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| Name | Other Languages | Dept | Expert Topics | Areas of Research |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aamodt, Tor | - | EECE | Electrical & Computer Eng | Computer and software systems, computer architecture: microarchitecture for general purpose computing on graphics processing hardware (GPGPU), rapid prototyping of processor microarchitecture via analytical performance modeling, helper threads for instruction and data prefetching, heterogenous multicore processor microarchitecture |
| Abolmaesumi, Purang | - | EECE | Biomedical Eng, Electrical & Computer Eng, Engineering | Biomedical technologies, biomedical engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis |
| Abugharbieh, Rafeef | - | EECE | Electrical & Computer Eng, Electrical Eng, Engineering | Visual Computing in Biomedical Imaging Biomedical Technologies |
| Adebar, Perry | - | CIVL | Civil Eng., Engineering | Concrete structures: seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures |
| Agharebparast, Farshid | - | EECE | Electrical & Computer Eng, Engineering | Wireless and data networking technologies, communications networks and mobile computing |
| Alam, M. Shahria | - | UBCO | Civil Eng., Engineering | Smart materials, seismic rehabilitation of steel, concrete and masonry structures, seismic analysis and building design, tall buildings, fire performance of structures, performance-based design of structures |
| Altintas, Yusuf | - | MECH | Engineering, Mechanical Eng | Mechatronics, machine tool engineering, virtual high performance machining simulation systems, mechanics and dynamics of metal cutting, monitoring and control of machining processes for manufacturing automation |
| Asselin, Edouard | - | MTRL | Engineering, Materials Eng | High temperature/high pressure hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry, ammoniacal leaching, hydrometallurgical silicon refining |
| Atabaki, Nima | - | MECH | Engineering, Mechanical Eng | Thermofluids, heat and mass transfer, with applications to the conversion, storage and use of energy resources |
| Atwater, Jim | - | CIVL | Civil Eng., Engineering, Environmental Eng | Solid waste management, leachate generation, characterization and treatment, groundwater contamination, groundwater mitrification/denitrification, environmental engineering, toxic and hazardous waste management |
| Baldwin, Susan | - | CHBE | Chemical & Biological Eng, Engineering | Bio-process engineering; anaerobic fermentation; bio-remediation; reactor modeling; biochemical reaction modeling; reaction kinetics; particulate processes |
| Banthia, Nemkumar (Nemy) | French, Hindi | CIVL | Civil Eng., Engineering, Sustainability | Civil infrastructure, bridges, concrete, repair, strengthening, rehabilitation, recycling, industrial by-products, environment, materials engineering, advanced composite materials, sprayed fibre-reinforced plastics, sustainability |
| Barr, Peter | - | MTRL | Engineering, Materials Eng, Sustainability | Heat flow, combustion, plasmas, steel re-heating furnaces, rotary kilns, mathematical and physical modelling, materials processing for environment, greenhouse gas |
| Bérubé, Pierre | French | CIVL | Civil Eng., Engineering, Environmental Eng | Membrane and advanced oxidation technologies for water and wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment, distribution system water quality, wastewater reuse |
| Beznosov, Konstantin | - | EECE | Electrical & Computer Eng, Engineering | Computer and Software systems, usable security, design of security mechanisms, distributed systems, access control, engineering secure software |
| Bhargava, Vijay | - | EECE | Electrical & Computer Eng, Engineering | Communication systems, green communications, cognitive and cooperative wireless systems, MIMO-OFDM systems, cross-layer analysis |
| Bi, Xiaotao (Tony) | - | CHBE | Chemical & Biological Eng, Engineering | Gas-solids fluidization, including modeling, scale-up and hydrodynamics studies of gas-solids bubbling and turbulent fluidized bed catalytic reactors |
| Bichler, Lukas | - | UBCO | Engineering, Mechanical Eng | Advanced characterization of materials, new alloy development, manufacturing processes, development of advanced joining and surface technologies for light alloys |
| Bowen, Bruce | - | CHBE | Biomedical Eng, Chemical & Biological Eng, Engineering | Biomedical modelling; natural convection; electro-kinetic phenomena; emulsification; particle deposition; transport phenomena |
| Branion, Richard | - | CHBE | Chemical & Biological Eng, Engineering | Microbial leaching; oil-water separation; paper technology; wastewater treatment |