Research Opportunities Table

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Opportunities – Civil Engineering

SUPERVISOR	EMAIL	DEPARTMENT	SPECIALIZATION	RESEARCH FOCUSES	NOTES
Kamelia Atefi Monfared	catefi@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering	Geomechanics, Coupled processes in porous media, Ground improvement techniques	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students.
Rashid Bashir	rbashir@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Geoenvironmental engineering, Soil mechanics, Hydrogeology, Geotechnical design, Soil cover design	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Satinder Brar	satinder.brar@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Applied biotechnology, Water resource management, Wastewater treatment, Bioremediation, Bioresource management	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Liam Butler	liam.butler@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Climate-resilient structures, structural engineering	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Ahmed Eldyasti	ahmed.eldyasti@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Wastewater management	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
John Gales	jgales@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Fire Engineering	Structural Buildings (Timber, steel and concrete); Transportation (human factors and AI), Engineering Education, Heritage buildings.	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Kevin Gingerich	kging@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Transportation Engineering	Transportation studies	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Stephanie Gora	stephanie.gora@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Water Resources	Drinking water management, Drinking water treatment, UV advanced oxidation processes	Not recruiting students for the 26-27 academic year. On sabbatical.
Shooka Karimpour	shooka.karimpour@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Environmental hydrodynamics, Microplastic mobility, Microplastic hydrodynamics, Turbulent modelling	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Usman T. Khan	utkhan@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Water resource engineering, Flood risk management, Data-driven modelling, Water resource management, Urban hydrology	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Magdalena Krol	mkrol@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	GeoEnvironmental Engineering	Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Groundwater remediation technologies, nuclear waste repositories, green roof design	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Mehdi Nourinejad	mehdi.nourinejad@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Transportation system planning, Transportation system control	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Dan Palermo	dan.palermo@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Concrete Structures, Seismic Repair and Retrofitting, Seismic Applications of Shape Memory Alloys and Engineered Cementitious Composites, Tsunami Loading on Structures, Nonlinear Modelling	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Stavroula Pantazopoulou	pantazo@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Structural Engineering	Earthquake Engineering of Structures, Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Structures, Innovative Construction Materials, Climate effects on Structures	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Peter Park	peter.park@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	N/A	Transportation engineering, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Road and railway safety, Transportation Security, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Matthew Perras	mperras@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Geotechnical/Geological Engineering	Geological engineering, Rock mechanics, Fracture mechanics, Numerical modelling, Environmental influences on fracture growth	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jitendrapal (Jit) Sharma	jit.sharma@lassonde.yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering	Geotechnical engineering	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Kevin Zhang	kzhang1@yorku.ca	Civil Engineering	Building Science	Sustainable buildings, high performance building materials, embodied and operational carbon, decarbonization	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.

Research Opportunities – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Digital Media

