Advisor List
Here you will find the list of possible Advisors for the Collaborative Specialization Program required in your thesis.The current order is Alphabetically per Department, and alphabetically in each department.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Greg Kopp
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Extreme wind storms, tornadoes and hurricanes. building aerodynamics, wind effects on building component

Reza Najafi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Flood hazards, climate change impact, concurrent and compound events

Girma Bitsuamlak
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Multi-scale, multi-physics experimental and computational modelling of wind effects on built- environment

Wenxing Zhou
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Resilience, reliability and risk of underground infrastructure systems, and Bayesian analysis
Ashraf El Damatty
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Engineering, Wind-Related Structural Problems, Structural Optimization, Shell Structures, Fluid-Structure
Tim Newson
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering
Abouzar Sadrekarimi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Site characterization, geotechnical earthquake engineering, landslides, and liquefaction analysis
Craig Miller
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Extreme wind, surface wind field models, modelling of risk due to both tropical and extra-tropical cyclones
Bing Li
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Micro-earthquake monitoring and fracture imaging in rocks at the field scale of mining, civil, and energy applications
Ayan Sadhu
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Infrastructure monitoring and disaster mitigation
Kelly Yili Tang
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Analysis, modeling, and optimization of the transportation system, travel behavior and transport economics, data mining, and decision analytics (statistical model, machine learning/deep learning)
Jin Wang
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Experimental simulations of boundary-layer winds and tornadoes, bluff-body aerodynamics, wind effects on structures, and risk assessment of multi-hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floodingDepartment of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

Mita Ray
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: advanced treatment technologies for water and waste treatment, environmental modelling
Department of Earth Sciences

Katsu Goda
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment - Earth Sciences and Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Earthquake and tsunami hazards and risks and natural disaster risk financing
Sheri Molnar
Assistant Professor - Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Numerical and in situ field- based methodologies to characterize geo-hazards and mapping

Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor - Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Statistical seismology and earthquake rupture dynamics
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Yanping Li
Physics and Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate modeling, climate change adaptation, and hydrometeorology
Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences

Rogemar Mamon
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantitative finance and stochastic processes to financial modelling

Marcos Escobar-Anel
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Stochastic processes, financial mathematics, and statistics

Jiandong Ren
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Insurance, actuarial science, and risk management

Matt Davidson
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics, Particularly Commodity Finance Mathematics and Data Science

Cristian Bravo Roman
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Credit Scoring and Credit Risk, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Shu Li
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Risk theory, ruin theory, stochastic processes, and optimal strategies for risk management

Camila de Souza
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Statistical modelling, clustering, hierarchical mixture models, mixed effect models, hidden Markov models
Department of Geography and Environment

James Voogt
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Thermal remote sensing of urban areas, Application of thermal remote sensing to the study of surface climates

Jinfei Wang
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Remote sensing and GIS and their applications to urban environment analysis

Isaac Luginaah
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Environment and health, population health and GIS applications in health

Gordon McBean
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate change science and policy and natural hazards prediction and mitigation