Student Supervision

Prospective students

I am available to supervise undergraduate and graduate students in the following contexts:

  • Undergraduate students
    • Undergraduate research assistantships (URAs)
    • Co-op, including NSERC USRA
    • Independent study (or reading) courses
    • Fourth-year (capstone) design projects
    • Undergraduate theses
  • Graduate students
    • Graduate research assistantships (GRAs)
    • Independent study (or reading) courses
    • Master's theses
    • PhD theses (co-supervision only)

Current students

Julie Johnson -  PhD in Management Sciences (in progress). Area or reserach interest is software design and management in organizations. Co-supervised with Prof. Frank Safayeni

Shima Kamjoo - PhD in Management Sciences (in progress). Area or reserach interest is architectural design processes in in organizations. Co-supervised with Prof. Frank Safayeni

Ahmed Shahriar Sakib - MASc in Management Sciences (in progress). Co-supervised with Prof. Frank Safayeni. Area of research is the application of natural language processing (NLP) methods, including large language models, for analyzing design activity.

Jackie Heitzner - Undergraduate research asssistant, co-supervised with Prof. Ken McKay. Area of research is synthesis of the design education literature to catalogue factors influencing assessment of design projects and best practices.

Recent past students

Graduate students

Undergraduate students

  • Zach Zammit - Independent Study Course (MSCI 597) on management of design in student-led design teams. 
  • Selena Zhang: A psychology student from the University of Toronto, worked in winter-spring 2023 on an independent research project on cross-cultural awareness in design education. 
  • Shirley Lin: A biomedical engineering student, completed a co-op term in Spring 2022, on a project understanding the differences in design tutoring between design academics and practitioners. Funded by a NSERC-USRA and a LITE Grant. Co-supervised with Prof. Oscar Nespoli.
  • Claire Treacy: A combinatorics and optimization student, completed a co-op term in Spring 2022, on a project understanding the differences in design tutoring between design academics and practitioners.Funded by a NSERC-USRA and a LITE Grant. Co-supervised with Prof. Oscar Nespoli.
  • Jerry Lu: A mechatronics engineering student, completed a co-op term in Spring 2021 funded through an NSERC USRA. Co-supervised with Prof. Alison Olechowski.
  • Irene Ni: A biomedical engineerig student, completed a co-op term in Spring 2021 funded through an NSERC USRA. Irene worked towards developing a tool that allows novice designers to report and characterize their design process.
  • Christine Duong: A psychology student, completed a co-op term in winter 2021 co-op term, supporting a number of reserach projects.
  • Mohammed Gad: A biomedical engineering student, completed a co-op term in winter 2021 co-op term, on a joint project with Prof. Alison Olechowski.
  • Jessica Liao: An architectural engineering student, completed a co-op term in winter 2021 co-op term, on a joint project with Prof. Alison Olechowski.
  • Aaron Dai: A managemenent engineering student, completed both an Undergraduate Research Assistant (Fall '20) and co-op student (Spring '20). He has supported a number of design research projects by conducting statistical analyses on survey and secondary data.