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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Afshin Abrishamkar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced materials
  • biomedical engineering
  • Bioprinting
  • Material Synthesis
  • Microfabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Tissue engineering

Office: +1 416-341-4067
Languages: Persian,English,German,French,Portuguese
Website
Email: afshin.abrishamkar@utoronto.ca

Aimy Bazylak

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Carbon dioxide electrolyzers
  • Clean energy
  • Fuel cells
  • Multiphase transport in porous media
  • PEM water electrolyzers
  • Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells
  • Porous materials
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Renewable energy

Office: N/A
Website
Email: abazylak@mie.utoronto.ca
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Alex Olson

Senior Research Associate

Areas of Expertise

  • Applications of AI
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning

Office: N/A

Andreas Mandelis

Professor

Andreas Mandelis

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomedical photoacoustics and imaging
  • Biosensors and diagnostic instrumentation
  • Biothermophotonic cancer imaging instrumentation
  • Diffusion-wave physics and technologies
  • Laser thermal-wave quality control methods for steel industry and hardness case depth non-destructive testing
  • Non-destructive diagnostics for electronic devices
  • Non-destructive evaluation/testing/imaging
  • Photovoltaics

Office: 416-978-5106
Languages: Greek, French
Website
Email: mandelis@mie.utoronto.ca
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Andrei Goldenberg

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Mechatronics and intelligent machines
  • Robotics and automation

Office: 416-978-5745
Mobile: 416-346-1581
Website
Email: andrew.goldenberg@utoronto.ca

Andrew Jardine

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Equipment reliability
  • Health monitoring of equipment
  • Optimal equipment maintenance practices

Office: 416-978-2921
Website
Email: jardine@mie.utoronto.ca
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Axel Guenther

Professor

Axel Guenther

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D bioprinting
  • Biofabrication
  • Bioprinting
  • Blood vessels on chips
  • Fluid flow and transport at small length scales
  • Fluidic microprocessors
  • Micro and nanofabrication
  • Micro-reactors
  • Micro/Nanofabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Microreactors
  • Organized soft materials
  • Soft Materials

Office: 416-978-1282
Mobile: 647-409-8363
Languages: German
Website
Email: guenther@mie.utoronto.ca
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Birsen Donmez

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Automated vehicles
  • Driver distraction
  • Driver safety
  • Driving automation
  • Human technology interaction
  • In-vehicle technologies

Office: 416-978-7399
Languages: Turkish
Website
Email: birsen.donmez@utoronto.ca
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Brokoslaw Laschowski

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • brain-machine interfaces
  • Machine learning
  • Neural networks
  • Neuroscience

Office: N/A
Website
Email: brokoslaw.laschowski@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Chul Park

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Extrusion foaming
  • Foam injection moulding
  • Microcellular foaming
  • Nano-fibril technology
  • Polymer/gas mixture properties
  • Solubility

Office: N/A
Languages: Korean
Website
Email: park@mie.utoronto.ca
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David James

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Elastic liquids
  • Flow of complex fluids
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
  • Rheology

Office: 416-978-3049
Website
Email: david.james@utoronto.ca
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David Sinton

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Carbon Management
  • CO2 Utilization
  • Electrocatalysis
  • Energy
  • Microfluidics

Office: 416-978-1623
Website
Email: dave.sinton@utoronto.ca
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Dionne Aleman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Data mining to improve bone marrow transplant outcomes
  • Global optimization
  • Healthcare applications
  • Heuristic design
  • Hospital planning
  • How to predict who will need ventilators
  • Machine learning
  • Mathematical models for cancer treatment planning (radiation therapy and focal ablation)
  • Mathematical models for operating room scheduling
  • Mathematical models for pandemic prediction and planning
  • Medical applications of operations research
  • Medical decision-making
  • Optimization
  • Pandemic models and contact tracing
  • Parallel computing
  • Radiotherapy treatment optimization
  • Simulation
  • Spread of pandemics in urban areas

Office: 416-978-6780
Website
Email: aleman@mie.utoronto.ca
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Edmond Young

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • biofluid mechanics
  • biomedical engineering
  • cancer.
  • Cell biology
  • cell imaging and microscopy
  • cellular microenvironments
  • Microfabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Microfluidics for biology
  • microscale cell-based systems

Office: 416-978-1521
Mobile: 647-823-8809
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: edmond.young@utoronto.ca
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Hani Naguib

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Advanced manufacturing, micro and nano fabrication, self assembly, additive manufacturing
  • Biomaterials
  • Energy management materials
  • Energy management materials, triboelectrics, supercapacitors, and flexible batteries
  • Polymers and composites
  • Smart Materials
  • Smart materials, multifunctional composites, meta materials, bio-based materials
  • Smart skins
  • Smart skins, sensors and actuators, soft robotics, e-textiles and wearables
  • Stimuli Responsive Polymers

