Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Deepa Kundur

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Critical infrastructure security
Cyber-physical systems
Cybersecurity
Energy systems
Smart grid

Office: 416-978-2731
Mobile: (416) 978-7300
Website
Email: deepa.kundur@utoronto.ca
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Dionne Aleman

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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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Doug Perovic

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Materials Science and Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Accident investigations
Defect engineering in photonic band gap materials
Forensic engineering
High resolution scanning-transmission electron microscopy/spectroscopy of nanomaterials structure and chemistry
Mesoporous nanocomposites for nanoelectronics
Nanoengineering/science education
Nanostructure-property relationships for electronic/photonic applications
Product failure analysis
Semiconducting quantum wells and dots

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 409 1085
Languages: Serbian
Website
Email: perovic@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Douglas Hooton

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Alkali aggregate reactions
Cement-admixture interactions
Concrete durability and service life, permeability, pore structure, chloride ingress, and moisture content
De-icer salt scaling resistance
Performance standards and specifications for concrete
Physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of Portland cements, supplementary cementing materials, admixtures
Properties of ancient concrete materials
Structures and Bridges
Sulfate resistance
Waste Materials Utilization

Office: 416-450-4605
Mobile: 416-978-5912
Website
Email: d.hooton@utoronto.ca
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Edmond Young

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Centres
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

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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Edward (Ted) Sargent

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Advanced materials
CO2 reduction
Energy decarbonization
Energy storage
Energy transition
Smartphones
Solar energy

Office: 416-946-5051
Mobile: 647-282-8121
Languages: French
Website
Email: ted.sargent@utoronto.ca
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Enid Slack

Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

COVID-19 - Financial impact on municipalities
Intergovernmental transfers
Municipal finance - revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
Municipal restructuring
New sources of municipal revenue
Property tax reform
Property tax, property tax reform, intergovernmental transfers, user fees, new sources of municipal revenue
User fees

Office: 416-946-0328
Email: enid.slack@utoronto.ca
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Eric Miller

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering
Centres
- Mobility Network
- Transportation Research Institute

Areas of Expertise

Analysis of transit demand and operations
Analysis of transportation - land use interactions
Development and applications of disaggregate travel choice models
Microsimulation modelling methods
Transportation energy/emissions modelling
Transportation planning
Transportation policy analysis
Travel demand modelling

Office: 416-978-4076
Website
Email: eric.miller@utoronto.ca
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Evan Bentz

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering

Areas of Expertise

AASHTO spreadsheets
Analysis of ancient structures by modern methods
Behaviour and design of concrete structures
Computer modelling of structures
Membrane-2000 program
Numerical modelling of reinforced concrete behaviour
Response of structures to fire
Response-2000 program
Service life modelling of reinforced concrete structures
Technology transfer applications for research on shear and torsion

Office: 416-978-4608
Website
Email: evan.bentz@utoronto.ca
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Farid Najm

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Computer-aided design for electronic circuits
Integrated circuits

Office: 416-946-5175
Mobile: 416-822-9694
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: f.najm@utoronto.ca
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Greg Evans

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Air pollution in large cities
Airborne particles
Climate change
Development and application of high time resolution instruments for field studies
Emissions of pollutants
Engineering education
Exposure of urban populations to traffic related air pollutants
Impact of aerosols on health and environment
Quality and composition of urban air
Receptor modeling for sources identification and characterization

Office: 416-978-1821
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
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Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Centres
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

Cancer imaging
Cardiovascular imaging
Early cancer detection and diagnosis
Image-guided regenerative and stem cell therapy
Molecular and cellular imaging
Monitoring vascularization and regeneration in tissue-engineered systems
MR contrast agents
New contrast agents for vascular and cellular imaging and targeting
Non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for cellular, molecular, and physiological imaging
Physiological microvascular imaging
Quantitative MR imaging
Quantitative MRI methods to measure microvascular function
tissue regeneration and engineering

Office: (416) 978-4095
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: hailing.cheng@utoronto.ca
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Hani Naguib

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Centres
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

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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Harry Ruda

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Materials Science and Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Nanoelectronics
Nanophotonics
Semiconductors

Office: (416) 978 4556
Languages: French
Website
Email: ruda@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Hoi-Kwong Lo

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Quantum communication
Quantum computing, information and cryptography

Office: 416-946-5525
Mobile: 416-597-9815
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: hklo@comm.utoronto.ca
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Jason Anderson

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Computer-aided design for integrated circuits
Digital systems
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
High-level synthesis (from software to circuits)
Low-power circuit design

Office: (416) 946-7285
Website
Email: jason.anderson@utoronto.ca
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Javad Mostaghimi

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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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JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Communication protocols
Computer communication and covers network architectures
Digital infrastructures and performance analysis
Distributed algorithms

Office: (650) 576-9208
Website
Email: jj.garcialunaaceves@utoronto.ca

John Hadjigeorgiou

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering
Centres
- Lassonde Institute

Areas of Expertise

Feasibility studies
Mining engineering
Risk management
Rock engineering
Slope engineering
Tunneling

Office: (416) 946-4032
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: john.hadjigeorgiou@utoronto.ca
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John Paul Harrison

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Mining & Geomechanics
Mining engineering
Rock engineering
Rock mechanics

Office: 416-978-1634
Website
Email: john.harrison@utoronto.ca

Jonathan Kelly

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Institute for Aerospace Studies
Centres
- Institute for Aerospace Studies

Areas of Expertise

Inertial navigation systems
Navigation systems
Robot ethics
Robot mapping
Robotics
Space robotics
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Office: +1 (416) 667-7708
Website
Email: jkelly@utias.utoronto.ca
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Jonathan Rose

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Computer engineering
Medical Applications of Mobile Devices and Technology
Software and Technology for Mental Health Measurement, Diagnosis & Therapy

Office: (416) 978-6992
Website
Email: jonathan.rose@ece.utoronto.ca
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Kevin Bram Golovin

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Khandker Nurul Habib

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Activity-Based Modelling
Choice Modelling
Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modelling
Survey Design, Stated Preference (SP) Experiment
Transport Policy and Transport Economics
Transportation in Developing Countries
Transportation planning
Travel demand modelling

Office: 416-946-8027
Languages: English
Website
Email: khandker.nurulhabib@utoronto.ca
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Levente L Diosady

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

Areas of Expertise

Food and food process engineering
Micronutrient fortification and impact in developing world

Office: 416-978-4137
Home: 416-444-8692
Languages: Hungarian
Website
Email: l.diosady@utoronto.ca
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Li Qian

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Fiber optics
Nonlinear objects
Quantum communication
Quantum objects-- entanglement sources

Office: (416) 946-5517
Home: 416-832-8847
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: l.qian@utoronto.ca
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