Undergraduate Research

This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Last Name Sort descending First Name Type Research Interests Department(s) Faculty
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
Vanderwal Tamara Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Functional Neuroimaging; child psychiatric disorders; depression in youth Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine
Vassos Troy Faculty (non-G+PS member) Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Water Reclamation Reuse and Conservation; Water Treatment Technology; Wastewater Resource Recovery; Biosolids Management, Treatment and Resource Recovery; Bioenergy; , Water Reclamation Reuse and Conservation, Water Treatment Technology, Wastewater Resource Recovery, Biosolids Management, Treatment and Resource Recovery, Bioenergy Faculty of Applied Science
Velenosi Thomas Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c.; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer molecular targets; Metabolomics; Lipid biology (including lipidomics); Pharmacometabolomics; Pharmacology; Metabolomics; Lipidomics; mass spectrometry; Cancer; Stable isotope tracing; Bioinformatics; Pharmacometabolomics, Pharmacology, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Mass spectrometry, Cancer, Stable isotope tracing, Bioinformatics Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Vellutini Claudio Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Opera; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century); 19th-century opera singers; Opera and mobility studies; Opera's global dissemination in the 19th century School of Music Faculty of Arts
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
Viau Victor Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Sex differences; Stress responses; Glucocorticoids; Inflammation; Behavior; Central Nervous System; Endocrinology; Sex differences, Stress responses, Glucocorticoids, Inflammation, Behavior, Central Nervous System, Endocrinology Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences Faculty of Medicine
Victoriano Ramon Antonio Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Caribbean literatures; Latin American literatures; Contemporary literatures; Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story; Caribbean Literatures; Latin American literatures Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Faculty of Arts
Vigna John Faculty (non-G+PS member) Novels, stories and news; Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Creative Writing; , Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Creative Writing Faculty of Arts
Vila-Rodriguez Fidel Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Psychiatry (including psychotherapy); Medical devices; Interventional Brain Medicine; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Electroconvulsive Therapy; Magnetic Seizure Therapy; Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound; Deep Brain Stimulation; Neuroimaging Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine
Vincent Amanda Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Natural environment sustainability studies; Natural resource management; Wildlife and habitat management; marine conservation; threatened marine species, especially seahorses and their relatives; bottom trawling and other nonselective fisheries; wildlife trade; marine protected areas; Small-scale fisheries; community-based conservation; citizen/community science; multilateral environmental agreements; . Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Faculty of Science
von Bergmann Hsingchi Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Other medical sciences; Philosophy; assessment; PBL; Beliefs & Identity; Online Teaching and Learning; Professionalism; Wellbeing; Public Understanding of Health; Community Health Department of Oral Health Sciences Faculty of Dentistry
Walker Judith Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Adult education; Higher Education; policy studies; Health Professions Education; adult education, higher education, policy studies, health professions education Department of Educational Studies Faculty of Education
Wang Lele Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Mathematics of data science; Machine Learning; information theory; Coding theory; Combinatorics; Communication theory; Random graphs Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Wang Ying Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Drug discovery, design and delivery; atherosclerosis; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Vascular biology; Spatial 'Omics'; Drug repurposing and therapeutic design; Disease modeling; Digital Pathology Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine
Wang Rizhi Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Functional materials in materials engineering sciences; Regenerative medicine (including stem cells and tissue engineering); Orthopaedic implants, drug delivery biomaterials, anti-infection solutions.; Additive manufacturing, 3D structural designing.; Bone structure, mineralization and mechanics, bone metastasis, hip fracture and prevention. Department of Materials Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Wang Yuzhuo Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Prostate Cancer; Modeling the Progression of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer; Tumor dormancy; Anti-Cancer Drug Development; Prostate Cancer, Modeling the Progression of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, Tumor dormancy, Anti-Cancer Drug Development Department of Urologic Sciences Faculty of Medicine
Wang Jun Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Medicine
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
Wang Fei Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational administration and leadership in K-12 setting; School leadership ; the role of the school principals; social justice and diversity; Comparative policy studies in K-12 settings; Education and Training Management; Ideology and Social Policy; Social Contract and Social Justice; Offshore school and its leadership; educators' health, wellbeing, and psychological safety Department of Educational Studies Faculty of Education
Watson Liam Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Topology; Topology; Low-dimensional topology; Khovanov homology; Heegaard Floer homology Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science
Weary Daniel Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Animal and dairy sciences; Animal welfare; Applied animal behaviour; Dairy cattle; Laboratory animals Applied Biology Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Weber Alexander Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Dynamical systems in applications; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine
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
White Rachel Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Atmospheric dynamics; climate change; Extreme weather events; Climate impacts; Atmospheric dynamics, Climate change, Extreme weather events, Climate impacts Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science
Whitton Jeannette Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Speciation (evolutionary processes); Plant developmental and reproductive biology; Plant evolutionary ecology; Evolution of asexuality; Evolution and consequences of polyploidy; Speciation/ diversification; Species at risk in Canada; Conservation policy; Plant evolutionary ecology, Evolution of asexuality, Evolution and consequences of polyploidy , Speciation/ diversification, Species at risk in Canada, Conservation policy Department of Botany Faculty of Science
Wiens Matthew Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Global health; Sepsis; Prediction modelling; Epidemiology; Pediatric infectious diseases; Post-discharge outcomes; Global Health; Digital health Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Faculty of Medicine
Wijesinghe Printha Postdoctoral Fellow Neurodegeneration; Neuroinflammation; Neurodegeneration, MicroRNAs, Alzheimer's disease, Clearance mechanisms, Biomarkers Faculty of Medicine
Wilbur Kerry Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Professional Practices; Education Systems; culture and health professional education; interprofessional education; Interprofessional care; public health roles of pharmacists; workplace-based learning; patient and medication safety Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Williams Ben Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory; Algebraic topology, Motivic homotopy theory, A1 homotopy theory Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science
Williams Karla Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Cancer progression and metastasis; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Cancer biology; Metastasis; Tumor and plasma biomarkers; Therapeutic target identification and validation; tumor microenvironment Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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 biology; Aging; Genome Instability; Nucleic Acid Structures; Pharmacology; Genetics and Genomics; 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 & Environmental Stewardship
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
Wu Joy Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Behavioral experiments; Data privacy; Information markets; Fairness Views; Platform strategy; Behavioral experiments, Data privacy, Information markets, Fairness Views, Platform strategy Division of Accounting and Information Systems Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
Wu Lyndia Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Biomechanical engineering; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Biomedical signal processing; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Wearable sensors; Injury biomechanics; Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep Monitoring; Sensors and Instrumentation; Data Mining and Machine Learning 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; 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
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
Xiong Wei Faculty (non-G+PS member) Gastroenterology; Pathology; gastrointestinal disease; liver pathology; pancreatic pathology; Digital Pathology; quality assurance; green lab; , pathology, gastrointestinal disease, liver pathology, pancreatic pathology, digital pathology, quality assurance, green lab Faculty of Medicine
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
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) 3D Computer Vision; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Astronomy Applications of Computer 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 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