Renzo Benavides
MEng MIE (2022-2024)
Current Position: Data Scientist at Pani Energy
Renzo’s research focused on digital twins for battery thermal management systems.
Akhil Nair
PhD MIE (2021-2024)
Current Position: Post Doctorate Fellow MIE UofT
Akhil’s research focused on atomically engineering the electrochemical, structural, and thermal properties of two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers and heterostructures for alkali metal-ion battery anode applications.
Yiran (Niki) Wang
MEng MIE (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Niki‘s research focused on design of a thermally improved lithium-ion battery module.
Varun Navaneeth
MEng ChemE (2023-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Varun’s research focused predicting degradation on lithium-ion batteries subjected to fast charging.
Heinz Sfalsini
MEng ChemE (2023-2025)
Current Position: Work Study Program UofT
Heinz research focused on informative data on water contamination in the Thunder Bay Area relative to known Acute Myeloid Leukemia Ccusters.
Muyang (Charles) Zhang
MEng ChemE (2023-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Charles’s research focused on obtaining information data of water contamination in Thunder Bay Area Relative to known Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Clusters.
Yongyi Feng Mendex
MEng ChemE (2023-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Yongyi’s research focused on visualizing high dimensional, time-series, soil and groundwater contamination data in lower dimensions.
MASc MIE (2022-2024)
Current Position: PhD Student UofT
Sara’s research focuses on computational modelling for an Artificial Placenta system.
Mirna Al Dakka
Undergraduate EngSci Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: Undergraduate Student UofT
Mirna’s Engineering Science thesis at ATOMS Lab focused on examining factors contributing to Type B Aortic Dissection in Marfan Syndrome Patients after David procedure: A fluid-structure interaction study.
Rohan Batchu
Undergraduate EngSci Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Rohan’s research focused on experimental characterization of large format lithium-ion battery degradation.
Zidong Han
Undergraduate MIE Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Zidong’s research focused on a machine learning approach for the segmentation of micro-vessel generated in microfluidic devices from 3D widefield fluorescence microscopic images.
Zakariya Khan
Undergraduate MIE Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Zak’s research focused on thermal characterization of large format pouch cells influenced by external pressure: effective thermophysical properties and heat generation rates.
Iris Zhou
Undergraduate ChemE Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Iris’s research focused on design and optimization informative data of water contamination in Northern Canada co-supervised with Daniela Galatro
Yongzhen (Terry) Xiong
Undergraduate MIE Student (2023-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Terry worked for Professional Engineering Year at the Thermal Management Systems TMS-ATOMS Lab focusing on thermal management of lithium ion battery systems.
Amaru Izarra-Jacome
Undergraduate Physics Student (2024-2025)
Current Position: TBD
Amaru’s research focused on analyzing the spatial distribution of contaminants in Fort William First Nation.
Francesa Fortino
Undergraduate MIE Student (2024)
Current Position: TBD
Francesa’s research focused on CFD simulations of a heart ventricle.
Seshill Real Armas
Undergraduate ChemE Student (2024)
Current Position: TBD
Seshill’s research focused on machine learning tools to investigate the aggregate risk of environmental contaminants of concern on a cancer cluster centered in Fort William First Nation.
Mesha Ajaz
Undergraduate Life Science Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Mesha’s research focused on caring for the Thunderbird Nest: syncretizing engineering and indigenous approaches using machine learning tools.
Vincenzo L. Costanzo
Undergraduate Comp.Sci& Maths Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Vincenzo’s research focused on mapping groundwater quality data using statistical tools to unveil environmental threats with an indigenous community in Northern Ontario,
Elizabeth Lee-Chin
Undergraduate Maths Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Elizabeth’s research focused on medical image enhancement using spatially resampled multi-image super resolution.
Undergraduate EngSci Biomedical Systems Engineering Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Rafel worked on microvasculature in endothelium-seeded hydrogel scaffolds. Rafael created CFD simulation models of bioreactors for the analysis of flow and shear stress in microvasculature. These simulations will be used to design a microfluidic device to measure the porosity and permeability of hydrogel scaffolds to produce micro-vessels in-vitro.
