Dr. Thomas Adams

Associate Chair (Graduate)
Department of Chemical Engineering

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

green energy conversion; semicontinuous systems; process design; modeling; simulation and optimization

Dr. Faiez Alani

Associate Professor, Biotechnology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Associate Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Biotechnology

Dr. Nabil Bassim

Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Acting Scientific Director, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Structure-Processing-Property Relationships, Electron Microscopy, Focused Ion Beam Microscopy, Nanomaterials, 2-D materials, Image Processing, Beam-Sample interactions, Structural Materials (Concrete, Metallurgical Alloys), Nanofabrication

Dr. Jennifer Bauman

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Hybrid and electric powertrain design and control; Power electronic converters; Advanced vehicle modeling; Smart-charging and EV integration into the smart-grid

Dr. Jonathan Bradley

Assistant Professor and Barber-Gennum Chair in IT
Department of Engineering Physics

silicon photonics, integrated optics, lasers, photonic materials, optical communications, sensors, microphotonic systems

Dr. Adriaan Buijs

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

reactor core physics, reactor modelling, reactor design, Monte Carlo methods, data analysis

Dr. Chan Y. Ching

Associate Chair, Graduate
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Heat Transfer; Multi-phase Flow; Turbulence

Dr. James S. Cotton

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid Mechanics; Heat Transfer; Modeling in Thermo-Fluid Systems; Multi-phase Flows; Renewals & Sustainable Energy Systems

Dr. Paulin Coulibaly

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Hydrologic Modelling; Flood Forecasting; Water Resources; Climate Change Impact, Adaptation; Statistical Hydrology; Hydroinformatics; Remote Sensing Hydrology; Data Assimilation; Hydrometric Network Design

Dr. Sarah Dickson

Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Associate Chair - Graduate
Department of Civil Engineering

Director, UNU-INWEH Water Without Borders
McMaster University

Hydrogeology; Fractured Rock; Contaminant Transport; Particulate Contaminants; Pathogen Transport; Point-of-Use Water Treatment; Local Water Security

Dr. Neslihan Dogan

Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

High temperature materials processing, primary and secondary steelmaking, reaction kinetics

Dr. Wael El-Dakhakhni

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Professor
School of Computational Science and Engineering

Associate Chair Graduate
Department of Civil Engineering

Director, INTERFACE Institute
Department of Civil Engineering

Director, NSERC CaNRisk-CREATE
Department of Civil Engineering

Director, The INViSiONLab
Department of Civil Engineering

Co-Director, Centre for Effective Design of Structures
Department of Civil Engineering

Martini, Mascarin, and George Chair in Masonry Design
Department of Civil Engineering

Complex Interdependent Networks & Systems Simulation; Data-driven Models; Systemic Risk & Resilience Quantification; Performance Prediction under Multi-hazard Scenarios.

Dr. Ali Emadi

Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Canada Research Chair in Transportation Electrification and Smart Mobility and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Electrified Powertrains
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Canada Research Chair in Transportation Electrification and Smart Mobility and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Electrified Powertrains
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Transportation Electrification; Electrified Vehicles; Autonomous-Capable Vehicles; Electric and Hybrid Powertrains; Power Electronics and Electric Motor Drives; Electric Machines and Energy Conversion Systems; Renewable and Efficient Energy Systems; Energy and Sustainability

Dr. Jeff Fortuna

Assistant Professor, Software Engineering Technology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Assistant Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Software Engineering Technology

Dr. Fei Geng

Assistant Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Associate Member
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Biotechnology

Dr. Yiping Guo

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Undergraduate Student Advisor
Department of Civil Engineering

Urban Drainage; Stormwater Management; Water Distribution Network; Frequency and Time Series Analysis; Resilience and Uncertainty Quantification

Dr. Saeid Habibi

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Automotive Applications; Control Systems; Hybrid Vehicles; Mechatronics; Renewal & Sustainable Energy Systems

Dr. Mohamed S. Hamed

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid mechanics; Heat transfer; Modeling in thermo-fluid systems; Multi-phase flow; Renewable & sustainable energy systems; Thermal processing of materials

Dr. Drew Higgins

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Electrochemistry; Catalysis; Nanomaterials; Energy Conversion and Storage; Sustainable Energy Technologies; Fuel Cells; Solar Fuels; Artificial Photosynthesis.

Michael Justason

Program Chair, Civil Engineering Infrastructure Technology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Lecturer
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Civil Infrastructure Engineering Technology

Dr. Younggy Kim

Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Biological Wastewater Treatment; Water Reuse; Physical/Chemical Water Treatment; Nutrient Recovery; Energy Recovery; Water Quality Sensors; Heavy Metal Removal; Anaerobic Digestion; Sludge Pre/Post-Treatment; Numerical Modeling; Microbial Electrochemistry; Ion Exchange Membrane; Salinity Gradient Energy; Point-of-Use Drinking Water Treatment

Dr. Adrian Kitai

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

fundamental luminescent materials, new luminescent devices, new avalanche injection devices, optical fibre liquid crystal display technology

Dr. Adrian Kitai

Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

fundamental luminescent materials, new luminescent devices, new avalanche injection devices, optical fibre liquid crystal display technology