SUPERVISOR	EMAIL	DEPARTMENT	PROGRAM	RESEARCH FOCUSES	NOTES
Mokhtar Aboelaze		Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Computer networks, Computer architecture	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Robert Allison	allison@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Visual perception, human computer interaction in virtual and augmented environments, graphical displays and applications	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. May accept visa students. Contact supervisor.
John Amanatides	amana@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Computer graphics	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Amirali Amirsoleimani	amirsol@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Memory technologies, AI hardware, neuromorphic computing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Aijun An	aan@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Data mining, machine learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Melanie Baljko	baljko@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Digital Media	Human-Computer Interaction, Anti-Technoableism, Assistive Technologies, Social Technologies, Commons-Based Peer Production	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Alvine Boaye Belle	wonderss@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	safety assurance, autonomous driving systems, generative AI, Knowledge representation and reasoning, EDI in computing. Specialization: Software Engineering.	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Michael Brown	mbrown@cse@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	In-camera processing, image enhancement and restoration, color processing, AI	Accepting domestic and visa PhD students.
Marcus Brubaker	mbrubake@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Computer vision, Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Computational biology	On leave.
Gene Cheung	genec@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Graph signal processing, 3D , imaging, communications & controls (VISTA)	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Suprakash Datta	datta@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Bioinformatics, Computer networks	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Konstantinos Derpanis	kosta@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Computer vision, AI, data science	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Elham Dolatabadi	edolatab@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Multimodal Learning, Bio-informatics, Foundation Models, Brain Computer Interface, Health, MLOps, Specialization: Machine Learning Deep Learning Healthcare	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Andrew Eckford	aeckford@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Molecular communication, Computational biology, Biologically inspired sensors	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jeff Edmonds	jeff@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Complexity theory, scheduling, proof systems, probability theory	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
James Elder	jelder@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Human vision, computer vision, computational neuroscience’ and ‘AI’	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Petros Faloutsos	pfal@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Digital Media	Computer graphics, animation	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Hany Farag	hefarag@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Modelling techniques, Control techniques, Renewable generation, Energy storage, Electric vehicles, Renewable energy	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Marios Fokaefs	fokaefs@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science, Software Engineering	DevOps, AIOps, Software reliability, Performance Engineering, Software modeling and design, mobile and cloud applications, Automated Software Engineering with AI (deep learning and LLMs)	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students. Keele and Markham campuses.
Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh	egz@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Biologically inspired integrated sensors and actuators, Integrated circuits, Microfluidics, Disease diagnostics, Life science applications	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Parke Godfrey	godfrey@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Databases	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Gerd Grau	grau@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Semiconductor devices, microfabrication, printed electronics, Printed electronics, additive manufacturing, 3D printing, machine learning, semiconductor devices, microfabrication, transistors, sensors, flexible electronics, wearable electronics	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jarek Gryz	jarek@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Database systems, AI	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Arash Habibi Lashkari	ahabibil@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Cybersecurity, Network Security, Informaiton Security, System Security	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Hadi Hemmati	hemmati@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	(1) Automated software engineering using AI, e.g., LLMs, with a focus on code generation, software testing, and repair. (2) Trustworthy AI software systems with a focus on robustness and explainability.	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Richard Hornsey	rhornsey@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Engineering Education	Not accepting students in 26-27
Michael Jenkin	jenkin@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Mobile robotics, Computer vision, Immersive displays, Virtual reality	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting visa students.
Hui Jiang	huijiang@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	Machine learning, Audio processing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang	zmjiang@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	AI Engineering (AI4SE and SE4AI), Software Performance Engineering, Automated Program Analysis and Debugging	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Shahin Kamali	kamalis@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Design and analysis of algorithms, online and approximation algorithms, learning-augmented algorithms, algorithmic AI, graph algorithms, theoretical foundations of blockchain technology	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students.
Houshang Karimi	hkarimi6@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Power systems, control systems, power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, renewable energy systems.	May be accepting students. Contact supervisor directly.
Hossein Kassiri	kassiri@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Analog and Mixed-Signal Electronic Integrated Circuits, Brain-Computer interfaces, On-chip Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms, wireless implantable medical devices, neural recording and stimulation systems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Arirudh Kaushik	kaushika@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Engineering	High performance computer architecture, efficient computer architecture for real-time safety-critical cyber-physical systems. compilers for hardware generation, compiler design for embedded systems. Embedded systems, Computer architecture, Compilers	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and Phd students.
Hamzeh Khazaei	hkh@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Sustainable Machine Learning Systems, Performant Computing Systems and Serverless Computing. Specialization: Cloud Computing Systems.	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Kostas Kontogiannis	kkontog@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Software Engineering, Software Analytics, AIOps, Cyber-Physical Systems, Service-Oriented Computing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students. Markham Campus
Matthew Kyan	mkyan@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Digital Media	Media-rich dataset management	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