Sara Esmaeili
Undergraduate MIE Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
During her time at ATOMS, Sara completed a research thesis that was focused on using Inverse Heat Transfer Models (IHT) to determine the thermophysical properties and geometric parameters of an industry NMC pouch cell. Her work built upon existing methodologies by introducing a segmented IHT approach that reduced computational effort and increased result accuracy.
Undergraduate MIE Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Nili focused on the comparison of various image segmentation techniques and their applicability in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.
Undergraduate EngSci Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: Undergraduate Student UofT
Eila’s research aimed to optimize wind farm efficiency through computational modeling, increasing energy production and reducing turbine wear.
Amirmahdi Mostofinejad
PhD MIE (2020-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Amir research focused on optimizing the design of bioreactors for the recellularization of the trachea and lungs. The particular interest of his project was to model the recellularization of the scaffolds in perfusion bioreactors. He has a strong knowledge of numerical analysis in Python and MATLAB.
Undergraduate EngSci Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: Electrical Engneering Intern at Formlabs
Alex’s research aimed to enhance UTFR’s ongoing efforts in EV battery pack design by structurally, electrically, and thermally characterizing battery pouch cells as UofT’s FSAE team pushes to transition from cylindrical cells to a pouch cell battery pack architecture.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: Cell Qualification Intern at Electrovaya
Manav worked on the characterization and modelling of cycle-aged Lithium-ion cells, through a Kinetics-based Approach for electric vehicle applications.
Undergraduate BME Student (2023-2024)
Current Position: TBD
Amy worked on data-driven modeling and in vivo visualization of cardiovascular flow.
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Current Position: TBD
During her time at ATOMS, Negin’s research focused on biomechanics, solid mechanics of vascular tissue and surgical implants, endovascular aortic repair modeling, and improving patient outcomes during surgery.
MASc MIE (2021-2023)
Current Position: Lucid Motors
During his time at ATOMS, Takiah’s research focused on multidisciplinary design optimization supported by computational fluid dynamics.
MASc MIE (2021-2023)
Current Position: Thermal engineer, Conifer
During his time at ATOMS, Shahzeb focused on the design and optimization of phase change material heat exchangers for electric vehicle thermal management systems. His work was greatly collaborative with the CACT (Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies) lab to study manufacturing processes for such devices and to validate experimental models.
Undergraduate ECE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: TBD
During his time at ATOMS, Robert researched on the experimental characterization of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage applications, where he was responsible for instrumenting cell test fixtures, monitoring tests, and gathering and post-processing transient thermo-electrochemical battery performance data.
Undergraduate BS Global Health Studies Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: TBD
During her time at ATOMS, Halo worked on transcribing, organizing, and mapping the data contained in environmental site assessment reports and other water quality surveys of an area of epidemiological interest in Northern Ontario.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: Corrosion Prevention and Crossings Engineering Intern
During his time at ATOMS, John investigated the accelerated aging of LiNMC pouch cells in order to reduce testing costs and testing time.
Undergraduate MIE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: Jr. Engineering Specialist, Johnson Electric
During his time at ATOMS, Delsuz focused on the adverse effects of waste disposal sites on surrounding water and leachate, delving into water quality reports using advanced IT resources.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position:
During her time at ATOMS, Christina focused on monitoring and computational modelling of water quality in a waste disposal site, which involved assessing groundwater, surface water, and leachate levels, as well as tracking contaminants transport in porous media.
Undergraduate MIE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: Powertrain Engineer,
During his time at ATOMS, Eric worked on creating a digital twin of the FSAE team’s battery pack, with the goal of improving battery pack thermal management under motorsports competition scenarios.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer,
During his time at ATOMS, Satya primarily focussed on the application of R and Machine Learning algorithms to analyze benzene levels in contaminated areas and their potential correlation with the rise of Leukemia risk factors.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2023)
Current Position: Manufacturing Engineering Intern,
During his time at ATOMS, Kai studied causality between contaminants and health factors in high-risk communities through machine learning algorithms.
