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RYERSON UNIVERSITY Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science 2012 ANNUAL REPORT

FACULTY PROFILES

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HEKMAT ALIGHANBARI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext. 7736W: ryerson.ca/~halighan

Research Areas: Aeroelasticity, unsteady aerodynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, fluid-structure interactions, MAV aerodynamics

KRISHNA KUMAR PhD, PEng

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Space Systems Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4908W: ryerson.ca/graduate/ aerospace

Research Areas: Spacecraft dynamics and control, orbit, attitude and formation control, control systems

ZOUHEIR FAWAZ

PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7417W: ryerson.ca/aerospace

Research Areas: Fatigue, stress and high temperature testing, aerospace structures, materials and composites

CHEUNG POON PhD, PEng

Professor


Research Areas: Composite materials, fiber metal laminates, high temperature fatigue, material characterization

JOON CHUNG PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7213W: ryerson.ca/~j3chung

Research Areas: Aircraft conceptual design, multidisciplinary design optimization

JASON LASSALINE PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4147W: ryerson.ca/~jvl

Research Areas: Computational fluid dynamics, design optimization, fluid-structure interaction, noise propagation

DAVID GREATRIX

PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6432W: ryerson.ca/prf

Research Areas: Hybrid and solid rocket motors, rocket vehicle design

BO TAN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4879W: ryerson.ca/~tanbo

Research Areas: Short pulsed laser nano/micromachining, laser material interaction, synthesis of nanomaterial, nanomaterials for photovoltaic conversion

ANTON DE RUITER

PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor


Research Areas: Guidance, navigation and control of space systems, UAVs, control systems

GUANGJUN LIU PhD, PEng

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Control Systems and Robotics

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7648W: ryerson.ca/~gjliu

Research Areas: Robotics, control systems, aircraft systems

SEYED M. HASHEMI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6421W: ryerson.ca/aerospace

Research Areas: Computational structural dynamics/vibrations, mesh-reduction methods, intact/defective aerospace composite structures

PAUL WALSH PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7729W: ryerson.ca/~p3walsh

Research Areas: Aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, urban wind power generation

BASSAM JUBRAN

PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4880W: ryerson.ca/~bjubran

Research Areas: Cooling of gas turbine blades, thermal management in aerospace systems

JOHN ENRIGHT

PhD, PEng

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Spacecraft attitude estimation, sun sensors, star trackers, sensor processing, rover navigation

PUREN OUYANG PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4928W: ryerson.ca/~pouyang

Research Areas: Robotics, control systems, mechatronics, macro/micro hybrid systems, design and control integration

AEROSPACEENGINEERING

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JEFF YOKOTA PhD

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4173W: ryerson.ca/graduate/ aerospace

Research Areas: Mathematical fluid dynamics

MARK GORGOLEWSKI PhD

Professor and Graduate Program Director, Building Science

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6494W: arch.ryerson.ca

Research Areas: Sustainable building, resilient communities, post carbon communities, zero energy buildings

HITESH DOSHI MASc, PEng

Professor


Research Areas: Climate change impacts, visualization and design, value engineering and decision support systems

GEORGE THOMAS KAPELOS MArch, OAA

Associate Professor


Research Areas: 20th century Canadian architecture and landscape, phenomenology, urbanism, design and public health

JIANLI (JANE) HAO PhD

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Sustainable construction, environmental management for construction projects, simulation applications for construction projects

MASHA ETKIND MArch

Professor


Research Areas: Heritage conservation, teaching methodology based on MERLO, design, history and theory of architecture

JUNE D. KOMISAR PhD, RA, MArch AIA MRAIC

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Architectural theory and history, Brazilian architecture, design methods and creativity, design and the productive city

CHERYL ATKINSON BArch, OAA, RAIC

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6480W: arch.ryerson.ca

Research Areas: Architectural expression, health care design, phenomenology, design and psychosocial health, design of public space, landscape architecture and landscape urbanism, professional practice

MILJANA HORVAT PhD

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6512W: ryerson.ca/~mhorvat

Research Areas: Solar energy and architecture, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced energy-efficient façades

LEILA MARIE FARAH PhD, DPL

Assistant Professor


Research Areas: Architecture, Integrated design, inclusive and healthy cities, ecological design, community participation

YEW-THONG LEONG BArch, OAA

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6498W: ryerson.ca/~yleong

Research Areas: Digital architecture and design, architectural preservation and conservation, practice management

FENGFENG (JEFF) XI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7091W: ryerson.ca/~fengxi

Research Areas: Manufacturing, automation, robotics, mechatronics, design, modelling

PAUL FLOERKE Architect, Dr.-Ing., Dipl.-Ing.

