Currently supervised and co-supervised PDFs, students and research staff (as of June 2026)
- Post-doctoral Researchers
- Dr. Peyman Shabani – high fidelity modelling of advanced composites
- Dr. Nathaniel Mailhot – collaborative drone operations and autonomous aircraft design, analysis and testing
- UTILI Project Coordinator and UAS Graduate Course Instructor
- Salman Shafi – MAE Technologist, Program Coordinator and Instructor
- PhD Candidates
- Olivia Maria Chamberland (with Dr. Chun Li NRC) – use of machine learning to identify and characterize damage in aerospace composites
- Teresa de Jesus Krings (with Dr. Iryna Borshchova NRC) – Canadian airspace modelling project investigation of machine learning to support airspace modelling
- Leila Hashemi – hybrid drone-public transit delivery system
- Alexsander Costa – (with Dr. Iryna Borshchova NRC) – Canadian airspace modelling project investigation of aircraft behaviour in terminal airspace
- Masters Candidates (MASc and MSc)
- Melina Lanzo MASc – (with Dr. Chun Li NRC) modelling of composite hydrogen storage tanks for aircraft
- Jerami Williams MASc – (with Dr. Iryna Borshchova NRC) use of Monte Carlo simulations for detect and avoid system performance assessment
- Celeste Borjeau MASc – (with NRC Flight Research Lab) – hybrid electric aircraft system design and performance
- Anastasiia Kot MASc – (with Prof. Rishad Irani MAE) – drone detection and tracking
- Austin Dahlseide MASc (with Prof Marzieh Amini SCE) – use of drones for wildfire detection and monitoring
- Stephanie Dadzie MASc – precision agriculture using drones
- Undergraduate and I-CUREUS Researchers
- Om Patel – Canadian airspace modelling project
- Timothy Kowalski – novel multi-rotor drone systems