Dr. Mehdi Kargar

I am an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management at Toronto Metropolitan University and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Prior to this, I was an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor.

Education

Research Interests

My primary research interest is in Data Management. Specific interests include:

• Keyword Search over Structured Enterprise Data
• Team Formation in Social and Expert Networks
• Discovery of Order Dependencies for Data Profiling

Collaborators

I am fortunate to collaborate with several bright researchers. Past and current collaborators are listed here alphabetically:

• Aijun An (York University)
• Ebrahim Bagheri (Toronto Metropolitan University)
• Heidar Davoudi (Ontario Tech University)
• Hossein Fani (University of Windsor)
• Parke Godfrey (York University)
• Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo)
• Ziad Kobti (University of Windsor)
• Zhibin Lin (Durham University Business School)
• Piotr Mierzejewski (IBM Canada)
• Pooya Moradian Zadeh (University of Windsor)
• Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Lab-Research)
• Jaroslaw Szlichta (York University)
• Xiaohui Yu (York University)
• Morteza Zihayat (Toronto Metropolitan University)
• Hossein Zolfagharinia (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Industrial Partners

I work with several industrial partners. Past and current industrial partners are listed here:

• SeshatLabs Inc.
• SixRoofs Inc.
• TTC (Toronto Transit Commission)
• BuyProperly Inc.
• IBM Canada
• Dapasoft Inc.
• NexJ Inc.