Graduate Students

Current PhD Students

  • Pablo Barbieri, Serviceability of hydro tower foundations.
  • Ebrahim Gamaleldin, Mechanics of root systems of trees under wind loads.
  • Ahmed Wahdan, Damage to buidling structures during hail impacts.
  • Sabrin Ara, Foundation behaviour around buried SMR structures in permafrost.
  • Vivian Hernández, Amendment of expansive clay soil properties with sugar cane ash.
  • Nic Paul, Mitigating damage in swelling soils using sugar cane bagasse and fibres.

Current Master's Students

  • Shayne O'Dwyer, Undercutting of coastal cliffs by wave action.

Supervised PhD Students

  • Colin Fyfe, Multi-species contaminant flow through the vadose zone, (2000–2005).
  • Defu Wang, Three-dimensional tissue engineering of the human cornea, (2003–2007).
  • Kevin Anderson, Numerical & experimental modelling of ocular biomechanics, (2001–2005).
  • Saeed Sasanian, Destructuration of natural clay soil, (2005–2011).
  • George Liang, The performance of a novel inflatable anchor system, (2006–2010).
  • Mohamed El- Marassi, Novel foundation systems for offshore structures, (2006–2011).
  • Porang Deljoui, Uplift Behaviour of offshore buried pipelines, (2005–2012).
  • Osama Abuhajah, Arching around buried box culverts, (2008–2012).
  • Padmavarthi Sagi, Foundation effects of trees under wind loads, (2007–2016).
  • Mansur Mulk, Measuring the elastic properties of the cornea using ultrasound, (2013–2020).
  • Jesus Hurtado, Modelling of the complex cyclic loading of onshore wind turbines, (2013–2019).
  • Mojtaba Dargahi, The biomechanics of trees under extreme wind loading events, (2014–2021).
  • Jiyang Gu, Stability of slopes with unsaturated spatially variable soils, (2015–2020).
  • Muhammad Safdar, Cyclic behaviour of cemented silty sand soils, (2015–2018).
  • Pengpeng He, Development of Winkler foundation models for wind, (2016-2021).
  • Yazeed Alsharedah, Behavior of hybrid and monopile foundation systems for OWT, (2018-2022).
  • Nima Farasat, Tunnelling in granular soils, (2020-2025).
  • Alain Palafox, Wave loading of offshore piles in carbonate soils, (2020-2025).

Supervised Master's Students

  • SC Lai, Rapid in situ stiffness measurement of soil, (1998-1999).
  • Georgia Kainourgiaki, Development of artificial structure in clays, (2002-2004).
  • Jason Weck, The behaviour of plastic concrete cutoff walls in dams, (2005-2007).
  • Mrinmoy Kanungo, Arching around buried structures in soils, (2006–2008).
  • Geremy Camps-Roach, Dynamic effects in multi-phase soil flow, (2006–2008).
  • Ahmed Fahmy, Deep penetrating anchors for offshore applications, (2008–2011).
  • Yara El-Sarafy, Thermal conductivity of pipeline trench backfills, (2008–2011).
  • Corey Smith, Drug transfer through the human eye, (2009–2011).
  • Katie Reipas, Cyclic behaviour of wind turbine foundations, (2008–2011).
  • Martin Blazejowski, Behaviour of fibre reinforced tunnel linings, (2009–2012).
  • Alireza Varshoi, Response of pile foundations to wind loads, (2010–2012).
  • Colin Schmidt, Cyclic behaviour of cement and fibre treated silty sands, (2012–2015).
  • Jordan Kiss, Dynamic behaviour of carbonate clayey tills in Ontario, (2012–2016).
  • Venkatesh Deshpande, Ground vibrations around onshore wind turbines, (2013–2016).
  • Elaine Samuel, Application of systems dynamics to international development, (2013–2016).
  • Emily Martin, Morphodynamic response of Spencer Creek to precipitation events, (2015-2017).
  • Mojdeh Zakeri, Elastic behaviour of the human cornea, (2014–2017).
  • Devansh Joshi, Development of soil simulants for planetary exploration, (2018-2022).
  • Hagos Eman, Geophysical testing of silos in the centrifuge, (2019-2021).
  • Lindsey Li, Numerical modelling of bridge abutment piles, (2019-2021).
  • Muhammad Hammad, Physical modelling of frost heave in small piles, (2020-2024).
  • Leonardo Paranhos, Wave loading of permafrost soft cliff, (2021-2025).
  • Sabrin Ara, Upheaval capacity of clay excavations under steady seepage conditions, (2022-2025).
  • Noah Frymire, Permafrost degradation in rock masses, (2023-2025).
  • Behnoush Sedighian, Frozen rock slope failures due to climate change, (2022-2026).

Supervised Post-Doctoral Fellows

  • Omar Hamza, Biomechanical behaviour of the optic nerve, (2002-2003).
  • Phillipe Sentenac, Centrifuge modelling of soft cliff erosion, (2003-2004).
  • Xing Wu, Stochastic modelling of soft cliff failure, (2004-2005).
  • Alan Cuthbertson, Sediment deposition from waste discharges, (2003-2005).
  • Chris Racknor, Fracture behaviour of IOL for cataracts, (2016-2017).
  • Osama Abuhajar, Development of a wave flume for a drum centrifuge, (2016-2018).
  • Aly Ahmed, Development of an earthquake shaker for a drum centrifuge, (2016-2019).
  • Mohamed Mansour, Biomechanics of trees under wind loading, (2020-2022).