2022 past PhD defences

Hamidreza Shamsi - Friday,  January 7, 2022, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Online

Title: Economic, Environmental and Health Impact Analysis of Developing Hydrogen Economy in Canada

Supervisor: Michael Fowler


Farzad Sharifpour - Thursday, January 13, 2022, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Online

Title: Micromechanical Modelling of Local Failure and Ply Crack Formation in Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Laminates

Supervisor: John Montesano


Katayoon Taherkhani - Friday, April 1, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Online

Title: In-Situ Monitoring and Quality Assurance Algorithms for Laser Powder-Bed Fusion

Supervisor: Ehsan Toyserkani


Olga Ibragimova - Monday, April 11, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Online

Title: Macnine Learning Approaches in Crystal Plasticity

Supervisor: Kaan Inal


Mitchell Rushton - Thursday, April 14, 2022 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Online

Title: Variable-Structure Cable-Driven Parallel Robots

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour


Yan Li - Thursday , April 14, 2022 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM - Online

Title: A new Crystal Plasticity Framewrok to Simulate Plastic Deformation Phenomena in Precipitation hardened Aluminum Alloys

Supervisor: Kaan Inal


Ahmed Hussien - Wednesday, May 4, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Online

Title: Investigation of turbulent spray flames using the Conditional Sources term Estimation (CSE) approach

Supervisor: Cecile Devaud


Jacqueline Noder - Thursday, May 5, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Online

Title: On the Effect of Through-thickness Stress-strain Gradients on Material Instability in Sheet Metals 

Supervisor: Cliff Butcher


Seyed Mehdi Ashrafizadeh - Tuesday May 10, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM - Online

Title: Simulation of Soot Formation in Turbulent Diffusion Flames Using Conditional Source-Term Estimation

Supervisor: Cecile Devaud


M. Jaamjeed Rahmaan - Friday, May 13, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Online

Title: Constitutive and Fracture Characterization of High Strength Aluminum Alloys at Low and Elevated Strain Rates

Supervisors: Mike Worswick / Cliff Butcher


Sepideh Ghaderian - Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (hybrid E5-3052)

Title: Simultaneous Sensing of Pressure and Temperature Using a Self Temperature-Compensated MEMS Fabry Perot Sensing Mechanism

Supervisor: Patricia Nieva 


Yitian Xing - Tuesday, August 2, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Online

Title: Development of the Multi-Hour ahead Wind Power Forecasting System

Supervisors: Fue-sang Lien / William Melek


Jeong-Woo  Han  - Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Online

Title: Safe and Efficient Navigation of a Mobile Robot: Path and Motion Planning for Mobile Robots Based on Hierarchical Topology Map and Degree of Cooperation

Supervisors: Soo Jeon / Hyock Ju Kwon


Rodrigo Miguel - Tuesday, August 9, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Online

Title: Quantification of Flare Combustion Efficiency through Mid-Wavelength Infrared Spectroscopy 

Supervisor: Kyle Daun


Hadi Keramati - Wednesday, AUGUST 10, 2022 from  1:30 PM to 4:30 PM - Online

Title: Generative Thermal Design Through Boundary Representation  and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Supervisor: Feridun Hamdullahpur


Matt Courtney - Tuesday, September 6, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Online

Title: Free-Flow Counterflow Gradient Focusing for Protein Fractionation

Supervisor: Carolyn Ren


Reza Tangestani - Tuesday, November 22, 2022 from  8:00AM to 11:00 AM - remote

Title: Multi-Scale Modeling of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process for Superalloys

Supervisors: Étienne Martin / Kaan Inal


Chen Sun - Monday, December 5, 2022 from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM - E3-4117 - remote

Title: Operational Design Domain Monitoring and Augmentation for Autonomous Driving

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour


Zejian Deng - Wednesday, December 7, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at E3-4117 - remote

Title: Decision-making in Autonomous Highway Driving with Active Interactions

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour


Parichit  Kumar - Wednesday, December 7, 2022 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM - remote

Title: Development of a Magnetic Levitation for Additive Manufacturing Applications

Supervisors: Behrad Khamesee / Ehsan Toyserkani