Hanie Rezaei
MASc MIE Student (2021-2023)
During her time at ATOMS, Hanie worked on intelligent battery thermal management systems (BTMS) for electric vehicles (EVs) to regulate the thermo-electro-chemical processes that occur within batteries.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2022)
Current Position: The Canadian Association of Food Engineers at the University of Toronto
During her time at ATOMS, Julia focused on gathering important information from current water quality surveys and analytical reports of surface and groundwater sources from areas of concern in Northern Ontario.
Undergraduate MIE Student (Summer 2022)
Current Position: TBD
During his time at ATOMS, Yasin worked on designing the setup for a bioreactor control system to control parameters of pressure/flow in a bioreactor environment using Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations in ANSYS Fluent.
Undergraduate ChemE Student (Summer 2022)
Current Position: TBD
During her time at ATOMS, Allana worked on quantifying various factors affecting the development of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, in Indigenous communities.
MASc MIE Student ( 2021-2022)
Current Position: Battery Pack Test Engineer,
During his time at ATOMS, Damir worked on simulation of phase-change material thermal management systems for electric vehicles.
Negin Shahbazian
PhD Student (2018-2022)
Current Position: Postdoc with Dr. Osami Honjo at the Hospital for SickKids working in collaboration with Prof. Amon and Prof. Behdinan.
During her PhD, Negin investigated biomechanics, solid mechanics of vascular tissue and surgical implants, endovascular aortic repair modeling, and improving patient outcomes during surgery.
MEng ChemE (2020-2022)
Current Position: Project Engineering Representative,
Jim spent his time utilizing process simulation to study the effect of landfill-leachate parameters on biogas methane concentrations.
Camilo Escobar
MASc Student (2020-2022)
Current Position: Thermal Engineer at Apple, California
During his time at ATOMS Camilo worked on battery degradation modelling as applied to BTMS optimization.
Kevin Pyo
MASc Student (2020-2021)
Current Position: Jr. Mechanical Engineer at Acculon Energy, Columbus, OH
Kevin spent his time while at ATOMS investigating electric vehicle battery pack temperature models.
Leslie Louvelle
PhD Student (2016-2021)
Current Position: ZS, Toronto
During her tenure with the ATOMS Lab, Leslie investigated computational tools for patient-specific surgical planning of tetralogy of fallot repair.
Maan Al-Zareer
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
Current Position: Staff Battery Analysis Engineer, Tesla
Maan was a postdoctoral fellow at ATOMS Lab, University of Toronto. His research focused on the characterization, simulation and construction of cylindrical cell battery packs for electric vehicles.
Daniela Galatro
PhD Student (2017-2021)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Toronto, Canada
While at ATOMS Lab, Daniela worked on predicting lithium-ion battery aging in electric vehicles and second-life stationary applications.
Davis McCarthy
MASc Student (2019-2021)
Current Position: Preparing for the MCAT and applying for medical school
During his masters, Davis explored the relationship between ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm hemodynamics and arterial wall properties.
Matthew Doyle
Research Associate (2013-2020)
Current Position: CSA Group, Georgetown
As a research associate, Matthew oversaw the cardiovascular biomechanics research projects in the lab. The overall goal of these research projects is to apply engineering principles to clinical research problems in cardiology, cardiac surgery, and vascular surgery to improve patient outcomes.
Andrew Michalak
Research Associate (2019-2020)
Current Position: Battery systems engineer at Hexagon Purus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Andrew was a research associate at ATOMS Lab, University of Toronto. His research focused on the characterization, simulation and construction of cylindrical cell battery packs for electric vehicles.
Ramin Mardani
MASc Student (2018-2020)
Current Position: Data analyst at Voices.com, London, Canada
Ramin was an MASc student at ATOMS Lab, University of Toronto. His research was focused on modeling and implementation of the wall functions in the bioreactor for tissue-engineered tracheas.
Chi Shu
Visiting Student (2019-2020)
Current Position: TBD
Chi Shu is a visiting graduate student from Sichuan University, West China School of Medicine. His research focused on the hemodynamic changes in vascular diseases, especially the effect of type II endoleak on the aneurysm wall and stent graft post endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).
Alessia Di Nardo
Undergraduate Student (2018-2020)
Current Position: PhD Student at UofT
Alessia was a summer undergraduate student at ATOMS lab. Alessia’s project involved the use of finite element analysis to model the surgical repair strategies used to treat Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect.
