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Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE)

Faculty members

  • Alex De Visscher
    • Professor and Chair, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Kinetics and Catalysis, Transport Phenomena, Advanced Oxidation, Chemical Thermodynamics, Solubility, Modeling
  • Elena Baranova
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Electrochemistry and electrocatalysis Sustainable hydrogen production Biomass valorization Energy conversion and storage Electrochemical promotion of catalysis
  • George Bepete
    • Assistant Professor, Physics
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Nanomaterials for sustainable energy and next-generation electronics
  • Patricia Comeau
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Biologically-inspired Biomaterials; 3D Printing; Controlled Release & Ion/Drug Delivery; Polymers; Nanomaterials; Composites; External-stimuli Responsive Materials; Photodynamic Therapy; Tissue Regeneration; Antimicrobial Systems; Wound Healing
  • Sixu Deng
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: All-solid-state batteries, Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, Supercapacitors, Electrolytes, Interfaces, Thin films, Synchrotron, Advanced characterizations, Nanomaterials
  • Marc-Antoni Goulet
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Flow batteries, Fuel cells, Electrosynthesis, Electrochemical sensors, Electrochemistry fundamentals
  • Melanie Hazlett
    • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: environmental catalysis, sustainable processes, green fuel production, heterogeneous catalysis
  • Sana Jahanshahi Anbuhi
    • Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (GPD) PhD and MASc programs | Concordia University Research Chair Tier II in Stable Bio/Chemo-Sensors, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Paper-based microfluidic devices, and fabrication of ready-to-use analytical devices for point-of-care diagnostic, bio-sensing, and on-site detection of analytes such as pesticides, heavy metals, microorganisms, etc. Thermal Stabilization of Biologics
  • Ivan Kantor
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Industrial symbiosis, circular economy, energy, optimization, energy systems, process systems engineering, process integration, energy efficiency, industry, life-cycle thinking, life-cycle assessment
  • Yaser Khojasteh
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    • Gina Cody Research and Innovation Fellow
    Research areas: • Modelling and simulation of processes • Techno-economic optimization and Life cycle assessment • CO2 capture and utilization • Bioenergy • Waste valorization
  • Xia Li
    • Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    • Concordia University Research Chair in High Energy Rechargeable Batteries
    • Associate Director of Concordia Collaborative Centre on Energy and its Transition (C2ET)
    Research areas: Energy storage and conversion, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, Li-ion batteries, Li-sulfur batteries, solid-state batteries, solid-state electrolytes, synchrotron radiation, in-situ characterization techniques
  • Deniz Meneksedag Erol
    • Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director, Diploma and Certificate Programs, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Biomolecular simulations, Computational biophysics, Disordered proteins, Molecular dynamics, Structural biology
  • Kelly M. Meek
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    • Gina Cody Research Chair, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: polymers, fuel cells, anion exchange membranes, sustainable materials
  • Nhat Truong Nguyen
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Nanomaterials, photocatalysis, CO2 conversion, H2 generation, renewable fuels
  • Pantcho P. Stoyanov
    • Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Aerospace coatings, tribology, material solutions for sealing and bearing technologies in demanding environments, thermal spray, and surface characterization
  • Michel Laurent Trudeau
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: - Hydrogen Research - Hydrogen Storage - Hydrogen Economics - Hydrogen Embrittlement - Nanomaterials - Materials Characterization - Microscopy
  • Rolf Wuthrich
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Head of EGE group, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Non traditional manufacturing processes, glass micro-machining, electrochemical discharges, micro-systems , nano-particles, gas evolving electrodes, stochastic process modelling, multi-physics modelling, nanostructured electro-catalysts, hydrogen production, fuel-cells.
  • Zhibin Ye
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Polymer materials;materials for energy storage and conversion; nanostructured metal nanoparticles for catalysis and biomedical applications; heterogeneous catalysis; advanced polymerization technologies; catalytic olefin polymerization; transition metal catalysts; polymers of complex architectures
  • Karim Zaghib
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Electrochemistry, rechargeable batteries, electrochromic, carbon

