TMU researchers secure $4.5M in NSERC Discovery Grant funding
Researchers from across Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) will receive funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Twenty-four Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) researchers will receive funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This latest round of grants was announced by the Government of Canada in June.
The $4.5 million in funding will support ongoing research on topics ranging from next-generation power converters to optimizing crowdsourced delivery models to ultrashort pulsed laser-assisted nanomanufacturing. Twenty-two researchers secured five-year-long Discovery Grants, five of which received an additional one-year Discovery Launch Supplement. The supplement provides early career researcher support. Two faculty members received NSERC’s Research Tools and Instruments grants, providing infrastructure support.
“Congratulations to all the researchers who have received this important funding,” said Steven N. Liss, TMU’s vice-president, research and innovation. “This support for these important research programs will help drive innovations for the benefit of Canadians, from advancing understanding of the human brain to tackling bias in web searches.”
TMU recipients of NSERC Discovery Grants and Discovery Launch Supplements
Faculty of Arts
- Behrang Keshavarz: Investigating the neuro-cortical, perceptual, and behavioural correlates of illusory self-motion (vection) under multisensory stimulation
- Claire Oswald: Understanding the impacts of urbanization on hydrological processes across scales using field, modelling, and geospatial methods
- Helen Sokolowski: Mapping Developmental Trajectories of Early Number Systems
- Christopher Wellen: Integrating data science and process modelling for better predictions in human dominated environments
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Aliaa Alnaggar: Optimization Models for Crowdsourced Delivery Design and Operations Under Uncertainty
- Ebrahim Bagheri: Robust and Effective Neural Retrieval Techniques
- Soosan Beheshti: Reliable and Efficient Statistical Signal Processing and Information Extraction, from Data to Complex Models and Structures
- Liping Fang: Multiple Participant Decision Techniques in Environmental Systems Management
- Xavier Fernando: Analysis, Design and Optimization Algorithms for Aerial plus Terrestrial Wireless Networks Enhanced with IRS
- Dae Kun Hwang: Development and design of microfluidic platforms based on smart polymeric materials
- Patrick Neumann: Human Factors in the Simulation of Operations Systems
- Bo Tan: Ultrashort pulsed laser assisted nanomanufacturing and its applications
- Dewei Xu: Next Generation Power Converters for Smart Grid with Energy Storage Systems and DC Quick Chargers
- Amirnaser Yazdani: Power-Electronic Architectures and Advanced Control for eMobility
Faculty of Science
- Yeganeh Bahoo Torudi: Algorithms for Visibility: Foundation and Industrial Application
- Alexandre Douplik: Development of Superfine Needle Optical Microendoscope (SNOM) for Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Joseph McPhee: Loss of functional signaling proteins as a contributor to Shigella behaviour
- Preeti Raman: Computational Innovations and Research for Care-centered Learning (CIRCLE)
- Jesse Tanguay: Multi-energy X-ray Imaging
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Mehdi Kargar: Neural Approach to Search and Recommendation in Large Attributed Graphs
- Hossein Zolfagharinia: Investigating the Benefits of Different Information Types for Multi-Truck Carriers: Unlocking Opportunities in an Uncertain Freight Transport Market
TMU recipients of NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grants
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- ChungHyuk Lee: Two-Dimensional Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer for Probing Heterogeneous Degradation Modes in Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- Scott Tsai: DLP-3D printer for next generation biomanufacturing of drug delivery vehicles, cell culture models, and bioreactors
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Researchers across TMU receive NSERC Discovery Grants (August 2023)
