Academic

Master's of Science in Computing Science

Course Highlights

• CMPT 898: Directed Reading (A+)
• CMPT 773: User Interface (A-)
• CMPT 843: Data and Knowledge-base Systems (A)
• CMPT 881: Algorithms for Large Datasets (A)

Patents, Publications & Conference Contributions

• Patent Pending: K. Tsoukalas, J. Pei, and D. Cubranic (2009). "Systems and Methods to Automatically Generate Enhanced Information Associated with a Selected Web Table". Docket No. 2008P00410US
• Master's Thesis: K. Tsoukalas, "Extracting and Tagging Tabular Data on the Web", School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, June 2009.
• K. Tsoukalas, W. Wu. "WICS @ SFU: Assessing the Impact and Outcomes of Women in a Computing Science Student Group at the College Level". Proceedings of the 2009 Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE'09)
• K. Tsoukalas, B. Zhou, J. Pei, and D. Cubranic. (2008) "Personalizing Entity Detection and Recommendation with a Fusion of Web Log mining Techniques". Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'09)
• A. Chong, S. Sitaram, A. Agarwal, K. Tsoukalas. "Student Groups Networking + Integrating Ideas = Together We Can Make a Better World". Proceedings of the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC'08)
• K. Tsoukalas, B. Zhou, J. Pei, and D. Cubranic. "PLEDS: A Personalized Entity Detection System Based on Web Log Mining Techniques". WAIM 2008 Proceedings.

Honors

• NSERC-MITACS Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship, 2008-2009
• Selected to attend the Google Workshop for Women Engineers
• Google Global Community Scholarship, 2008

Post-Baccalaureate Program in Computing Science

Course Highlights

• CMPT 415: Special Research Project (A+)
• CMPT 459: Special Topics in Data Mining (A+)
• CMPT 354: Database Systems I (A-)
• CMPT 773: User Interface Design (A-)
• CMPT 275: Software Engineering (A-)
• CMPT 225: Data Structures & Algorithms (A-)
• CMPT 363: User Interface (A)

Honors

• NSERC Undergraduate Research Scholarship, 2007
• Richard Tapia Robotics Competition Technical Achievement Award (with team), 2007
• Richard Tapia Robotics Competition: Second Place (with team), 2007