Undergraduate Research

This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Last Name First Name Type Research Interests Department(s) Faculty
Wang Hao-Ting Faculty (non-G+PS member) Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Cognitive behavior; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Neuroimaging; Brain encoding and decoding; Neuroinformatics; Cognitive Neuroscience; Transdiagnostic psychiatry; Foundation models Faculty of Medicine
Appel Cara Postdoctoral Fellow Terrestrial ecology; Computer vision in artificial intelligence; wildlife science; conservation; Ecology; conservation technology; Computer Vision Faculty of Science
Deleersnyder Wouter Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Science
Seiler Andrew Postdoctoral Fellow Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Agricultural ecology; Insect ecology; Ecosystem ecology; Agroecology; community ecology; Plant-insect interactions; Ecosystem services Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Zhang Yiyi Postdoctoral Fellow Natural resource management; Environmental geography; geospatial techniques; statistical modeling; social-ecological systems; Ecosystem services
Mohamud Yasir Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Medical, health and life sciences; myocarditis; viral pathogenesis; Innate immunity; autophagy; mitochondrial biology Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine
Fereshtehnejad Sam Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurology; Neurodegeneration; Public and population health, n.e.c.; Parkinson’s Disease ; neurodegeneration; Neuroimaging ; Biomarkers; Precision Medicine; Preventive Neurology ; Neuroepidemiology; Public health Division of Neurology Faculty of Medicine
Vandekerkhove Gillian Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Cancer genetics; Cancer molecular targets; Cancer progression and metastasis; Urothelial cancer; Liquid biopsy; Cancer Genomics; Cell-Free DNA; Circulating tumor DNA; Urinary DNA; Precision oncology; Bioinformatics; Correlative science; Clinical trials Department of Urologic Sciences Faculty of Medicine
Li Judy Postdoctoral Fellow Other biological sciences; Microbiome; Ecology; evolution; community ecology; Infectious disease; animal health; host-microbe interaction; Symbiosis Faculty of Science
Lauman Philip Postdoctoral Fellow Virology; Bacteriophages; Phage-Host Dynamics; Phage Steering; Bacterial pathogenesis; Phage-Plant Interactions; Agricultural Biocontrol; Food safety; Infection & Rescue Models; Mathematical modeling; Machine Learning; Lysogeny & Lysogenic Phages; Phage Resistance Evolution Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Mondal Bapan Postdoctoral Fellow Computational fluid mechanics; Chemical engineering; Fluid mechanics; Numerical simulation Faculty of Science
Travers Cook Tommy Postdoctoral Fellow Biological sciences; Coevolution; Intransitivity; Symbiosis; Mutualism-Parasitism Continuum; evolution; Ecology; Experimental Evolution Faculty of Science
Dhungana Ganesh Postdoctoral Fellow Engineering and technology; Natural sciences; Disaster governance; Community resilience; Social vulnerability; Indigenous knowledge; climate change adaptation; Humanitarian action Faculty of Applied Science
Lin Xuan Postdoctoral Fellow Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Environmental molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins; Microbial ecology; Meta-omics; Environmental Microbiology; Nanopore sequencing; Long-read sequencing; Wastewater-based epidemiology Faculty of Applied Science
Sarkar Pritam Postdoctoral Fellow Engineering and technology; Multimodal AI; Computer Vision; Faculty of Science
Beckwith Noor Faculty (non-G+PS member) Psychopathology; Psychiatry (including psychotherapy); acute psychiatry; psychosomatic medicine; Faculty of Medicine
Cannon-Brown Lee Postdoctoral Fellow Music interpretation; history of music theory; twentieth century music; atonal music analysis; global intellectual history; Faculty of Arts
Torsello Giulia Postdoctoral Fellow Civil engineering, maritime engineering, transport engineering, and mining engineering; Rock mechanics; rock mass strength; time-dependent behavior; fracture propagation; natural hazards; Faculty of Applied Science
Boyar Liza Postdoctoral Fellow Health promotion and disease prevention; Public health nutrition policy; Program and policy evaluation; Applied health research; Food and nutrition; Physical Activity; Mental health and well-being; Children and youth Faculty of Medicine
