Academic Leadership
- Aimy Bazylak (MIE) was appointed Vice-Dean, Undergraduate on an acting basis for a term beginning March 1, 2021 and ending August 31, 2021
Academic Promotions
The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of Professor on July 1, 2021:
- Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin (ChemE)
- Tobin Filleter (MIE)
- Ashvin Goel (ECE)
- Axel Guenther (MIE)
- Xinyu Liu (MIE)
The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of Professor, Teaching Stream on July 1, 2021:
- Jason Bazylak (MIE)
The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor on July 1, 2021:
- Scott Sanner (MIE)
- Patrick Lee (MIE)
New Faculty Members
- Seyedsamin Arefkashfi, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (MIE)
- Philip Asare, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP, EngSci)
- Margaret Chapman, Assistant Professor (ECE)
- Eldan Cohen, Assistant Professor (MIE)
- Shai Cohen, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP)
- Sinisa Colic, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (MIE)
- Fiona Coll, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP)
- Liyang Dai-Hattrick, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (MSE)
- Ali Dolatobadi, Full Professor with tenure (MIE)
- Mihai Duduta, Assistant Professor (MIE)
- Daniel Franklin, Assistant Professor (BME)
- Daniela Galatro, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ChemE)
- Sasha Gollish, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP)
- Kevin Golovin Assistant Professor (MIE)
- Michael Guerzhoy, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (MIE)
- Sarah Haines, Assistant Professor (CivMin)
- Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Assistant Professor (MSE)
- Mark Jeffrey, Assistant Professor (ECE)
- Elias Khalil, Assistant Professor (MIE)
- Daeho Kim, Assistant Professor (CivMin)
- Seungjae Lee, Assistant Professor (CivMin)
- Edmund Nolan, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP)
- Ervin Sejdic, Associate Professor with tenure (ECE)
- John Simpson-Porco, Assistant Professor (ECE)
- Jay Werber, Assistant Professor (ChemE)
- Lydia Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (ISTEP)
- Shurui Zhou, Assistant Professor (ECE)
New Staff Appointments and Transfers
- Dominic Abogado, Recruitment Officer, Communications and Relationship Management (Engineering Student Recruitment & Retention Office)
- Jonathan Alexander, Financial and Payroll Administrator (MIE)
- Tarek Awad, Research Associate (MIE)
- Alexei Baevski, Senior Developer and Database Systems Analyst (Office of the Dean)
- Kalsen Bajnath, Space Flight Laboratory Facility Assistant (UTIAS)
- Chris Balarajah, Director, Administration and Finance (ECE)
- Alexandra Basen, Director of Operations, Advancement (Office of Advancement)
- Hasan Bayanouni, Research Associate (CivMin)
- Tamsyn Boshoff, HR Advisor (Office of the Dean)
- Ingeborg-Anne Breede, Senior Education Technologist, Content Production (EdTech Office)
- Chris Brown, Special Projects & Director, Academic Scheduling (Registrar’s Office)
- Jennifer Brown, Executive Assistant (MIE)
- Jing Cai, Financial Officer (UTIAS)
- Melanie Carrington, Faculty Critical Incident Coordinator (Office of the Dean)
- Meaghan Carter, Academic Administrative Coordinator (ISTEP)
- Michael Carter, Senior Development Officer (Office of Advancement)
- Vincent Chan, Senior Finance & Payroll Officer (Office of the Dean)
- Haw Chen, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Vera Cherepanova, Research Associate (BME)
- Maya Churbaji, Manager, Operations (Engineering Career Centre)
- Brittany Cohen, Student Development Coordinator, Career Resources & Online Technology (Engineering Career Centre)
- Nicholas Cusimano, Engineering Technologist, Electric Vehicle Research Group (ECE)
- Abdolkarim Danaei, Research Associate (MSE)
- Hannah De Haan, First Year Coordinator (First Year Office)
- Williams Diogu ,Transportation Network Modeller (CivMin)
- Christopher A Dixon, Research Associate (BME)
- Melanie Duhamel, Director, Facilities & Operations (ChemE)
- Linda Duong, Education Technical Specialist (Office of the Dean)
- Oluwatobi Edun, InVEST Project Coordinator (ISTEP)
- Rosalie Eid, Events and Administrative Coordinator (BME)
- Mirna Eljazovic, Financial Assistant (CivMin)
- Shaghayegh (Sherry) Esfahani, External Relations Officer (MSE)
- Lucie Freret, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Christine Gabardo, Research Associate (MIE)
- Shilpa Gantotti, Director, Stakeholder Communications (Engineering Strategic Communications)
- Rodney Gensell, Faculty Operations Officer (Office of the Dean)
- Leslie Grife, Associate Director, First-year Academic Services & Advisor (First Year Office)
