Faezeh Ensan

Faezeh Ensan is an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializing in Information Retrieval, knowledge engineering, and data science applications in software engineering. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tehran (2004), M.Sc. from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2006), and Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick (2011). Her research focuses on semantic technologies, ad hoc retrieval systems, and ontology evaluation.

• B.Sc., University of Tehran, 2004
• M.Sc., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 2006
• Ph.D., University of New Brunswick, 2011

Her work bridges semantic web, machine learning, and information systems, with notable contributions to entity-based retrieval and modular ontology evaluation. She has been funded by NSERC, Mitacs, and ACOA, and has held prestigious fellowships including the NSERC Industrial Research Fellowship (2014-2016).

• Recipient of NeOn Student Prize for Best Paper at EKAW 2008
• Editor of Canadian Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications (2010)

Her advising and grants include collaborations with industrial partners through NSERC and Mitacs projects. She teaches courses like COE528 and COE848, emphasizing object-oriented engineering and data engineering fundamentals.