Meet our Postdoctoral Fellows

Chemical Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Management Science & Engineering	Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering	School of Architecture	Systems Design Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Mahmoud Almadhoun

Email: mahmoud.almadhoun@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC

Research Areas:

Flexible hybrid electronics

Parinaz Ataeian

Email: pataeian@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5114

Research Areas:

Biopolymers
Catalyst additive
Polymer processing
Extrusion
Tensile properties
Biodegradation
Compostability properties

Mohammed Hafedh Awad

Email: m9awad@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4112

Research Areas:

Polymer Processing
Polymer science and engineering (Synthesis and polymer degradation)
Statistical modeling in engineering and sciences
Wastewater treatment and PFAS removal
Enhanced oil recovery

Anirban Banerjee

Email: a57baner@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4114

Research Areas:

Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Synthetic Biology
Microbiology

Guowei (Will) Chen

Email: g243chen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

Bio-composites
Polymer composites

Shahid Islam

Email: msislam@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5616

Research Areas:

Smart nanomaterials production for biomedical applications
Functional nanomaterials for effluent/wastewater treatment
Nano plastic & PFAS removal
Nanoparticulate drug delivery (lipid/functionalized polymers based)
Biodegradable nanocarrier for targeted drug/plasmid/DNA delivery
Bio-sensor/Polymeric membrane electrode
Pharmaceutical formulation development

Sung Jae Jeon

Email: sjeon@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5603

Research Areas:

Conjugated polymers/small-molecules
High conductivity
Organic electronics
Temperature sensors

Dylan Jubinville

Email: djubinvi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5114

Research Areas:

Sustainable polymers
Chemical modification
Thermo-mechanical degradation
Nanotechnology
Highly filled composite

Dr. Ritu Kumar

Email: ritu.kumar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2104

Research Areas:

Hydrogen production
Water splitting
Lithium-ion batteries
Electric vehicles

Yebin Lee

Email: y278lee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5614

Research Areas:

Nanocellulose
Surface chemistry
Metal nanostructure
Antimicrobial system
Printed electronics

Rasool Nasseri

Email: rnasseri@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5108

Research Areas:

Soft robotics
Anisotropic soft materials
Stimuli responsive hydrogels

Bohua Ren

Email: b5ren@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

Multi-scale Simulation
Electrochemistry
Electrode Engineering

M. Reza Roushan

Email: mrrousha@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4140

Research Areas:

Genome engineering
CRISPR/Cas technology
Microalgae
Cellular and Molecular Biology

Amin Sadeghi

Email: m27sadeg@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

Transport Phenomena
Pore-Scale Modeling
Machine Learning

Ravinder Singh

Email: r48singh@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-B606

Research Areas

Opto-Electronics Materials
Sensory Materials (OTFT, Chemo-/Bio-Sensors)
AIEgens (i.e., Type-I ROS PSs, Energy-Transfer (ET), and AIE-TADF/LSCs)
Photo/Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Materials,
Mechanically Interlocked (MIMs)
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
N-Heterocyclic potent drug molecules
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

Manila Ozhukil Valappil

Email: mozhukil@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5324

Research Areas:

Materials electrochemistry
Electrochemical Energy Conversion
2D Materials

Guobin Wen

Email: g5wen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

Electrochemistry
Electrode Engineering
CO2 conversion

Tingzhou Yang

Email: t43yang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2102

Research Areas:

Sustainable Energy Storage
Conversion Devices

Lu Yin

Email: lyin@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-1012

Research Areas:

Functional polymer/macromolecule synthesis
Liquid crystal polymers and actuators
Supramolecular chirality assembly
Underwater adhesive

Zhen Zhang

Email: z622zhan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

Nanomaterials
CO2 utilization
Catalysis
Electrocatalysis
Zinc-air batteries
Lithium-sulfur batteries
Electrochemistry

Lei Zhang

Email: l78zhang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-4612

Research Areas:

Peptide Nanotechnology
Drug/Gene Delivery
Cancer Therapy

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mohammad J. Tolou Kian

Email: mj2tolou@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Waterloo

Research Areas:

Fracture Mechanics in Bridge Structures

Hak-Hyeon Kim

Email: h379kim@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3304

Research Areas:

Water treatment
Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances
Environmental catalysis

Ezgi Demircan Ozelcaglayan

Email: edemirca@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

Micropollutant removal
Wastewater
Computational chemistry
Nanoadsorbents

Jonathan Romero-Cuellar

Email: jromeroc@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3316

Research Areas:

Uncertainty analysis
Probabilistic predictions
Climate change
Hydrological modelling

Jaber Taheri-Shakib

Email: jtaheris@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-2352D

Research Areas:

Concrete
Asphalt
Corrosion
X-ray computed tomography
Surface Phenomena
Image Analysis

Shenglin Wang

Email: s545wang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-2344E

Research Areas:

Pavement design and management
Material testing and modeling
Numerical analysis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rubayet Al Maruf

Email: ralmaruf@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-214

Research Areas:

Quantum Communication
Nanowire Quantum Dot
Quantum Optics
Metasurface

Arash Fouladi Azarnaminy

Email: a2foulad@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4108

Research Areas:

RF Acoustic Filters
RF MEMS
RFIC

Jonathas Haniel

Email: jonathashaniel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-3023

Research Areas:

Bioengineering
Doppler Ultrasound
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Physics-informed neural networks

Haseen Rahman

Email: hrcheriy@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4143

Research Areas:

Wireless Communication
5G
Resource Allocation
Information theory

Jean B. Klamti

Email: jbklamti@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-5416

Research Areas:

Cryptography (Post-quantum cryptography and provable security,...)
Error-corrector Codes
Blockchain Technology
Cryptocurrencies
Information Theory
Cybersecurity
Computational Algebra

Hassan Nahas

Email: hnahas@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4133

Research Areas:

Ultrasound medical imaging
In vivo flow quantification
Hardware acceleration
Deep learning
Imaging systems

Jiayan Qiu

Email: j4qiu@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7

Research Areas:

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Image Processing

Roksana Rashid

Email: rt2rashi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC -3725

Research Areas:

Epitaxial growth
MBE
Micro/Nano fabrication
Material Characterization
Optoelectronics
Photonics

Shazzad Rassel

Email: srassel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC

Research Areas:

Mid-infrared laser
LED
Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Mohammad Soltani

Email: m9soltan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-2209

Research Areas:

Micro/Nanofabrication
Nanophotonics
Quantum photonics
Quantum computing
Superconducting Quantum device
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

Sasan V. Grayli

Email: svosoogh@uwaterloo.ca

Location: RAC-1121

Research Areas:

Plasmonics
Nanophotonics
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Quantum Plasmonics
Quantum Photonics

Hojatollah Zamani

Email: hzamani@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC-2371

Research Areas:

Signal processing
Machine Learning
Communication
Optimization

Management Science & Engineering

Dongling Cai

Email: d32cai@uwaterloo.ca

Location: CPH-4309

Research Areas:

Supply chain management
Game theory

Leanne Stuive

Email: lestuive@uwaterloo.ca

Location: CPH-4309

Research Areas:

Mixed integer programming
Network design
Applied operations research

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Mazyar Ansari

Email: m6ansari@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

Additive Manufacturing
Physics-Based Computational Modeling
Process-Structure-Properties Relationships

Shams Anwar

Email: s2anwar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: ERC-3026

Research Areas:

Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Energy Storage
Intelligent Coating

Utsab Banerjee

Email: utsab.banerjee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-3614

Research Areas:

Wetting and interfacial science
Microfluidics
Magnetofluidics

Beant Kaur Billing

Email: bkbillin@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Ballard Power Systems, BC

Research Areas:

Fuel cells
PEMFC
RDE
MEA
Catalyst synthesis
Characterization

Jeong-woo Han

Email: jeong-woo.han@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-3439

Research Areas:

Autonomous mobile robot
Mobile manipulator
Motion planning
Robot control

Nazmul Huda

Email: n2huda@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

Pipeline welding (Gas Metal Arc Welding, Submerged Arc welding, Hybrid laser welding)
Automotive welding: (Resistance spot welding, cold metal transfer welding-brazing)
Rotary friction welding and Linear friction welding for nuclear application