John Lam	johnlam@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Power Electronics	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Yong (Peter) Lian	plian@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Biomedical circuits, Biomedical Systems, Energy efficient signal processing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Marin Litoiu	mlitoiu@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	Software engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Scott Mackenzie	mack@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	human-computer interaction with an emphasis on human performance measurement and modeling, interaction devices and techniques, text entry, mobile computing, gaming, accessible computing, touch-based interaction, eye tracking, experimental methodology, Fitts’ law	Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD programs.
Sebastian Magierowski	magiero@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Microsystems, Nanosystems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Sana Maqsood	smaqsood@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Cybersecurity, Computer security system usability, Computer security system accessibility, Interactive technologies	Accepting domestic and visa students for Master’s and PhD programs.
Jonathan Michaels	jmichae@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Brain-computer interfaces, motor control, neural computation	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students.
Andranik Mirzaian	andy@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Optimization, Computational geometry	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Richard Murray	rfm@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Computational neuroscience; human and computer vision; psychophysics, visual perception	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Maleknaz Nayebi	mnayebi@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	Software engineering	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Uyen Trang Nguyen	unguyen@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Information security, Network Security, Online social networking, Cellular networks, Financial technology, Wireless ad-hoc, Wireless sensor networks, Cyber security	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Kiemute Oyibo	koyibo@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Persuasive design, Personalization, User modeling, User experience, Digital health, Machine learning applications	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Emmanouil (Manos) Papangelis	papaggel@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Data mining, machine learning	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s and PhD students.
Aditya Potukuchi	apotu@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Data science, coding	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Hung Pham	hvpham@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	Software testing, Software repair, ML/AI for Software, SE for AI, Software Engineering and Machine Learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Simona Pisana	simone.pisana@lassonde.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Nanostructured materials, Nanostructured devices, Graphene-based isotopic separation, sonoluminescence, high-temperature magnetization dynamics	Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD programs. Accepting visa Master’s students.
Afshin Rezaei-Zare	rezaei@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Energy engineering, power systems, Energy systems, Grid systems, Geomagnetic disturbances	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Eric Ruppert	ruppert@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	concurrent computing, shared-memory algorithms and data structures Specialization: Theoretical Computer Science	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Ali Sadeghi-Naini	asn@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	AI for Personalized Medicine, Quantitative Imaging and Biomarkers, Smart Digital Pathology, Image-guided Cancer Therapeutics. Specialization: Biomedical Engineering, AI and Machine Learning, Medical Imaging	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students.
Razieh Salahandish	raziehs@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Biomedical engineering, Electrical and electrochemical sensors, Integrated microfluidics systems, Biiosensing organ-on-chip platforms and Wearable medical devices	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari	lsk@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Generative AI, LLM, Diffusion models, AI in drug discivery, AI in medical imaging, AI fairness. Specialization: Optimization; AI in Medical Imaging; Machine learning with Healthcare Markham Campus	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students.
Yan Shvartzhnaider	yansh@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Security	Cybersecurity, Contextual integrity, Information technology	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Amir Sodagar	sodagar@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Biomedical systems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Minas Spetsakis	minas@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science		Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Pirathayini Srikantha	psrikan@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	Smart distribution systems, Cybersecurity in smart grid, Distributed coordination	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jarek Szlichta	szlichta@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Data Science, AI	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Hina Tabassum	hinat@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	5G/6G wireless networks, open radio access networks, multi-access edge computing, quantum sensing and machine learning, wireless sensing and localization, machine learning, mobility management in satellite, aerial, and terrestrial networks, communications and control	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
George Toulakis	tgeorge@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Logic-modal logic, Computability, Complexity	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Nikolaus Troje		Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Computer vision, animation, human-computer interaction, communication	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
John Tsotsos		Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Visual attention in humans and computer systems, Computer vision, Visually guided mobile robots, AI, Computational neuroscience	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Vassillios Tzerpos	bil@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Audio Processing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Gias Uddin	guddin@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	Systems engineering, Human-computer interaction, AI, Machine learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Ruth Urner	uruth@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	statistical and algorithmic learning theory; robustness to adversarial and strategic perturbations; interpretability and fairness in machine learning. Enjoyment of mathematics required. Specialization: Machine Learning	Accepting domestic and visa Master’s students. May accept domestic PhD students. Inquire with supervisor.
Franck Van Breugel	franck@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science, Software Engineering	model checking, software verification	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting visa students.
Nataliji Vlajic	vlajic@cse.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Security, Computer Engineering	Network security, Information security	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Ping Wang	pingw@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electrical Engineering	AI-empowered modern communication networks, 5G and beyond communication networks, AI-enabled Semantic Communications, Internet of things, Vechicular communications, Satellite Communications	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Song Wang	wangsong@eecs.yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Software Engineering	Software engineering, Machine learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jia Xu	jxu@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Real time systems, Embedded systems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Xiaohui Yu	xhyu@yorku.ca	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Database systems, data science, applied machine learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.

