| SUPERVISOR | DEPARTMENT | PROGRAM | RESEARCH FOCUSES | NOTES | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashid Bashir | rbashir@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Geoenvironmental engineering, Soil mechanics, Hydrogeology, Geotechnical design, Soil cover design | Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD. Accepting Visa students for PhD. |
| Satinder Brar | satinder.brar@lassonde.yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Applied biotechnology, Water resource management, Wastewater treatment, Bioremediation, Bioresource management | |
| John Gales | jgales@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Structural Buildings (Timber, steel and concrete); Transportation (human factors and AI), Engineering Education, Heritage buildings. | Specialization: Fire Engineering. Next Generation Wood Alliance program has a number of allocations for students interested in wood and timber engineering. Looking Fire focused. |
| Usman T. Khan | utkhan@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Water resource engineering, Flood risk management, Data-driven modelling, Water resource management, Urban hydrology | |
| Magdalena Krol | mkrol@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Groundwater remediation technologies | |
| Mehdi Nourinejad | mehdi.nourinejad@lassonde.yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Transportation system planning, Transportation system control | |
| Stavroula Pantazopoulou | pantazo@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Earthquake Engineering of Structures, Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Structures, Innovative Construction Materials, Climate effects on Structures | Specialization: Structural Engineering Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD. May accept Visa PhD students. |
| Kevin Zhang | kzhang1@yorku.ca | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering | Sustainable buildings, high performance building materials, embodied and operational carbon, decarbonization | Specialization: Building Science |
| 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 | |
| Amirali Amirsoleimani | amirsol@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Memory technologies, AI hardware, neuromorphic computing | We are interested in students with mixed-signal design, digital design, integrated circuits background who are open to learn neuromorphic and AI hardware design principles. Machine learning knowledge will be an advantage. |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Michael S. Brown | mbrown@cse@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | In-camera processing, image enhancement and restoration, color processing, AI | |
| Gene Cheung | genec@eecs.yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Graph signal processing, 3D imaging | Specialization: Communications & Controls (VISTA) |
| 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 |
| James Elder | jelder@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Human vision, computer vision, computational neuroscience’ and ‘AI’ | |
| Marios Fokaefs | fokaefs@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering, Computer Science | DevOps, AIOps, Software reliability, Performance Engineering, Software modeling and design, mobile and cloud applications | Keele and Markham Campus |
| 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 | |
| Arash Habibi Lashkari | ahabibil@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Cybersecurity, Network Security, Informaiton Security, System Security | Specialization: Cybersecurity |
| 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. | Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD. Accepting Visa students for PhD. |
| Michael Jenkin | jenkin@cse.yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Mobile robotics, Computer vision, Immersive displays, Virtual reality | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Houshang Karimi | hkarimi6@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Power systems, control systems, power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, renewable energy systems. | Specialization: Electrical Power |
| 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 | |
| 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. Accepting domestic students for Master’s and PhD. Accepting Visa students for PhD. |
| Kostas Kontogiannis | kkontog@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Software Engineering, Software Analytics, AIOps, Cyber-Physical Systems, Service-Oriented Computing | Specialization: Software Engineering. Markham Campus |
| Yong (Peter) Lian | plian@eecs.yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Biomedical circuits, Biomedical Systems, Energy efficient signal processing | |
| 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. |
| Jonathan Michaels | jmichae@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Brain-computer interfaces, motor control, neural computation | |
| Richard Murray | rfm@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Computational neuroscience; human and computer vision; psychophysics | Specialization: Visual perception |
| Emmanouil (Manos) Papangelis | papaggel@cse.yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Data mining, machine learning | |
| Hung Pham | hvpham@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Software testing, Software repair, ML/AI for Software, SE for AI | Specialization: Software Engineering and Machine Learning |
| 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. May accept visa students for PhD. Please inquire with supervisor. |
| 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 |
| 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 and visa students for PhD only. |
| 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 |
| Jarek Szlichta | szlichta@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Data Science, AI | |
| 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 | Specialization: Communications & Controls |
| 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 |
| Franck Van Breugel | franck@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science, Software Engineering | model checking, software verification | |
| 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 | Specialization: Communications & Controls |
| Song Wang | wangsong@eecs.yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Software engineering, Machine learning | Specialization: Software Engineering & Machine Learning |
| Xiaohui Yu | xhyu@yorku.ca | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Database systems, data science, applied machine learning | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Mark Gordon | mgordon@yorku.ca | Earth and Space Science and Engineering | 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 | |
| Ryan Orszulik | ryan.orszulik@lassonde.yorku.ca | Earth and Space Science and Engineering | Space Engineering | Smart materials, Smart structures, robotics, mechatronics, additive manufacture | Specialization: Eng Design Accepting domestic Master’s and PhD students. Accepting international PhD 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) | Specialization: Multi-sensor integration & data fusion (positioning & Navigation) |
| Jim Whiteway | whiteway@yorku.ca | Earth and Space Science and Engineering | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Mars atmospheric science, Earth atmospheric science | Specialization: Space Science |
| Solomon Boakye-Yiadom | sboakyey@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | 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 | Specialization: Materials |
| Alex Czekanski | alex.czekanski@lassonde.yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Computational solid mechanics, Experimental solid mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, Bioprinting, Soft materials, Design engineering education | |
| Cuiying Jian | cuiying.jian@lassonde.yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Designs, materials, and platforms for green energy and environmental applications | |
| Roger Kempers | kempers@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Two-phase heat transfer, thermal energy transport and exhange technology development | |
| Siu-Ning (Sunny) Leung | leungsun@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Microstructures, Nanostructures | |
| Andrew Maxwell | andrew.maxwell@lassonde.yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization | Specialization: Business |
| Garrett Melenka | gmelenka@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Braided composites, composite materials, 3D printing | Specialization: Materials |
| Pouya Rezai | prezai@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Microfluidics, Lab on a Chip, Point of Care Diagnostics, Point of Need Detection, Health and Safety Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring | |
| Nima Tabatabaei | nimatab@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical Optics, Instrumentaion, Medical Devices, Microscopy, Optical Sensing and Imaging, Applied Machine Learning | Specialization: Biomedical Instrumentation |
| Zheng Hong (George) Zhu | gzhu@yorku.ca | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Dynamics and control, Computational mechanics, Space robotics, Tethered spacecraft systems, Additive Manufacturing in Space, Space debris | Specialization: Dynamics and Control |