I am very fortunate to have collaborated with many brilliant and enthusiastic students, postdocs and other researchers. Here are some of the current and past members of my research team.

Current Research Group

Group Leader
  • Prof Bryan Gaensler
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Staff
  • Dr Jennifer Chan (UofT Arts & Science Fellow and CITA Fellow)
  • Dr Erik Osinga (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Dr Lerato Sebokolodi (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Dr Michael Walmsley (Dunlap Fellow)
Professional and Technical Staff
  • Susan Xu (CIRADA project manager)
Graduate Students
  • Ariel Amaral (7th year PhD student)
  • Hannah Dykaar (6th year PhD student)
  • Amanda Cook (5th year PhD student)
  • Shannon Vanderwoude (5th year PhD student)
  • Adaeze Ibik (5th year PhD student)
  • Yuyang Chen (4th year PhD student)
  • Ayush Pandhi (4th year PhD student)
Undergraduate and High-School Students
  • Ivan Tockovski (3rd year undergraduate student)
  • Affan Khadir (3rd year undergraduate student)
  • Jillian Henkel (4th year undergraduate student)
  • Arianna Lasinski (4th year undergraduate student)
  • Dennis Lu
Other Affiliated Researchers
  • Dr Antonio Herrera Martin (CANSSI Fellow)
  • Ashley Stock (5th year PhD student, University of Toronto)
  • Dr Jennifer West (Covington Fellow, DRAO)

