People | THREADS Lab (Naser Ezzati-Jivan)

Principal Investigator

Naser Ezzati-Jivan
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brock University
PhD, Polytechnique Montréal · MSc, University of Isfahan · BSc, Sharif University of Technology

Naser Ezzati-Jivan leads THREADS Lab. His research covers software observability, execution tracing, performance engineering, root-cause analysis, and the observability and governance of AI-driven systems. Before joining Brock, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Polytechnique Montréal and Ericsson Canada, and a research associate with the DORSAL lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

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Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Principal Investigator

Current members

PhD students

Afrin Jubaida

Brock University
Research area: EDI-by-Design in the Age of AI

Haitham Al Satai

Polytechnique Montréal · since Jan 2026
Adaptive Tracing for Efficient Performance Diagnosis in Distributed Systems
Co-supervised with Dr. Foutse Khomh

François Philippe Ossim Belias

Polytechnique Montréal · since Jan 2025
Efficient Training of LLMs
Co-supervised with Dr. Foutse Khomh

Nurbek Imangazin

Brock University · since Sep 2024
Co-supervised with Dr. Michael Winter

MSc students

Yuvraj Sehgal

since Sep 2025
Generating Syntactic Data using Diffusion Models

Sneh Patel

since Sep 2025
Dependency Graph Reasoning using Graph Neural Models

Charmvir Grewal

Brock University

Undergraduate researchers

James Windjack

4F90 project · since Sep 2025

Ansh Shah

4F90 project · since Sep 2025

Research Assistants

Flora Nah Asah

EDI-by-Design in the Age of AI · since Feb 2026

Mahsa Jafaie Menarbazari

EDI-by-Design in the Age of AI · since Feb 2026

Abhijeet Dhali

EDI-by-Design in the Age of AI and the Mitacs project with JOE · since Feb 2026

Becky Kwok

Mitacs project with JOE · since Feb 2026

Mitacs Globalink research interns (2026)

Eman Chaudhary

Aug 10 - Oct 23, 2026
Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Software Log Understanding

Khaled Gardabbou

Jul 6 - Sep 25, 2026
Intelligent Software Agents for Autonomous Monitoring and Repair

Muhammad Maaz Hamid

Aug 7 - Oct 30, 2026
Intelligent Software Agents for Autonomous Monitoring and Repair

Alumni

Former graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, research associates, and undergraduate researchers. Roles reflect the position held while at THREADS Lab; paper authorship should be checked in the publication catalog.

Amir Haghshenas

PhD, Polytechnique Montréal
Co-supervised with Dr. Michel Dagenais