ADA Research Group

Former ADA group members
and students / postdocs supervised by Holger

Gerlise Chan (MSc student 2024)

Tobias Oberkofler (MSc student 2024)

Jakob Bossek (Assistant professor (Akademischer Rat) 2023)

Jasmin Kareem (MSc student 2023)

Mike Huisman (PhD candidate 2023)

Thijs Simons (MSc student 2023)

Corné Spek (MSc student 2023)

Malte Schwerin (Student assistant 2023)

Yannik Trinn (Student assistant 2023)

Aaron Berger (Student assistant 2023)

Marc Thiemann (Student assistant 2023)

Sven van Collenburg (BSc student 2023)

Tarek Junied (Student assistant 2023)

Yingliu Lu (Student assistant 2023)

Guus Toussaint (MSc 2022)

Thalea Schlender (MSc 2022)

Thijs Snelleman (MSc 2022)
[LinkedIn]

Anna Louise Latour (PhD candidate 2022)
- now a postdoc at National University Singapore
[Personal WebsiteTwitterLinkedIn]

Koen van der Blom (Post-doc 2022)
- now a postdoc at LIP6, Sorbonne University, France
[Google ScholarResearchGatePersonal Website]

Zhizhou Fang (MSc 2022)
[LinkedIn]

Job Vink (MSc 2022)

Oliver König (MSc 2022)
[LinkedIn]

Christie Bavelaar (BSc 2021)

Maxime Casara (MSc 2021)
[LinkedIn]

Amin Moradi (MSc 2021)

Siyuan Dong (MSc 2021)

Jaco Tetteroo (MSc 2021)
- now an Azure Data Specialist at Fortezza

Victor Neuteboom (MSc 2021)

Richard Middelkoop (BSc 2021)

Nelly Rosaura Palacios Salinas (MSc 2021)
[LinkedIn]

Gilles Ottervanger (MSc 2021)
- now a software engineer at Google
[LinkedIn]

Zhou Zhou (Visiting PhD candidate 2019-2020)

Christiaan Lamers (Visiting post-doc 2019-2020)
- now a Python software engineer at Ordina
[LinkedIn]

Daniël Fokkinga (MSc 2019)

[LinkedIn]

Yi Chu (visiting PhD candidate 2019)
- now a PhD candidate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yanyan Xu (visiting associate professor 2019)
- now an associate professor at Bejing Forestry University, China
[Google Scholar]

Jesper van Engelen (MSc 2018)
- now at NVIDIA, USA.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Lars Kotthoff (Postdoc 2014-2017)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, USA.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Zongxu Mu (MSc 2015)
- now at Bloomberg in London, UK.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Steven Ramage (MSc 2015)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now Project Leader at QuickMobile, Canada.
[LinkedIn]

Lin Xu (PhD 2014)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now Chief Science Officer at Istuary, Canada.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Marius Lindauer (PhD 2014)
- co-supervised with Torsten Schaub at Universität Potsdam; now postdoc at Universität Freiburg, Germany.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Frank Hutter (PhD 2009; Postdoc 2009-2013)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now Professor of Computer Science at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Christopher Thornton (MSc 2013)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now at Google, USA.
[LinkedIn]

Nima Aghaeepour (PhD 2012)
- co-supervised with Ryan Brinkman at the BC Cancer Research Centre; now Assistant Professor at Stanford University, USA.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Chris Nell (MSc 2011)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now Founder and CEO at Tideline Data, Canada.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Dave Tompkins (PhD 2010; Postdoc 2010-2011)
- now Lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Massih Korvash (MSc 2009)
- co-supervised with David Kirpatrick at UBC.
[LinkedIn]

Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh (MSc 2009)
- co-supervised with Kevin Leyton-Brown at UBC; now a PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Mirela Andronescu (PhD 2008)
- co-supervised with Anne Condon at UBC; now a Research Scientist at BC Cancer Research Centre, Canada.
[LinkedIn]

Rosalía Aguirre-Hernández (PhD 2007)
- co-supervised with Anne Condon at UBC; now a Research Scientist at Contextual Genomics, Canada.
[LinkedIn]

Camilo Rostoker (MSc 2007)
- co-supervised with Alan Wagner at UBC; now Director of Product Development at Benevity, Canada.
[LinkedIn]

Dan Tulpan (PhD 2006)
- co-supervised with Anne Condon at UBC; now Research Officer and Head of Atlantic Bioinformatics Lab, ICT, National Research Council of Canada.
[LinkedInGoogle Scholar]

Sanja Rogic (PhD 2006; Postdoc 2006-2007)
- co-supervised with Alan Mackworth and Francis Ouellette at UBC; now a Research Scientist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Canada.
[LinkedIn]

Alena Shmygelska (PhD 2006)
- now Technical Product Lead in (Machine Learning/Bioinformatics) at Human Longevity, USA.
[LinkedIn]

Igor Naverniouk (MSc 2005)
- now a Software Engineer at Google, USA.
[LinkedIn]

Jürgen Kilian (PhD 2004)
- co-supervised with Hermann K.-G. Walter at TU Darmstadt; now Founder and President, Kilian IT Consulting, Germany.
[LinkedIn]

Kevin Smyth (MSc 2004)
- now a Software Engineering Manager at Apple, USA.
[LinkedIn]

Viann Chan (MSc 2004)
- co-supervised with Anne Condon at UBC;

Andrew Kwon (MSc 2003)
- co-supervised with Raymond Ng at UBC; now a Research Scientist at RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan.
[LinkedIn]