Anthony Podgorsak
MASc Student (2018-2020)
Current Position: PhD Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anthony was a MASc student at ATOMS Lab, University of Toronto. His research focused on the computational optimization and physical validation of a minimally invasive cavopulmonary device for use in patients with failing Fontan circulations.
Armin Taheri
PhD Student (2014-2019)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at ATOMS Laboratory, Toronto, Canada
Armin was a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. His research interests were modelling and optimization of thermal/fluid flow systems, nanoscale heat transfer and applied mathematics. His research focused on heat transfer in 2D nanomaterials.
Alba Marin
PhD Student (2017-2019)
Current Position: O-two Medical Technologies, Inc.
Alba was a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. She was also a team member working on a bioreactor for tissue-engineered tracheas, in collaboration with Dr. Tom Waddell’s group at Toronto General Hospital.
Kshitij (Tij) Gupta
MASc Student (2017-2019)
Current Position: Software Engineer- Thermal Electrification at General Motors Toronto, Canada
Tij was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto. His work at ATOMS Lab focused on design and optimization of battery thermal management systems for electric vehicles.
Hankyu (Hank) Lee
MASc Student (2017-2019)
Current Position: Research Assistant at University of Toronto
Hank was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His work at ATOMS Lab involved designing a second generation trachea bioreactor and thermal management of the Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) Device.
Scarlett (Zhixuan) Zhou
Undergraduate Student (2018-2019)
Current Position: MSc student at Imperial College London, London, UK
Scarlett was an undergraduate student in the lab during summers 2018 and 2019. Her project was focused on building a semi-automated Solidworks library of commercial stent graft models for simulation purposes regarding stent graft vascular alignment.
Ana Gloria Angulo
Visiting Student (2019)
Current Position: IT Trainee at Tata Consultancy Services, Guadalajara, Mexico
Ana was a visiting summer student from Tecnologico de Monterrey (Guadalajara, Mexico), where she was majoring in Biomedical Engineering. At ATOMS Lab, she worked on CFD simulations of blood flow in the aorta and renal arteries of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Iris Pereira
MEng Student (2018-2019)
Iris was a MEng student in Mechanical Engineering. She worked at ATOMS Lan on a CFD-based assessment of rotor attachments on horizontal axis wind turbines.
Helen Genis
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2017, 2018, 2019)
Current Position: MD Candidate, University of Toronto
Elyar Abbasi Bavil
MASc Student (2017-2019)
Current Position: MD Candidate, University of Toronto
Elyar was an undergraduate thesis student and then a MASc student. His research at ATOMS Lab involved understanding the impacts of Fontan procedure on liver perfusion using lumped parametric models and real clinical data.
Omri Tayyara
MEng Student (2017-2018)
Current Position: PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Omri was a MEng student at the Mechanical and Inductrial Engineering department. He conducted research in CFD modeling of turbulent downstream wakes propagated by large scale wind turbines; and the development of quadrotor drone system for the application of measuring wind data for on and offshore wind farms.
Enrico Antonini
PhD Student (2014-2018)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Stanford University, Stanford, California
Enrico was a PhD student and Postdoctoral Fellow at ATOMS Lab, University of Toronto. His areas of expertise were modeling, CFD, control and optimization of fluid flow systems. He conducted research on wind energy to improve models for wake effect predictions and maximize energy production from wind farms.
Sean Crawford
PhD Student (2014-2018)
Current Position: Vascular Surgery Resident at University of Toronto
Sean was an IBBME PhD student. His research at ATOMS Lab was focused on the causative factors of fenestrated endograft rotation as well as the development of novel techniques for minimally invasive repair of complex aneurysms. He was part of the clinician investigator and surgeon scientist programs at the University of Toronto.
Tianyi (Summer) Xia
MEng Student (2016-2018)
Current Position: Data Analyst at Drone Delivery Canada
Summer was a MEng student. Her research at ATOMS Lab focused on 3D fluid simulations of aorta with branches to understand post-surgical complication of aneurysm repair.
Jianbin (David) Lu
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2017)
Current Position: MEng Student in Financial Engineering at University of Toronto
David was an undergradture summer student in Mechanical Engineering. His work at ATOMS Lab focuses on modelling and simulation of the cooling and heating system of an electric vehicle battery pack.