Office: 416.978.7054
Languages: French
Website
Email: naguib@mie.utoronto.ca
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Javad Mostaghimi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-bacteria; anti-viral coatings
  • Dynamics of droplet impact and solidification
  • High velocity oxy-fuel spraying (HVOF)
  • Measurement of thermophysical properties of high melting point materials
  • Novel DC and RF Plasma torch design
  • Radio-frequency inductively coupled plasma (RF-ICP) for elemental analysis
  • Spray modelling and atomization
  • Thermal Plasma modelling and diagnostics
  • Thermal spray coatings of metals and ceramics

Office: 416-978-5604
Home: 905-812-4971
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: mostag@mie.utoronto.ca
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Kevin Bram Golovin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adhesion
  • Anti-fouling
  • Coatings
  • Drag reduction
  • Interfacial mechanics
  • Materials
  • Metamaterials
  • Polymers
  • Surfaces
  • Sustainability
  • Textiles
  • Thermofluids
  • Wettability

Office: 4169780707
Website
Email: kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca

Lucas Thung

Instructor

Areas of Expertise

  • Business Process Improvement (BPI)
  • Organizational Design
  • Project Management
  • Risk management
  • Strategic Communications

Office: N/A
Email: lucas.thung@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Print/Online

Mark Fox

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • City Data Standards
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Smart Cities

Office: 416-978-6823
Mobile: 416-414-9288
Website
Email: msf@mie.utoronto.ca
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Markus Bussmann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and thermofluids modelling, in particular of interfacial, multiphase and particulate flows, as occur in various industrial applications
  • Droplet and spray phenomena
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Materials processing

Office: 416-978-7198
Mobile: 416-434-0007
Website
Email: markus.bussmann@utoronto.ca
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Michael Carter

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer screening capacity
  • Capacity planning
  • Clinic planning
  • Healthcare human resource planning and forecasting
  • Healthcare system modelling
  • Operating room planning and scheduling
  • Operations research
  • Patient flow simulation
  • Wait list management

Office: 416-978-8661
Mobile: 416-709-5676
Website
Email: mike.carter@utoronto.ca
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Michael Guerzhoy

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Data science for healthcare
  • Machine learning
  • Pedagogy of data science and machine learning
  • Pedagogy of introductory programming

Office: +1-416-978-7024
Website
Email: michael.guerzhoy@utoronto.ca

Mohini Sain

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioplastics and biorefinery
  • CO2 conversion to chemicals and products
  • Forest bioproducts
  • Industrial biomaterials processing
  • Lightweight composite manufacturing
  • Low carbon energy materials and devices
  • Micro and Nanocellulose
  • Natural fibre micro and nanotechnology
  • New carbon materials
  • Sustainable Automotive and Aerospace materials

Office: 416-946-3191
Home: 416-239-7154
Languages: French,Czech,Slovak,Hindi,Bengali
Website
Email: m.sain@utoronto.ca
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Murray Thomson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • air pollution
  • Alternative fuels, hydrogen, biofuels
  • Combustion

Office: 416-573-1022
Languages: French
Website
Email: murray.thomson@utoronto.ca
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Olivera Kesler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Durability and decreasing cost of clean energy conversion technologies
  • fuel cell materials and manufacturing
  • graded and multi-layered materials
  • Increasing reliability
  • Materials.
  • plasma spray and sol gel processing
  • solid oxide fuel cells

Office: 416-978-3835
Languages: Spanish, Serbian
Website
Email: kesler@mie.utoronto.ca
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Ridha Ben Mrad

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Mechatronics
  • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Microfabrication
  • Microfluidics
  • Nonlinear and real-time control
  • Piezoceramics
  • Precision design
  • Sensors and actuators
  • Smart Materials
  • Thin film piezoelectrics

Office: 416-946-0689
Website
Email: ridha.benmrad@utoronto.ca
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Samin Aref

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Big data
  • Brain drain
  • Computer science
  • Data science
  • Engineering economics
  • Engineering education
  • Higher education
  • Machine learning
  • Migration of researchers
  • Neural networks
  • Offline social networks
  • Science of science
  • STEM education

Office: N/A
Languages: Persian (Farsi)
Website
Email: s.aref@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Timothy Chan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • AI
  • Healthcare analytics
  • Optimization
  • Sports analytics

Office: 416-946-5721
Website
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Yu Sun

Professor

Yu Sun

Areas of Expertise

  • Automation
  • Instrumentation
  • Manufacturing robotics
  • Medical robotics
  • Micro-nano devices
  • Micro-nano manipulation
  • Robotic cell surgery
  • Robotics

Office: 416-946-0549
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: sun@mie.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online