Professors at 91亚色鈥檚 Lassonde School of Engineering have been awarded more than $2.2 million in Discovery Grants听from the听.听The funds will help the researchers to further the knowledge of their respective fields for a period of five years.
In the 2017 competition, 100 per cent of the Lassonde professors who applied for a renewal and 80 per cent of the first-time applicants were successful. Recipients of the Discovery Grants are:
听鈥 For his work in modelling image formation and in-camera imaging pipelines, Michael Brown, from the Department of听, was granted $300,000 to further his research and push the knowledge boundaries of his field.
听鈥 Marcus Brubaker,听from the Department of听, works on inference and model building for vision-based estimation of transmissive objects. He was awarded $195,000 in funding to support his research endeavour.
听鈥 Researching algorithms for efficient wireless communication in the Internet of Things, Suprakash Datta,听from the Department of听,听was granted $100,000 to pursue his research program.
听鈥 Manos听Papagelis,听from the Department on听,听was awarded $100,000 in research funding for his work in theory and application with respect to mining and exploration of the social graph.
听鈥 William听Colgan,听from the Department of听,听will be looking into the implication of ice dynamics on the rise in sea level in his research program titled 鈥淚mplications of millennial-scale ice dynamics on Greenland鈥檚 recent sea level rise contribution鈥 for which he has was awarded $135,000.
听鈥 Mojgan听Jadidi Mardkheh, from the Department of听, is working on a research project titled 鈥淜nowledge Discovery in 3D Geospatial Spaces: Towards an Integrated BIM, 3D GIS and IoT Data Framework.鈥 He was awarded with $100,000 in research funding.
听鈥 Jinjun听Shan, from the Department of听,听is in a research pursuit to learn more about dynamics modelling and cooperative control of multiple piezoelectric actuators for high-precision applications. He was granted $185,000 to further his research project.
听鈥 Jian-Guo听Wang, from the Department of听, was awarded $120,000 to explore multisensory integrated navigation in his research program titled 鈥淓merging data fusion methodology in multisensor integrated navigation for challenging environments.鈥
听鈥 Hossein Kassiri, from the Department of听,听is pursuing a research program in neural microsystems titled 鈥淣ext Generation Implantable Neural Interface Microsystems.鈥 He has been granted $145,000 in funding.
听鈥 Usman Khan, from the Department of听, is looking into floods and their associated implications under his research program titled 鈥淔loods in megacities: Impacts of urban growth, sustainable infrastructure and climate change.鈥 He has been given $100,000 for this research.
听听鈥 Dan Palermo, from the Department of听, is working on using 鈥渟mart materials鈥 to create structures with damage resilience properties in his research program titled 鈥淒evelopment of Damage-Resilient Structures Using Smart Materials鈥 for which he received $140,000.
听鈥 Alidad Amirfazli, from the Department of听, is pursuing a research program titled 鈥淔undamentals and Applications of Liquid Drop Interactions with Complex Surfaces鈥 for which he has been granted $350,000.
听听鈥撎齈aul 翱鈥橞谤颈别苍, from the Department of听, is developing transparent, selectively permeable heat mirrors for which he has been granted $120,000.
These grants 鈥 based on recommendations from peer review committees containing world experts in each of 12 science and engineering fields 鈥 typically last for five years. The NSERC Discovery Grants program is very highly valued within the Canadian research community.
NSERC provides the core funding and freedom so Canada鈥檚 best researchers can pursue their most promising ideas and breakthrough discoveries 鈥 world鈥慺irsts in knowledge.
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