This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
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First name | Type | Research Interests | Department(s) | Faculty |
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Winstanley | Catharine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Computational neuroscience; Traumatic Brain Injury | Department of Psychology | Faculty of Arts |
Wisnovsky | Simon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer genetics; Tumour immunology; Cellular immunology; Glycomics and glycobiology; Chemical genetics; Systems biology; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genomics; Cancer molecular targets; glycobiology; carbohydrates; Tumor immunology; Functional genomics; CRISPR screening; Glycomics; Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Cell Biology; Cancer | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Wolf | Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Synthesis of materials; Physical inorganic chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Polymer chemistry; Photochemistry | Department of Chemistry | Faculty of Science |
Wong | Judy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Nucleic acids studies; Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Cancer biology; Aging; Genome Instability; Nucleic Acid Structures; Pharmacology; Genetics and Genomics | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Wotherspoon | Amy | Postdoctoral Fellow | Ecological impacts of climate change; Ecosystem function; Global change biology; Forest ecology; silviculture; climate change; Dendrochronology | Faculty of Forestry | |
Wu | Lyndia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomechanical engineering; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Biomedical signal processing; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Injury biomechanics; Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep Biomechanics; Sensors and Instrumentation; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Wearable Sensing | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Wu | Lang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biostatistical methods; Longitudinal data analysis, mixed effects models, missing data, hypothesis testing, biostatistics | Department of Statistics | Faculty of Science |
Wu | Helena | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical film studies; Theories of cultural studies; Globalization and culture; Other cultural studies, n.e.c.; Hong Kong cinema, literature and culture; Asian screen cultures; Media narratives; Creative industry and spectatorship; Identity and cultural flows; critical theory; postcolonialism; Thing theory | Department of Asian Studies | Faculty of Arts |
Wu | Joy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; Behavioral experiments; Data privacy; Information markets; Fairness Views; Platform strategy | Division of Accounting and Information Systems | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration |
Wytenbroek | Lydia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | History of medicine and health care; Nursing; Nursing/Health History; Gender/Women's History; Social justice; Science and Technology | School of Nursing | Faculty of Applied Science |
Xia | Guangrui | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Elemental semiconductors; Semiconductor devices; SiGe materials, processing, modeling, and devices, Si photonics, Ge-based lasers, and Ge lasers | Department of Materials Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Xiao | Bowen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Developmental psychology | Faculty of Education | |
Xiong | Wei | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Gastroenterology; Pathology; gastrointestinal disease; liver pathology; pancreatic pathology; Digital Pathology; quality assurance; green lab | Faculty of Medicine | |
Yada | Rickey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Other biological sciences; Food science; Food protein chemistry; Structure-function relationships; Enzymes; aspartic proteases | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | |
Yang | Tianxi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Food sciences (including food engineering); Analytical chemistry; Nano-technology; Chemical engineering; Develop novel Point-of-Care tools for food safety monitoring; Design smart nanomaterials for sustainable farming and precision agriculture; Create sustainable and multifunctional packaging materials to improve food safety and quality | Food, Nutrition & Health | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Yao | Yuan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomaterial manufacturing and engineering; Nano/microfabrication and 3D bioprinting; Tissue engineering and organ regeneration; Therapeutic strategies for cardiovascular disease | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Yi | Kwang Moo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer vision in artificial intelligence; Pattern recognition and artificial vision; 3D Computer Vision; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Astronomy Applications of Computer VIsion | Department of Computer Science | Faculty of Science |
YOO | Hyung-Suk Daniel | Postdoctoral Fellow | Neurodegeneration; Age-related macular degeneration; Subretinal fibrosis; Retinal Degeneration; neurodegeneration; Neural repair; Axon regeneration | Faculty of Medicine | |
Yoo | Philip | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Jewish studies; Religion and religious studies; Hebrew Bible; Second Temple Judaism | Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies | Faculty of Arts |
Zandstra | Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical biotechnology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Stem cell bioengineering; Bioengineering; Synthetic biology; Biomedical Engineering; Immuno-engineering; Biotechnology; Computational Biology; Computational modeling; Gene/Cell Therapy Systems; genomics; Immunology; personalized medicine; Regenerative medicine | School of Biomedical Engineering, Michael Smith Laboratories | Faculty of Medicine |
Zappa | Sandra | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; English for academic purposes; content and language integrated learning (CLIL) / content-based instruction (CBI); multilingual student experiences in higher education; inclusive teaching and learning in higher education; (interdisciplinary) collaboration between subject area and language area instructors; EAP pedagogies; genre-based pedagogies; Systemic Functional Linguistics for EAP; second language socialization theory; social network theory / individual networks of practice; qualitative research design; critical perspectives in language teaching and learning | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Faculty of Education |
Zhang | Xu | Postdoctoral Fellow | Speciation (evolutionary processes); genomics; evolution and adaptation | Faculty of Science | |
Zhang | Yue | Postdoctoral Fellow | Functional materials in materials engineering sciences; Mechanical engineering; Chemical engineering; Solid-state batteries; Energy storage and conversion; Interface chemistry | ||
Zhou | Lily | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public and population health; Cerebrovascular Diseases; Stroke Epidemiology; Cost Effectiveness of Medical Interventions | Division of Neurology | Faculty of Medicine |
Zhu | Xinwen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Cell biology; Systems Biology; Synthetic biology; Cell signaling; Developmental biology | Faculty of Medicine | |
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 | |
Zulyniak | Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition | Food, Nutrition & Health | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |