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Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Shamim A Sheikh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced composite materials
  • Bridges structural evaluation
  • Buildings
  • Concrete structures
  • Rehabilitation
  • Seismic upgrade using advanced materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers
  • Structural engineering

Office: (416) 978-3671
Mobile: (647) 278-8301
Languages: Urdu
Website
Email: sheikh@civ.utoronto.ca
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Shoshanna Saxe

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil engineering
  • Embodied carbon/GHG
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Infrastructure
  • Sustainable cities
  • Sustainable construction
  • Transport

Office: N/A
Website
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
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Sorin Voinigescu

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Fibre-optic integrated systems and circuits
  • High-speed and atomic-scale semiconductor devices
  • mm-wave integrated circuits
  • Quantum Computing Hardware
  • THz signal processing circuits

Office: (416) 946-8664
Home: 416-699-4866
Mobile: (416) 699-4866
Languages: Romanian
Website
Email: sorinv@ece.utoronto.ca
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Steve Mann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Humanistic AI and HI (Humanistic Intelligence)
  • Intelligent image processing
  • Personal cybernetics
  • Surveillance versus sousveillance and metaveillance
  • Water-Human-Computer Interaction (WaterHCI)
  • Wearable augmented reality
  • Wearable computing

Office: (416) 946-3387
Website
Email: mann@eecg.utoronto.ca
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Steven J Thorpe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Amorphous Metal / Nanocrystalline Electrocatalysis
  • Characterization of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Metal
  • Corrosion
  • Electro-oxidation
  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrolysis
  • Fuel cells
  • Materials science
  • Production of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Thin Films
  • Template Synthesis of Nanowires and Nanotubes

Office: (416) 978 8584
Languages: English
Website
Email: steven.thorpe@utoronto.ca
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Stewart Aitchison

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Micro-fluidics for bio-sensing
  • Nanofabrication
  • Photonics
  • Plasmonics

Office: (416) 946-7349
Website
Email: stewart.aitchison@utoronto.ca
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Tamer El-Diraby

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Building information modeling (BIM)
  • Construction engineering and project management
  • Data analytics for project management
  • Informatics & knowledge management
  • Infrastructure asset management
  • social network analysis

Office: 416-978-8653
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: tamer@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Thomas Coyle

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Characterization of hard coatings, including diamond-ceramic
  • Characterization of microstructure-property relationships for toughening mechanisms and fracture behaviour
  • Failure - Brittle fracture analysis
  • Materials selection
  • Mechanical properties
  • Powder processing
  • Powder processing and forming techniques, designed multiphase microstructures
  • Processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramic matrix composites
  • Thermal spray coating processes

Office: (416) 978 5647
Website
Email: tom.coyle@utoronto.ca
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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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Tom Chau

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Movement Science
  • Rehabilitation Technology Sciences

Office: 416 425-6220 Ext. x3515
Website
Email: tom.chau@utoronto.ca

Vaughn Betz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer aided design software
  • Computer chip design
  • Field programmable gate arrays
  • Hardware acceleration of deep learning
  • Simulation and optimization of photo-dynamic cancer therapy

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-949-3771
Website
Email: vaughn@eecg.toronto.edu
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Wei Yu

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital subscriber lines (DSL)
  • Information theory
  • Wireless communications

Office: N/A
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: weiyu@comm.utoronto.ca
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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
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Yuri Lawryshyn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied numerical modelling
  • Economic analysis of engineering projects
  • Ultraviolet disinfection (UV) of water and wastewater

Office: 416-946-0576
Home: 705-252-6614
Mobile: 705-252-6614
Website
Email: yuri.lawryshyn@utoronto.ca
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Zeb Tate

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Data analysis and visualization supporting power grid operations
  • GPU-accelerated visualization and simulation of large scale systems
  • Power grid model and parameter estimation
  • Power grid simulation
  • Smart grid applications

Office: (416) 978-1808
Home: 647-808-8283
Mobile: 647-808-8283
Website
Email: zeb.tate@utoronto.ca
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Zhirui Wang

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Zhirui Wang

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced engineering materials such as metal matrix composites
  • Cyclic deformation mechanism and fatigue behaviour
  • Engineering materials failure
  • Failure analysis, FEM (finite element method)
  • FEM (finite element method)
  • Fracture mechanisms and mechanics
  • Metal forming operation
  • Physical and mechanical metallurgy
  • Plastic deformation
  • Stress and strain analysis
  • Structure-property relationships of materials

Office: 4169784412
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: zhirui.wang@utoronto.ca
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