Assistant Professor


Research Areas: Architectural design, theory, methods and processes, building construction, architectural education

JOHN CIRKA PhD

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Architecture


Research Areas: Advanced design methods, architectural geometry, digital fabrication, architectural theory

VINCENT HUI MArch, MBA

Associate Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 7962W: arch.ryerson.ca

Research Areas: Design communication, digital fabrication, architectural pedagogy, architecture and media

ARCHITECTURALSCIENCE

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ZAIYI LIAO PhD

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6488W: ryerson.ca/~zliao

Research Areas: Building automation, intelligent sensor and wireless sensor network, fire safety, building modelling, energy, waste water treatment

KENDRA SCHANK SMITH PhD

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Representation, history, theory, criticism, architectural design, architectural education, architectural sketches

RAMANI RAMAKRISHNAN DSc, PEng

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Building acoustics, aero-acoustics, noise modelling, noise control, day-lighting in buildings

BARUCH ZONE BArch, OAA

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Affordable and SRO housing issues and strategies, adaptive reuse and preservation of existing building inventory

IAN MacBURNIE PhD, OAQ

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6496W: ryerson.ca/~imacburn

Research Areas: Housing, urbanism and urban design, infrastructure, social equity

VERA STRAKA MEng, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6495W: ryerson.ca/~vstraka

Research Areas: Post-occupancy evaluation, condition assessment, green rating systems, low energy housing

RUSSELL RICHMAN PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6489W: ryerson.ca/richman

Research Areas: Sustainable buildings, building science, building envelopes, materials, heat/air/moisture loading

PAUL S. H. POH PhD, MBA, CEng, Eur.Ing, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6500W: ryerson.ca/~paulpoh

Research Areas: Construction project management, geotechnical engineering, wall building system

EDWARD WÓJS BArch, OAA

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Studio-based education and the art of new architectural practice, issues of the spirit in architecture

COLIN RIPLEY MArch, OAA



Research Areas: Design research, urban water systems, sustainable housing systems, cultural infrastructures

MANUEL ALVAREZ-CUENCA PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6346W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Cuenca

Research Areas: Fluidization technology, advanced reactors, treatment of water and wastewater

JURIJ LESHCHYSHYN MArch, OAA

Professor and Assistant Chair, Student Affairs


Research Areas: Architectural design, studio-based learning, Architecture and Public Policy

ALBERT C. SMITH PhD, RA

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Design, history, theory, criticism, representation

MARCO L. POLO BArch, OAA

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director


Research Areas: Contemporary Canadian architecture, Canadian architecture since 1945, regionalism in Canadian architecture

ARTHUR WRIGGLESWORTH MArch, OAA

Associate Professor


Research Areas: Architectural design (arts and culture, digital technologies) and practice (management and construction)

CHEMICALENGINEERING

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CHIL-HUNG CHENG PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2131W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Cheng

Research Areas: Zeolites, microporous, mesoporous, catalyst, synthesis, functionalization, X-ray scattering, alternative energy

GINETTE TURCOTTE PhD, PEng

Professor, Associate Chair/Director (Undergraduate Program) and Co-op Faculty Advisor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7312W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Turcotte

Research Areas: Biofuel ethanol, enzymatic hydrolysis, recombinant cellulases in transgenic plants, anaerobic digestion of wastes

FARHAD EIN-MOZAFFARI PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4251W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/faculty_ staff/bios/Ein-Mozaffari

Research Areas: Mixing of complex fluids, flow visualization, computational fluid dynamics

LAMYA AMLEH PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Program Director/ Academic Advisor, FYCEO

