Adjunct Faculty

Storer Boone

PhD., PEng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical engineering in regards to foundations, tunneling & excavation, transportation, infrastructure, and risk analysis.

Julian Brimelow

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteorology, Northern Hail Project

Mercè Casas-Prat

PhD.

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental Engineering; Climate Change; Water Resources Management; Hydrogeologic Engineering

Hisham Hafez

PhD, P.Eng., MBA

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental Engineering: Water/wastewater treatment

Ikrema Hassan

PhD., P. Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of sustainable and environmentally friendly techniques to remediate brown soil and groundwater contaminated with hazardous materials, including heavy metals, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and petroleum hydrocarbons.

Yifan Huang

PhD., PEng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Reactor Structure and Mechanical Component Team

John Kilpatrick

PEng., C.Eng., FICE

Research Interests / Specializations: Wind Engineering

Lingzhe Kong

PhD., PEng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Wind Engineering

Kefu Liu

PhD., P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: structural dynamics, vibration, sensing, robotics, control, and energy harvesting

Silvana Micic

PhD., P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering

Connell Miller

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: alternative methods of estimating wind speeds in tornadoes such as the simulation of debris trajectories of vehicles; as well as alternative methods for detecting tornadoes through remote sensing tools such as vegetation indices and infrasound observations

Keith Porter

PhD, PE.

Taufiq Rahman

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: driving automation systems, simultaneous localization & mapping (SLAM), multi-modal sensor fusion, and control systems for aerial robots (multi-rotor drones & fixed-wing unmanned aircraft)

James W. Roy

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: multiphase and single-phase fluid flow through geologic materials, fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface and their interaction with surface water bodies and their ecosystems; impact of contaminants and nutrients in groundwater on aquatic ecosystems of rivers and lakes (with specific focus on oil sands, urban contamination, and phosphorus), and monitoring gas behaviour in groundwater (with implications for unconventional gas impacts and contaminated site natural attenuation).

David Sills

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Severe Weather Science

Mark Sterling

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: International leader in Wind Engineering with a history of multi-disciplinary research

Zachary Taylor

PhD., PEng., PE

Research Interests / Specializations: Wind Engineering, Bridge Engineering

Xuebin Zhang

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: climate change and extreme weather and climate events