Affiliated Faculty

Liza-Anastasia DiCecco, Ph.D.

Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

John Magliaro, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Maxime van Der Heijden, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Stewart McLachlin, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Michael Benoit, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Milad Kamkar, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Valerie Ward, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Jeff Gostick, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

David Correa, M.Arch., B.Arch.Sci

School of Architecture

University of Waterloo

Thomas Willett, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

Paul Fieguth, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

Mary Wells, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Dean of Engineering

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Kaan Erkorkmaz, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Amir Khajepour, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Adrian Gerlich, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Kaan Inal, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Hamid Jahedmotlagh, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Norman Zhou, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Armaghan Salehian, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Behrad Khamesee, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Boxin Zhao, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Michael Pope, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Ali Ghodsi, Ph.D.

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

University of Waterloo

Shoja’eddin Chenouri, Ph.D.

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

University of Waterloo

Hani Naguib, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

University of Toronto

Jean-Pierre Hickey, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Adjunct Professors

Milan Brandt, Ph.D.

Professor of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechatronics

RMIT, Australia

Christopher Leyens, Ph.D.

Managing Director

Fraunhofer Institute of Materials and Beam Technology, Germany

Ali Bonakdar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of North Carolina Charlotte

Mahdi Habibnejad, Ph.D.

Senior External R&D Manager

GE Additive - AP&C, Canada

Research Assistant Professors

Ehsan Marzbanrad, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Saeed Maleksaeedi, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Staff

Tarra Weber

Research Project Accountant

Allan Rogalsky, Ph.D.

Operations and Safety Manager

adrogals@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x35213

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Denise Porter

Financial Manager

denise.porter@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x37680

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Sebastian Soo

Characterization and Facilities Coordinator

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Mohsen K. Keshavarz, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Industry Liaison
Senior Scientist

Francis Dibia

Research Project Manager

cfdibia@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x38409

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Farzad Liravi, Ph.D.

Manager, NSERC HI-AM Project
Manager, CFI Can-AMN

fliravi@uwaterloo.ca

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ALUMNI & FORMER MEMBERS

PhD

Masoud Alimardani (2005-2009)

Hamidreza Alemohammad (2006-2010)

Yaser Shanjani (2006-2011)

Negar Rasti (2008-2014)

Mihaela Vlasea (2008-2014)

Ahmad Basalah (2009-2015)

Olivier Jay (2012-2015)

Elahe Jabari (2011-2016)

Esmat Sheydaeian (2013-2017)

Amir Azhari (2013-2017)

Farzad Liravi (2014-2018)

Yuze Huang (2014-2019)

Zhidong (Brian) Zhang (2015-2019)

Bahareh Marzbanrad (2015-2020)

Mazyar Ansari (2017-2021)

Osezua Ibhadode (2017-2021)

Ali Keshavarzkermani (2017-2021)

Elham Davoodi (2017-2021)

Gitanjali Shanbhag (2017-2021)

Reza Esmaeilizadeh (2017-2021)

Sagar Patel (2017-2021)

Shahriar Imani (2017-2021)

Sera Ertay (2017-2021)

Pablo Enrique (2018-2021)

Apratim Chakraborty (2016-2022)

Parichit Kumar (2018-2022)

Heba Elsayed Farag (2018-2022)

Katayoon Taherkhani (2018-2022)

Alex Martinez (2018-2023)

Nivas Ramachandiran (2018-2023)

Gijs Johannes Josef van Houtum (2019-2024)

Farima Liravi (2020-2024)

Osazee Ero (2020-2024)

Mahyar Hasanabadi (2020-2024)

Manyou Sun (2021-2025)

Sahar Toorandaz (2021-2025)

Nadia Azizi (2021-2025)

Ali Zardoshtian (2021-2025)

Mingzhang Yang (2022-2025)

Taha Waqar (2023-2025)

Hamidreza Aghajani (2022-2026)

Joseph Orakwe (2022-2026)

MASc

Matthew Asselin (2004-2006)

Christina Wei (2005-2007)

Mehrdad Iravani (2005-2007)

Munther Al-Hammad (2005-2008)

Hanieh Aghighi (2006-2008)

Hajar Sharif (2007-2009)

Steven Tong (2010-2012)

Joyce Lam (2010-2012)

Xixi Zhang (2010-2013)

Richard Liang (2012-2014)

Bahareh Marzbanrad (2013-2015)

Farid Behzadian (2013-2015)

Foss Jiao (2014-2016)

Ali Jahed (2015-2016)

Stephen Peterkin (2015-2016)

Philippe Meszaros (2015-2017)

