MECH Graduate Program Membership
Core/Full Members
Faculty members by Research Areas: Aerospace; Applied Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering; Design Engineering; Materials and Manufacturing; Microsystems and Instrumentation; Robotics and Automation; Thermal Sciences and Energy, and Fluid Mechanics.
| FULL NAME | TITLE | ACTIVE RESEARCH AREAS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amirfazli, Alidad | Professor (on leave 01/07/25 – 30/06/26) | – Thermofluid – Fluid Mechanics – Wetting & Capillarity – Icing – Coating. Available open positions | alidad2@yorku.ca |
| Boakye-Yiadom, Solomon | Associate Professor | – Alloy Design and Microstructural Tailoring (e.g.: Complex Concentrated Alloys) – Metal Additive Manufacturing (e.g.: Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF ) – In-Situ Process Monitoring/Machine Learning During Manufacturing – Deformation And Failure Of Materials Under Extreme Loading Conditions (e.g.: High Strain Rate Tension, Torsion, Compression/Impact, High Temperatures) – Multiscale Electron Microscopy, Microanalysis and Spectroscopy (e.g.: HRTEM, Auger Electron Spectroscopy) – Processing And Characterization Of Advanced Biomaterials Including Tissue Simulant Biomaterials | sboakyey@yorku.ca |
| Cooper, Thomas | Associate Professor | – Solar concentrators – Solar absorber materials – Solar thermal desalination devices | tcooper@yorku.ca |
| Czekanski, Aleksander | University Professor | – Computational Solid Mechanics – Experimental Solid Mechanics – Additive Manufacturing – Bioprinting – Soft and Super-soft Materials – Design Engineering Education | alex.czekanski@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Freire-Gormaly, Marina | Assistant Professor | – System design and development of smart, integrated and robust water & energy systems – Experimental characterization, simulation and design optimization at the systems level of coupled water and energy systems – Development of new energy technologies – Application of machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for optimal maintenance and reduced system degradation – Additive Manufacturing, Laser Manufacturing – Development of mechatronic systems – Energy systems analysis & modeling including combined heat & power units, solar, wind, tidal, nuclear, small modular reactors, energy storage systems and hydroelectric turbines. | gormaly@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Hanson, Ronald | Associate Professor, Director, Undergraduate Program | – Experimental fluid dynamics – Turbulence – Turbulent boundary layer – Transition, flow control. | hansonre@yorku.ca |
| Harris, Jeffrey | Associate Professor | Engineering Education | jpharris@yorku.ca |
| Hassan, Edris | Assistant Professor | – Engineering Education – Composite Materials – Smart Structures | edris@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Jian, Cuiying | Associate Professor (on leave 01/07/25 – 30/06/26) | – Natural carbonaceous materials processing – Multiscale modelling of colloidal systems – Carbon-conversion chemistry – Water and wastewater treatment – Organic solar cells. | cuiying.Jian@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Kempers, Roger | Associate Professor | – Fundamental and Applied Two-Phase Flow & Heat Transfer – Thermal Energy Transport, Exchange, & Conversion Technology Development – Advanced Cooling of Electronic Devices & Systems – High Performance Thermal and Electrical Interface Materials – Thermal Materials Characterization. | kempers@yorku.ca |
| Leung, Sunny | Associate Professor, Chair, Undergraduate Program | – Biobased materials – Micro-and-nanostructuring – Multifunctional materials – Nanocellular Foams – Nanocomposites – Properties and simulation of multifunctional material systems. | leungsun@yorku.ca |
| Maxwell, Andrew | Professor | andrew.maxwell@lassonde.yorku.ca | |
| Melenka, Garrett | Associate Professor, Director, Graduate Program | – Braided Composites – Composite Materials – Mechanical Testing – Optical Strain Measurement – Digital Image Correlation (3D DIC) – Micro-computed Tomography (µCT) Available open positions | gmelenka@yorku.ca |
| O’Brien, Paul | Associate Professor | – Electrification and decarbonization of buildings – Energy storage – Heat-to-power conversion, and – Life cycle and techno-economic assessment of energy technologies. | paul.obrien@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Rezai, Pouya | Professor (on leave 26/08/25 – 25/08/26) | – Micro and Nanofabrication – Micro and Nanofluidics – Lab-on-Chips and Bio-Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems – Organisms- and Organs-on-a-Chip for Disease Studies and Drug Discovery – Particle and Cell Separation and Sorting – Point-of-Need Sample Preparation and Detection. | pouya.rezai@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Rizvi, Reza | Associate Professor | – Damage Induced Surface Texturing of Composites – Graphene Based Transient Electronics – Exfoliation of 2D Materials | rrizvi@yorku.ca |
| Sachlos, Eleftherios | Associate Professor | Stem cell engineering and regenerative medicine with a specific focus on – engineering the bone – hematopoietic & leukemic stem cell microenvironments to regulate stem cell fate decisions. | terry.sachlos@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Sadek, Hossam | Associate Professor | Engineering Education | sadekhs@yorku.ca |
| Tabatabaei, Nima | Associate Professor | – Instrumentation of Medical Devices and Sensors – Biomedical Optics – Optical Microscopy and Tomography – Thermo-Photonics, Thermography, and Photo-Thermal Radiometry – AI-Powered Biomedical Sensing and Imaging | nimatab@yorku.ca |
| Zhu, George | Professor and Tier I York Research Chair in Space Robotics and Artificial Intelligence | – Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft – Robotic Control – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Advanced Control Theory – Computational Solid Mechanics – Space Robotics and Space Debris Removal – 3D/4D Printing in Space | gzhu@yorku.ca |
Associate Members
| FULL NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bazzocchi, Michael | Assistant Professor | Department of Earth and space Science and Engineering | mbazz@yorku.ca |
| Eldyasti, Ahmed | Associate Professor | Department of Civil Engineering | ahmed.eldyasti@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Grau, Gerd | Associate Professor | Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | grau@cse.yorku.ca |
| Luo, Xuan | Assistant Professor | Department of Information System & Technology | xuanluo@yorku.ca |
| Orszulik, Ryan | Assistant Professor | Department of Earth and space Science and Engineering | ryan.orszulik@lassonde.yorku.ca |
| Papoulia, Katerina | Adjunct Professor | Department of Civil Engineering | papouli@yorku.ca |
| Salahandish, Razieh | Assistant Professor | Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | raziehs@yorku.ca |
Emeriti Member
| FULL NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhang, Dan | Professor Emeritus | Department of Mechanical Engineering | dzhang99@yorku.ca |
Adjunct Members
| FULL NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|
| Doostmohammadi, Ali | Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate | Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University |
| Eilaghi, Armin | Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Australian College of Kuwait |
| Ghuman, Kulbir | Assistant Professor | Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Institut national de la recherché scientifique |
| Gkouti, Elli | Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Western University |
| Kalaycioglu, Sean | Adjunct Professor | Recep Tayyip Erdogan University (Turkiye) |
| Lee, Thomas | Adjunct Associate Professor | McMaster University |
| Laovie, Philippe | Professor | Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto |
| Marengo, Marco | Professor | School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton |
| Ng, Alfred | Acting Head | Academic Development, Canadian Space Agency |
| Ng, Kenneth | Professor | Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor |
| Saverio, Carlo Iorio | – | – |
| Villiger, Martin | Assistant Professor | Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School |