Research Opportunities – Earth and Space Science

SUPERVISOR	EMAIL	DEPARTMENT	SPECIALIZATION	RESEARCH FOCUSES	NOTES
Costas Armenakis	armenc@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Geomatics Engineering	Geomatics/GeoInformatics; Mobile Sensing and Mapping Systems; Drones; Information from Image and Range data; 3D modelling	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Michael Bazzocchi	mbazz@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Astronautics, Asteroid Science and Engineering, Orbital Dynamics and Control, Mission and Systems Design, Satellites, Spacecraft Formations, Space Debris, Robotics, Space Robotics, Terrestrial Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Personal Robotics, Assistive Robotics	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa Master’s students.
Sunil Bisnath	sbisnath@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Geomatics Engineering	Geomatics Engineering, positioning, navigation, optimal estimation, machine learning, GPS, satellite-based navigation, inertial navigation systems, autonomous vehicles, smartphone positioning	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa Master’s students.
Yongsheng Chen	yongsheng.chen@lassonde.yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Severe weather dynamics and prediction, Data assimilation and numerical modeling	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students.
Michael Daly	dalym@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Planetary science	Not accepting students in 26-27
Mark Gordon	mgordon@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Atmospheric science, Pollutants, Greenhouse gas emissions, Air quality models	Accepting domestic Master’s students.
Baoxin Hu	baoxin@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Geomatics Engineering	Geomatics, 3D scene reconstruction, Remotely sensed data, characterization InSAR technology, Spatial-temporal data analysis and modelling	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students.
Gary Klaassen	gklaass@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Atmospheric science	Can admit 2 more students for now until filled.
Regina Lee	reginal@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Nanosatellites, Space Situational Awareness (SSA)	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
John Moores	jmoores@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Planetary science	Accepting visa PhD students.
Ryan Orszulik	ryan.orszulik@lassonde.yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Smart materials, Smart structures, robotics, mechatronics, additive manufacture	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Spiros Pagiatakis	spiros@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Geomatics Engineering	Geodesy, Geodynamics	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jinjun Shan	jjshan@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Space Engineering	Space engineering, Autonomous systems, Aerospace studies, Space instrumentation	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Isaac Smith	ibsmith@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science, Planetary Science	Planetary science, Mars exploration	Accepting visa PhD students.
Gunho Sohn	gsohn@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Geomatics Engineering	Geomatics	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Neil Tandon	neil.tandon@lassonde.yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Geomatics, Climate Models	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students.
Peter Taylor	pat@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Meteorology, Climatology, Numeric models	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jiaoguo Wang	jgwang@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Space Science	Multi-sensor (GNSS receivers/ IMUs/Cameras/LiDAR/Ultrasonic Beacons) integrated kinematic positioning & Navigation – System development & Optimization estimation methods (Least-Squares & Kalman filter)	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa Master’s students.
Jim Whiteway	whiteway@yorku.ca	Earth and Space Science and Engineering	Earth and Atmospheric Science	Mars atmospheric science, Earth atmospheric science	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.

Research Opportunities – Mechanical Engineering

SUPERVISOR	EMAIL	DEPARTMENT	SPECIALIZATION	RESEARCH FOCUSES	NOTES
Alidad Amirfazli	alidad2@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Surface engineering, Thermofluidics, Fluid Mechanics, Wetting & Capillarity, Icing, coating	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Solomon Boakye-Yiadom	sboakyey@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Materials	Machine Learning for Materials Discovery, In-Situ Process Monitoring During Metal 3D Printing, High Strain Rate and Ballistic Performance of Advacned Alloys, Development of Biofidelic Head-Neck Surrogate Models, Injury Prediction	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Thomas Cooper	thomas.cooper@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Energy	Applied renewable energy, Solar thermal technology	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Alex Czekanski	alex.czekanski@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Computational solid mechanics, Experimental solid mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, Bioprinting, Soft materials, Design engineering education	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students.
Marina Friere-Gormaly	marina.freire-gormaly@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Sustainable energy, Water systems	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Ronald Hanson	hansonre@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Aerospace	Aerodynamic applications	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Jeff Harris	jpharris@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Engineering Education	Engineering Education	Accepting domestic Master’s students.
Cuiying Jian	cuiying.jian@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Designs, materials, and platforms for green energy and environmental applications	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Roger Kempers	kempers@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Two-phase heat transfer, thermal energy transport and exhange technology development	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Siu-Ning (Sunny) Leung	leungsun@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Microstructures, Nanostructures	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Andrew Maxwell	andrew.maxwell@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Garrett Melenka	gmelenka@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Materials	Braided composites, composite materials, 3D printing	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Paul O-Brien	paul.obrien@lassonde.yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Photothermal energy storage materials, Thermal energy storage materials, Sustainable infrastructure	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Pouya Rezai	prezai@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Microfluidics, Lab on a Chip, Point of Care Diagnostics, Point of Need Detection, Health and Safety Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Reza Rizvi	rrizvi@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Polymers, Inorganic materials, Materials engineering, Manufacturing engineering	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Terry Sachlos	sachlos@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	N/A	Biomedical engineering, Stem cell engineering, Regenerative medicine, Additive manufacturing, Entrepreneurship	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Nima Tabatabaei	nimatab@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Biomedical Instrumentation	Biomedical Optics, Instrumentaion, Medical Devices, Microscopy, Optical Sensing and Imaging, Applied Machine Learning	Contact supervisor to determine if they are accepting students.
Zheng Hong (George) Zhu	gzhu@yorku.ca	Mechanical Engineering	Dynamics and Control	Dynamics and control, Computational mechanics, Space robotics, Tethered spacecraft systems, Additive Manufacturing in Space, Space debris	Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting visa PhD students.