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6417W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/lamya

Research Areas: Preservation and rehabilitation of infrastructure, corrosion, durability of structures, high and ultra-high performance concrete

YASER DAHMAN PhD, MBA, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4080W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Dahman

Research Areas: Nanotechnology, biomaterials, regenerative medicine, green energy, green chemicals, bioseparation

SIMANT R. UPRETI PhD, PEng

Professor and Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4063W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Upreti

Research Areas: Optimal control, mass transfer in polymer–solvent systems, enhanced heavy oil recovery

DAE KUN (RILLA) HWANG PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2989W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Hwang2

Research Areas: Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, microparticle synthesis, advanced functional materials, biomaterials, liquid crystals, liquid crystal optics, modeling and simulation, micro and nanotechnology, biosensor

MICHAEL CHAPMAN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6461W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/mike

Research Areas: Camera calibration, digital photogrammetry, digital terrain modelling, high-precision deformation monitoring

RAMDHANE DHIB PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6343W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Dhib2

Research Areas: Polymerization kinetics: modeling, simulation of polymer reactors and experimental studies. Process control and optimization: chemical reactors and infra-red/convective dryers

JIANGNING WU PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6549W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/faculty_staff/bios/Wu

Research Areas: Ozonation, oxidation, wastewater treatment, polymer modification, renewable energy, biofuel chemistry and biology

ALI LOHI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7028W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/chair/Lohi

Research Areas: Simulation/modeling, biofuel/bioenergy, oilsands VAPEX, CO2 sequestration, optimization, ANN, supercritical fluids

JOSEPH CHOW PhD, PE

Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Transportation Systems Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7618W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/joe

Research Areas: Transportation planning, urban logistics and transport economics

PHILIP CHANPhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6960W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Chan

Research Areas: Computer simulation, liquid crystalline materials, phase separation, complex fluids, polymers

MEHRAB MEHRVAR PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6555W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/fac-ulty_staff/bios/Mehrvar

Research Areas: Water and wastewater treatment, advanced oxidation technologies, photochemical reaction engineering

HUU DOAN PhD, PEng

Professor and Graduate Program Director

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6341W: ryerson.ca/chemeng/ faculty_staff/bios/Doan

Research Areas: Wastewater treatment, membrane fouling, packed-bed fluid dynamics and mass transfer

CIVILENGINEERING

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AHMED EL-RABBANY PhD, PEng

Professor and Graduate Program Director

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6472W: ryerson.ca/~rabbany

Research Areas: Satellite positioning and navigation, integrated navigation systems, hydrographic surveying

GRACE LUK PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6473W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/grace

Research Areas: Biomass degradation, phosphorous removal, wastewater treatment, biofuel, bioassays

MOHAMED LACHEMI PhD, PEng

Professor and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6465W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/ Faculty/mohamed

Research Areas: Behaviour of materials and structures, construction sustainability, high-performance concrete

AHMED SHAKER PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6458W: ryerson.ca/~ashaker

Research Areas: Remote sensing applications, satellite sensor modeling, image classification, Airborne LiDAR

KHANDAKER (ANWAR) HOSSAIN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7867W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/ Faculty/hossain

Research Areas: Sustainable construction, high/ultra-high performance concrete, bridge deck/high-rise/composite structures, finite element modelling

HESHAM MARZOUK PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6451W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/ Faculty/hesham

Research Areas: Concrete slabs, high-rise design, high strength concrete, creep of concrete, strengthening of structures

JAMES LI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6470W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/james

Research Areas: Environmental hydraulics, hydrologic modelling, persistent toxic chemical analysis, urban green technology

MEDHAT SHEHATA PhD, PEng

Professor and Associate Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6457W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/ Faculty/medhat

Research Areas: Alkali-aggregate reaction, concrete durability, pervious pavements, innovative sustainable materials

DARKO JOKSIMOVIC PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6462W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/darko

Research Areas: Urban drainage, water reuse, low-impact development, modelling, optimization

BHAGWANT PERSAUD PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6464W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/ Faculty/bhagwant

Research Areas: Traffic safety and engineering, statistical modelling and geometric design

