Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA)
Needles Hall, second floor, room 2201
Since 2018 we've seen an abundance of talented graduate students participate GRADflix. See below for a complete list of finalists, including the competition results and links to their GRADflix YouTube videos.
- 2023 GRADflix alumni
- 2022 GRADflix alumni
- 2021 GRADflix alumni
- 2020 GRADflix alumni
- 2019 GRADflix alumni
2023 GRADflix alumni
| Name | Department/School | Faculty | Video Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amerald Fang | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Hydraulic erosion with game engines | Finalist |
| Andrew Stella | Chemical Engineering | Engineering | Robust, wearable sensors for firefighters made using conductive polymers |
1st place and people's choice winner |
| Anika Chiang | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Comparing the effects of management practices on nutrients | Finalist |
| Anna Good | History | Arts | Forgotten voices of the World Wars: Examining attempted soldier suicides through Canadian army court martial documents | Finalist |
| Caitlin Laidlaw | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Local attitudes towards snow leopards in western Nepal | 2nd place winner |
| Carson Kinney | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Science | The heating of mountain belts: Production and transfer of heat in Earth’s crust | Finalist |
| Chi-en (Amy) Tai | Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Improved treatment of breast cancer | Social impact winner |
| Chuan Tian (Ben) Zhang | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Sensor malfunction detection | 3rd place winner |
| Heather Eustace | English Language and Literature | Arts | Older adults on YouTube | Finalist |
| Karen Hock | School of Public Health Sciences | Health | Mission: PhD | Finalist |
| Keshini Madara Marasinghe | School of Public Health Sciences | Health | Assistive devices for older adults and their informal caregivers | Finalist |
| Kiran Dhuga | School of Public Health Sciences | Health | Parental depressive symptoms and physical-mental multimorbidity in children | 4th place winner |
| Kiyoumars Zarshenas | Chemical Engineering | Engineering | An innovative solution for thirsty world | Finalist |
| Larissa Gospodyn | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Groundwater and phosphorus transport: Friend or foe? | Finalist |
| Mana (Naeimeh) Monfared | School of Optometry and Vision Science | Science | Let's help dry eyes: Inventing a novel device | Finalist |
| Marina Maciel Ansanelli | Physics and Astronomy | Science | Understanding Causality | Finalist |
| Megala Ramasamy | School of Optometry and Vision Science | Science | Development of contact lens testing device using 3D printing | Finalist |
| Meredith Watson | Biology | Science | Temporal analysis of microplastics in the Grand River watershed | Finalist |
| Miswar Syed | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Ammonia for renewable energy storage | Finalist |
| Navya V. Nair | School of Environment, Enterprise and Development | Environment | Coastal wetlands for small-scale fisheries | Finalist |
| Patrick Bosworth | School of Environment, Enterprise and Development | Environment | Knowledge on tap: Community impacts of craft brewers | Finalist |
| Rozhannaa Sothilingam | School of Pharmacy | Science | A step forward into improving clinical pharmacy practice | Finalist |
| Sakina Fatima | School of Pharmacy | Science | Targeting hnRNPA1 for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis | Finalist |
| Yuzhe You | Cheriton School of Computer Science | Math | InfoVis for AI explainability | Finalist |
2022 GRADflix alumni
| Name | Department/School | Faculty | Video Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Abhishek Mishra |
Chemical Engineering | Engineering | Online monitoring of bioprocesses using fluorescence spectroscopy | Finalist |
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Alexander Malone |
Kinesiology and Health Sciences | Health | The determinants of paramedic performance | Finalist |
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Ali Nasr |
Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Model-based design and optimization of passive shoulder exoskeletons | Finalist |
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Anas Mahdi |
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering | Engineering | Improving mobility for elderly population | Finalist |
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Anika Chiang |
Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Helping farmers save our water | Finalist |
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Anshul Goyal |
Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Is power sector ready for EVs (Electric Vehicles) integration into grid? | Finalist |
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Arisha Imran |
Biology | Science | Flooding in a drying delta | Finalist |
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Atiyeh Ahmadi |
Biology | Science | Let's go for healthier future! | 2nd place winner |
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Azwad Abid |
Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Flying cars: a smooth transition for you | Finalist |
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Cameron McGlade-Bouchard |
School of Environment, Enterprise & Development | Environment | Challenging voluntary sustainability standards’ role in filling global regulatory gaps | 3rd place winner |