Dr. Rafael Kleiman

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

Director, Laboratory for Advanced Photovoltaic Research
McMaster University

solar energy: photovoltaics and solar thermal, concentrator photovoltaics, solar testing and instrumentation, solar materials; silicon, III-V, hyperspectral imaging, device modelling, advanced light trapping, device fabrication

Dr. Gail Krantzberg

Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Public Policy; Great Lakes Science, Policy and Governance

Dr. Ray LaPierre

Department Chair
Department of Engineering Physics

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

solar cells (photovoltaics), photodetectors, quantum information processing (quantum computers)

Dr. Ryan Lewis

Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

Self-assembly of semiconductor nanostructures, molecular beam epitaxy, III-V semiconductors, III-V on Si, optoelectronic materials and devices

Dr. Xun Li

Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Photonic devices with emphasis on semiconductor laser diodes, packaging and integration of photonic devices and sub-systems ; Fiber-optic communication systems and networks

Dr. Marilyn Lightstone

Department Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Heat transfer; Turbulent flows

Dr. John Luxat

Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair
Department of Engineering Physics

Nuclear Safety Analysis Methodology, Experimental Studies in Nuclear Safety Thermalhydraulics, Theoretical Modelling Studies in Nuclear Safety Thermalhydraulics

Dr. Vladimir Mahalec

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Associate Director of Graduate Programs
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Optimization of plant operations (production planning, scheduling, real-time optimization) and supply chain management; integration of planning, scheduling, RTO, and control; reduced size hybrid models for optimization; energy recovery from low temperature sources

Dr. Peter Mascher

Vice-Provost, International Affairs
McMaster University

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

William Sinclair Chair in Optoelectronics
Department of Engineering Physics

Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy; Point Defects in Materials; Thin Film Technology; Silicon Nanostructures; Silicon Photonics; Luminescence; Rare Earth Doping; PECVD; Optical Characterization; Ellipsometry

Dr. Moataz Mohamed

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Systemic Impacts and Risk Analysis; Electrification of Transit Systems; Optimization Models and Adaptive Systems; Public Transit Modelling and Operation; Autonomous, Connected, and Electric Mobility; Multivariate Data Analysis; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Intelligent Transportation Systems; Transportation Planning and Demand Modelling; Preferences and Choice Modelling

Dr. SeonHong Na

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Computational Geomechanics; Geotechnical Engineering; Poromechanics; Soil Mechanics; Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) Modelling; Micromechanics; Plasticity; Damage and Fracture Mechanics; Constitutive Laws; Inverse Problem

Dr. Shinya Nagasaki

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Radioactive Waste Management
Department of Engineering Physics

radioactive waste management, nuclear fuel cycle, safety assessment of repository and nuclear fuel cycle facilities, migration of actinides, fission products and heavy metals in geosphere and biosphere, nuclear technology in society, nuclear proliferation and security

Dr. Mehdi Narimani

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Associate Member
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Power Electronics ; High-Power Conversion ; Medium-Voltage Motor Drives ; Application of Power Electronics in Power Systems ; Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters ; Renewable Energy Systems

Dr. Jake Nease

Associate Chair (Undergraduate)
Department of Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Process simulation, life-cycle analyses, system optimization, process control, Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs), carbon capture

Dr. Dave Novog

Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair
Department of Engineering Physics

nuclear safety, reactor physics, thermalhydraulics, multiphysics reactor analysis, nuclear fuel and fuel cycles, severe accident modelling, emergency accident response and mitigation

Dr. Anthony Petric

Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

fuel cells; batteries; ceramics; thermodynamics

Dr. John Preston

Associate Dean, Research and External Relations

Pulsed Laser Deposition, Self-Assembly of Epitaxial Nanostructures, Photovoltaics

Dr. Amin Reza Rajabzadeh, Ph.D, P.Eng

Program Chair, Biotechnology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Associate Member
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Biochemical Engineering; Biosensors; Separation Processes; CFD

Dr. Oleg Rubel

Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Materials modeling; density functional theory; solar cells; lasers; LEDs; quantum materials; 2D materials

Dr. Sumanth Shankar

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Casting; Microscopy & Diffraction; Transport Phenomenon

Dr. Mostafa Soliman

Assistant Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Automation Engineering Technology

Dr. Seshasai Srinivasan

Program Chair, Software Engineering Technology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Associate Member
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics, Programming

Dr. Chi Tang

Program Chair, Power and Energy Engineering Technology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Assistant Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Energy Engineering Technologies

Dr. Stephen Tullis

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid mechanics and turbulent flows; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Wind Turbines; Combustion Multi-phase flow

Dr. Ayse Turak

Associate Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

Associate Undergraduate Chair
Department of Engineering Physics

degradation at interfaces in organic electronics; classification of spatial order for 2D objects; modelling and tailoring of organic thin film morphology; nanoparticle synthesis; photovoltaics; surface and interface physics

Dr. Tom Wanyama

Program Chair, Automation Engineering Technology
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Assistant Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Associate Member
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Automation Engineering Technology

Dr. Benzhong (Robin) Zhao

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Climate Change Mitigation; Renewable Energy; Water Security; Energy Storage; Carbon Storage; Multiphase Flow; Porous Media; Electrochemistry

Dr. Igor Zhitomirsky

Distinguished Engineering Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

biomaterials, nanomaterials, energy storage, electrochemical technologies, functional materials