Jonathan Adams
MEng Student (2017-2018)
Current Position: Medical Technology Innovation Intern at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Jonathan was a MEng student at the ATOMS Lab. He worked on Testing and Validation of Medical Device Prototypes in Mock Circulatory Loop
Tooba Ahmad Sheikh
Undergraduate Student (2017-2018)
Current Position: Control System Engineering at General Motors
Tooba was an undergradaute Mechanical Engineering thesis student. Her research at ATOMS Lab focused on optimizing the thermomechanical design of a battery module by maximizing heat dissipation from lithium cells, using CFD simulations and optimization methods.
Tianhao (Thomas) Chen
Undergraduate Student (2017-2018)
Current Position: MASc Student at the University of Toronto
Thomas studied Biomedical Systems Engineering under the Division of Engineering Science and he joined ATOMS lab to conduct his undergraduate forth year thesis project. He worked on characterization of frictional and mechanical properties of marketed stent grafts and their delivery systems.
Song Yi (Dawn) Lin
Undergraduate Student (2017-2018)
Current Position: PhD Student at McMaster University
Dawn was an undergradaute Mechanical Engineering thesis student at ATOMS Lab. She worked on designing protocols for testing the mechanical properties of stent grafts
Juan Stockle
PhD Student (2013-2018)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Juan was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research project at ATOMS Lab focused on the understanding of blood flow through devices used for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Ryan Sanford
MASc Student (2015-2017)
Current Position: MD Candidate at Queen’s University
Ryan was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. He worked at ATOMS Lab on simulations of fenestrated aortic stent graft deployment in order to determine the factors that induce their rotation. This work was carried out in conjunction with Dr. Thomas Forbes of the Department of Vascular Surgery at Toronto General Hospital.
Ruslan Khamedov
Visiting Student (2017)
Current Position: Mechanical Engineering Student, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Ruslan was a undergraduate visiting student from Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan), where he was majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He worked on optimization of wind farms layout, specifically CFD modelling of wind turbines.
Gabrielle Sebaldt
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2016, 2017)
Current Position: Systems Engineer – Robotics and Controls at Auris Health, Inc, Stanford, California
Gabrielle was a summer student for two consecutive years. She worked at ATOMS Lab on the design and construction of a mock circulatory flow loop to test a novel bridge-to-transplant cannula device for patients with Fontan circulation.
Danyal Rehman
Research Volunteer (2016-2017)
Current Position: PhD student at MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Danyal was an undergraduate Research Volunteer. His research at ATOMS entailed wind farm layout optimization in complex terrain via computational fluid dynamics, numerical modelling, and nonlinear optimization methods.
Carlos Da Silva
PhD Student (2012-2016)
Current Position: Research Associate, ATOMS Laboratory, Toronto, Canada
Carlos was a PhD student in the lab 2012-2016. His research focused on predicting phonon properties and thermal conductivities of 2D materials using atomistic simulation techniques in combination with statistical thermodynamics formulations.
Harmit Komal
MEng Student (2015-2016)
Current Position: Project Manager at Public Services and Procurement Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Harmit was a MEng student in Mechanical Engineering. Her research at ATOMS Lab focused on computational mechanics paired with energy and sustainability studies. She focused on modelling of wind turbine wakes on complex terrain using CFD techniques.
Khashayar Shojaei-Asanjan
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2016)
Current Position: MASc Candidate, University of Toronto
Khash was a Summer Student. His research at ATOMS Lab involved designing a second generation trachea bioreactor and thermal management of the Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) Device.
Jim Kuo
PhD Student (2012-2016)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles
Jim was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on optimization of wind farm layouts.
Andrei Saikouski
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2016)
Current Position: Blockchain Technical Lead at IBM, Toronto, Canada
Andrei was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. His work at ATOMS Lab focused on predicting phonon thermal transport using molecular dynamics simulation techniques.
Aditya Dhoot
MASc Student (2014-2016)
Current Position: Software Engineer at PathAI, Boston, Massachusetts
Aditya was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab was in the areas of wind farm layout optimization, operations research, and machine learning.
