Mohammad Shafiee, University of Waterloo

Research

Automatic Machine Learning Computer Vision Deep Learning Deep Neural Networks Machine Learning

Latest funding

Automated full-game ice hockey analytics
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$180,000
Automatic Deep Neural Network Design by a Novel Stochastic Search Process
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Automatic Deep Neural Network Design by a Novel Stochastic Search Process
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$112,000

Automated full-game ice hockey analytics

Co-investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Clausi, David DA

Keywords: action recognition; deep learning; event detection; ice hockey; machine learning; pose estimation; predictive models; sports analytics; tracking; video analytics

$180,000

Automatic Deep Neural Network Design by a Novel Stochastic Search Process

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Shafiee, Mohammad Javad

$12,500

Automatic Deep Neural Network Design by a Novel Stochastic Search Process

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shafiee, Mohammad Javad

Keywords: Automatic Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Deep Neural Networks; Machine Learning

$112,000

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Visual Relation Detection

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Fieguth, Paul PW

Keywords: Computer vision; Deep learning; Machine learning; Object segmentation; Video analysis; Visual relations

$303,338

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Automatic Machine Learning Dear Professor Shafiee, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on automatic machine learning connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Automatic Deep Neural Network Design by a Novel Stochastic Search Process" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]