  • Ayhan Ince
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational damage modeling, damage/fracture mechanics of materials and structures, short crack growth behavior, high cycle fatigue, multiaxial fatigue, machine learning-based modeling, peridynamics-based modeling, fatigue design, durability, material deformation, stress-strain analysis
  • Jerin John
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Rocket Propulsion Concepts, Combustion, Rheology, Green Propellants, Energetic Materials, Gel fuels, Non-Newtonian Fluids, Material Charaterization Techniques, Droplet and Spray Combustion, Soft Matter, Hybrid Rocket Engines
  • Lyes Kadem
    • Professor , Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Status: Director of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
    Research areas: Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Fluid Mechanics Medical Devices Medical Imaging (e.g., Doppler ultrasound, MRI) Mathematical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System Advanced Data Post-Processing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
  • Ida Karimfazli
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, computational and mathematical analysis, heat and mass transfer
  • Ashok Kaushal
    • Lecturer(ETA), Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Chair Capstone Design Committee, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Rotor dynamics; Modal testing and analysis; Finite element method; Vibration analysis and machine dynamics; Machinery monitoring and diagnostics; Product Development product development
  • Masoumeh Kazemi-Zanjani
    • Associate Chair, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Stochastic and Robust Optimization, Operations Research, Industry 5.0, Supply Chain Management; Reverse Logistics; Production Planning; Maintenance Logistics; Healthcare Operations Management
  • Mojtaba Kheiri
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Fluid-structure interactions, Aeroelasticity, Flow-induced vibration, Wind engineering, Airborne wind energy, Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Renewable energy systems, Energy harvesting, Numerical methods
  • Charles Basenga Kiyanda
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Thermodynamics, Equations of State, Compressible Fluid Dynamics, Supersonic Flow, Combustion, Nonlinear Systems
  • Onur Kuzgunkaya
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Design and Analysis of Flexible/Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Manufacturing System Performance Evaluation, Complexity in Manufacturing, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Methods,Fuzzy Optimization, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
  • Tsz Ho Kwok
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: 3D Printing, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Mass Customization, Computer-Aided Design
  • Jonathan Liscouët
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Design of drones and VTOL aircraft for safety-critical applications
  • Susan Liscouët-Hanke
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: integrated aircraft systems design for sustainable aviation, aircraft systems architecting, aircraft-level technology evaluation, model-based systems engineering, novel technologies for aircraft systems, aircraft electrification
  • Mamoun Medraj
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Water droplet impingement erosion, hydrogen embrittlement, 3D printing of metals, solid state hydrogen storage
  • Christian Moreau
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Thermal Spraying, Coatings, Properties / Microstructure Relationship, Industrial Applications of Coatings, Particle Diagnostics, Optical, Sensors, Optical Pyrometry, Control of Thermal Spray Processes

