Team

DISCOS is a vibrant and dynamic research group. We enjoy working together, exchanging ideas, and building an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and have fun along the way!

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Meet The Team

PhD Students

Junpeng Gai

• 2025 - Present
• Vector Database, Cloud Data Governance
  #A #C #D
• UG: Dean's List x3 ('22, '24, '25)

Bingxu Zhu

• 2025 - Present
• Distributed Consesus, Fault tolerance
  #B #D

Emma (Arefe) Emrani

• 2025 - Present
• Federated Learning, Decentralized AI
  #A #B

Duc Huy Ta

• 2026 - Present
• Cloud Data Governance, ML influence estimation
  #A #C #D
• UG: Dean's List x2 ('23, '25)

Kerolos Wahba

• 2025 - Present (co-supervision with Dr. Shiri)
• Vector Database, Learned Index
  #A #D
• UG: Dean's List x4 ('20, '21, '22, '23)

Master Students

Khalid Abdulrahim

• 2026 - Present
• Data Governance
  #C #D

Haimu Wang

• 2026 - Present
• Vector Database
  #A #D

Yuelin Wen

• 2026 - Present
• Vector Database
  #A #D

Harunari Takata

• 2026 - Present
• Distributed consensus
  #B #D

Tanisha Fonseca

• 2025 - Present
• Distributed consensus
  #B #D

Lei Hong

• 2025 - Present
• ML influence estimation
  #A

Undergrad Students

Annie Nguyen

• Winner of Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award (CUSRA 2025 Summer)
• Dean's List x2 ('24, '25)

Francesca Sison

• Winner of Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award (CUSRA 2025 Summer)
• Dean's List (2025)

Richard Denton

• Winner of NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA 2026 Summer)