Levin Ido Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Physical chemistry (including structural); Mathematical modelling and simulation; Soft condensed matter; Macromolecular and materials chemistry, n.e.c.; Soft Matter; Material Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Mathematical Modelling of Mechanical systems; Programmable Responsive Materials; Active Solids; Patterning Material Properties; Geometric Foundations of Shape Morphing; Synthetic Lipid Membranes; Soft Matter, Material Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Mathematical Modelling of Mechanical systems, Programmable Responsive Materials, Active Solids, Patterning Material Properties, Geometric Foundations of Shape Morphing, Synthetic Lipid Membranes Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science
Bartlett Sofia Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Health equity; Etiology of disease and conditions; Health promotion and disease prevention; Health care safety and quality improvement; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Patient and citizen engagement research; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health School of Population and Public Health Faculty of Medicine
Byers Kaylee Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Ecological applications; One Health approach; Other social sciences; one health; Implementation Science; Global Health; Wildlife health; environmental health; health communications; Community-based research; knowledge mobilization School of Population and Public Health Faculty of Medicine
Venturutti Leandro Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Hematological tumours; Premalignant disease (precursors); Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer progression and metastasis; Adaptive immunity; Autoimmunity; Cellular immunology; Immunogenetics (including genetic immunology); Blood cancer; Lymphomas; Clonal precursor populations; Tumor progression; Tumor dissemination; Extranodal disease; B cells; Autoimmunity; Immunological memory Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine
Liu Chao Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Mechatronics (except automotive mechatronics); Intelligent robotics; Motion control of robots; Robotic manipulation and grasping; Swarm and modular robotics; Motion planning and control; Multimodal perception and reasoning Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Dhakal Ribu Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Geotechnical engineering; geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil liquefaction; numerical modeling of systems; geotechnical field investigation; soil-structure interaction; laboratory testing of soils Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
White Margot Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Chemical oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Isotope Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Dissolved Organic Matter Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science
Jankiewicz Kasia Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Topology; Group theory and generalisations; Geometric Group Theory; Topology Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science
Caldeira Bras Inês Postdoctoral Fellow Biomarkers; Therapies; Neurodegenerative diseases; Huntington disease; Faculty of Medicine
Parnianpour Pedram Postdoctoral Fellow Neuroimaging (MRI and PET); Machine Learning; Neurodegenerative disorders; Faculty of Medicine
Barron Jessica Postdoctoral Fellow Neurodegeneration; Cellular Neuroscience; Neurodegenerative Disease; Gene Therapies; Translational Medicine Faculty of Medicine
Khodaiemehr Hassan Postdoctoral Fellow Quantum Error Correcting Codes; Blockchain; Post-Quantum Cryptography; Data Science ; Lattice Codes; Wireless Communications ; Coding and Information Theory ; Coding Theory ; Physical Layer Security ;
Yadav Vivek Postdoctoral Fellow Theory and algorithms for meshing techniques; Finite element method; Time-Integrator; Finite element simulation of biological system; Higher-order compact finite difference scheme; Faculty of Applied Science
Regmi Kapil Faculty (non-G+PS member) Social sciences; , Faculty of Education
EL MEKKI Abdellah Postdoctoral Fellow Computational languages (including domain-specific languages); neural networks; LLMs; Domain Adaptation Faculty of Arts
Amer Mona Postdoctoral Fellow Dynamics, vibration and vibration control; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Community-centered climate action, interdisciplinary approaches, qualification of novel techniques Faculty of Applied Science
Wright Stephen Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Health sciences; Circulatory physiology; pulmonary physiology; heart function; exercise; Rehabiliation; Aging; Heart Failure Department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Medicine
Leeks Asher Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Biological evolution; Social evolution in viruses; Evolutionary Biology; Virology; Evolutionary theory; Mathematical modeling; Bioinformatics; Social evolution; Microbiology; Social evolution in viruses, Evolutionary biology, Virology, Evolutionary theory, Mathematical modeling, Bioinformatics, Social evolution, Microbiology Department of Zoology Faculty of Science
