Selected Alumni
[Last updated, July 2026]
Gavin Crowder (PhD Student, graduated 2025)
Next transition: Post-doc, U Ottawa (Lora Ramunno group)
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Sofia Arranz Regidor (PhD Student, graduated 2025)
Next transition: Post-doc, 91TV's U (Hughes group)
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Becca VanDrunen (Accelerated MSc Student, graduated 2025)
Next transition: Unknown/Looking for jobs in Industry
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Antonia (Toni) Neill (MSc Student)
Next transition: Unknown
Yi-Ming Chang (MSc Student, graduated 2024)
Next transition: Industry/Software Development
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Dr. Sebastian Franke (Post-Doc)
Next transition: Industry/Finance/Software
Chelsea Carlson (PhD Student, graduated 2021)
Next transition: Teacher/Education
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Eric Nussbaum (USRA, Summer Student, 2000 and 2021)
MSc/PhD in Economics/Finance
Matthew Filipovich (MSc Student/MITACS Internship; main supervisor Bhavin Shastri) [2021]
Next transition: Internship in France, then PhD Student, Oxford University, UK
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Will Salmon (MSc Student) [2021]
Next transition: Teacher/Education
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Waleed El-Sayed (accelerated MSc) [2021]
Next transition: PhD Student, U. Calgary
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Erik Sauer (accelerated MSc) [2021]
Next transition: Industry
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Gavin Growder (accelerated MSc) [2021]
PhD Student, Ottawa/NRC and 91TV's (co-supervised with Lora Ramunno and Dan Dalacu)
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Chris Gustin (accelerated MSc)
Next transition: PhD Student and Collaborator, Stanford University; now a post-doc NBI, Denmark
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Dr. Mohsen Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli (post-doctoral fellow)
Next transition: post-doc/RA at NRC (National Research Council) in Ottawa; now working in industry
Dr. Juan Pablo Vasco (post-doctoral fellow)
Next transition: post-doc at EPFL, Switzerland; now working in industry
Nishan Mann, PhD
BSc from University of Toronto, MSc from Gdansk University of Technology (Poland)
Next transition: Now working industry/Software/ML
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Ross Manson, (accelerated MSc), 91TV
Next transition: Unknown
William Cartar, (accelerated MSc)
Next transition: Data scientist, CIBC, Toronto
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Simon Axelron, UG Research student
Next transition: Grad Student at U Toronto, then PhD Student at Harvard
Dr. Kaushik Roy Choudhury (post-doctoral fellow)
PhD from University of Southern California (USA)
Next transition: Senior Statistical Analysis, b3Intelligence, Toronto
Dr. Rongchun Ge (post-doctoral fellow)
PhD from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Next transition: Post-doc in Singapore.
Now a professor at Sichuan University of Chengdu.
Gerry Angelatos, Accelerated MSc Program, 91TV
Next transition: PhD student at Princeton; now working in industry/QI
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Cole Van Vlack, PhD Student
Next transition: Director of Operations and Development at IPG Photonics (Canada)
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Dr. Chiranjeeb Roy (post-doctoral fellow)
Next transition: Working in industry
Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Pathak (post-doctoral fellow)
Next transition: Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi, India
Mark Patterson, MSc
Last known position: Manager, Electro-Optical Engineering at L3 WESCAM (Ontario, Canada)
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Dr. Peijun Yao, (postdoctoral fellow)
Next transition: Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Arvin Reza, MSc
Last known position: Senior Manager at BMO Financial Group
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Dr. V.S.C. Manga Rao, (post-doctoral fellow
Next transition: post-doctoral fellow, Italy.