SONGNIAN LI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6450W: ryerson.ca/~snli

Research Areas: Geocollaboration, geodesign, mobile GIS/LBS, web mapping, spatial decision support, geovisualization

ARNOLD YUAN PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6463W: rilcie.blog.ryerson.ca

Research Areas: Life-cycle infrastructure management, risk and reliability analysis, uncertainty mathematics and modelling, risk-informed decision making

SAID EASA PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7868/4637 W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/said

Research Areas: Geometric design, human factors, road safety, intelligent transportation systems

JINYUAN LIU PhD, DEng, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6469W: ryerson.ca/~j42liu

Research Areas: Geotechnical engineering, deep excavation, urban tunneling, soil-structural interaction, physical modeling, transparent soil, ultrasonic NDT, soil nailing

REZA KIANOUSH PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6455W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/reza

Research Areas: Reinforced concrete, analytical modelling, liquid-containing structures, seismic loading, finite element methods

KHALED SENNAH PhD, PEng

Professor and Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6460W: ryerson.ca/civil/facstaff/Faculty/khaled

Research Areas: Bridge design, rehabilitation and strengthening, FRP-reinforced concrete bridge decks and barriers, sandwich foam-timber panels, cold formed steel design

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JAVAD ALIREZAIE PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6092W: ee.ryerson.ca/~javad

Research Areas: Biomedical signals and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis, neural networks, pattern recognition

OLIVIA DAS PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416- 979-5000 ext 6114W: ee.ryerson.ca/~odas

Research Areas: Software performance engineering, dependability modelling, distributed systems, layered queuing networks

SOOSAN BEHESHTI PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4906W: ee.ryerson.ca/~soosan

Research Areas: Statistical signal processing, data denoising, modelling and compression, hyperspectral image analysis

LING GUAN PhD

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multimedia and Computer Technology

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6072W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Guan

Research Areas: Multimedia processing, immersive communication, human-centered computing, cloud computing, image and video processing

DIMITRIOS ANDROUTSOS PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6104W: ee.ryerson.ca/~dimitri

Research Areas: Image processing, 3D, digital cinema, stereoscopy multimedia, signal processing

XAVIER FERNANDO PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6077W: ee.ryerson.ca/~fernando

Research Areas: Wireless and optical communications, access networks, underground communication systems, signal processing, wireless aircraft communications, smart grid, smart buildings

YAO-CHON (JOHN) CHEN PhD, PEng

Professor and Program Director, Electrical EngineeringE: [email protected]: 416- 979-5000 ext 6090

W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Chen

Research Areas: Real-time control, optimal control

ALI HUSSEIN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6108W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Hussein

Research Areas: Measurement, characterization and modelling of fast transients, lightning cur-rent, lightning electromagnetic pulse, lightning protection and detection

ALAGAN ANPALAGAN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6079W: ee.ryerson.ca/~alagan

Research Areas: Radio resource management, green communi-cation, cognitive radio, cooperative communication, machine-to-machine com-munication, small cell networks, multi hop networks, radio access and networking, cross layer optimization, performance characterization

VADIM GEURKOV CAND of Technical Science, Academy of Science, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6088W: ee.ryerson.ca/~vgeurkov

Research Areas: Digital/mixed-signal systems testing, fault tolerance, built-in self-test, programmable logic devices

RICHARD CHEUNG PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6112W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Cheung

Research Areas: Power system, nuclear engineering, power electronics, alternative energy, power quality

MUHAMMAD JASEEMUDDIN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6073W: ee.ryerson.ca/~jaseem

Research Areas: Computer networks, mobile wireless networks, routing, medium access control, transport protocol

KEN J. CLOWES BEng (Hons), McG

Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6099W: ee.ryerson.ca/~kclowes

Research Areas: Digital systems, microprocessors, embedded systems, software engineering

EBRAHIM BAGHERI PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7953W: ee.ryerson.ca/~bagheri/

Research Areas: Software engineering, large-scale reuse engineering, knowledge engineering, semantic technologies, web mining, in-telligent and adaptive systems, business process modeling

XIJIA GU PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4151W: ee.ryerson.ca/~xgu

