Meet our Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Chemical Engineering


Mahmoud Almadhoun

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Email: mahmoud.almadhoun@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC

Research Areas:

  • Flexible hybrid electronics

Parinaz Ataeian

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Email: pataeian@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5114

Research Areas:

  • Biopolymers
  • Catalyst additive
  • Polymer processing
  • Extrusion
  • Tensile properties
  • Biodegradation
  • Compostability properties

Mohammed Hafedh Awad

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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

Anirban Banerjee

Email: a57baner@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4114

Research Areas:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Microbiology

Guowei (Will) Chen

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Email: g243chen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

  • Bio-composites
  • Polymer composites

Shahid Islam

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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

Sung Jae Jeon

Email: sjeon@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5603

Research Areas:

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

Dylan Jubinville

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

Ritu Kumar

Email: ritu.kumar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2104

Research Areas:

  • Hydrogen production
  • Water splitting
  • Lithium-ion batteries
  • Electric vehicles
 

Yebin Lee

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Email: y278lee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5614

Research Areas:

  • Nanocellulose
  • Surface chemistry
  • Metal nanostructure
  • Antimicrobial system
  • Printed electronics

Rasool Nasseri

Rasool Nasseri

Email: rnasseri@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5108

Research Areas:

  • Soft robotics
  • Anisotropic soft materials
  • Stimuli responsive hydrogels

Bohua Ren

Bohua Ren

Email: b5ren@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

  • Multi-scale Simulation
  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrode Engineering
 

M. Reza Roushan

M. Reza Roushan

Email: mrrousha@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4140

Research Areas:

  • Genome engineering
  • CRISPR/Cas technology
  • Microalgae
  • Cellular and Molecular Biology

Amin Sadeghi

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Email: m27sadeg@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

  • Transport Phenomena
  • Pore-Scale Modeling
  • Machine Learning

Ravinder Singh

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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

Manila Ozhukil Valappil

Email: mozhukil@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5324

Research Areas:

  • Materials electrochemistry
  • Electrochemical Energy Conversion
  • 2D Materials

Guobin Wen

Guobin Wen

Email: g5wen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrode Engineering
  • CO2 conversion

Tingzhou Yang

Tingzhou Yang

Email: t43yang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2102

Research Areas:

  • Sustainable Energy Storage
  • Conversion Devices
 

Lu Yin

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

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Email: z622zhan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

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

Lei Zhang

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Email: l78zhang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-4612

Research Areas:

  • Peptide Nanotechnology
  • Drug/Gene Delivery
  • Cancer Therapy
 

Civil and Environmental Engineering


Mohammad J. Tolou Kian

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Email: mj2tolou@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Waterloo

Research Areas:

  • Fracture Mechanics in Bridge Structures

Hak-Hyeon Kim

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Email: h379kim@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3304

Research Areas:

  • Water treatment
  • Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances
  • Environmental catalysis

Ezgi Demircan Ozelcaglayan

Ezgi Demircan Ozelcaglayan

Email: edemirca@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

  • Micropollutant removal
  • Wastewater
  • Computational chemistry
  • Nanoadsorbents
 

Jonathan Romero-Cuellar

Jonathan Romero-Cuellar

Email: jromeroc@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3316

Research Areas:

  • Uncertainty analysis
  • Probabilistic predictions
  • Climate change
  • Hydrological modelling

Jaber Taheri-Shakib

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

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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

Rubayet Al Maruf

Email: ralmaruf@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-214

Research Areas:

  • Quantum Communication
  • Nanowire Quantum Dot
  • Quantum Optics
  • Metasurface

Arash Fouladi Azarnaminy

Arash Fouladi Azarnaminy

Email: a2foulad@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4108

Research Areas:

  • RF Acoustic Filters
  • RF MEMS
  • RFIC

Jonathas Haniel

Jonathas Haniel

Email: jonathashaniel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-3023

Research Areas:

  • Bioengineering
  • Doppler Ultrasound
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Physics-informed neural networks
 

Haseen Rahman

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Email: hrcheriy@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4143

Research Areas:

  • Wireless Communication
  • 5G
  • Resource Allocation
  • Information theory

Jean B. Klamti

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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

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

Jiayan Qiu

Email: j4qiu@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7

Research Areas:

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Image Processing

Roksana Rashid

Roksana Rashid

Email: rt2rashi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC -3725

Research Areas:

  • Epitaxial growth
  • MBE
  • Micro/Nano fabrication
  • Material Characterization
  • Optoelectronics
  • Photonics

Shazzad Rassel

Shazzad Rassel

Email: srassel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC

Research Areas:

  • Mid-infrared laser
  • LED
  • Photoacoustic spectroscopy
 

Mohammad Soltani

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

Sasan V. Grayli

Email: svosoogh@uwaterloo.ca

Location: RAC-1121

Research Areas:

  • Plasmonics
  • Nanophotonics
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
  • Quantum Plasmonics
  • Quantum Photonics

