Research

Dr. M. Capretz’s current research interests are:

Software Engineering
Big Data
Data Management
Data Analytics
Machine Learning
loT
Blockchain

Research Team

Current Graduate Students (PhD/MESc/MEng)

Alexandra L'Heureux- PhD Candidate - (2015) [NSERC CGS-D Scholarship]
Norman Tasfi - PhD Candidate
Santiago Gomez Rosero – PhD Candidate - Ecuadorian Senescyt scholarship
Dagimawi Eneyew – PhD Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. Girma Bitsuamlak)
Matthew Vanderwiel – MESc Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. Girma Bitsuamlak)
Jianping Ye – MEng Candidate

Visiting Professors

Jose Eduardo Santarem Segundo – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Sep. 2018-Aug.2019)
Dr. Zongmin Ma – Northeastern University, China (Oct. 2013-Apr. 2014)
Dr. Hany ElYamany - Suez Canal University. Egypt (Oct. 2013- Apr. 2014)
Dr. Thierry Monteil - LAAS, Toulouse, France (May 2013)
Dr. Ernesto Exposito- LAAS, Toulouse, France (Jun. 2012, Apr-May 2013)
Dr. Said Tazi, LAAS, Toulouse, France (Aug. 2012)
Dr. Mario Dantas, UFSC, Brazil (June 2012)
Dr. M. Beatriz F. Toledo, UNICAMP, Brazil (2011)

Visiting Researchers and Undergraduate Students (USRA)

Ruiqi Tian, Etherington Fellowship (May-Aug, 2020)
Jeongwon Song, NSERC USRA (May-Aug, 2020)
Eric Klassen, Summer Research (May-Aug, 2020)
Sarah Tan, Summer Research (May-Aug, 2020)
Yusra Irfan, Summer Research (May-Aug, 2020)
Wei Dai, Summer Research (May-Aug, 2020)
Ruthy Brito, NSERC USRA (May-Aug, 2019)
Matthew Chiang, NSERC USRA (May-Aug, 2018)
Shusen Shrestha, Research Associate (May-Aug, 2018)
Andrea Zagar, Research Associate (Nov 2017-Mar, 2018)
Norman Tasfi, Research Associate (Sep-Dec, 2017)
Evan Cole, Research Associate (May-Aug. 2017)
Joshua Altman, NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2017) With London Hydro
Rahim Shamsy, Research Associate (May-Aug. 2017 ) With Facilities Management
M. Ali Jilani, Research Associate (2016-Present) With Powersmiths
Andrea Zagar, NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2015) With London Hydro
Laura Perry, NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2015) With London Hydro
Thomas Trovato, Research Associate (May-Aug. 2014) With London Hydro
E. Stevenson, Research Associate (May-Aug. 2014) With Lawson Health Research Institute
Marcio Moraes Lopes (Oct. 2016-Feb. 2017), from University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, ELAP Scholarship from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)
Bradley Wilson- NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2013)
Lucas Botelho Coelho (May-Aug. 2013) Science Without Border (Poli-USP, Brazil)
Alex Bruno da Silva (May-Aug. 2013) Science Without Border (UFBA, Brazil)
Fabricio Nogueira Buzeto (Mar.-Sep.2013) CNPq-PhD Sandwich (UnB, Brazil)
Alexandra L'Heureux- NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2012)
Aleem Haji - NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2012)
Wesley Hunt - Research Associate (May-Aug. 2012)
Mathias Weber (Nov. 2011-Feb. 2012) from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) ELAP Scholarship from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)
Michael Hayes - NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2011)
Douglas Macedo (Nov. 2010-Feb. 2011) from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), ELAP Scholarship from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)
Emily Walpole - NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2010)
Margaret Sazio - CANARIE Project (June-Aug. 2010)
Cristiano Rocha (Sep. 2009-Feb. 2010) from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) sponsored by Graduate Students Exchange Program (GSEP) from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)
Kevin Brown - NSERC USRA (May-Aug. 2009)
Americo Cunha (Nov. 2008-Mar. 2009) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Thiago Lechuga (Jan. 2009-Jul. 2009) from University of Campinas (Brazil) sponsored by Graduate Students Exchange Program (GSEP) from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT)

Past Post Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Hany ElYamany
Dr. Mahmoud ElGayyar
Dr. Katarina Grolinger
Dr. Wilson Higashino
Dr. Americo Cunha - CANARIE Project (jointly with Prof. Ernest Yanful)
Dr. Shuying Wang

