ADA Research Group

Former ADA group members
and students / postdocs supervised by Holger

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]