People

Sean Bohun

Professor

Research interests: Mathematical modelling and breaking down the barriers between the mathematical sciences and other disciplines, fields and industries; real-life problems from both industry and greater society

Jane Breen

Research interests: modelling and analysis of real-world dynamical systems using matrix theory and discrete structures such as graphs/networks.

Luciano Buono

Professor

Research interests: Bifurcation theory of nonlinear dynamical systems with symmetry and its applications. Recent projects include coupled networks, nonlocal models for animal aggregation and celestial mechanics.

Anatoli Chkrebtii

Professor

Research Interests: solid state physics, semiconductors and their surfaces and nanomaterials, nonlinear optical phenomena and, electronic structural and dynamical properties of novel materials.

Mehran Ebrahimi

Professor

Research interests: Mathematical imaging and inverse problems; developing and validating efficient numerical methodologies for solving real-world, ill-posed inverse problems in the field of medical imaging.

Yan Fossat

Research interests: Digital Medicine; Digital biomarkers; Vocal biomarkers; Control systems. Medicine and clinicians rely on data to diagnose, prognose, and monitor patients. These are often single values that miss out on the dynamic nature of physiology. Yan's lab employs methods from engineering, applied mathematics, and dynamic system theory to develop non-invasive digital biomarkers.

Mark Green

Research interests: 3D display devices and algorithms with a particular emphasis on computational holography. Current projects include enhancing our holographic display device and improving algorithms to include hidden surface removal and modern illumination models. Also interested in medical image processing with a concentration on deformable organs.

Hendrick de Haan

Professor

Research interests: Biopolymer translocation through nanopores, biomolecules in an array of nanopits, magnetic nanoparticles as contrast agents in MRI, bacterial "twitchers" motility across surfaces.

Daniel Hoornweg

Taking a systems approach, my research focuses on how we might build better cities. This includes material flow analysis (especially energy and solid waste), transportation, and the local science and politics of sustainability.

Salma Karray

Research interests: Marketing models; Game theory and optimization; Marketing analytics; Supply chain management.

Greg Lewis

Professor

Research interests: bifurcation analysis of large-scale systems with applications to flow transition in geophysical fluids, such as the atmosphere. I am also interested in various modelling problems in medical imaging and biology

Fedor Naumkin

Professor

Research interests: theoretical and computational chemistry, chemical physics, interdisciplinary nanoscience; electronic-structure methods for polyatomic systems.

Eleodor Nichita

Research Interests: nuclear-reactor physics, particle and radiation transport, computational radiation dosimetry, general modelling of physical processes. Current projects focus on nuclear-reactor dynamics, hybrid (deterministic-Monte-Carlo) methods for PDEs applied to neutron, photon and electron transport and radiation dosimetry of radiation-sensitive organs.

Markus Piro

Research interests: multi-physics simulations of material behaviours with a particular focus on nuclear fuel, which includes computational thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and continuum mechanics.

Faisal Qureshi

Research interests: Faisal Qureshi is a professor of computer science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, where he directs the visual computing lab. Visual computing lab is involved in a number of research projects residing at the intersection of applied computer vision, visual sensor networks, computer vision at scale, and machine learning.

Amir Rastpour

Research Interests: applications of operations research and statistics in the health care sector; applying queuing theory, count regression models and empirical analysis methods to problems in the health-care sector; solving quasi-birth–death (QBD) processes with applications in analyzing real-world health care problems

Kamal Smimou

Research interests: analytics and financial innovation; risk management & optimization, quantitative finance; derivatives securities: commodity futures, currency options; energy economics and energy financial management. I am also interested in various modelling problems and theoretical works in finance and economics.

Isaac Tamblyn

Professor

Research interests: New properties of condensed matter systems; complex phenomena in many-body systems; first-principles electronic structure methods, quantum molecular dynamics, and analytical many-body theories.

Lennaert van Veen

Professor

Research interests: Applications of dynamical systems theory and computational science, including fluid dynamics, mathematical neuroscience, and pattern formation.

Ed Waller

Professor

Research interests: Radiation science and engineering, with a strong emphasis on health physics.