Rivarez Mark Paul Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Plant pathology; Agricultural ecology; Virology; Bioinformatics; Biogeography and phylogeography; Phylogeny and comparative analysis; Bacteriology; Mycology; Plant microbiota; Horticultural crop protection (pests, diseases and weeds); Virology; plant pathology; Bioinformatics; AI-based modeling; Biological control; virus evolution; virus epidemiology; pathogen diversity; bacteriology; mycology; metagenomics; high-throughput sequencing Applied Biology Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Hou Danlin Postdoctoral Fellow Civil engineering; Mechanical engineering; Building Retrofits; Building Performance Simulation with Uncertainty; Life cycle assessment; Surrogate Modeling; Data Analytics; Energy Prediction and Optimization Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship
Rangel Bousquet Carrilho Thais Postdoctoral Fellow Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); perinatal epidemiology; Nutritional Epidemiology; Maternal and child health Faculty of Medicine
Pan Yilin Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Economics of Education; Equity; International development; K-12 leadership and policies; Cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analyses; Economics of Education, Equity, International Development, K-12 leadership and policies, Cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analyses Department of Educational Studies Faculty of Education
Chen Carol Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Brain Cancer; Brain development; Epigenetics; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Developmental biology; Brain Cancer, Brain Development, Epigenetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Developmental Biology Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Faculty of Medicine
Domeier Phillip Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Adaptive immunity; Immune diseases; Vaccines; Antibodies; Vaccines; Autoimmunity; Viral Pathogens; Allergy Department of Microbiology & Immunology Faculty of Science
Taye Zelalem Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Plant Microbiome; Soil Microbiome ; community ecology; Synthetic Microbial Communities; Plant and Soil Health; Genomic Tools and Ecological Modeling; Non-Wood Forest Products & Sustainable Forest Management; Digital tools and AI for sustainable natural resource management ; biodiversity; Global change drivers; Climate change mitigation; metagenomics; Bioinformatics Applied Biology, Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Shelhamer Evan Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Machine learning; Computer vision in artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence (AI); Machine Learning; Computer Vision / Visual Recognition; Robustness and Adaptation; Self-Supervised / Unsupervised Learning; Applications to Remote Sensing and Sustainability; Machine Learning, Computer Vision / Visual Recognition, Robustness and Adaptation, Self-Supervised / Unsupervised Learning, Applications to Remote Sensing and Sustainability Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science
Komparic Ana Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Other medical sciences; Applied ethics; Public Health Ethics; Applied Ethics; Professional Ethics; Ethics and Policy; Empirical Approaches to Bioethics; Philosophy of Medicine and Public Health; Pharmacare; Health Insurance; Health Policy; Health Technology Assessment (HTA); Codes of Ethics; Solidarity School of Population and Public Health Faculty of Medicine
Liu Tina Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Atmospheric pollution and air quality; Earth system sciences; Natural hazards; Climate change impacts and adaptation; Environmental geography; modern human-fire relationships; role of fire in the Earth system; impacts of extreme events on planetary health; air quality and public health; satellite remote sensing and big geospatial data Department of Geography Faculty of Arts
Reebye Rajiv Faculty (non-G+PS member) Medical, health and life sciences; Multimodal therapy, ultrasound muscle architecture changes, educational curriculum in spasticity; , Multimodal therapy, ultrasound muscle architecture changes, educational curriculum in spasticity Faculty of Medicine
Farrugia Drakard Veronica Postdoctoral Fellow Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Phycology (including marine grasses); benthic ecology; Phycology; eco-engineering; kelp physiology Faculty of Science
Zieff Gabriel Postdoctoral Fellow Kinesiology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Mental health and wellbeing; Systems physiology; Stress physiology; Exercise Physiology; Cardiometabolic Health; mental health; Lifestyle factors Faculty of Education