David Guirguis
MASc Student (2014-2016)
Current Position: PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab involved wind farm layout optimization and thermal management of high power-density inverters and packaging of power electronics.
Ping Gu
Undergraduate Student (2015)
Current Position: Supply Chain Management Analyst at Jet.com, Jersey City, New Jersey
Ping was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. His thesis project at ATOMS Lab focused on simulations of wind turbine wakes.
Wendy Xiang
Undergraduate Student (2015)
Current Position: Desing specialist at TELUS, Toronto, Canada
Wendy was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. Her thesis project at ATOMS Lab focused on energy systems modelling and optimization under uncertainty.
Sami Yamani Douzi Sorkhabi
MASc Student (2013-2015)
Current Position: PhD Candidate at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sami was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on wind farm layout optimization.
Fernan Saiz
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2015)
Current Position: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA (ICMAB-CSIC)
Fernan was a Postdoctoral Fellow in ATOMS Lab. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on nanoscale thermal transport using molecular dynamics simulations.
Fabian Alvarado
MEng Student (2015)
Current Position: Acoustics and Vibration Specialist at Wood, Toronto, Canada
Fabian was a MEng student in Mechanical Engineering. His research on modelling hemodynamics of healthy and failing Fontan circulations for designing novel cannula-pump systems at the ATOMS Lab was in collaboration with Toronto General Hospital and SickKids Hospital.
Michael Lancaster
Undergraduate Student (Summer 2015)
Current Position: UI Web Engineer, Chicago, Illinois
Michael was a summer student. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on determining the coefficient of friction between stent grafts and their deployment sheaths used in fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR).
Wanyu Zhang
Undergraduate Student (2015)
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer at Intuit, San Francisco, California
Wanyu was was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. Her thesis project at ATOMS Lab focused on computational fluid dynamics model of a novel cannula for failing Fontan circulation.
Francisco Contreras
MASc Student (2013-2015)
Current Position: Mechanical Engineer at H.H. Angus & Associates Ltd., North York, Ontario
Francisco was a MASc student in the Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on the optimization of Hybrid Power Systems for distributed electricity generation in remote communities.
Carlos A. Morillo Guzmán
Visiting Scholar (2014)
Current Position: Research Engineer, Universitat Politecnica de Catalanya, Barcelona, Spain
Carlos was a visiting Ph.D. student from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CIMNE, Spain. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on Robust Multi-Objective Metamodel-Based Design Optimization of Advanced Composite Structures.
Masha Itkina
Undergraduate Student (2014)
Current Position: PhD Candidate, Stanford University, San Francisco, California
Masha was was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. Her work at ATOMS Lab focused on investigating the effect of vessel tortuosity on fenestrated stent graft rotation.
Julia Sborz
Undergraduate Student (2014)
Current Position: Engineering Assistant at Ecoa Energias Renováveis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Julia was an exchange undergradaute thesis student from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Her thesis project at ATOMS Lab focused on atomistic computational simulations of nanoscale heat tranfer in 2D materials.
Weiguan Huang
PhD Student (2011)
Weiguan was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research project at ATOMS Lab focused on two-phase flow simulation in fuel cells using the Lattice Boltzmann Method.
Amy Wong
MEng Student (2013)
Current Position: Control System Specialist at Pratt & Whitney Canada, Toronto, Canada
Amy was a MEng Student. She worked at ATOMS Lab on wind farm optimization, focusing on CFD simulations and the analysis of wake models.
Michelle (Dao) Gu
Undergraduate Student (2013)
Current Position: MASc Student at Stanford University
Michelle was a summer student in Engineering Science. She worked at ATOMS Lab on wind turbine optimization project
Aditi Joshi
MEng Student (2013-2014)
Current Position: Senior Energy Engineer at Amgen, Los Angeles, California
Aditi was a MEng student. She worked at ATOMS Lab on techniques to improve the accuracy of wind turbine wake modelling using CFD numerical analysis. Her research contributed towards establishing a framework for optimization of wind farm layouts.
