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Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE)

Faculty members

  • 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

  • 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

Winter 2025-26

Professor's Name Course E-mail address
Gauthier, Pierre MECH 6961/4 WW pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Ghamary, Yasser INDU 424/4 W yasser.ghamary@concordia.ca
Girgis, Sami with Raja Rama Murthy AERO 465/MECH 6161/4-XX raja.ramamurthy@pwc.a
Obuchowicz, Ted MIAE 215/4 YY ted.obuchowicz@concordia.ca
Sabih, Amar INDU 411/4 X amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Sy, Mamadou MIAE 221/4 N & MIAE 221/4 W mamadou.sy@concordia.ca
Taraboulsi, Choucri-Gabriel MECH 6941/4 X and MIAE 380/4 W Gabriel.taraboulsi@concordia.ca
Tardy, Francois MIAE 313/4 M francois.tardy@concordia.ca
Vaidya, Viwek MECH 6541/4 X Viwek.vaidya@concordia.ca

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 

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
Yumeng Yao, PhD Concordia University

 
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