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Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

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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Mason Ghafghazi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Assessment of liquefaction potential and post-cyclic response of tailings
  • Behaviour of gravelly soils
  • Constitutive modelling of soils
  • Earthquake
  • Foundations
  • Geotechnical field investigation
  • Ground failure
  • Iran politics
  • Numerical and physical modelling of geotechnical processes

Office: 416 978-5972
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: mason.ghafghazi@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio

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

Michael Sefton

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-978-3088
Website
Email: michael.sefton@utoronto.ca
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Milica Radisic

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Bioreactors
  • Cardiovascular tissue engineering
  • Heart-on-a-chip
  • Microphysiological systems
  • Organ-on-a-chip engineering
  • Tissue engineering
  • Vasculature-on-a-chip

Office: (416) 946-5295
Mobile: (416) 767-1442
Website
Email: m.radisic@utoronto.ca
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Mohammed Basheer

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence in water resources
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Coupled human-water systems
  • Hydrology and Water Resource Systems
  • Hydropower planning and operations
  • Multi-hazard assessment and management
  • Water-energy-food nexus

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Arabic,German
Website
Email: mohammed.basheer@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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Molly S Shoichet

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D cell culture
  • Drug delivery
  • Hydrogels
  • Polymers for applications in medicine
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Spinal cord injury repair
  • Stem cell stimulation
  • Stem cell transplantation
  • Targeted delivery in cancer
  • Tissue engineering
  • Traumatic injury to the brain (including stroke)

Office: 416-978-1460
Languages: French
Website
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca
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Murray Grabinsky

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Liquefaction + CPB
  • Mining & Geomechanics
  • Mining engineering
  • Sustainable Infrastructure

Office: N/A
Website
Email: murray.grabinsky@utoronto.ca

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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Natalie Enright Jerger

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Approximate computing
  • Cache coherence protocols
  • Computer architecture
  • Emerging applications for many-core architectures
  • Interconnection networks
  • Many-core architectures
  • On-chip networks
  • Sustainable computer systems

Office: 416-978-5056
Website
Email: enright@eecg.toronto.edu

Nicolas Papernot

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computer security
  • Data privacy
  • Machine learning

Office: 416-978-7600
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: nicolas.papernot@utoronto.ca
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Ning Yan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomass utilization
  • Bioproducts
  • Green chemistry
  • Renewable materials

Office: 416-946-8070
Website
Email: ning.yan@utoronto.ca
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Olev Trass

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biodiesel
  • Extraction
  • Fossil energy (coal beneficiation and coal-slurry fuels)
  • Gas absorption
  • Heat transfer
  • Mass transfer
  • Renewable energy
  • Separation processes
  • Transport phenomena

Office: 416-978-6901
Languages: Estonian
Website
Email: olev.trass@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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Olivier Trescases

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Battery management
  • CMOS
  • Electric vehicles
  • energy harvesting
  • hybrid storage systems
  • Integrated circuits
  • LED lighting
  • maximum power point tracking
  • photovoltaic systems
  • power conversion
  • Power electronics
  • smart power ICs
  • solar power
  • solid state lighting
  • switched mode conversion
  • VLSI

Office: (416) 978-2274
Website
Email: ot@ece.utoronto.ca
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Paul Gauvreau

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applications of high-performance materials in bridge design
  • Behaviour and design of prestressed concrete structures
  • Bridge aesthetics
  • Bridge design
  • Bridge rehabilitation

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: pg@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Paul Yoo

Associate Professor

Paul Yoo

Areas of Expertise

  • Electrical neuromodulation
  • Neural prosthesis
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Overactive bladder
  • Vagus nerve stimulation therapy

Office: (416) 978-7326
Website
Email: paul.yoo@utoronto.ca
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Peter Herman

Professor

Peter Herman

Areas of Expertise

  • Laser applications
  • Material processing
  • Optical fiber
  • Optical sensing
  • Photonic packaging

Office: (416) 978-7722
Mobile: 416-500-7722
Website
Email: p.herman@utoronto.ca
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Philippe Lavoie

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aeronautics
  • Bicycle aerodynamics
  • Drag reduction
  • Flow control
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Wind tunnel experiments

Office: 416-667-7716
Mobile: 416-697-7445
Languages: French
Website
Email: lavoie@utias.utoronto.ca
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Piero Triverio

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular simulations
  • Computer aided design
  • Computer simulations
  • Electromagnetics
  • Interference
  • Personalized medicine
  • Quantum computing, information and cryptography

Office: (416) 978-0562
Languages: Italian,Spanish; Castilian
Website
Email: piero.triverio@utoronto.ca
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Reza Iravani

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Modelling and control of large energy systems

Office: (416) 978-7755
Website
Email: iravani@ecf.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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Robert Andrews

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Disinfection to control pathogenic organisms and disinfection by-products
  • Emerging contaminants
  • Microplastics
  • Optimization of drinking water treatment processes
  • Water quality in distribution systems

Office: 416-978-5399
Home: 905-336-6141
Website
Email: andrews@civ.utoronto.ca
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Roger Newman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corrosion
  • Electrochemistry
  • Fracture
  • Metallurgy
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
  • Nuclear power systems
  • Nuclear waste management
  • Oil and gas

Office: 416-419-0411
Website
Email: roger.newman@utoronto.ca
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Ronald Hofmann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Drinking water quality and treatment

Office: 416-946-7508
Website
Email: ron.hofmann@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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sean Hum

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced electromagnetic surfaces
  • Antennas for space applications
  • Reconfigurable antennas
  • Spatially-fed antenna arrays

Office: (416) 946-3653
Website
Email: svhum@waves.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shahrokh Valaee

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Localization of wireless terminals
  • Vehicular networks

Office: 416-946-8032
Website
Email: valaee@comm.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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