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Chien-Chih Chen |
Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | FactDefender: An implementation of fake news prevention by blockchain and an incentive mechanism | Finalist |
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Ebru Emir |
Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | A survey on robot personality: designing expressive robotic motion for effortless HRI | Finalist |
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Eugenia Dadzie |
Biology | Science | Microbes and enzymes: sustainable plastic degradation | 1st place winner |
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Hannah Burdett |
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Upscaling snow processes | Finalist |
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Sepideh Sarmast |
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering | Engineering | Self-healing pavement | Finalist |
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Jessica Vander Vaart |
Kinesiology & Health Sciences | Health | The effects of exercise combined with music on the brain | Finalist |
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Karen Hock |
School of Public Health Sciences | Health | Breaking News: sugary drink taxes | Finalist |
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Lauren Gosse |
School of Public Health Sciences | Health | Mental health service used among children and youth with chronic physical conditions | Finalist |
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Linda Sosa Hernandez |
Psychology | Arts | Shyness and friendship formation | Finalist |
| Maria Battaglia | School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability | Environment | Human behaviour and small-scale fisheries governance: The role of social norms | People's choice winner |
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Mariam Gad |
Chemical Engineering | Engineering | Silicon batteries | 4th place winner |
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Maya Petgrave |
School of Pharmacy | Science | Glycosylation and dynamics of the human cannabinoid receptors | Finalist |
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Nargess Heydari Beni |
Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Monitoring cardiac activity from the upper arm | Finalist |
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Robert Chlumsky |
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Building blended hydrologic models | Finalist |
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Saeideh Davari Dowlatabadi |
School of Public Health Sciences | Health | The effect of early life and adulthood social stress on brain development | Finalist |
| Zaid Abbas Al-Sabbag | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Interactive defect segmentation using XR | Finalist |
2021 GRADflix alumni
| Name | Department/School | Faculty | Video Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JuHyeong Ryu | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Advanced training system | Finalist |
| Adam Grottoli | Biology | Science | Bats and methylmercury | Finalist |
| Luke Hagar | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Mathematics | Beyond p-values: Sample size determination using Bayesian statistics | Finalist |
| Ben Szoller | Religious Studies | Arts | Catholic social and ecological teaching in Canadian farming communities | 3rd place winner |
| Shoshannah Speers | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health | Community volunteers addressing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines | Finalist |
| Tatiana Bevilacqua | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health | Design principles for health informatics | Finalist |
| Kayleanna Giesinger | School of Environment, Enterprise and Development | Environment | Economic development decision support system for sustainable development | Finalist |
| Joseph Varga | Biology | Science | From farm to fork: The potential role of antimicrobial peptides in modulating fish health and disease | Finalist |
| Madu Galappaththi | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability | Environment | Gender, wellbeing and dried fish | 4th place winner |
| Mohammad S. Parsa | Management Sciences | Engineering | Identifying public concerns about COVID-19 using social media mining | Finalist |
| Ryan Tennant | Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Improving in-home care with voice-interfaces | Finalist |
| Anna Murynka | Psychology | Arts | Mediums for self-help | 1st place winner |
| Omar Sadab Chowdhury | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Microplastics in drinking water? | Finalist |
| Megan Dol | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health | Multimorbidity and suicidal ideation | Finalist |
| Lilian Toma | School of Pharmacy | Science | Novel molecules to treat COVID-19 | Finalist |
| Anika Chiang | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | People's Choice winner | |
| Mia Stratton | Biology | Science | Paleolimnology and a changing delta | Finalist |
| Claudia Sehl | Psychology | Arts | Preferences for novelty impacts our everyday choices | Finalist |
| Nicole Davy | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability | Environment | Public engagement around flood mitigation in New Hamburg, ON | Finalist |
| Murdoch McKinnon | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Reclaiming well pads in our boreal peatlands | 2nd place winner |
| Taylor Vodopija | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Seismic line restoration in peatlands | Finalist |