Research Areas: Fiber optic devices/modules, fiber optic sensors, high-power fiber lasers

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MAHMOOD (MIKE) KASSAM Doctor Universitatis, PEng

Professor and Program Director, Biomedical Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6103W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Kassam

Research Areas: Intelligent medical instrumentation for non-invasive diagnosis

FARAH MOHAMMADI PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6094W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Mo-hammadi

Research Areas: Microelectronics, electromag-netics, microwave circuits, RF/microwave components, electrothermal analysis, numerical models

MATTHEW KYAN PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6479W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Kyan

Research Areas: Multimedia information mining, pattern recognition, data visualization and virtual/mixed reality

BEAU STANDISH PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6091W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/standish

Research Areas: Optical coherence tomography, microvasculature, medical imaging, point of care devices

GUL N. KHAN PhD, PEng

Professor and Program Director, Computer Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6084W: ee.ryerson.ca/~gnkhan

Research Areas: Hardware/software co-design, embedded systems, MPSoC, NoC, smart RFID systems, sensor network security, authentication protocols, fault-tolerent systems, computer vision and multimedia systems

KAAMRAN RAAHEMIFAR PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6097W: ee.ryersonca/~kraahemi

Research Areas: VLSI circuit design, biomedical signal processing, design and optimization, implantable devices

NGOK-WAH (BOBBY) MA PhD, PEng Professor and Graduate Program, Director, Computer Networks

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7929W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Ma

Research Areas: Network security and internet protocols

KARTHI UMAPATHY PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7207W: ee.ryerson.ca/~karthi

Research Areas: Biomedical signal and image analysis, time-frequency analysis, digital signal processing, cardiac electrophysiology

LEV KIRISCHIAN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6076W: ee.ryerson.ca/~lkirisch

Research Areas: Reconfigurable computing, computer architecture, FPGA, high-level synthesis, embedded systems

REZA SEDAGHAT PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416- 979-5000 ext 6083W: ee.ryerson.ca/opr

Research Areas: VLSI design, combinatorial optimization problems, quadratic assignment problems, synthesis, digital circuits and systems

KRISTIINA McCONVILLE PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6085W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Mc-Conville

Research Areas: Biomedical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, human computer interaction, attention, learning

ANASTASIOS (TAS) VENETSANOPOULOS PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4037W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Venet-sanopoulos

Research Areas: Biometrics, multimedia systems, digital signal/image processing, neutral networks and fuzzy reasoning

SHEIKH KARIM PhD, PEng, CEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6111W: ee.ryerson.ca/~skarim

Research Areas: Power systems planning, motor control, power electronics

NAGI MEKHIEL PhD, PEngProfessor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 7251W: ee.ryerson.ca/~nmekhiel

Research Areas: Computer architecture, high-performance memory systems, parallel processing and VLSI

SRIDHAR (SRI) KRISHNAN PhD, PEng

Professor, Associate Dean, Research, Development and Graduate Programs, and Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Signal Analysis

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4931W: ee.ryerson.ca/~krishnan

Research Areas: Sparse signal representations, biomedical signal/image analysis, biomedical assistive technologies, multimedia information forensics

JAMES ANDREW SMITH PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4905w: ee.ryerson.ca/~jasmith

Research Areas: Biomedical engineering, biomechanics, legged locomotion, rehabilitation, mechatronics and robotics, embedded systems

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BIN WU PhD, PEng

Professor and NSERC/ Rockwell Automation Industrial Research Chair in Power Electronics and Electric Drives

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6484W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Wu

Research Areas: Power electronics, electric drives, renewable energy systems

XIAO-PING ZHANG PhD, PEng

Professor and Graduate Program Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6686W: ee.ryerson.ca/~xzhang

Research Areas: Multimedia content analysis, data hiding, statistical modelling, computational intelligence, signal processing, finance

AMIRNASER YAZDANI PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6178W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Yazdani

Research Areas: Modeling, analysis, simulation, and control of power-electronic systems; renewable energy systems; electronically interfaced distributed energy systems; microgrids

S.D. (SANJEEV) BHOLE PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7215W: ryerson.ca/mie/faculty/ faculty/bhole