Graduates

Wander Queiroz - PhD (2015) [Science Without Border Scholarship] Big Data for Traffic Engineering in Software- Defined Networks
Patrick Adjei – MEng (2020) Energy Disaggregation using Multilabel Binarization and GNB Classifier
Nittin Sethi – MEng (2020) Energy Disaggregation using Multilabel Binarization and GNB Classifier
Augusto Bedin – MEng (2019) A Blockchain Approach to Social Responsibility
Rafael Aguiar – MESc (2019) Spatiotemporal Forecasting at Scale
Jose Miguel Alves – MESc (2019) Orchestration of Machine Learning Workflows on Internet of Things Data
Willamos de Aguiar Siqueira e Silva – MESc (2019) CNN-PDM: A Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Assets Predictive Maintenance
Roberto Barboza Junior - MESc (2018) A Framework for Modelling User Activity Preferences
Xiaoou (Monica) Zhang – MEng (2017) Forecasting Residential Energy Consumption: Single Household Perspective
Dennis Bachmann - MESc. (2017) Contextual Model-Based Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems
Wilson Higashino - Double PhD (2016) [Ontario Trillium Scholarship] Complex Event Processing as a Service in Multi-Cloud Environments, co-supervision with Prof. L. F. Bittencourt - UNICAMP)
Mauro Ribeiro - MESc (2016) Agora: A Knowledge Marketplace for Machine Learning
Daniel Berhane Araya - MESc (2016) Collective Contextual Anomaly Detection for Building Energy Consumption
David Allison - Double PhD (2014) [NSERC CGS-D Scholarship] Protecting Personal Private Information in Collaborative Environments, cotutelle with Dr. Khalil Drira and Dr. Said Tazi- University of Toulouse)
Alexandra L’Heureux - MESc (2015), [NSERC CGS-M & OGS Scholarships] Gamification Framework for Sensor Data Analytics
Michael Hayes - MESc (2014) [NSERC CGS M & OGS Scholarships] Contextual Anomaly Detection Framework for Big Sensor Data
Chen Wang - MEng (2014) Green Button Data Standard for Event Management
Sonam Yadav - MEng (2014) Managing Energy Data for Event Organizers
Abhinav Tiwari - MESc (2014) Hybrid Data Storage Framework for the Biometrics Domain
Katarina Grolinger - PhD (2013) [NSERC CGS-D & OGS Scholarships] Disaster Data Management in Cloud Environments
Kevin Brown - MESc (2012) [NSERC CGS M & OGS scholarships] A Collaborative Design Process for the Ontology-Based Development of Data Providing Services
Abid Rana - MEng (2012) eHealth Cloud
Leke Akinyele - MEng (2012) Cloud Computing in Medicine
Zainab Al-Jazzaf - PhD (2011) [Kuwait Government Scholarship] co-supervision with Prof. Mark Perry (Computer Science) Trust Based Service Selection
Diego Z. G. Garcia – PhD Double-Degree with Unicamp - Brazil (2011) co-supervision with Prof. M. Beatriz F. Toledo - Semantic Privacy Policy for Service Description and Discovery in Service-Oriented Architecture
Wei Xu - MEng (2011) Software Evolution from Matlab to Java Web Service
Shuying (Vinson) Wang– PhD (2010) [OGS Scholarship] A Dependency Based Impact Analysis Framework for Service-Oriented System Evolution
Rizwan Tejpar – MESc (2010) [NSERC CGS M Scholarship] Auditing Framework for Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architecture
David Allison - MESc (2009) [OGS Scholarship] Privacy Protection Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture
Katarina Grolinger - MEng (2009) Database Schema Evolution and Testing
Hany El Yamany - PhD (2009) A Fine-Grained Security Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture
Jinghui Lu - MESc (2009) - Service-Oriented Ontology Management Framework
Na Na Lin - MEng (2007) Knowledge Management in Software Engineering
Besa Muslimi - MESc (2007) [NSERC IPS Scholarship] - A Neuro-Fuzzy Model for Software Development Effort Estimation
Jack Baker - MESc (2006) Autonomic Thread Load Balancing Using Fuzzy Logic
Fabiano Tiba - MESc (2006) - Process Framework for the Transition to Service-Oriented Architecture
Brent Hands - MESc (2005) [NSERC CGS-M Scholarship] - A Contour Placement and Novel Variance Analysis for the Segmentation of Ultrasound Images
John Michura - MESc (2005) Extension of Object Oriented Metrics Suite for Maintenance
Imran Siwani - MESc (2005) Application of Fuzzy Logic for Effectively Estimating Software Project Management Parameters
Mary Hryb - MESc (2004) Software Integration Using a Dynamic Wrapper Agent
Shengchun Zhang - MESc (2004) - Agent-based Process Management Model to enhance Software Configuration Management Automation
Sunitha Ramanujam - MESc (2003) Autonomous Database Administration and Maintenance