PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Professor Gisele Azimi
Professor, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Professor, Ph.D., P.Eng.
RESEARCH TEAM
Research Assistant

Dr. Taishi Kataoka
Visiting Researcher (2024)
Visiting Researcher (2024)
Ph.D. Candidates

Andrew Grindal
Ph.D. Candidate (2020)
Ph.D. Candidate (2020)

Lingyang Ding
Ph.D. Candidate (2020)
Ph.D. Candidate (2020)

Kyoung Hun (David) Choi
Ph.D. Candidate (2021)
Ph.D. Candidate (2021)

Spencer Cunningham
Ph.D. Candidate (2022)
Ph.D. Candidate (2022)

Brohath Amrithraj
Ph.D. Candidate (2022)
Ph.D. Candidate (2022)

Mahla Mahmoudi
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)

Ali Aliyev
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)

Diego Cadena
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Amirhossein Mohammadzadeh
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)

Muratcan Kenez
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)
Ph.D. Candidate (2023)

Negin Yavarzadeh
Ph.D. Candidate (2024)
Ph.D. Candidate (2024)
M.Eng. Students

Maya Banowati Rahmawan
M.Eng. Candidate (2024)
M.Eng. Candidate (2024)
Undergraduate Students

Luke Arcamo
Undergraduate Student (2024)
Undergraduate Student (2024)
ALUMNI
Postdoctoral Fellows
Maxwell Etherington-Rivas
Research Assistant (2023-2024)
Research Assistant (2023-2024)

Dr. William Judge
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023)
R&D Engineer at Tenova Goodfellow

Dr. Jihye Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022)
Assistant Prof. at Colorado School of Mines

Dr. Monu Malik, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Senior Research Associate (2017-2022)
Senior Research Associate (2017-2022)

Dr. Yimu Hu
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–2020)

Dr. Kewei Shu
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018–2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018–2020)
Assistant Prof. at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology

Dr. Sami Khan
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020)
Assistant Prof. at Simon Fraser

Dr. Md Ariful Hoque
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019)
Graduate Students

Dr. Jaesuk Paeng
Ph.D.
(2019–2024)

Dr. Sicheng Li
Ph.D.
(2019–2024)

Dr. Runqian Zhang
Ph.D.
(2018–2023)

Rong Liu
MEng (2022–2023)

Tong Sun
MEng (2022–2023)

Konrad Mundt (2022)
Visiting M.A.Sc. Candidate from Professor Kai-Olaf Hinrichsen group (Technische Universität München)

Dr. Jiakai Zhang
Ph.D.
(2018–2023)
Process Engineer at Hatch

Dr. Ka Ho Chan
Ph.D.
(2018–2023)

Dr. Hongting Liu
Ph.D. (2018–2022)
Ph.D. (2018–2022)

Yijia Wang
M.A.Sc (2019-2021)
M.A.Sc (2019-2021)

Kok Long Ng
Ph.D. (2017-2021)
Ph.D. (2017-2021)

John Anawati
Ph.D. (2017-2021)
Ph.D. (2017-2021)
Process Engineer at Hatch

Jihye Kim
Ph.D. (2017–2021)
Ph.D. (2017–2021)

William Judge
Ph.D. (2016–2021)
Ph.D. (2016–2021)

Hao Kun Sun
M.A.Sc. (2018–2021)
M.A.Sc. (2018–2021)

Nattanai Kunanusont (2019)
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate from Professor Yusuke Shimoyama group (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Bill Yao
M.A.Sc. (2016-2018)
M.A.Sc. (2016-2018)

Jason Tam
Ph.D. (2013-2018)
(co-supervised with Professor Erb)
Ph.D. (2013-2018)
(co-supervised with Professor Erb)

Abhineet Sain
M.Eng. (2017-2018)
M.Eng. (2017-2018)


Shayan Shahini
M.A.Sc. (2015-2017)
M.A.Sc. (2015-2017)

Cheen Aik Ang
M.A.Sc. (2015-2017)
M.A.Sc. (2015-2017)

Oliver Ko
M.Eng. (2016-2017)
M.Eng. (2016-2017)

Mugdha Walawalkar
M.A.Sc. (2014-2016)
M.A.Sc. (2014-2016)
Undergraduate Students

Ishaan Mohan Gupta
Undergraduate Student (2023)
Undergraduate Student (2023)

Brohath Amrithraj
Undergraduate student (2019–2022)

Henry Shekhtman
Undergraduate Summer Student (2021)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2021)

Mark Gorban
Undergraduate Summer Student (2021)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2021)

Matthew Desmarais
Undergraduate Summer Student (2019)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2019)

Tony Zifeng Dong
Undergraduate Student (2019–2021)
Undergraduate Student (2019–2021)

Jilai Zhang
Undergraduate Summer Student (2020)

Kimberly Watada
Undergraduate Summer Student (2019)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2019)

Erin Chau
Undergraduate Summer Student (2018)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2018)

Runlin Yuan
Undergraduate Summer Student (2018)
Undergraduate Summer Student (2018)

Jiakai (Kevin) Zhang
Undergraduate Researcher (4th-year thesis) (2017)
Undergraduate Researcher (4th-year thesis) (2017)

Nina Farac
Summer Student (2017)
Summer Student (2017)

Brittny Carter
Summer Student (2017)
Summer Student (2017)

Feixiong Zhang
Summer Student (2016) and
Undergraduate Researcher (4th-year thesis) (2017)
Summer Student (2016) and
Undergraduate Researcher (4th-year thesis) (2017)

Mingfan Yang
Summer Student (2016)
Summer Student (2016)

Adrian Lambert
Summer Student (2016)
Summer Student (2016)

Rodolfo Pereira Chagas
Summer Student (2015)
Summer Student (2015)