- Philip Richard Hampton, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Colin Harry, Makerspace Facility Supervisor (Myhal Fabrication Facility)
- Agnes Hsin, Undergraduate Liaison Officer (MSE)
- Regina Hui, Financial Officer, Research (BME)
- Lisa Jack, Graduate/Undergraduate Administrator (ChemE)
- Mandeep Jajj, Graduate Administrator & Communications Assistant (BME)
- Amsal Jindani, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Gregory Jovanovic, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Megan Katsumi, Research Associate (MIE)
- Alexander Kiar, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Anna Kozoriz, Human Resources Consultant (Office of the Dean)
- Matthew Douglas Laidlaw, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Carol Lam Student Development Coordinator, Peer Education (Engineering Career Centre)
- Elise Lariviere, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Ahmed Lasisi, Research Associate (CivMin)
- Todd Le Blanc, Assistant Director, First-year Student Success & Transition & TrackOne Advisor (First Year Office)
- Karen Lee, Senior Development Officer, (Office of Advancement)
- Philip Leung, Client Support Analyst (Office of the Dean)
- Jennifer Li, Communications Assistant (UTIAS)
- Anna Limanni, Senior Instructional Technologist (EdTech Office)
- Charles Chih-Chin Lin, Research Associate (ECE)
- Mary Victoria Augusta Lipscombe, Research and Communications Specialist (MIE)
- Shengyan Liu, Research Associate (ChemE)
- Yilan Liu, Research Associate (ChemE)
- Andrea Luttgen, Research Associate (ECE)
- Guoqi Ma, Business Officer (BME)
- Nadika Mallawaratchi, Undergraduate and Admissions Assistant (Registrar’s Office)
- Serena Mandla, Lab Technician (BME)
- Laura Maniago, Senior Development Officer (Office of Advancement)
- Timothy Manning, Business Development Officer (Engineering Career Centre)
- Jeffrey McDowell, Research Associate (ChemE)
- Silvana Mello da Silva, Co-op Coordinator (Engineering Career Centre)
- Sindhu Aravindakshan Menon, Program Coordinator, CRANIA (Office of the Dean)
- Ashley Miles, Project Administration Manager (BME)
- Shawn Mitchell, Graduate Studies Administrator (ECE)
- Seyed Farzad Mousavi, Research Associate (ECE)
- Ignace Moya, Research Associate (MSE)
- Kristine Music, Executive Assistant (Office of Advancement)
- Miriam Neizer, Recruitment Cycle and Project Assistant (Engineering Career Centre)
- Khanh Hoa Nguyen, Research Associate (BME)
- Alexander Olson, Research Associate (MIE)
- Nathan Paes, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Constantine Papakonstantinou, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Eva Peringer, Engineering Student Outreach Office Events and Administrative Officer (Outreach Office)
- Cristina Racsag, Space Flight Laboratory Technician (UTIAS)
- Naimeh Rafatian, Senior Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Pratyush Raman, Hatchery Programs Lead (The Entrepreneurship Hatchery)
- Taylor Rault, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Muhammad Rizwan, Research Associate (ChemE)
- Nadia Robb, Finance & Payroll Assistant (Office of the Dean)
- Anis Roshani, Research Associate (CivMin)
- Daniela Rosu, Research Associate (MIE)
- Caulan Rupke, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Maria Salome, Maker Space Facilitator (Myhal Fabrication Facility)
- Viktar Samuel, Maker Space Facilitator (Myhal Fabrication Facility)
- Amit Sandhel, Modelling Software Designer/Programmer (CivMin)
- Cody Richard Santing, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Tyler Schilz, Recruitment Officer, Events & Engagement (Engineering Student Recruitment and Retention)
- Mehdi Shajari, Research Associate (ECE)
- Ryan Stashick, Undergraduate and Admissions Assistant (Registrar’s Office)
- George Stratigacos, Computer Systems Administrator, Data Management Group (CivMin)
- Annie Sun, Co-op Coordinator (Engineering Career Centre)
- Brandon Sutherland, Senior Research Associate (ECE)
- Matthew Tierney, Communications Writer (ECE)
- Leo Ting, Network Systems Administrator (Office of the Dean)
- Vivian Trumblay, Leadership Education Specialist (ISTEP)
- Behrad Vatankhahghadim, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Jason Vescovi, Research Associate (MIE)
- Daniel Vieyra, Business Service Assistant (ECE)
- Si Tan Wang, Research Associate (ECE)
- Deidra Whittaker, Space Flight Laboratory Administrative Officer (UTIAS)
- Jessica Wurster Student Development Officer (Engineering Career Centre)
- Bo Xu, Research Associate (MIE)
- Xiao Zheng Xu, Research Associate (UTIAS)
- Fang Yu, Administrative Assistant (CivMin)
- Cheng Zeng, Business Officer (BME)
- Ke Zhao, Course & Educational Technology. Assistant (Office of the Dean)
- Eric Yi Zhu, Research Associate (ECE)