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Research Areas

Explore the thematic research clusters that define SEDTI's scholarly identity, and the faculty driving work in each field.

AI Development for Computational Process for Medical Data Analysis

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

AI Ethics

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

AI Safety

Yiwei Lu

Yiwei Lu Assistant Professor and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute

AI Systems and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

AI for Autonomous Vision Guided Robotics

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

AI for Healthcare and Biomedical Systems

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

AI for the Robotic Surgery

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

Affective Computing

Hussein Al Osman

Hussein Al Osman Full Professor

Agentic AI

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Alignment of Foundation Models

Yiwei Lu

Yiwei Lu Assistant Professor and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute

Application Specific VLSI Architectures

Tet Yeap Associate professor

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Hussein Al Osman

Hussein Al Osman Full Professor

Artificial Intelligence and Data-centric Intelligent Systems

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

Artificial intelligence and society

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Astrodynamics

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

Autonomous AI Systems for Smart Cities Industry and Education

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

Behavioural science in technology design

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor

Bibliometrics and science mapping

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Big Data Analytics and Cloud Data Warehousing

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Bilingual teaching and student teamwork

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Clean energy

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Climate Energy and Sustainable AI

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Communication Systems

Tet Yeap Associate professor

Community Learning

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

Computer Security

David Knox

David Knox Associate Professor

Data Analytics and Decision Support

Ahmad Teymouri

Ahmad Teymouri Adjunct Professor

Data Science and AI for Intelligent & Automated Decision Support Systems

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

Decarbonization

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Design

Jason Millar

Jason Millar Associate Professor

Design Theory

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

Digital Humanities

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

Digital Transformation of Organizations and Society

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Education (engineering design and cybersecurity)

David Knox

David Knox Associate Professor

Electroluminescent Capacitors

Emmanuel Bouendeu

Emmanuel Bouendeu Assistant Professor

Enabling Technologies for Healthcare and Augmented Living

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Energy-Efficient Lighting Design

Emmanuel Bouendeu

Emmanuel Bouendeu Assistant Professor

Engineering Design

Jason Foster

Jason Foster Assistant Professor

Engineering Education

Andrew Sowinski

Andrew Sowinski Associate professor

Emmanuel Bouendeu

Emmanuel Bouendeu Assistant Professor

Jason Foster

Jason Foster Assistant Professor

Engineering Education for Indigenous Youth

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

Engineering Management

Jac van Beek

Jac van Beek Long-Term Professor (Part-Time) and Director, Engineering Management Program (EMP)

Engineering education innovation and interdisciplinary program development

Hanan Anis

Hanan Anis Director, School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation (SEDTI)

Entrepreneurial engineering design and experiential learning

Hanan Anis

Hanan Anis Director, School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation (SEDTI)

Equity diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research and innovation

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice

Jason Millar

Jason Millar Associate Professor

Experiential Engineering Education

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

Fluidization

Andrew Sowinski

Andrew Sowinski Associate professor

Gender and technology

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Generative AI

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

Generative AI and Agentic Systems (Large Language Models and Multimodal AI)

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

Health Data Analytics

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Healthcare Data Privacy Security and Anonymization

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Healthcare Informatics

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

High Capacity Wireline and Wireless Access

Tet Yeap Associate professor

High-value chemicals

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Human-computer Interaction

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

Information systems

Oday Aswad

Oday Aswad Part-time Professor and Director, Digital Transformation Online (DTO) program

Intelligent Automation

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Intelligent Informatics and Big Data Processing

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

International Development

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Inverse Eigenvalue Methods

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

Leadership Development

Jac van Beek

Jac van Beek Long-Term Professor (Part-Time) and Director, Engineering Management Program (EMP)

Lifelong Learning

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

ML and Deep Learning in Medical Diagnosis and AI for a Personalized Treatment Plans

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

Machine Learning

Yiwei Lu

Yiwei Lu Assistant Professor and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute

Machine learning and modelling

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Mechanical/Biomechanical Design

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

Medical Protocols Modeling & Automation

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

Micro-Energy Harvesting

Emmanuel Bouendeu

Emmanuel Bouendeu Assistant Professor

Mining Development Processes

Andrew Sowinski

Andrew Sowinski Associate professor

Multidisciplinary Learning

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

Multimedia Systems

Hussein Al Osman

Hussein Al Osman Full Professor

Musical Acoustics

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

Nanostructured catalysts

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Neural Networks

Tet Yeap Associate professor

Open science

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Operations Management

Ahmad Teymouri

Ahmad Teymouri Adjunct Professor

Optimization and Simulation Modeling

Ahmad Teymouri

Ahmad Teymouri Adjunct Professor

Pedagogical approaches

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Photocatalysis

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Photonics and biophotonics including biosensors nonlinear microscopy endoscopy and fibre-laser technologies

Hanan Anis

Hanan Anis Director, School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation (SEDTI)

Photovoltaic Engineering

Emmanuel Bouendeu

Emmanuel Bouendeu Assistant Professor

Privacy

David Knox

David Knox Associate Professor

Process Mining

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

Product development technology entrepreneurship and industry engagement

Hanan Anis

Hanan Anis Director, School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation (SEDTI)

Professional Ethics

Jason Millar

Jason Millar Associate Professor

Project Management

Ahmad Teymouri

Ahmad Teymouri Adjunct Professor

Project management

Oday Aswad

Oday Aswad Part-time Professor and Director, Digital Transformation Online (DTO) program

Reactor design

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Regulatory Compliance

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

Requirements Engineering

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

Research evaluation

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Responsible AI

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

Science and Technology Studies

Jason Millar

Jason Millar Associate Professor

Science technology and innovation (STI) policy

Gita Ghiasi

Gita Ghiasi Assistant Professor and Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) program

Small Language Models (SLMs)

Benjamin Eze Part-Time Professor and Adjunct Professor

Smart Contracts

Daniel Amyot

Daniel Amyot Full Professor

Software Verification

Hussein Al Osman

Hussein Al Osman Full Professor

Space Operations

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

Space Systems Engineering

Franz Thomas Newland

Franz Thomas Newland Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program

Strategic Management

Jac van Beek

Jac van Beek Long-Term Professor (Part-Time) and Director, Engineering Management Program (EMP)

Supply Chain Management

Ahmad Teymouri

Ahmad Teymouri Adjunct Professor

Supply chain management

Oday Aswad

Oday Aswad Part-time Professor and Director, Digital Transformation Online (DTO) program

Sustainable materials

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Telehealth systems

Oday Aswad

Oday Aswad Part-time Professor and Director, Digital Transformation Online (DTO) program

Thermocatalysis

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre

Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre Associate Professor

Trustworthy Human-Centric & Governed AI

Olubisi Runsewe

Olubisi Runsewe Director, Master of Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) program

Trustworthy Machine Learning

Yiwei Lu

Yiwei Lu Assistant Professor and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute

User Experience Innovation Management

Channarong Intahchomphoo

Channarong Intahchomphoo Adjunct Professor

Values and Norms Systems

Jason Millar

Jason Millar Associate Professor

Vibrations

Patrick Dumond

Patrick Dumond Professor

customer onboarding experience

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor

digital experience design in healthcare

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor

digital product strategy

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor

eHealth

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

mHealth and Telemedicine

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas Adjunct Professor

service modernization

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor

user research methods

Shaun Illingworth

Shaun Illingworth Adjunct Professor