Faculty of Science

Dr. Sean Michaletz, BA, MSc, PhD

Dr. Sean Michaletz, BA, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Forest fires, climate change, global warming, tree mortality, forest disturbance, plant ecology, plant-environment interactions, tree physiology, photosynthesis, fire management, forest monitoring, carbon cycle, productivity, global change, macro-ecology,

Dr. Maria Palomares

Dr. Maria Palomares

Senior Scientist and Manager

Fisheries science, fish biology, biodiversity information systems, Sea Around Us, FishBase, SeaLifeBase,

Reiner Kruecken

Reiner Kruecken

Professor

Deputy Director, Research TRIUMF

Nuclear and Particle Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics, Particle Accelerators, Radiation Detectors, Nuclear Physics Applications, Radioisotopes, Neutrinos, TRIUMF, Large Scale Research Infrastructure

Frank Wood

Frank Wood

Associate Professor

Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Probabilistic Programming, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Inference,

Jess McIver

Jess McIver

Assistant Professor

Gravitational wave astronomy, multi-messenger astrophysics, LIGO, gravitational wave detectors, neutron stars, black holes, supernova,

Dr. Andrea Reid, PhD

Dr. Andrea Reid, PhD

Assistant Professor

Indigenous Fisheries, Indigenous Science, Aquatic Conservation, Freshwater Ecology, Freshwater Conservation, Land-based Learning,

Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau

Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau

Research Scientist

Biodiversity, ocean conservation, climate change, marine biogeography, marine macro-ecology, species distribution model, fisheries,

Dr. Kwang Moo Yi

Assistant Professor

Computer Vision, Visual Geometry, Local Features, Augmented Reality, Deep Learning Applications, Structure from Motion, Image Matching, Outlier Rejection,

Prof. Jeff Clune

Prof. Jeff Clune

Associate Professor

artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, ML, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, RL, DNN, evolutionary algorithms, neuroevolution,

Prof. Dongwook Yoon

Assistant Professor

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Annotation, Online Communication, Collaboration Technologies, Educational Technology, Human-AI interaction,

Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD

Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Agriculture, Climate change, Environment, Farming, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, India, Water, Irrigation, Global environmental change, Crop yields, Crop models, IPCC, Food production,

Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng

Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng

Assistant Professor

Microbiome, microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, microbiology, biophysics, bioengineering, biomedical engineering,

Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, PhD

Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, PhD

Assistant Professor

atmospheric chemistry, photochemistry, indoor air, forest fire chemistry, atmospheric aerosols, mass spectrometry, volatile organic compounds, atmospheric pollutants, fate of pollutants in air, atmospheric organic chemistry, selenium biogeochemistry, biomass burning, ice nucleation, aerosol-cloud interactions, mixed-phase clouds, air quality, indoor air quality,

Prof. Alannah  Hallas

Prof. Alannah Hallas

Assistant Professor

Quantum materials, condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, materials, crystal growth, neutron scattering, magnetism, crystallography, high entropy materials, high-pressure crystal growth,

Dr. Robert Xiao, PhD

Dr. Robert Xiao, PhD

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Computer Security, Privacy,

Dr. Shandin Pete

Dr. Shandin Pete

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Indigenous science, Indigenous research methodology, hydrology, ethnohydrology, hydrogeology, surface water/groundwater interaction, culturally congruent instruction, ethnography, Indigenous astronomy, Indigenous philosophies,

Dr. Aastha Mehta

Dr. Aastha Mehta

Assistant Professor

systems security, operating systems, data privacy, distributed systems, side channels,

Dr. Vered Shwartz

Dr. Vered Shwartz

Assistant Professor

natural language processing, commonsense reasoning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning,

Dr. Allison Man, PhD

Assistant Professor

Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy formation and evolution, Early Universe, Star formation, Supermassive black holes, Galaxy mergers, Galaxy structure and kinematics, Stellar populations, Interstellar medium, Gravitational lensing, Optical and near-infrared observations, Sub-millimeter/radio observations,

Prof. Mathias Lécuyer

Prof. Mathias Lécuyer

Assistant Professor

Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, Systems,