-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Tissue extraction from medical images based on image processing chain optimization
    • Date: Jan. 2010 - present (part-time)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Ali Esmailzadeh (sole-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: Novel Opposition-Based Sampling Methods for Efficiently Solving Challenging Optimization Problems
    • Date: Sept. 2009 - Apr. 2011 (graduated)
    • Institute: UOIT
    • Name: Mr. Arman Darvish (sole-supervision)
    • Thesis topic: User Aid-based Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Parameter Setting of Image Enhancement and Segmentation
    • Date: Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2011 (graduated)
    • Institute: UOIT