Evan Wheat (2015-2017)

Francis Dibia (2016-2018)

Jeremy Vandenberg (2016-2018)

Henry Ma (2016-2018)

Soheil Bakhshivash (2017-2018)

Lisa Brock (2017-2019)

Issa Zachary Rishmawi (2017-2019)

Yanli Zhu (2017-2019)

Gijs Johannes Josef van Houtum (2017-2019)

Pouyan Rahnama (2017-2020)

Marc Wang (2018-2020)

Ken Nsiempba (2018-2020)

Ali Zardoshtian (2019-2020)

Ruijian He (2019-2020)

Alex Groen (2018-2021)

Manyou Sun (2019-2021)

Jeffrey Andrew Sixt (2019-2021)

Seung Ho (Brian) Jeong (2019-2021)

Kelvin Son (2019-2021)

Saksham Malik (2020-2022)

Roman Boychuk (2021-2023)

Brijesh Parsana (2021-2024)

Kshiti Patel (2022-2024)

Tomisin Oluwajuyigbe (2022-2024)

Edward Yang (2022-2024)

Matthew Karson Chai (2022-2024)

Naga Aditya Yarlapati (2023-2025)

Zachariah Mears (2023-2025)

Alex Miclaus (2023-2025)

Sebastian Soo (2023-2025)

Ubokobong Ezekiel (2023-2026)

Christopher Howey (2024-2026)

Benjamin Orchard (2024-2026)

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Alireza Fathi (2005-2006)

Saeed Farasat (2006-2006)

Christ Paul (2006-2007)

Andrew Pinkerton (2007-2008)

Masoud Alimardani (2009-2010)

Ehsan Foroozmehr (2010-2011)

Hamidreza Alemohammad (2010-2012)

Yaser Shanjani (2011-2012)

Mihaela Vlasea (2014-2015)

Yan Feng (2016-2017)

Mehrnaz Salarian (2016-2018)

Mohammad Al-Mashagbeh (2018-2018)

Elahe Jabari (2016-2019)

Yahya Mahmoodkhani (2017-2019)

Paola Russo (2018-2019)

Yuze Huang (2019-2019)

Haniyeh Fayazfar (2016-2020)

Ehsan Marzbanrad (2016-2020)

Allan Rogalsky (2017-2020)

Hamed Asgari (2017-2020)

Esmat Sheydaeian (2017-2020)

Usman Ali (2017-2020)

Sai Sravanthi (2019-2020)

Dyuti Sarker (2018-2021)

Rasim Batmaz (2018-2021)

Farid Ahmed (2018-2022)

Zhidong (Brian) Zhang (2019-2022)

Paria Karimi (2021-2022)

Osezua Ibhadode (2021-2022)

Ali Keshavarzkermani (2021-2022)

Esmaeil Sadeghi (2021-2022)

Reza Esmaeilizadeh (2021-2022)

Shahriar Imani (2021-2022)

Bahareh Marzbanrad (2020-2023)

Jinoop Arackal Narayanan (2021-2023)

Mazyar Ansari (2021-2023)

Katayoon Taherkhani (2022-2023)

Alex Martinez (2023-2024)

Tatevik Minasyan (2022-2025)

Mahyar Hasanabadi (2024-2025)

Sagar Patel (2021-2023, 2026)

Sahar Toorandaz (2025-2026)

Farima Liravi (2025-2026)

RA

Mohsen K. Keshavarz

Farzaneh Kaji

Ali Jahed

Rani Kasinathan Adhitan

Vadim Kozhevnikov

Habib Saleh (2008-2009)

Saman Mohammadi (2008-2010)

Richard Liang (2015-2016)

Xixi Zhang (2015-2016)

Geoffrey Fowler (2017-2017)

Ryan Schmidt (2017-2017)

Philippe Meszaros (2017-2018)

Evan Wheat (2017-2018)

Akash Pillai Kala (2018)

Kannan Mahadevan (2018)

Joe Canhoto (2018-2018)

Lisa Brock (2019-2020)

Ali Zardoshtian (2020-2020)

Haniyeh Fayazfar (2020-2020)

Ehsan Marzbanrad (2020-2020)

Eric Tenuta (2020-2021)

Florin Nita (2021-2021)

Mehran Rafieazad (2021-2021)

Marc Wang (2018-2018, 2020-2022)

Jeremy Vandenberg (2018-2022)

Hamed Asgari (2020-2022)

Ken Nsiempba (2020-2022)

Elahe Jabari (2021-2022)

Issa Zachary Rishmawi (2019-2023)

Ketul Shah (2021-2023)

