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Ning Yan
Professor, Director of LCRMC
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Biobased Chemicals and Products from Renewable Biomass
- Smart and Functional Materials
E.J. Acosta
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Interfacial Curvature of Surface Active Compounds
- Low Surface Tension Films
- Lecithin-Based Microemulsions as Drug Delivery Vehicles
- Lung Surfactants&
Cristina H. Amon
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Nanoscale thermal transport
- Thermofluids
- Clean energy systems
- Electric vehicle and battery thermal management
- Regenerative medicine
- Hemodynamics and transport in biomedical systems
Gisele Azimi
Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Technospheric mining; Urban mining; Waste valorization; Recycling
- Extraction, processing, and recycling of strategic materials, including rare-earth elements, PGMs, Lithium, Iron and steel
- Electrochemistry
- Hydrometallurgy
- Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE)
- Advanced materials design and fabrication; Batteries; Sensors; Filters; Functional surfaces; Hydrophobicity
- Process development, modeling and simulation, and optimization
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Fae Azhari
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Sensor Development
- Intelligent Structures and Systems
- Computer Simulations Coupled with Field and Laboratory Testing
Decision Analytics
Timothy P. Bender
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Organic Electronic Materials Design, Synthesis and Engineering
- Organic Solar Cell (OSC) Device Engineering
- Organic Light Emitting Diode (OELD) Device Engineering
- Sustainable Organic Process Development and Engineering
Nikolai DeMartini
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Inorganics in the Industrial Processing of Biomass and Biomass Derived Wastes
- Thermal Conversion of Biomass Derived Fuels
Ramin R. Farnood
Professor, Chair of Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Water Treatment
- Bio-products and Bioenergy
- Micro-structure Characterization
Jane Howe
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- In Situ Electron Microscopy–characterization and Property Measurements of Novel Materials and Nano-devices, and their Real-time Evolution During Processing and Operation
- Synthesis, Property-structure Relationship of New Energy Materials
Charles Q. Jia
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Nanoporous Carbon Materials Derived from Industrial Waste and Biomass
- Study How Chemicals Affect the Environment
Elias B. Khalil
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Machine learning
- Integer programming
- Algorithm design
- Learning to optimize
- Combinatorial machine learning
Nazir P. Kherani
Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- NanoPlasmonics
- Ultra-thin silicon photovoltaics and allied devices
- Photonic crystals
- Optical coatings and photonic materials
- MicroPower Sources and M/NEMS sensors
Jonathan Kelly
Associate Professor
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
- Collaborative Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
- Planning Highly Dexterous Manipulation Trajectories
- Learning Robust Deep Models for Manipulation
- Certifiably Optimal Perception
- Millimetre-Wave Radar for Navigation and Localization
- Energy-Aware Planning for Planetary Navigation
- Deep Pose Correction for Visual Localization
- Robot Self-Calibration for Power-On-and-Go Operation
Donald W. Kirk
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Electrochemical and Environmental Engineering
Mark T. Kortschot
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Optimizing the Performance of Polymers and Composites
- Mechanical Behaviour of Composite Materials
- Additive Manufacturing
Eugenia Kumacheva
Professor
Department of Chemistry
- Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces
- Development of Advanced Polymer Materials
- Convection in Polymeric Liquids
Patrick C. Lee
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Multiphase Nano-Structured Lightweight and Smart Hybrid Polymer Foam Materials
- Micro-/nano-layer Coextrusion Foam Manufacturing
- Fundamental Understanding of Foaming Phenomena
- Computational Modelling of Foaming
- Super High R Value Foams
- Conductive Foams
- Sound Insulation Foams
Keryn K. Lian
Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Devices, and Hybrid Systems
- Printed Organic Memories
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Metabolic Engineering Using Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Systems Analysis and Engineering of Biological Processes
- Genome-scale Models of Cellular Processes and Microbial Communities
- Machine Learning for Protein Modeling and Enzyme Engineering
- Optimization and Control of Biological Processes
Emma R. Master
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Biocatalytic Synthesis of Bio-based Materials and Chemicals
Heather MacLean
Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Methods Incorporating Uncertainty
- Sustainable Infrastructure
- Bioenergy Systems Including Biobased Electricity and Liquid Fuels (Ethanol, Hydrogen, and Aviation Fuels)
- Conventional and Alternative Light-duty and Medium-duty Vehicles
- Conventional and Unconventional Fossil Fuels
- Sustainable and Resilient Cities
Javad Mostaghimi
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Advanced Coatings, Thermal Plasmas
- Thermal Spray Coatings
- Arcs
- Radio-frequency Inductively Coupled Plasmas
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Hani E. Naguib
Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Multifunctional Composites, Meta Materials, Bio-based Materials
- Micro and Nano Fabrication, Self Assembly, Additive Manufacturing
- Sensors and Actuators, Soft Robotics, E-textiles and Wearables
- Triboelectrics, Supercapacitors, and Flexible Batteries
Chul B. Park
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Plastic Foaming Technology
- Fundamental Understanding of Foaming Phenomena
- Computational Modelling of Foaming
- Super High R Value Foams
- Sound Insulation Foams, Biodegradable Foams
- Environmentally Safe Blowing Agents
Daman Panesar
Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Cement Chemistry
- Hydration Kinetics
- Evolution of Microstructural, Mechanical and Transport Properties of Concrete
- The Effect of Exposure Conditions on Material Microstructure, Transport Properties and Durability
- Degradation Mechanisms and Indicators for Concrete Durability
- Durable and Sustainable Cement-based Materials
- Supplementary Cementitious Materials
- Service Life Estimates and Life Cycle Cost Assessment
- Green Building Materials
Non-destructive Evaluation and Testing of Concrete
Mohini Sain
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Bionanotechnology
- Bioderived Carbon-Based Energy Storage and Light-emitting Devices
- Bio-inspired Advanced Materials
- Functional and Lightweight Carbon/Biocarbon Materials
Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Sustainable infrastructure
- Construction resource use and embodied GHG
- Transit infrastructure
- Infrastructure and time
Craig Steeves
Associate Professor
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
- Topology Optimization
- Hybrid Polymer-nanometal Structures
- Tailored Composites
- Low Thermal Expansion Lattices
Honghi N. Tran
Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Energy and Chemical Recovery in the Kraft Pulping Process
- Combustion Characteristics of Biomass and Mixed Fuels
Yu Zou
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- High-entropy Alloys, Nanocrystalline Alloys, Quasicrystals, Titanium, Aluminium and Steels.
- Nanoindentation, In-situ Instrumentation, High Strain-rate/temperature Deformation, Fracture and Failure Analysis
- Additive Manufacturing, Cold Spray Technology, Mechanical Alloying, Arc Melting, and Magnetron Co-sputtering
- Machine Learning for Alloy Design, Computer Vision for Advanced Manufacturing