Previous Members

  • Richard Chen (1999)
  • Prof Froney Crawford (1999-2000) - now at Franklin and Marshall College
  • Natalya Bizunok (2000-2001)
  • Joshua Marc Migliazzo (2001) - now at Ropes & Gray
  • Dr Jeffrey Fogel (2003) - now at D-Wave Systems Inc.
  • Johnathan Jenkins (2002-2003) - now at Alphabet's X
  • Stanisa Veljkovik (2004)
  • Andrei Nechita (2003-2005)
  • Dr Jonathan Blazek (2005) - now at Northeastern University
  • Prof Marijke Haverkorn (2002-2005) - now at Nijmegen University
  • Eve Meyer (2006) - now at PowerGen Renewable Energy
  • Dr Pat Slane (2001-2006) [joint group head]
  • Prof Tracey DeLaney (2004-2006) - now at West Virginia Wesleyan University
  • Hugo Dupree (2007) - now at Pogust Goodhead
  • Prof Yosi Gelfand (2002-2007) - now at New York University
  • Sam To (2008) - now at NSW Dept of Education
  • Dr Wynn Ho (2006-2008) - now at Haverford College
  • Dr Anne Lemiere (2006-2008) - now at University of Paris
  • Dr Adam Schaefer (2009) - now at University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Dr Shami Chatterjee (2004-2009) - now at Cornell University
  • Prof Philipp Kronberg (2007-2008; 2009) - visiting from LANL / U Toronto
  • Dr Katherine Newton-McGee (2004-2009)
  • Prof Stan Owocki (2009) - visiting from U Delaware
  • Anant Tanna (2007-2009) - now at Learnable
  • Dr Stephen Chi-Yung Ng (2007-2010) - now at HKU
  • Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith (2007-2010) - now at UNSW
  • Shivansh Kochhar (2010-2011)
  • Dr Emily Petroff (2011) - now at U Amsterdam / McGill U
  • Dr Daniel Yardley (2007-2011) - now at WiseTech Global
  • Dr Tim Robishaw (2008-2011) - now at DRAO
  • Dr Keith Bannister (2008-2011) - now at CSIRO
  • Dr Sui Ann Mao (2005-2011) - now at MPIfR
  • Alison Hammond (2011) - now at Sixth Floor Selborne and Wentworth Chambers
  • Jay Banyer (2010-2012) - now at UPowr
  • Dr Chris Hales (2006-2012)- now at NRAO
  • Dr Gemma Anderson (2006-2013) - now at Curtin University
  • Prof Chryssa Kouveliotou (2012) - visiting from NASA MSFC
  • Dr Niloofar Gheissari (2012-2013)
  • Dr Greg Madsen (2007-2013) - now at Lockheed Martin
  • Dr Kitty Lo (2010-2013) - now at BCG GAMMA
  • Dr Paul Hancock (2010-2013) - now at Curtin University
  • Dr James Leung (2013) - now at University of Toronto
  • Alan Robertson (2013)
  • Dr Sean Farrell (2011-2014) - now at GGWP Academy
  • Prof Shane O'Sullivan (2012-2014) - now at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Dr Billy Robbins (2008-2014) - now at Institute for Defense Analyses
  • Dr Martin Bell (2011-2014) - now at University of Technology, Sydney
  • Dr Takuya Akahori (2012-2014) - now at NAOJ
  • Prof Tara Murphy (2006-2014) [joint group head]
  • Yuan Ren (2015)
  • Siqi Liu (2015) - now at Peking University
  • Dr Jamie Farnes (2012-2015) - now at Faculty Science Ltd
  • Dr Cormac Purcell (2011-2016) - now at Trillium Technologies
  • Dr Xiaohui Sun (2011-2016) - now at Yunnan University
  • Dr Emil Lenc (2012-2016) - now at CSIRO
  • Dr Craig Anderson (2011-2016) - now at Australian National University
  • Dr Joe Callingham (2012-2017) - now at ASTRON
  • Dr Jane Kaczmarek (2012-2017) - now at CSIRO
  • Shannon Brown (2016) - now at Queen's University
  • Nikhil Mahajan (2016-2017) - now at University of Toronto
  • Dr Niels Oppermann (2016-2017) - now at Accelerate Diagnostics
  • Bruce Wu (2016-2017) - now at Next Pathway Inc.
  • Dr Chris Herron (2013-2017) - now at Servian
  • Rebecca Lin (2016-2017) - now at University of Toronto
  • Prof Maria Drout (2016-2018) - now at University of Toronto
  • Mingfei (Doris) Ye (2017) - now at University of Michigan
  • Elson Leung (2017) - now at Bell Canada
  • Dr Tessa Vernstrom (2015-2018) - now at University of Western Australia
  • Dr Dustin Lang (2015-2018) - now at Perimeter Institute
  • Zarif Kader (2018) - now at McGill University
  • Thierry Serafin Nadeau (2018) - now at University of Toronto
  • Tutukhanim Balayeva (2018-2019) - now at University of Geneva
  • Dr Yvette Cendes (2017-2019) - now at Harvard University
  • Connor Sheere (2019) - now at RBC
  • Dr Rachael Alexandroff (2017-2019) - now at New York City government
  • Gabrielle Galloway (2019-2020)
  • Simon Smith (2019-2020) - now at University of Victoria
  • Jean-Paul Bui (2018-2020) - now at TELUS
  • Darya Zanjanpour Mobarhan Fomani (2020-2021)
  • Parampreet Singh (2020-2021)
  • Dr Ryan Mckinven (2017-2021) - now at McGill University
  • Dr Jessica Campbell (2017-2022)
  • Dr Luke Pratley (2019-2022) - now at Validere
  • Dr Mathew Dionyssiou (2018-2022) - now at Canadian Cancer Society
  • Dr Cameron Van Eck (2018-2022) - now at Australian National University
  • Dr Sarah Gossan (2019-2022) - now at Hofstra University
  • Prateek Gupta (2021-2022) - now at University of Edinburgh
  • Peter Ma (2022) - now at University of Toronto
  • Prof Josh Speagle (2020-2022) - now at University of Toronto
  • Jillian Henkel (2021-2022) - now at University of Toronto
  • Dr Jennifer West (2016-2022) - now at DRAO
  • Parthasarathy Venkataraman (2020-2023) - now at RBC
  • José Feliciano Agüí Fernándo (2022)
  • Ishika Bangari (2022-2023)
  • Nigel Cheriyan (2022-2023)
  • Maxwell Fine (2021-2023) - now at University of Amsterdam
  • Aryanna Schiebelbein (2022-2023)
  • Nicole Gromek (2021-2022) - now at McMaster University
  • Prof Paul Scholz (2019-2023) - now at York University
  • Dr Anna O'Grady (2016-2023) - now at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Soham Chakraborty (2022-2023)
  • Clayton Lowe (2023)
  • Sam Lakerdas-Gayle (2023)
  • Dr Ziggy Pleunis (2021-2023) - now at University of Amsterdam