2023 MASc Oral Defence

John Francis Marrone - December 4th at 3pm, E5-2103

Title: Adapting Regenerative Braking to Driver Preference

Supervisor: Dr. Roydon Fraser


Alex DiPaola - Friday Dec 1st, 2023, 9:30 am to 11:00 am, E5 3006

Title: Furniture Fire Dynamics and Smoke Flow in a Two-Story House With Mechanical Ventilation

Supervisor: Beth Weckman


Michael Lenover - November 22, 2023. This seminar will be held online.

Title: Development of a Scalable Machining Feature Recognition System

Supervisor: Sanjeev Bedi & Stephen Mann


Samuel Delattre - Wednesday, October 25 2023, at 9:30 am, E5 3006

Title:  Application of Stereo Depth Camera and Alignment Algorithms for Part Monitoring During Machining

Supervisor: Sanjeev Bedi, Stephan Mann


Jake McLaughlin: October 23rd, 11am EST. Held Online.

Title: Visual-lidar Map Alignment for Change Detection in Infrastructure Applications

Supervisor: Title: Visual-lidar Map Alignment for Change Detection in Infrastructure Applications


Arpan Singh - Thursday, September 28, 2023, 2:30-4 pm, E5 2004

Title: Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling of the Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficient in Hot Stamping
of Al-Si Coated 22MnB5 Steel

Supervisor:  Kyle Daun


Pascal Ruzzante - October 10, 2023, 9:00 am, held online.

Title:: Lineal Path and Pore Size Distribution Simulated Annealing Reconstruction and Effective Transport Properties of PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers

Supervisor: Xiango Li



Baizhou Zhang - August 14,2023, 2:00 pm, online

Title:  The Electronic Device with Resistance Switching Behavior based on Different Mechanisms

Supervisor: Yimin Wu



Simran Chathanat - August 10th, 2023 at 9AM

Title: Monitoring the Behaviour of a Battery-free Water Powered Sensor

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Benjamin Cha - August 10, 2023, 10am to 11am, E5 2035

Title: Imaging of Thermal Propagation in Combustion of Al/CuO Core-Shell Nanothermite

Supervisors: John Wen and Jean-Pierre Hickey


Mohammadreza Rouhi - August 10, 2023, online

Title: Battery-Free Water Leak Detector Design Towards High-Scale Production

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Jihui Yan - July 27th  11:00am-12:00pm; E5 3006

Title: Electro-spark Deposition Process for Fine Structures and New Materials Coating

Supervisors: Prof. Peng Peng, and Prof. Norman Zhou.



Brian Tomkay - Wednesday June 28th 2023 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Microsoft Teams.

Title: Novel Infusion Procedure for Antimicrobial Fabric Generation

Supervisors:  Michael Mayer and William Anderson


Lukas Stracovsky - June 13th 2023 at 2:30pm

Title: Use of Slip Prediction for Learning Grasp-Stability Policies in Robotic-Grasp Simulation

Supervisor: Jonathan Kofman and Soo Jeon


Scott Smith - online on Friday, May 26 at 2pm.

Title: Enhancing Mechanical Strength of Electrospun Nanofibers by Thermal Crosslinking and Coaxial Electrospinning

Supervisor:  Zhongchao Tan


Gurmeet Gill - May 9th, 2023, from 11 am to 1 pm, E5 3006.

Title: The Effects of Elevated Temperature and Laminating on the Quasi-Static and Fatigue Properties of Electrical Steel

Supervisor: Hamid Jahed


Shiyuan Song - Monday, April 17th, 2023, E5-3052, 1:00 pm.

Title: The Influence of Electrode Force on Liquid Metal Embrittlement of Third Generation Advanced High Strength Steels during Resistance Spot Welding.

Supervisor: Elliot Biro 


Jansen Zhou - Monday, April 10th, 2023, from 9:30 am (EST) - online

Title: Bonding of Glass-to-Glass for the Development of Ultrafast Microchip Lasers

Supervisor: Michael Mayer and Norman Zhou


Mark Lim - Monday, April 10th , 2023, from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, E5 2004

Title: Development of Non-Spherical Platinum Catalyst with Functionalized Carbon Supports for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Supervisor: Xianguo Li


Muhammad Fasahat Khan - Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, from 9:00 am -10:30 am, DWE 2402

Title: Design and Optimization of Low-Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump

Supervisor:  Jean-Pierre Hickey


Joshua Jones - Wednesday, April 19th, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, E5 3052

Title: Direct Laser Writing of Metal and Metal Oxide Patterns for Flexible and Memristive Electronic Components

Supervisor: Peng Peng


Tamuno-Ibim Tolofari - Tuesday December 6th, 2022 from 3-4pm, E5 3006

Title: Characterization of the Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Thin Non-Orientated Electrical Steel Sheets

Supervisor: Hamid Jahed Motlagh


Stephen Banjo - September 5, 2022, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, Online via Teams

Title:  Steam gasification of excavated waste residue (EWR) from a landfill bioreactor operated for 15 years

Supervisor:  Zhongchao Tan


Joel Mills - Aug 16, 2022, 1PM-2PM, E5 3052

Title: Nanostructured catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction

Supervisor:  Yimin Wu


Hannah Dinovitzer - Aug. 10, 2022 9:00 – 10:00am, E5 3052

Title:  A hybrid inverse dynamic-neural network approach to lower limb exoskeleton control

Supervisor: Professor Arash Arami


Shawn Tan - August 3, 2022, 9:00 - 10:00am, E5 3052

Title:  impact of platinum nanoparticles size/shape in platinum/carbon catalyst in proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Supervisor:  Xiango Li


Jessica Zhang - Monday, April 11th, 2022 at 10:00AM, E5 3052

Title: Quasi-static, cyclic, and fracture characteristics of thermal sprayed AlSi cylinder bore

Supervisor:  Hamid Jahed Motlagh


Sola Weng, Friday, April 8, 2022, 11:00am – 12:30pm

Abstract title: Recovering Optimal Cost Functions for Natural Walking: From Musculoskeletal Simulation to Exoskeleton Control

Supervisor:  Professor Arash Arami

Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmEyNzYyYmQtNzEyZS00MGQxLTgxMWMtNWMyZjE1ZjNmMThm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220696cfa4-1104-4b2e-b270-f382106af5a1%22%7d


Yixiang Zhang - 2021-11-24 from 3pm to 4 pm. Online

Title:Stochastic Reconstruction and Morphological Studies of Catalyst Layers of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

Supervisor:  Xiango Li  


Mattew Cann - 1:00 pm on December 16th (Thursday)

Title:  A Data-Driven Approach for Generating Vortex Shedding Regime Maps for an Oscillating Cylinder

Supervisors: Fue-Sang Lien, William Melek