Meet our Postdoctoral Fellows

Email: a57baner@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4114

Research Areas:

• Molecular Biology
• Biotechnology
• Synthetic Biology
• Microbiology

Email: a5rajeev@uwaterloo.ca

Location:  E6-1104

Research Areas:

• Polymer Nanocomposites
• Smart and Functional Materials
• Cellulose-based materials
• Polymer Engineering, Nanotechnology
• Colloidal science.

Email: b5ren@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

• Multi-scale Simulation
• Electrochemistry
• Electrode Engineering

Email: djubinvi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5114

Research Areas:

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

Email: g5wen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2106

Research Areas:

• Electrochemistry
• Electrode Engineering
• CO2 conversion

Email: g243chen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

• Bio-composites
• Polymer composites

Email: l78zhang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-4612

Research Areas:

• Peptide Nanotechnology
• Drug/Gene Delivery
• Cancer Therapy

Email: lyin@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-1012

Research Areas:

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

Email: m356zhan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

• Carbon materials
• MXene
• Lithium ion batteries
• Sodium ion batteries
• Zinc-ion batteries

Email: mozhukil@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5324

Research Areas:

• Materials electrochemistry
• Electrochemical Energy Conversion
• 2D Materials

Email: mrrousha@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-4140

Research Areas:

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

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

Email: rnasseri@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-5108

Research Areas:

• Soft robotics
• Anisotropic soft materials
• Stimuli responsive hydrogels

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) 

Email: ritu.kumar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2104

Research Areas:

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

Email: t43yang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6-2102

Research Areas:

• Sustainable Energy Storage
• Conversion Devices

Email: y278lee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-5614

Research Areas:

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

Email: z622zhan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E6

Research Areas:

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

Email: edemirca@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

• Micropollutant removal
• Wastewater
• Computational chemistry
• Nanoadsorbents

Email: h379kim@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3304

Research Areas:

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

Email: jtaheris@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-2352D

Research Areas:

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

Email: jromeroc@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-3316

Research Areas:

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

Email: mj2tolou@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Waterloo

Research Areas:

• Fracture Mechanics in Bridge Structures

Email: qshanggu@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-2352C

Research Areas:

• Road safety
• Driving behavior
• Traffic conflict approach
• Driving simulation

Email: e2maleki@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Research Areas:

• Wastewater/sludge treatment
• Membrane fouling
• Energy recovery
• Bioenergy 

Email: s545wang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E2-2344E

Research Areas:

• Pavement design and management
• Material testing and modeling
• Numerical analysis

Email: abdallamohamed.hussein@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4143.03

Research Areas:

• Wireless communications
• Networking
• Resource Allocation
• Optimization
• Machine Learning

Email: hnahas@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4133

Research Areas:

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

Email: hrcheriy@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-4143

Research Areas:

• Wireless Communication
• 5G and beyond
• Optimization
• Information Theory

Email: hzamani@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC-2371

Research Areas:

• Signal processing
• Machine Learning
• Communication
• Optimization

Email: i2ausri@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

• Nanotechnology
• Wearable diagnostics
• Microneedle sensor
• Clinical translation

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

Email: j4qiu@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7

Research Areas:

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

Email: jonathashaniel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EIT-3023

Research Areas:

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

Email: m9soltan@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-2209

Research Areas:

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

Email: ralmaruf@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-214

Research Areas:

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

Email: svosoogh@uwaterloo.ca

Location: RAC-1121

Research Areas:

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

Email: srassel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC

Research Areas:

• Mid-infrared laser
• LED
• Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Email: d32cai@uwaterloo.ca

Location: CPH-4309

Research Areas:

• Supply chain management
• Game theory

Email: asalanda@uwaterloo.ca 

Location: E3-3101G

Research Areas:

• Thermo-mechanical Processing of Metallic Alloys
• Advanced Materials Characterization
• Microstructural Characterization
• Microstructure-Properties Relationship
• Metals Additive Manufacturing
• Fracture and Failure Analysis
• Welding Metallurgy

Email: a8shafie@uwaterloo.ca 

Location: E3-3101D

Research Areas:

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

Email: alrycman@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1107.26

Research Areas:

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

Email: agryguc@uwaterloo.ca

Location:  E7 1401A

Research Areas:

• Fatigue
• Forging
• Magnesium
• Automotive
• Digital Image Correlation
• Material Modelling

Email: bkbillin@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Ballard Power Systems, BC

Research Areas:

• Fuel cells
• PEMFC
• RDE
• MEA
• Catalyst synthesis
• Characterization

Email: c87sun@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DC-2718

Research Areas:

• Autonomous Driving
• Safety monitoring
• Robust decision-making
• Fault diagnosis

Email: jeong-woo.han@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E7-3439

Research Areas:

• Autonomous mobile robot
• Mobile manipulator
• Motion planning
• Robot control

Email: j848li@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E3-3101E

Research Areas:

• Microfluidics and nanofluidics
• Iontronics
• Electrokitics
• Surface science

Email: ktaherkhani@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1029

Research Areas:

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

Email: m6ansari@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

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

Email: nkoksal@uwaterloo.ca

Research Areas:

• Control theory
• Advanced (adaptive/optimal/nonlinear) control design
• System identification
• State estimation
• Machine learning

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

Email: plapeyre@uwaterloo.ca

Location: WatLIT

Research Areas:

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

Email: pd2costa@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E5 3165

Research Areas:

• Arc welding process
• Mechanical Properties of Welds join
• Additive Manufacturing
• Metal Ultrasound Test

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

Email: sagar.patel@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-1003.6

Research Areas:

• Additive manufacturing
• Lasers
• Metals
• Design

Email: s2anwar@uwaterloo.ca

Location: ERC-3026

Research Areas:

• Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Energy Storage
• Intelligent Coating

Email: s3shyam@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-4602

Research Areas:

• Experimental Microfluidics
• Heat transfer
• Fluid mechanics

Email: utsab.banerjee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: QNC-3614

Research Areas:

• Wetting and interfacial science
• Microfluidics
• Magnetofluidics

Email: x65zeng@uwaterloo.ca

Location: ERC-3026

Research Areas:

• Fuel Cells
• Water Electrolyzer
• Green Hydrogen
• Catalyst Synthesis 

Email: yu.wang2@uwaterloo.ca

Location: E3-4404

Research Areas:

• Light metal extrusion
• Die design optimization
• Finite element analysis
• Material characterization

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

Email: c8kaur@uwaterloo.ca

Location: Photomedicine Labs

Research Areas:

• Laser matter interaction- Experimental and simulations
• Optical microscopic techniques
• Photoacoustic remote sensing

Email: d2mondal@uwaterloo.ca

Location: DWE 2518c

Research Areas:

• Biomaterials
• Nanocomposite
• Additive Manufacturing
• Bone Tissue Engineering
• Biodegradation

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

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

Email: s2moradi@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2008A

Research Areas:

• Computer Vision
• Digital Image Processing

Email: x35chen@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2041N

Research Areas:

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

Email: y227fang@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4-2041J

Research Areas:

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

Email: yuhao.chen1@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

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

Email: zahra.gharaee@uwaterloo.ca

Location: EC4

Research Areas:

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