Hojatollah Zamani

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Email: hzamani@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC-2371

Research Areas:

  • Signal processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Communication
  • Optimization
 
 

Management Science & Engineering


 

Dongling Cai

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Email: d32cai@uwaterloo.ca

Location: CPH-4309

Research Areas:

  • Supply chain management
  • Game theory

Leanne Stuive

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Email: lestuive@uwaterloo.ca

Location: CPH-4309

Research Areas:

  • Mixed integer programming
  • Network design
  • Applied operations research
 

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering


Mazyar Ansari

Mazyar Ansari

Email: m6ansari@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

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

Shams Anwar

Shams Anwar

Email: s2anwar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: ERC-3026

Research Areas:

  • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • Energy Storage
  • Intelligent Coating

Utsab Banerjee

Utsab Banerjee

Email: utsab.banerjee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-3614

Research Areas:

  • Wetting and interfacial science
  • Microfluidics
  • Magnetofluidics
 

Beant Kaur Billing

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

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

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
 

Paule Lapeyre

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Email: plapeyre@uwaterloo.ca

Location: WatLIT

Research Areas:

  • Radiative transfers
  • Optical imaging
  • Imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer
  • Spectroscopy
  • Inverse analysis

Jun Li

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Email: j848li@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E3-3101E

Research Areas:

  • Microfluidics and nanofluidics
  • Iontronics
  • Electrokitics
  • Surface science

Sagar Patel

Sagar Patel

Email: sagar.patel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1003.6

Research Areas:

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Lasers
  • Metals
  • Design
 

Aleksander Rycman

Aleksander Rycman

Email: alrycman@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1107.26

Research Areas:

  • Injury biomechanics
  • Finite element modelling
  • Human body model
  • Soft tissue mechanics

Pedram Samadian

Pedram Samadian

Email: p2samadi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1127

Research Areas:

  • Hot stamping of advanced high strength steels and aluminum alloys
  • Flow, formability, and fracture characterization of sheet metals
  • Microstructure-based modelling of deformation behavior of multi-phase materials
  • Finite element simulation of thermomechanical processes

Ahad Shafiee

Ahad Shafiee

Email: a8shafie@uwaterloo.ca 

Location: E3-3101D

Research Areas:

  • Materials processing
  • Materials characterization
  • Welding of AHHS
  • High Entropy Alloys
  • Additive manufacturing
 

Sudip Shyam

Sudip Shyam

Email: s3shyam@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-4602

Research Areas:

  • Experimental Microfluidics
  • Heat transfer
  • Fluid mechanics

Katayoon Taherkhani

Katayoon Taherkhani

Email: ktaherkhani@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1029

Research Areas:

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • In-situ Monitoring
  • System Identification
  • Machine Learning
  • Closed-Loop Controller
 

School of Architecture


Anwar Jaber

Anwar Jaber

Email: a5jaber@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Cambridge Campus

Research Areas:

  • Urban conflicts, wars and cities
  • Social and political aspects of architecture and urbanism
  • Critical history and theory
  • Islamic Architecture
  • Middle East and Arab urbanism
  • Cities of the global south
 

Systems Design Engineering


Alaaeldin Elhady Ahmed

Alaaeldin Elhady Ahmed

Email: aesamymo@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-6418

Research Areas:

  • MEMS & NEMS
  • SAW
  • Sensors
  • Nano-Interface Electronics
  • Nonlinear Systems & Control

Yuhao Chen

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Email: yuhao.chen1@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Precision Manufacturing
  • Precision Health

Xinwei Chen

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Email: x35chen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2041N

Research Areas:

  • Remote sensing
  • Computer vision
  • Sea ice
  • Ocean observation
 

Yuan Fang

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Email: y227fang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2041J

Research Areas:

  • Remote sensing
  • Hyperspectral image processing
  • Machine learning
  • Environmental monitoring

Zahra Gharaee

Zahra Gharaee

Email: zahra.gharaee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Representation Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Saed Moradi

Saed Moradi

Email: s2moradi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2008A

Research Areas:

  • Computer Vision
  • Digital Image Processing
 

Scott Pardoel

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Email: spardoel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Ottawa, ON

Research Areas:

  • Parkinson's disease
  • Machine learning
  • Wearable sensors

Ilknur Umay

Ilknur Umay

Email: iumay@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-6332

Research Areas:

  • Task and motion planning of multi-robot manipulation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Biomedical robotics
  • Control and automation
  • Localization and mapping

Poornima Unnikrishnan

Poornima Unnikrishnan

Email: p2unnikr@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-6358

Research Areas:

  • Time Series Modeling
  • Hydrology
  • Optimisation techniques
  • AI techniques
  • Extreme events analysis
  • Artificial intelligence modelling
  • Singular spectrum analysis
  • Stochastic Programing
  • Geographic information systems and geospatial modelling
  • Atmospheric moisture tracking
  • Characterising and modelling ocean-aquifer interactions