Inderraj Singh Grewal
Undergraduate Student (2013)
Current Position: Member Of Technical Staff at MDA, Mississauga, Canada
Inderraj was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. His thesis project in ATOMS Lab, in collaboration with Dr. Leonard Tse of Toronto General Hospital, focused on the fixation strength of stent grafts in different configurations. Inderraj worked
Huizhe (Lucy) Zhao
Undergraduate Student (2013)
Current Position: Harness Integration Mechanical Engineer at Waymo, Mountain View, California
Lucy was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. She worked at ATOMS Lan on anisotropic porous media to identify a relationship between porosity and permeability at high Reynolds numbers.
Zimu Zhu
Undergraduate Student (2013)
Current Position: Doctoral Student, Cornell University, New York
Zimu was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. His research project at ATOMS Lab focused on predicting bulk phonon properties using a combination of lattice dynamics and theoretical calculations.
Peter Yun Zhang
MASc Student (2011-2013)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Peter was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lan focused on the optimization of wind farm layouts.
Samuel Huberman
MASc Student (2011-2013)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Metcalf Lab, Princeton University
Sam was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. His work at ATOMS Lab focused on disruption of superlattice phonons by interfacial mixing.
Aydin Nabovati
Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2012)
Current Position: Senior Staff Thermal Engineer at Tesla, Palo Alto, California
Aydin was a Research Associate and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in ATOMS Lab. During his tenure, Aydin’s research focused on computational modelling of transport phenomena in complex engineering systems using conventional and novel physics-based methodologies.
Dan Sellan
PhD Student (2007-2012)
Current Position: AVP Strategy, Canada, Sun Life Financial, Toronto, Canada
Dan was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research at ATOMS Lab focused on numerical modelling of sub-continuum thermal transport in semiconductor materials using a combination of lattice dynamics calculations and the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE).
Elham Pakseresht
MASc Student (2010-2012)
Current Position: Program Manager at Magna, Toronto, Canada
Elham was a MASc student in Mechanical Engineering. Her research at ATOMS Lab joined the ATOMS lab to pursue her studies and research on thermal conductivity of thin films, and modeling heat transfer in micro and nano-scale devices.
Penelope (Wing Yin) Kwong
Undergraduate Student (2012)
Current Position: Aero/Thermodynamics Analyst at Pratt & Whitney Canada
Penelope was was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. She worked at ATOMS Lab on optimization of wind farms.
Gary Yan
Undergraduate Student (2012)
Current Position: Application Support Engineer at Boyd Corp, Canada
Gary was an undergradaute Engineering Science thesis student. His work at ATOMS Lab focused on multi-objective optimization of wind farms with constraints using a parallel computing approach.
Joe Turney
PhD Student (2006-2010)
Current Position: Research Associate, United Technical Research Center
Joseph was a Postdoctoral Fellow in ATOMS Lab. His research focused on predicting phonon properties and thermal conductivity using anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations.
Leonard Tse
MASc Student (2008-2010)
Current Position: Vascular Surgeon at WOHS, Toronto, Canada
Leonard was an IBBME MASc stuent. His research project at ATOMS Lab focused on computational fluid dynamics modelling of redundant stent-graft configurations in endovascular aneurysm repair
Lok Ting (Tina) Shek
MASc Student (2011)
Current Position: Research Associate at Techna, RMP UHN, Toronto, Canada
Tina was an IBBME MASc student. Her resreach at ATOMS Lab studied the impact of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) stent graft configurations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Vivek Mishra
Visiting Scholar (2011)
Current Position: Sr. Process Technology Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
Vivek was a visiting summer student from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. At ATOMS Lab, he developed models for temperature jumps in nanoscale domains
Ankit Jain
Visiting Scholar (2010)
Elyad Zahedi
Undergraduate Student (2010)
Current Position: Lead Engineer, Driveline and Suspension Controls, Warren, Michigan
Elyad was an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering. His work at ATOMS Lab focused on modelling thermal phenomena in nano-structured silicon.
Alanna Yontef
MEng Student, Undergraduate Student (2010-2011)
Current Position: Senior Equity Research Associate at BMO Capital Markets, Toronto, Ontario
Alanna was an undergradute student in Mechanical Engineering. She worked at ATOMS Lab on CFD simulations of unconventional stent grafts