Dr. Qiang (John) Ye's Homepage - University of Calgary

Qiang (John) Ye

Assistant Professor, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE ComSoc DL
Adjunct Professor, Memorial University
Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Email: qiang.ye@ucalgary.ca
Tel: (403) 220-7601
Office: ICT 352B

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Current Students

Dong Jia - PhD (Fall 2024 - now; Fast-track MSc, Fall 2023-Spring 2024)

Fangqi Shi - MSc (Fall 2024 - now)

Danesh Abdollahi - MSc (Fall 2024 - now)

Huawei Hou - Visiting PhD (Fall 2025 - Spring 2026)

Weiqiang Jiao - Visiting PhD (Fall 2025 - Spring 2026)

Past Students

Hong Wang - MSc, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (Fall 2023-Spring 2025) (Current Position: PhD student, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

Vahid Reza Niazmand - MSc, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (Fall 2022-Fall 2024) (Current Position: Senior Application Developer at Sobeys, Mississauga, Canada)

Julien Mescha Rabino - Undergraduate Research Student, Department of ESE, University of Calgary, Canada (May-Aug 2025)

Abrar Rehan - Undergraduate Research Student, Department of ESE, University of Calgary, Canada (May-Aug 2025)

Sana Hafeez - Visiting PhD Student, University of Glasgow, UK (May-June 2024) (Current Position: Research Consultant, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM))

Esosa Naomi Ighodaro - Undergraduate Honours Project, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Jan-Jun 2023)

Xi Wang - MSc, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, 2020-2021 (Current Position: PhD student, University of Florida, USA)

Student Coordination

Zhengyuan Gao - Undergraduate 2B, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, May. 2019 – Aug. 2019

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted data training/learning for traffic classification and traffic prediction in 5G core networks

Zichuan Wei - Undergraduate 4B, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Jan. 2019 – Apr. 2019

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted simulations using Python for a case study of reinforcement learning based network topology design

Wenjing Chen - Undergraduate 4B, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted simulations on a network simulator (OMNeT++) to demonstrate the performance of a customized SDN-based transport-layer protocol for video transmissions

Andre Daniel Cayen - Undergraduate 2B, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted simulations on Mininet to demonstrate the performance of a customized SDN-based transport-layer protocol for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications

Qinyang (Bob) Bao - Undergraduate 1A, Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, May 2018 – Aug. 2018

Project: Data Communication and Monitoring Design for Solar Idling Reduction (SIR) System
Duties: Designed one-way communication system based on cellular technologies to transfer sensing data from vehicles to an end server for display

Jinhao (Jayden) Luo - Undergraduate 3A, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Jan. 2018 – Apr. 2018

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted simulations on a virtual network platform (Mininet) to demonstrate the performance of an SDN-based transport-layer protocol

Yushi (Alfred) Cao - Undergraduate 3A, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Sept. 2017 – Dec. 2017

Project: Software-Defined Networking for Service-Oriented 5G Networks
Duties: Conducted simulations on a resource virtualization platform (OpenStack) to realize service function chaining