Research Areas: Welding and formability of advanced high strength steels, nanocrystalline steel and nano-powders

DEWEI XU PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6075W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Xu

Research Areas: Renewable energy, power electronics, motor drives, digital control

LIAN ZHAO PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6101W: ee.ryerson.ca/~lzhao

Research Areas: Wireless communications, radio resource management, power control, cooperative communications

ANDY GEAN YE PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4901W: ee.ryerson.ca/~aye

Research Areas: FPGA architecture, FPGA CAD, digital system design

HABIBA BOUGHERARA PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7092W: ryerson.ca/mie/faculty/ assistant/bougherara

Research Areas: Biomechanics and biomedical engineering, advanced materials, modelling and finite element analysis

CUNGANG (TRUMAN) YANG PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4175W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Yang

Research Areas: Role-based access control modelling, web security, privacy, information flow control

MALGORZATA (GOSHA) ZYWNO PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6105W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Zywno

Research Areas: Control systems, modelling, faculty development, education

FEI YUAN PhD, PEng

Professor and Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 5334W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Yuan

Research Areas: CMOS circuits and systems, data communications, wire and wireless channels

RICHARD S. BUDNY MASc, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7688W: ryerson.ca/~rbudny

Research Areas: Thermodynamics, thermohydraulics, nuclear power generation, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics

BALA VENKATESH PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Academic Director, Centre for Urban Energy

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2232/2978W: ee.ryerson.ca/~venkates

Research Areas: Power systems analysis and optimization

MEHMET ZEYTINOGLU PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6078W: ee.ryerson.ca/people/Zeytinoglu

Research Areas: Audio signal processing, statistical analysis, digital communication systems

VICTOR YANG MD, PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2142W: ryerson.ca/physics/people/faculty/yang

Research Areas: Biophotonics and bioengineering

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VINCENT CHAN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6612W: ryerson.ca/~v7chan

Research Areas: Advanced manufacturing, metrology, machine vision, rapid prototyping, CAD/CAM

MOHAMAD Y. JABER PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7623W: ryerson.ca/mie/faculty/ associate/jaber

Research Areas: Learning curve theory, models and applications, classical and non-classical inventory management, closed-loop supply chains

JACOB FRIEDMAN PhD, PEng


E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7737W: ryerson.ca/~jfriedma

Research Areas: Fluid dynamics, combustion, heat transfers, fluidized beds, combustion diagnostics

HUA LU PhD

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6427W: ryerson.ca/~hlu

Research Areas: Solid mechanics, experimental mechanics, computer vision and optical metrology

DAO LUN CHEN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6487W: ryerson.ca/~dchen

Research Areas: Advanced materials (bio- and nano-materials, composites), lightweight materials (magnesium, aluminum, and titanium alloys), mechanical properties, deformation, fatigue and fracture

FARROKH JANABI-SHARIFI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7097W: ryerson.ca/~fsharifi

Research Areas: Optomechatronics, robotics, visual servoing, intelligent control, micromanipulation

ALAN S. FUNG PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4917W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/associate/fung

Research Areas: Sustainable building, integrated energy systems/net zero energy buildings, renewable energy, building energy simulation

DAVID NAYLOR PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6428W: ryerson.ca/~dnaylor

Research Areas: Heat transfer, laser interferometry, convection, computational fluid dynamics, fenestration

SETH DWORKIN PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7311W: ryerson.ca/~dworkin/

Research Areas: Combustion, emissions, biofuels, computer simulation, geothermal energy, energy economics

WEY LEONG PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 7706W: ryerson.ca/~weyleong

Research Areas: Natural convection, soil thermal properties, computational fluid dynamics, thermal systems

AHMAD GHASEMPOOR PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 6422W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/associate/ghasempoor

Research Areas: Monitoring manufacturing processes, powder metalurgy, biomechanics

W. PATRICK NEUMANN PhD, LicEng, LEL, EurErg

Associate Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 7738W: ryerson.ca/pneumann

Research Areas: Human factors engineering, ergonomics in design process, simulation and virtual manufacturing, performance and risk modelling