Reza Esmaeilizadeh (2022-2023)

Shahriar Imani (2023-2023)

Matthew Karson Chai (2020-2022, 2024)

Pablo Enrique (2023-2024)

Roman Boychuk (2023-2024)

Alex Miclaus (2025-2025)

Farima Liravi (2025-2025)

Osazee Ero (2025-2025)

Yahya Mahmoodkhani (2025-2025)

Sagar Patel (2024-2026)

Sebastian Soo (2025-2028)

Staff

Laurie Wilfong

Karl Rautenberg

Mark Kirby

Meghan Schmuck

Robert Cieniawski

Mark Barfoot (2017-2018)

Vladimir Paserin (2018-2020)

Catherine Demers (2018-2021)

Haley Staller (2021-2022)

James Farnsworth (2021-2022)

Shashi Kiran (2022)

Douglas Fisher (2022-2022)

Henry Ma (2018-2023)

Vasu Narula (2022-2023)

Paria Karimi (2022-2023)

Esmaeil Sadeghi (2022-2023)

Nancy Sej (2020-2024)

Koray Beduk (2023-2024)

Ketul Shah (2024-2024)

Edward Yang (2024-2025)

Co-op

Archie James Bain

Fiona Hu

Ash Charles (Fall 2006)

Matt Ueckermann (Fall 2006)

Jeff Taylor (Winter 2006)

Jeff Loveless (Spring 2007)

Mihaela Vlasea (Spring 2007)

Kevin Kim (Winter 2009, Fall 2008)

Ahmed Salam (Winter 2009, Fall 2008)

Talha Jawaid (Fall 2009)

Teresa King (Fall 2010, Winter 2010)

Zheng Feng (Spring 2010)

Jean Nassar (Spring 2010)

Sarah Mayer (Spring 2010)

Bradley Cotten (Fall 2011, Spring 2011)

Thomas Hudson (Winter 2011)

Brent Komer (Winter 2011)

David Lee (Winter 2012)

Daniel Pradon (Spring 2013)

Mark Park (Spring 2013)

Evan Wheat (Spring 2014, Fall 2013)

Ami Woo (Fall 2014)

Nile Goerzen (Spring 2014)

Angel Burtun (Winter 2014)

Abhinav Glove (Fall 2016)

Nick Bedi (Spring 2016)

Jerry Li (Spring 2016)

Alexander Forsyth (Fall 2017)

Kelly Huang (Fall 2017)

Shirin Khanna (Spring 2018, Fall 2017)

Ahmad Al-Hasani (Fall 2018)

Veronica Barry (Fall 2018)

Kaylie Choi (Spring 2018)

Misha Karpinska (Spring 2018)

Christina Lee Sullivan (Spring 2018)

Martin Ethier (Winter 2018)

Matthew Lai (Winter 2018)

Jakob Staines (Fall 2019)

Donovan Kwong (Fall 2019)

Eniife Elebute (Spring 2019)

Kate Pearson (Spring 2019)

Yunyi Jiang (Winter 2020, Fall 2019)

Andrew Barlow (Fall 2020)

Waleed Parwez (Fall 2020)

Shasvat Rathod (Fall 2020)

Soyazhe Khan (Fall 2020)

Anthony Tran (Spring 2020)

Erin Oswald (Spring 2020)

Justin Memar (Winter 2020)

Cecilia Cancellara (Winter 2020)

Daniel Ingriselli (Winter 2020)

Rene Lam (Fall 2021)

Alikasim Budhwani (Fall 2021)

Gabriel Luo (Fall 2021)

Benjamin Lee (Fall 2021)

Parth Agarwal (Spring 2021)

Amena Syed (Spring 2021)

Ophélie Lesage Fongué (Spring 2021)

Kyle Tam (Spring 2021)

Jordan Savage (Spring 2021)

Jil Patel (Spring 2021)

Mariya Peskova (Winter 2021)

Sharon Ann Varghese (Winter 2021)

Anita Yang (Winter 2021)

Andrea Parra (Winter 2021)

Caleb Shepherd Davis (Winter 2021)

Mike Andary (Winter 2021)

Larry Li (Winter 2021)

Mariah de Torres (Fall 2021, Winter 2022)

Tianyi Tang (Fall 2022)

Artem Ovsyannikov (Fall 2022)

Mohammed Hamzah Curtay (Fall 2022)

Michael Wang (Fall 2022)

Asha Mills Emmett (Spring 2022)

Victoria Purcell (Spring 2022)

Howard Nguyen-Huu (Spring 2022)

