Advanced Systems & Data Analytics
Advanced Systems encompass big data and networks, communication networking, photonics and electromagnetics, robotics, control systems, and sensors.
Research Themes
Adapting new ideas and tools from information technology, coding theory, stochastic processes and design optimization to impact information & coding theory, wireless communications & networking, cloud computing & big data, and blockchain technology.
Theoretical and applied research pertaining to digital communications over wireless channels, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, spread spectrum communications, statistical signal processing for wireless applications, and optical wireless communications.
Development and use of sophisticated numerical algorithms, software, and high-performance computer hardware to tackle challenging engineering problems. Activities include finite element analysis (FEA) of metallurgical castings, solidification, and welding; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of fluid mixing, multiphase flows, and turbulence.
Design and optimize advanced electromechanical systems such as fuel injectors, high-speed machine tools, or earthquake dampers for buildings. These applications use advanced actuation technologies including custom design magnetic circuits and smart materials to control the behaviour of mechanical structures (at the micro and macro scale).
Research activities in broad applications of sensors, actuators, robotic systems and unmanned vehicles. Besides fundamental research on theories, a majority of the mechatronics and control activities are carried out in partnership with industrial partners who desire to increase the level of autonomy, precision and safety in their processes and production environments.
Exploring new fabrication processes, new device concepts, and new integrated microsystems (and nanomaterials). Exploring novel materials based on polymers, carbon nanotubes, graphene and new processes using 3D printing and laser machining. Applications include lab-on-a-chip devices, organ-on-a-chip for drug screening and biochemical sensors for environmental sensing and medical diagnostics.
Developing robust optimization systems related to sourcing, materials management, operations planning, distribution, logistics, demand forecasting, order fulfillment, and more to enable sustainable and resilient supply chain networks.
Faculty Researchers
Ahmad Al-Dabbagh – Assistant Professor
Developing model-based and data-based approaches for the control, monitoring, and automation of systems and processes.
Joshua Brinkerhoff – Associate Professor
Mechanics of materials; alternative energy systems; turbulence; computational fluid dynamics; aircraft conceptual design & aerodynamics.
Anas Chaaban – Assistant Professor
Relaying for Interference Management specifically network information theory. Researching optical wireless communications, communication theory, relay networks and coding theory.
Kenneth Chau – Associate Professor
At the intersection of nanotechnology and optics, moulding light to create the next generation of light tools. Using smart windows and incorporating nanotechnology and optics to distribute power and communications signals.
Christopher Collier – Assistant Professor
Oversees experimental photonics; specifically lab-on-a-chip terahertz spectroscopy microsystems in the areas of biomedical engineering, biological engineering, and engineering systems and computing.
Chen Feng – Assistant Professor
Information and coding theory, big data and blockchains. Adapting new ideas and tools from information theory, coding theory, stochastic processes, and optimization to design better networking systems.
Sulimon Garguom – Assistant Professor
Develops intelligent transportation infrastructure and management through advanced road safety analytics using machine learning, deep neural networks, and stochastic simulation techniques.
Jonathan Holzman – Professor
Integrated Optics including micro- and nano-photonic technologies targeted at a variety of applications, including ultrafast all-optical processing, optical wireless communications and terahertz spectroscopy.
Jahangir Hossain – Associate Professor
Contemporary wireless communication systems focused on bandwidth and energy efficient technologies for wireless systems leading to longer battery life and high data rate support.
Thomas Johnson – Associate Professor
Solving applied problems in radio frequency and microwave circuits and systems. Investigating RF power sources for wireless and industrial applications, applied electromagnetics and pulse encoders for switch-mode power amplifiers.
Richard Klukas – Associate Professor
Using optical, ultrawideband, and WiFi signals and sensors for indoor positioning and navigation. Improving methods for integrating various indoor positioning technologies and vehicle-to-vehicle ranging systems
Sunny Li – Associate Professor
Advancing liquid / air cooling technologies, thermal / fluid sciences in sustainable energy systems and thermalfluidics in micro devices and systems.
Zheng Liu – Associate Professor
IoT-based sensing, intelligent systems, machine learning and data analytics, computer vision and pattern recognition, information fusion.
Loïc Markley – Assistant Professor
Electromagnetic wave engineering, with an emphasis on metamaterials and metamaterial-related devices to further the design of high-frequency electronic circuits and antennas.
Homayoun Najjaran – Professor
Mechatronics and control systems with applications in robotics, industrial automation and unmanned systems.
Stephen O’Leary – Professor
Wide-band gap III-V and disordered semiconductors related to optical response of materials, novel electron devices, solar cells, x-ray image detectors and large-area electronics.
Rudolf Seethaler – Associate Professor
Mechatronics for automobiles including development of high-speed and large displacement actuation devices, electromagnetic valve trains, distributed control sensor fusion and power distribution systems.
Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani – Assistant Professor
Developing robust optimization models to design sustainable and resilient supply chain networks under operational and disruption risks.
Klaske van Heusden – Assistant Professor
Data-driven and learning control; system identification; control of robotics and mechatronic systems; emerging applications in agriculture and health care
Mohammad Zarifi – Assistant Professor
Development of microwave resonator sensors, high-speed and lower power analog to digital converters, microelectromechanical sensors.