JUN CAO PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7694W: mie.ryerson.ca/directory/associate/cao

Research Areas: Computational fluid dynamics, adaptive finite element methods, fuel cell technology

SIYUAN HE PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6425W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/assistant/he

Research Areas: Microelectromechanical systems, micro sensors and actuators, fuel injection technology

LIPING FANG PhD, PEng

Professor and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs and Student Affairs

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2621/6410W: ryerson.ca/~lfang

Research Areas: Systems engineering, decision support systems, personalization of online services, risk analysis

DER CHYAN (BILL) LIN PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7489W: ryerson.ca/graduate/ mechanical/faculty

Research Areas: Fractal theory, complex dynamics, nonlinear systems and chaos

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MARCELLO PAPINI PhD, PEng

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Abrasive Jet Technology

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7655W: ryerson.ca/~mpapini

Research Areas: Abrasive jets,waterjet, solid particle erosion, micro-machining, wear, fracture mechanics

SCOTT TSAI PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6424W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/faculty

Research Areas: Fluid mechanics, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip technology, electrohydrodynamics, biomedical and sustainability applications

CORY SEARCY PhD, PEng

Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Program Director, Industrial Engineering

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext 2095W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/assistant/searcy

Research Areas: Corporate sustainable development, performance measurement, quality management systems

MOHAMED WAHAB MOHAMED ISMAIL PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 2670W: ryerson.ca/~mmohamad

Research Areas: Financial engineering, operations research, supply chain design, risk hedging, healthcare

C. (RAVI) RAVINDRAN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6423W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/faculty/ravindran

Research Areas: Net-shape casting, light alloy (magnesium, aluminum and titanium) development, automobile efficiency, emissions and recycling

MARK TOWLER PhD

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 5303W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory

Research Areas: Hard tissue biomaterials, in vitro diagnostics, osteoporosis, bone cancer

M. F. (FRANKIE) STEWART MEng, PEng

Professor and Engineering Teaching Chair

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6416W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/faculty/stewart

Research Areas: Engineering education pedagogy, student engagement, recruitment/retention of women in engineering

SHUDONG YU PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7687W: ryerson.ca/~syu

Research Areas: Flow induced vibration, contact mechanics

ZIAD SAGHIR PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 6418W: ryerson.ca/~zsaghir

Research Areas: Thermofluid dynamics, computational heat-fluid flow and mass transfer, microgravity science, crystal growth

AHMAD VARVANI-FARAHANI PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7707W: ryerson.ca/~avarvani

Research Areas: Fatigue fracture, stress analysis, advanced materials, biomechanics

SHARAREH TAGHIPOUR PhD

Assistant Professor

E: [email protected] T: 416-979-5000 ext. 7693 W: ryerson.ca/rrmr

Research Areas: Reliability engineering; inspection and maintenance optimization; statistics and probability; stochastic operations research

SAEED ZOLFAGHARI PhD, PEng

Professor and Senior Advisor, Academic Space Planning

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7735W: ryerson.ca/zolfaghari

Research Areas: Productivity improvement, simulation of production and service systems, operations research, performance analysis, metaheuristics, forecasting

DONATUS OGUAMANAM PhD, PEng

Associate Professor and Program Director, Mechanical Engineering

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7490W:ryerson.ca/mie/directory/ associate/oguamanam

Research Areas: Structural/solid mechanics, intelligent structures, dynamics, vibration, finite elements methods

K. DONALD THAM PhD, PEng

Professor and Industrial Internship Program Coordinator

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7209W: ryerson.ca/~dtham

Research Areas: Enterprise modelling, ontologies, temporal-ABC, cost intelligence, supply chain management

FILIPPO ARNALDO SALUSTRI PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 7749W: deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil

Research Areas: Design methods, information visualization, formal methods, creativity, sustainability

KRISHNAN VENKATAKRISHNAN PhD, PEng

Professor

E: [email protected]: 416-979-5000 ext 4984W: ryerson.ca/mie/directory/ associate/ venkatakrishnan

Research Areas: 3D nanostructure fabrication, nano-biotechnology, bio-nanomaterials, nanostructuring for solar cells

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