Alma Mater: Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida (2007)

Research: Medical applications of operations research; radiotherapy treatment optimization, pandemic planning

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Alma Mater: Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988)

Research: Fluid Dynamics; Micro and Nano Scale Thermal Transport, Micro Fuel Cells; Thermal Engineering of Microelectronics; Hemodynamics and Mass Transport in Biological Systems; Multidisciplinary Engineering Design and Education.

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Alma Mater: Carnegie-Mellon University (1984)

Research: Biomedical Engineering; Energy Studies, Thermodynamics, and Surface Science; Environmental Engineering; Fluid Sciences

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Alma Mater: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University (2003)

Research: Stochastic Models, Analysis of Queueing Systems; Production/Inventory Systems; Call Centers, Simulation.

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Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria (2008)

Research: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells; PEMFCs)studies. Microfluidics and multiphase flow in porous media; Carbon sequestration.

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Alma Mater: University of Saskatchewan (1999)

Research: Design engineering process; engineering education; engineering outreach.

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Alma Mater: Computer Science, University of Toronto (1999)

Research: Optimization, heuristic search, constraint programming, scheduling, hybrid algorithms, dynamic and uncertain problems, and problem modeling.

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Alma Mater: University of Michigan

Research: Applied Mechanics, Robotics, and Manufacturing; Biomedical Engineering; Energy Studies.

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Alma Mater: University of Michigan (1994)

Research: mechatronics, precision design, smart materials, precision positioning, nonlinear and real-time control, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics.

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Research: Design and mathematical analysis of modular and multi-arm robots; Machine vision; Robotic sensors; Supervisory control of manufacturing systems; Automatic quality control; Computer-Aided-Design.

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2000)

Research: Thermofluids modeling: interfacial and multiphase flows, heat transfer, and phase change. Algorithm development and application of models to materials processing phenomena: wetting and contact lines, droplets and bubbles, melting and dissolution, particle deposition.

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Alma Mater: Mathematics, University of Waterloo (1980)

Research: All of my research is focused on the healthcare industry: modelling, process improvement, decision support tools for policy, scheduling, simulation, system dynamics.

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Alma Mater: Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)

Research: Optimization under uncertainty, mathematical programming, decision analysis, probabilistic analysis of systems; applications to radiation therapy, health care delivery, sports scheduling and analysis, game theory, and “green” engineering.

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Alma Mater: Cornell University (1990)

Research: Thermal spray coating. Development of novel spray coating techniques. Experimental studies on fluid flow during impact of liquid drops, jets and sprays on a solid surface. Break-up of liquid sheets created by jets and droplets impinging on surfaces. Effect of droplet and substrate properties on droplet splashing. Heat transfer between surfaces and impinging droplets. Spray forming. Rapid prototyping by droplet deposition. Ink jet printing.

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Alma Mater: University of Canterbury (New Zealand) (1981)

Research: Dr. Chignell´s interests lie in in the general area of human factors approaches to information technology. He is particularly interested in the areas of dynamic hypertext, mobile computing, healthcare ergonomics, and advanced user interface design. The general approach adopted is to look for opportunities to add intelligence or value through appropriate (re-)design of the user interface.

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Research: Analysis and design of high-speed flexible mechanisms; Finite element analysis applied to variations;Computer-aided analysis and design of mechanisms; Computer-aided kinematic and dynamic optimization of robotic systems.

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Alma Mater: Computer Science, University of Toronto (1994)

Research: Mariano Consens research interests are in the areas of Data Management and the Web, Information Retrieval and Visualization, Data Modeling and Business Process Engineering, and Healthcare Data Management. Specific areas include: linked data on the web, XML searching, analytics for semistructured data, and autonomic systems.

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Alma Mater: Carnegie-Mellon (1983)

Research: Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling,Constraint-Directed Scheduling.

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1974)

Research: Application of Simulation Techniques to Health Care and Manufacturing.The Ontario Electricity Market
Interfaces Between Operations Research and Information Systems

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Alma Mater: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (1976)

Research: Design of robotics and mechatronics systems.
Applications: mobile robots; modular robots; image-guided robot-assisted medical surgery;laboratory automation

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Research: Ontologies, semantic integration, process modelling, enterprise integration, Semantic Web, knowledge representation, mathematical logic

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Alma Mater: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (2002)

Research: fluid mechanics, soft matter, colloidal material synthesis, micro/nanofabrication, biomedical engineering

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Research: Human interaction with automation. Analysis of work in complex systems. Design of interfaces. Cognitive engineering applications in process control, energy systems, and other emerging areas.

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Alma Mater: Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Fuel Cell Materials and Manufacturing; Graded and Multi-Layered Materials;
Plasma Spray and Sol Gel Processing

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Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania (2002)

Research: Mathematical programming theory and its applications. Primary areas include auction-based methods for combinatorial optimization/logistics/supply chain management, financial optimization (portfolio optimization/risk management and option pricing), and optimization in smart material design.

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Alma Mater: Industrial and Operational Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001)

Research: various logistics problems, sequential decision making theories, financial theories applied in manufacturing and service sectors, market-driven conflict resolution, optimal pricing, marketing, information system control and design, and so forth.

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Alma Mater: Prague University

Research: Quality, Production, Reliability and Preventive Maintenance with special interest in investigating the optimal operating policies for stochastic controlled systems.

