People

Over the past years, I have supervised/co-supervised around 110 HQP including Ph.D., MASc and M.Eng graduate students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, CO-OP undergraduate students, research engineers, and visiting scholars. Many excellent students joined my group and have secured prestigious national scholarships such as NSERC PGS-M and PGS-D, Killiam Pre-doctoral Scholarship, Clinical Intestigator Award, and Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarships. Recent ACM team members from 2023 to present are listed as follows.

Current Graduate Students and Members

  1. Mohammed Abdeldjabar Guesmia, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2025 – Jul. 2027, Co-Supervised, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

  2. Bradley Kohler, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2025 – Jul. 2027, Co-Supervised

  3. Shane Forbrigger, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oct. 2023 – Sept. 2026, Co-Supervised

  4. Lucas Wan, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2021 – Present, Supervised

  5. Sean Smith, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2023 – Present, Co-Supervised

  6. Qiguang Chen, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Jan. 2024 – Present, Supervised

  7. Prabahar Ravichandran, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2018 – Present, Co-Supervised

  8. William Wakely, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2024 – Aug. 2026, Supervised

  9. Nuo Chen, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2024 – Present, Supervised

Recent Graduate Students and Research Associates (2023–2025)

  1. Junzhuo Wu, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2023 – Jul. 2025, Co-Supervised

  2. Scott Buchanan, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2022 – May 2025, Co-Supervised

  3. Rakesh Gudimella, MASc, Biomedical Engineering, Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2024, Co-Supervised

  4. Ryan Adderson, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2019 – Aug. 2024, Supervised

  5. Nuo Chen, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2022 – Aug. 2024, Supervised

  6. George Kennedy, MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2022 – Apr. 2024, Supervised

  7. Zike Wang, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2021 – Dec. 2023, Supervised

  8. Sean Smith, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2021 – Aug. 2023, Supervised

  9. Qigang Chen, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2021 – Jun. 2023, Supervised

  10. Felix Zifan Fei, MASc, Mechanical Engineering, Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2023, Supervised

  11. Danjie Zhu, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Sept. 2022 – Jun. 2024, Supervised

  12. Behzad Akbari, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Oct. 2022 – May 2023, Supervised

  13. Emmanual Witrant, Visiting Professor, from the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, Sept. 2023 – Aug. 2025

  14. Chen Cai, Visiting PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Nov. – Dec. 2024, Supervised

  15. Lucas Polteau, Visiting Master’s Student, Jul. – Aug. 2024, Supervised

  16. Thomas Faivre, Visiting Master’s Student, Jul. – Aug. 2024, Supervised

  17. Juliette Palfray, Visiting Master’s Student, Jul. – Aug. 2024, Supervised

  18. Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Visiting PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Jun. 2024, Supervised

  19. Chen Cai, Visiting PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Oct. – Dec. 2023, Supervised

  20. Ernesto Saraiva, Visiting Master’s Student, Mechanical Engineering, Nov. – Dec. 2023, Supervised

  21. Erik Wagner, Visiting Master’s Student, Jun. – Sept. 2023, Supervised

  22. Anne-Flor Fontaine, Visiting Master’s Student, Jan. – Apr. 2023, Supervised

  23. Fahad Ahmad, Research Engineer, Jul. 2024 – Jul. 2025

  24. Payton Brown, Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, Mar. – Jun. 2024, Supervised

  25. Rehan Khalid, Research Engineer, Mar. – Apr. 2024, Supervised

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