Sebastian Soo (Spring 2022, Fall 2022)

Mohamed Goha (Winter 2022)

Belle Shin (Winter 2022)

Matthew Chin (Winter 2022)

Tomisin Oluwajuyigbe (Winter 2022)

Jithin Jothikrishnan (Fall 2023)

Linux Heller (Fall 2023)

Madison Mercier (Fall 2023)

Cael Johnston (Fall 2023)

JD Zhu (Fall 2023)

Nuha Rahman (Spring 2022, Winter 2023)

Avalon Berry (Spring 2022, Winter 2023)

Tiffany Yang (Spring 2023)

Xiren Wang (Spring 2023)

Samuel Douglas Krysko (Spring 2023)

Zachary De Francesco (Winter 2023)

Sehej Budhiraja (Winter 2023)

Erika Bechtel-Becker (Winter 2023)

Jace Menezes (Winter 2023)

Jievan Tapajna (Fall 2024)

Emma Ka Wai Liu (Fall 2024)

Alan Hu (Fall 2024)

Dawson Chalmers (Spring 2024)

Taylor Hazelwood (Spring 2024)

Mohammed Hasan (Spring 2024)

Rashmi Avudaiappan (Winter 2024)

Vlad Maduta (Winter 2024)

Joshua Bell (Winter 2024, Spring 2024)

Shayre Chakraborty (Fall 2025)

Nicole Louise Trinidad (Fall 2025)

Sebastian Curicheru (Spring 2025)

Isaiah Koziar (Spring 2025)

Rachel Gibson (Spring 2025)

Chris Vuong (Winter 2025)

Joy Andrianasolo (Winter 2025)

Nathan Roberts (Winter 2025)

Darby Hiscock (Spring 2026)

Colin Ng (Spring 2026)

Steven Shang (Summer 2026)

Ella Miljan (Summer 2026)

Ethan Williams (Winter 2026)

Trudy Lam (Winter 2026)

Cameron Loi (Winter 2026)

URA

Christina Wei (Winter 2005, Fall 2004)

Rodney Lau (Winter 2005)

Nelson Ngan (Winter 2005)

Linh Nguyen-Dang (Winter 2005)

Harry Leung (Winter 2005)

Mark Gesing (Fall 2006)

Mina Salama (Spring 2006)

Greg Lekarczyk (Winter 2006)

Kyle Kudoba (Winter 2006)

Jae Suk Na (Winter 2006)

Matt Ueckermann (Spring 2007)

Yen-Hsun Chen (Fall 2008)

Ash Charles (Spring 2008)

Dorothy Lui (Winter 2011, Spring 2010)

Derek Yan (Winter 2011, Spring 2010)

Brandon van Asseldonk (Spring 2011)

Bradley Cotten (Winter 2012)

Daniel Pradon (Fall 2013)

Mark Park (Fall 2013)

Lewis Joo (Winter 2013)

Nancy Pham (Winter 2014)

Evan Wheat (Winter 2015, Fall 2014, Winter 2014)

Ami Woo (Winter 2015)

Steve Freed (Spring 2016)

Jerry Li (Winter 2016)

Laurie Kwan (Winter 2017, Fall 2016)

Larry Yan Li (Winter 2017, Fall 2016)

Kevin Mattalo (Winter 2017, Fall 2016)

Robert Weeks (Winter 2017, Spring 2016)

Agata Jarkiewicz (Fall 2017)

Bryan Ho-On (Fall 2017)

Ali Toyserkani (Fall 2017, Winter 2017)

Shridhar Sundarraj (Spring 2017)

Alysan Young (Spring 2017)

Abhinav Grover (Winter 2017)

Felix King-Him Cheng (Fall 2018)

Alexander Forsyth (Winter 2018)

Solomon Jeyasam (Winter 2018)

Mariya Peskova (Spring 2021)

Sharon Ann Varghese (Spring 2021)

Anita Yang (Spring 2021)

Caleb Shepherd Davis (Spring 2021)

Mike Andary (Spring 2021)

Soyazhe Khan (Winter 2021)

Justin Memar (Winter 2021, Spring 2021)

Howard Nguyen-Huu (Fall 2022)

Daniel Yang (Spring 2023)

Sebastian Soo (Winter 2023)

Cael Johnston (Winter 2024)

Seyed Armin Vahabpour (2025-2025)

Joshua Perry (Winter 2025)

Alexander Mitchell (Winter 2025)

Hamraz Sandhu (Winter 2025)

Nicholas Lee (Winter 2026)

Tasnim Amara (Winter 2026)

Jeslyn Zhang (Winter 2026)

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