People

Principal Investigator

Post Docs

PhD Students

MASc Students

Undergraduate Students

Alumni

• Dr. Guorui Wang (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018 - 2022)
• Dr. Sudeep Parambath (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016 - 2018)
• Dr. Guillaume Colas (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014 - 2017)


• Dr. Haleh Shahsa (Ph.D., 2026) - Thesis: "Nanomaterial-Based Soft Electro-mechanical Actuation and High-Sensitivity Strain Sensing"
• Dr. Boran Kumral (Ph.D., 2026) - Thesis: "Defect and Strain Engineering of Structure-Property Relationships in Two-Dimensional Materials"
• Dr. Nima Barri (Ph.D., 2026) - Thesis: "Multiscale Cyclic Wear Behavior of TMDs Through Defect Engineering"
• Dr. Akibul Islam (Ph.D., 2025) - Thesis: "Nanoscale Friction, Interface and Strain Engineering of Two-Dimensional Materials"
• Dr. Peter Serles (Ph.D., 2024) - Thesis: "Ultrahigh Specific Strength and Energy Absorption of Additive Manufactured Nanoarchitected Carbon"
• Dr. Samaneh Hosseingholizadeh (Ph.D., 2021) - Thesis: "Defect Characterization in a Steel Plate Using AC Magnetic Flux Leakage (AC MFL)"
• Dr. Darya (Maedeh) Amirmaleki (Ph.D., 2020)- Thesis: "Mechanical Stability of Thin Films for Solid-state Batteries"
• Dr. Teng Cui (Ph.D., 2020; Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020 - 2021)- Thesis: "Intrinsic and Interfacial Fatigue of Graphene"
• Dr. Taib Arif (Ph.D., 2020) - Thesis: "Tribological Study of Ultrathin 2D-materials against Application Oriented Counter-surfaces under Controlled Environment"
• Dr. Fatemeh Karimi (Ph.D., 2020) - Thesis: "Numerical Model of Magnetostriction and Lorentz Force Mechanisms in Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers"
• Dr. Mahdi Hamidinejad (Ph.D., 2018; Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018 - 2021) - Thesis: "Thermal and electrical properties of graphene-based polymer nanocomposite foams"
• Dr. Yasamin Kazemi (Ph.D., 2018) - Thesis: "Studying the effects of polymer crystallization and blending on conductive network formation in CNT-based conductive polymer composites"
• Dr. Changhong Cao (Ph.D., 2016) - Thesis: "Multiscale mechanics of graphene oxide and graphene based composite films"


• Shuo (Stone) He (M.A.Sc., 2025) - Thesis: "Solid Lubrication and Friction Properties of 2D Ti3C2Tx and Medium Entropy MXenes for Practical Applications"
• Akshat Rastogi (M.A.Sc., 2025) - Thesis: "Computational Study on Wear Mechanisms in 2D materials under Cyclic Loading"
• Keith Sebastian (M.A.Sc., 2023) - Thesis: "Hybrid Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) Systems for the Non-Destructive Detection of Corrosion-Induced Defects in Steel"
• Jafar Mortadha (M.A.Sc., 2022) - Thesis: "Performance Stability of Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers"
• John (Cong) Sun (M.A.Sc., 2021) - Thesis: "Experimental-numerical Determination of the Lorentz and Magnetostriction Mechanism in the Periodic Permanent Magnet Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer on Steel"
• Aly Hassan (M.A.Sc, 2020) - Thesis: "Adhesion of Bio-inspired Micropillar Arrays"
• Peter Serles (M.A.Sc, 2019) - Thesis: "Nanomechanics and Tribology of Molybdenum-Disulphide Based Solid Lubricants for Space Applications"
• Kevin Yip (M.A.Sc, 2019) - Thesis: "Nanoscale Non-destructive Testing with the Atomic Force Microscope"
• Ibrahim Assi (M.A.Sc, 2019) - Thesis: "Electromagnet design for a time varying magnetic flux leakage system"
• Rishi Benegal (M.A.Sc, 2016) - Thesis: "Ultrasonic classification of defects in thin-walled structures"
• Yiyi Wang (M.A.Sc, 2015) - Thesis: "Mechanical properties of graphene oxide infiltrated cabon nanotube fibers"
• Jeffrey Ho (M.A.Sc, 2015) - Thesis: "Mechanical properties of uncoated and core-shell silicon nanowire arrays for the application of lithium ion batteries"
• Danny Wang (M.Eng., 2015) - Thesis: "Design optimzation of MEMS for in-situ SEM/TEM testing of nanomaterials"
• Hang Chen (M.A.Sc, 2014) - Thesis: "Tribological properties of ultrathin films for MEMS applications"
• Nicholas Andruschak (M.A.Sc, 2014) - Thesis: "Guided wave inspection of supported pipe locations using electromagnetic acoustic transducers"


• Winnie Zheng (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2026)
• Karen Martin (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2026)
• Yaoping Hou (Visiting Exchange Student - Fall 2021 to Summer 2022)
• Kat Jia (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2022)
• Peter Cui (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2022)
• Simo Pajovic (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2017 & 2019)
• Khaled Gaber (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2019)
• Margaret Tkatchenko (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2018)
• Tongqi Zhu (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2017)
• Daniel (Zeyang) Yin (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2015 & 2016)
• Lakshmish Seewooruttun (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2014)
• Richard (Lide) Tian (Undergraduate Research Student - Summer 2013)