  • Sivakumar Narayanswamy
    • Professor and M. Eng & M.A.Sc. Program Director, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Measurement of surface roughness, profile and length using laser interferometry, dynamic characterization of vibrating objects, characterization of MEMS devices. In Micromachining: Pulsed Laser micromachining of photonic devices such as surface relief gratings, fiber bragg gratings and feature size reduction by direct machining
  • Hoi Dick Ng
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Combustion; explosion; detonation and deflagration; shock waves physics; alternative fuel research; energetic materials; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics, numerical methods
  • Ryan O’Neil
    • Full-Time Faculty, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Intelligent maintenance; Mission-abort policy optimization; Data-driven prognostic models for predictive maintenance; Reliability engineering; System resilience
  • Muthukumaran Packirisamy
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    Research areas: Optical MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), PVDF MEMS, Microphotonics, Dynamics of Microsystems, Integrated Microsensors and Microactuators, Silicon Micromachining, Fuzzy System Identification of Microsystems, Design and manufacturing.
  • Alexandre Paradis
    • Extended-Term Appointment, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Marius Paraschivoiu
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods for fluid simulations; aerodynamic simulations; wind energy; acoustic simulations; parallel computing; turbulence modeling.
  • Martin D. Pugh
    • Professor and Chair of the Department, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Plastics, ceramics, metals, and composites; materials science; properties and failure of materials; casting, welding, heat-treating and non-destructive testing.
  • Subhash Rakheja
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Human response to vibration and shock; vehicle dynamics; optimization and vibration control in system design; directional control and stability of commercial vehicles; driver-vehicle interactions; power tools and hand-transmitted vibration; seating dynamics and driver vibration; semi-active and active vibration control; vehicle and ride dynamics; vehicle suspension analysis;
  • Wael Fairouz Saleh
    • Lecturer , Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Tommaso Schettini
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Electric Vehicle Charger Location, Public Transit, Timetabling of Metro Lines, Operations Research, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization, Discrete Simulation-based Optimization, Benders Decomposition
  • Ramin Sedaghati
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Smart Materials and Structures (Adaptive Structures); Adaptive Energy Absorption Systems using Smart ER/MR Fluids; Design Optimization of Lightweight Metallic or Composite Structures; Computational Mechanics (Finite Element Method)
  • Farjad Shadmehri
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Composite structures: analysis, design & testing; Composite materials; Automated manufacturing of composites; Automated Fiber Placement (AFP); Aircraft structures
  • Navid Sharifi
    • Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Ion Stiharu
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Director of CONCAVE
    Research areas: Design and manufacturing; dynamics; micromachining and micromechanics; tribology; high precision mechanics; intelligent vehicle systems; micromechatronic devices; microsensors (acoustic, acceleration, pressure, humidity); microtribology; nonconventional lubrication methods; sensors and detection systems.
  • Chun-Yi Su
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Control systems; mechatronics; precision engineering; robotics; process dynamics and control; linear systems.
  • Hamid Taghavifar
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); Robotics; Control Systems; Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Reinforcement Learning; Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Moussa Tembely
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Multiphase Flows, CFD, Flow in Porous Media, Machine and Deep Learning, Thermal Spray, Icing
  • Brian Vermeire
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, high-performance computing, turbulence, numerical methods, applied mathematics, optimization, large eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation.
  • Sorin Voiculescu
    • Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Christopher Yee Wong
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Kinematics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Affective Computing, Engineering Education
  • Di Wu
    • Full-Time Faculty, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Rolf Wuthrich
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Head of EGE group, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Non traditional manufacturing processes, glass micro-machining, electrochemical discharges, micro-systems , nano-particles, gas evolving electrodes, stochastic process modelling, multi-physics modelling, nanostructured electro-catalysts, hydrogen production, fuel-cells.
  • Wen-Fang Xie
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Dynamic modeling and control, Mechatronics, Visual Servo Control, Soft Computing Techniques, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Industrial Process Control and Flight control.
  • Hang Xu
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Mechanical Metamaterials, Lightweight Structures, Aircraft Structure Design, Multi-scale Mechanics of Materials, Multi-material Additive Manufacturing, and Soft Robotics
  • Yassine Yaakoubi
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Programming, Uncertainty Quantification, Supply/Value Chain Optimization, Decision Support for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Mining and Aviation Applications, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Behrooz Yousefzadeh
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Mechanical vibration, nonlinear dynamics, elastic wave propagation, mechanical metamaterials, applied mechanics, nonlinear waves, stability analysis, architectural acoustics.
  • Youmin Zhang
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control of Safety-critical Systems (air, land, ground, surface/underwater, and autonomous vehicles etc.); Avionics and Flight Control; Industrial Process Control; Modeling and Simulation of Physical Systems; Estimation, Identification and Information Fusion Techniques; Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Diagnosis and Control; Mechatronics