| Gillian Williams | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health | Substance use and mental health among Canadian high school students | Finalist |
| Sagar Patel | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering | Engineering | Temperatures in metal 3D printing | Finalist |
| Ramashish Gaurav | Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Towards green and energy efficient artificial intelligence | Finalist |
| Erin Fortier | History | Arts | Urban waste management in medieval England | Finalist |
2020 GRADflix alumni
| Name | Department/School | Faculty | Video Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Schmidt | Geography & Environmental Management | Environment | #GenerationRestoration: Peatlands and greenhouse gases | 4th place winner and people's choice |
| Teghan Barton | History | Arts | Anne Shirley as a historical figure | Finalist |
| Adrienne Mason | School of Environment, Resources & Sustainability | Environment | Art as an interface for watershed system resiliency | Finalist |
| Kelsey Rose Dawson | School of Architecture | Engineering | Clay shapes the hand | Finalist |
| Qian (David) Liang | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Engineering | Code clones refactoring in test suites | Finalist |
| Marie Racioppa | School of Environment, Resources & Sustainability | Environment | Competition between bees | Finalist |
| Michelle Anagnostou | Geography & Environmental Management | Environment | Crime convergence and the illegal wildlife trade | 3rd place winner |
| Faraz Forghani | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Designing better pavements in Canada | Finalist |
| Hayden Bulbrook | History | Arts | Giving life to cities: Digital history and the rebuilding of Munich | Finalist |
| Yusof Ghiasi | Geography & Environmental Management | Environment | GPS-Reflectometry | Finalist |
| Andrew J. Wiebe | Earth & Environmental Sciences | Science | Groundwater recharge uncertainty | Finalist |
| Mohammad S. Parsa | Management Sciences | Engineering | Identifying students’ mental health issues using social media mining | Finalist |
| Marvin Pafla | Systems Design Engineering | Engineering | Explainable AI … and cats | Finalist |
| Muhammad Saad | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Engineering | Price prediction with machine learning | 2nd place winner |
| Hasan Ahmet Gokce | English Language & Literature | Arts | Magazine project for newcomer children | Finalist |
| Isabel Hilgendag | Biology | Science | Mercury in the Arctic | Finalist |
| Pamela Hopwood | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health Sciences | Older women in low-income, physically demanding work | Finalist |
| Mostafa AbdelAziz | Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering | Engineering | Real-time viewing of electromigration | Finalist |
| Sadaf Faisal | School of Pharmacy | Science | Use of smart technology for medication management | 1st place winner |
| Sara Wyngaarden | School of Public Health and Health Systems | Health Sciences | Supporting rural livelihoods: Lessons from Honduran youth | Finalist |
| Osezua Ibhadode | Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering | Engineering | Topology optimization for additive manufacturing (3D-printing) | Finalist |
| Ming Xiaomeng Xu | School of Planning | Environment | Understanding pedestrians' behaviour through smartphone data | Finalist |
| Samira Mehrabi | Kinesiology | Health Sciences | Virtual reality exergames to promote physical activity & well-being in mild cognitive impairment/dementia | Finalist |
2019 GRADflix alumni
| Name | Department/School | Faculty | Video Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Yan Yan Lim | Environment, Resources and Sustainability | Environment | Worms and waste | 4th place winner |
| Fraser King | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | CloudSat and Arctic snow | 1st place winner |
| Jason Lajoie | English Language and Literature | Arts | Making gay identities: Queer media practices queering media technologies | 2nd place winner |
| Jaydeep Mistry | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | GitHub use for government related work | Finalist |
| Jenner Ngai | Chemical Engineering | Engineering | Conjugated polymer research for renewable energy | Finalist |
| Kristina Ellis | Pharmacy | Science | CAR T - The Future of Cancer Therapy? | Finalist |
| Mostafa Alizadeh | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Remote vital signs monitoring using a mm-wave FMCW radar | Finalist |
| Natalie Knowles | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Warmer winters: Fighting an uphill downhill climate battle | Finalist |
| Nicholas Charron | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | Augmenting bridge inspections with autonomous robotics | Finalist |
| Rachel Green | French Studies | Arts | Unlocking meaning: Doors as a “key” to understanding Honoré de Balzac’s novels | Finalist |
| Rina Wehbe | Computer Science | Mathematics | Playing with space | Finalist |
| Siobhan Sutherland | Psychology | Arts | Rethinking women’s desire: The science behind low libido | Finalist |
| Siyavash Izadi | Kinesiology | Health Sciences | Virtuality of motion sickness | 3rd place winner and people's choice winner |
| Stephanie Higgins | Geography and Environmental Management | Environment | Warmer winters, colder soils, and more phosphorus in our water | Finalist |
| Tina Chan | Public Health and Health Systems | Health Sciences | The game of helping others | Finalist |