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