Fall 2025-26

Professor’s Name

Course

E-mail address
Aziz, Ali MIAE 215/2 T ali.aziz@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre ENGR 311/2 X  +  ENGR 6201/2 XX and MECH 461/6111/2 XX pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Hamidi, Hamid AERO 417/ENGR 6421/2 MM hamid.hamidi@concordia.ca
Hemami, Ahmad ENGR 391/2 E ahmad.hemami@concordia.ca
Obuchowicz, Ted MIAE 215/2 XX ted.obuchowicz@concordia.ca
Portaro, Rocco MECH 351/2 M and MECH 412/2 NN rocco.portaro@concordia.ca 
Sabih, Amar ENGR 242/2 T and MECH 6491/2 W amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Sy, Mamadou MECH 6561/2 F mamadou.sy@concordia.ca
Tardy, Francois MIAE 211/2 F and X francois.tardy@concordia.ca

Summer 2025-26

Professor's Name Course E-mail address
Aziz, Ali MIAE 215/1 CC ali.aziz@concordia.ca 
Foroughi, Shervin ENGR 311/AA shervin.foroughi@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre MECH 370/1 CC and MECH 6111/1 CC pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Hamidi, Hamid AERO 417/ENGR 6421/1 AA hamid.hamidi@concordia.ca 
Khamsepour, Peyman MECH 6501/1 AA peyman.khamsepour@concordia.ca
Rembacz, Michael MIAE 311/1 AA michael.rembacz@concordia.ca 
Sabih, Amar MECH 6491/1 CC amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Tadayon, Rahim ENGR 243/1 AA and ENGR 245/1 AA rahim.tadayon@concordia.ca 
Talla, Malleswara Rao ENGR 301/1 CC malleswara.talla@concordia.ca
Taraboulsi, Choucri-Gabriel MECH 6491/1 AA gabriel.taraboulsi@concordia.ca
Tardy, Francois ENGR 251/1 CW francois.tardy@concordia.ca 

Winter 2024-25

Professor's Name Course E-mail address
Azami, Aria INDU 424/4-W aria.azami@concordia.ca
Engin, Serafettin MECH 6421/4-WW Serafettin.engin@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre AERO 455/4 T and  MECH 6961/4 WW pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Girgis, Sami with Raja Rama Murthy AERO 465/MECH 6161/4-XX raja.ramamurthy@pwc.a
Joshi, SuraJ ENGR 244/4 T suraj.joshi@concordia.ca 
Obuchowicz, Ted MIAE 215/4 YY ted.obuchowicz@concordia.ca 
Portaro, Rocco MECH 414/MECH6611/4 XX rocco.portaro@concordia.ca
Rembacz, Michael MIAE 313/4 M michael.rembacz@concordia.ca 
Sabih, Amar INDU 411/4 X amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Sabour, Mohammad ENGR 243/4 T sabour@encs.concordia.ca
Sadouk, Said AERO 446/MECH 6241/4 X said.sadouk@concordia.ca 
Tardy, Francois MECH 343/4 MM francois.tardy@concordia.ca
Vaidya, Viwek MECH 6541/4-X and  MECH 6541/4-XX Viwek.vaidya@concordia.ca

Name Title
Dr. Rama Bhat Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Dr. Akif Bulgak Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Dr. Nabil Esmail Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Dr. Henry Hong Associate Professor Emeritus

Farhad Aghili, PhD McGill University
Ali Dolatabadi, PhD University of Toronto
Dayong Gao, PhD Concordia University
Anirban Ghosh, PhD Jawaharlai Nehru University
Ashok Kaushal, PhD Concordia University
Nicole Viola, PhD Politecnico di Torino
Weixing Yuan, PhD University of Munich

Associate Professors

Yong (Eric) Chen, PhD Nanjing University

Affiliate Assistant Professors

Jayan Ozhikandathil, PhD Concordia University
Rocco Portaro, PhD Concordia University

 
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