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Alma Mater: Princeton University

Research: Thermophysics, laser-induced phenomena in electronic, optical and biomedical materials, thermal-wave and diffusion-wave phenomena in electronic and photonic media; biothermophotonic and biophotoacoustic transport phenomena in hard (dental) and soft tissues; imaging science; novel instrumentation and measurement techniques; cancer, dental caries, bone and blood glucose diagnostic science and engineering.

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Alma Mater: Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research: Engineering education

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Research: Structural Mechanics; Advanced Design Analysis Tools; Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis and Design Evaluation; Fatigue, Fracture and Damage Mechanics; Electro-Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Problems; Smart Structures; Microelectronic Packaging Systems; Cellular and Composite Materials; Crashworthiness of foam filled structures; Residual Stress and Surface Engineering.

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1980)

Research: Human Factors / human performance modelling. Navigation, manipulation and control in 3D environments. Human-machine interfaces for displaying temporal, spatial and uncertainty information. Visual displays for teleoperation. Stereoscopic (mixed reality) displays. Modelling of attentional workload. Human factors issues in medicine, especially surgery and anaesthesiology. Human factors in aviation, especially air traffic control.

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Research: Automatic assembly operations. Verification of control strategy. Robotics. Biomedical applications of robotic devices.

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Alma Mater: University of Minnesota

Research: Partially ionized gases, thermal plasma processing and plasma chemistry, arcs, radio-frequency inductively coupled plasmas, microwave plasmas, Diamond film synthesis; Plasma spray coating; Mathematical/computational modelling of high temperature processes.

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2001)

Research: Manufacturing New Materials; smart materials and structures; multi-functional and adaptive polymers. Fabrication of high performance functional polymers; modeling of morphologies and their correlations with polymers properties; polymer properties: mechanical; viscoelastic; thermal; electric; biodegradation; analytical and numerical simulation of polymer properties

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Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto

Research: Autonomous Systems. Robotics and Mechatronics. Assistive Devices. Service Robots/Vehicles. Robot-Assisted Emergency Response. Sensor Agents. Socially Assistive Robots. Human-Robot Interaction.

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Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993)

Research: Development of Novel Foam Processing Technologies; Analysis and Control of Cell Nucleation, Cell Growth, and Shaping; Computational Modeling of Foaming; Development of Artificial Wood; Measurement and Modeling of the Thermophysical Properties of Polymer/Blowing-Agent Solution; Scale-up of Processing Technology; Biodegradble Foams; Replacement of Environmentally Hazardous Blowing Agents;

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Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research: Creativity in conceptual design; Systematic identification and application of biological analogies in biomimetic (biologically inspired) design; Identifying and overcoming obstacles to personal environmentally significant behavior.

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2000)

Research: Cellular mechanobiology, biomechanics, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, and biomedical microdevices

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Alma Mater: Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research: Non-destructive material characterization by means of ultrasound, with applications to nuclear power plants, aerospace, oil/gas pipelines, protective coatings, welds, material interfaces; Resonant frequencies and mechanical wave propagation characteristics; Ultrasonic phased arrays;Signal processing and image enhancement, advanced signal processing techniques.

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Research: Mechanics of materials and manufacturing processes. Microelectronics Packaging; Tribology; Adhesive Bonding; Wood-based Materials

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Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1993)

Research: The overarching goal of my research is to elucidate the role of hemodynamic forces in the development, diagnosis and treatment of the cardiovascular diseases. This program can be broken down along two complementary lines of research. The first, image-based CFD, exploits medical imaging data to construct patient-specific computational fluid dynamics models. The second, virtual imaging, uses CFD models to simulate the impact of complex anatomy, flow and motion on medical images.

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Alma Mater: Queen´s University

Research: Specializing in the analysis of experimentally measured turbulent flows, he is developing analytical models based on organized structures in steady and nonsteady flows. He is working with Prof. J. Wallace investigating turbulent flow in Spark Ignition engines with Laser Doppler Velocimetry. Collaborative experimental work is also being done with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) investigating fibre slurries in high turbulence environments with Prof. D.C.S. Kuhn. Additional work is being performed with PIV in engine models. This work has included the development of improved PIV and PTV algorithms

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Alma Mater: University of Minnesota (2003)

Research: Manipulation and characterization of biological cells, molecules, and nanomaterials; microsystems and nanosystems; design and fabrication of MEMS and
NEMS (micro-nanoelectromechanical systems); bioMEMS, sensors, actuators, and microfluidic devices; microrobotics and optical microscopy; nanorobotics and electron microscopy; automation at the micro-nanometer scales; cellular biophysics; cellular biomechanics and mechanobiology; and application of enabling micro-nano systems/devices to fundamental/applied biological/biomedical, clinical, and emerging engineering problems.

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Alma Mater: University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Research: energy, combustion, biofuels, air pollution, spectroscopy, optical sensors

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Alma Mater: University of Illinois

Research: Human Factors Engineering

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Alma Mater: University of Michigan

Research: Energy Studies; Environmental Engineering; Alternative fuels combustion; Alternative fuel use in engines. The focus of the work is on reducing engine exhaust emissions; Energy system studies; Clean energy technologies and the integration of energy conversion devices into total energy systems; Investigations of hydrogen-fueled engines.

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Alma Mater: City University of New York

Research: Biomechanics, tissue engineering, cellular mechanotransduction, bone modeling and remodeling, and bone regeneration.

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Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba (1999)

Research: Mechanical vibrations and dynamic analysis of mechanical systems with particular focus on automotive applications. Development of bio-instruments for characterization and diagnosis of tissue viscoelastic property and for tissue engineering research.

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