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2021 research grants competition - results by peer review committee
| Applicant name | Institution | Program | Title | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adulyasak, Yossiri Department Gestion des opérations et de logistique |
HEC Montréal | RGPIN | Supply Chain Analytics under Disruptive Uncertainty | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Aleman, Dionne Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | A mathematically-driven framework for pandemic planning and management | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Ardestanijaafari, Amir Department Head Office |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Adjustable Robust Optimization and its Applications | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Arlos, Maricor Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | In-situ fate of wastewater-derived micropollutants - impacts of future climatic scenarios | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Atefi-Monfared, Kamelia Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Theoretical and Experimental Solutions for Dynamic-Hydraulic-Mechanical Processes in Geoenvironmental Engineering | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Aultman-Hall, Lisa Department Systems Design Engineering |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Modeling Long-distance Intercity Passenger Travel in the Global Multi-modal System | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Baki, Mohammed Department Business, Odette School of |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Modeling and Solution Algorithms for Process and Operations Planning with Applications in Manufacturing and Related Sectors | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Beck, Sara Department Civil Engineering |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Pathogen Reduction in Decentralized Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Bédard, Emilie Department Génies Civil, géologique et des mines |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Occurrence et contrôle des bactéries opportunistes et bioaérosols issus des systèmes de traitement des eaux usées | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Bhowmick, Anjan Department Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Concordia | RGPIN | Low-damage novel steel plate shear walls for improved seismic performance | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Blanchet, Pierre Department foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Faculté de |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Caractérisation et modélisation de matériaux de construction biosourcés dans le bâtiment | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Boulanger-Martel, Vincent Department Institut de recherche en mines et en environnement (IRME) |
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | RGPIN | Thermo-hydrogeological behaviour of mine waste storage facilities in continuous permafrost regions | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| CHAALLAL, OMAR Department Génie de la construction |
École de technologie supérieure | RGPIN | Composites en polymères renforcés de fibres (PRF) pour augmentation de la résilience des structures en BA existantes : Développement de méthodes novatrices et de modèles | 5 | $62,000.00 |
| Chui, Ying Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | High performance timber connections with steel perforated plate as structural fuse | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Claveau-Mallet, Dominique Department Génies Civil, géologique et des mines |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Revisiter les critères de conception des éléments épurateurs pour la pérennité des eaux souterraines | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Cohen, Maxime Department Management, Desautels Faculty of |
McGill University | RGPIN | Retail Innovation Lab: Blending Data Science with Cutting-Edge Technology | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Côté, Jean-François Department Opérations et systèmes de décision |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Planification des transports dans un environnement dynamique et stochastique | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Daraio, Joseph Department Civil Engineering |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Standardized Storm Water Infrastructure Design and Planning Protocols for Capacity Limited Communities and Climate Change Uncertainty | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Das, Sreekanta Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Structural Assessment and Rehabilitation of Energy Pipes with Wrinkle-Corrosion Defect | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Derome, Dominique Department Génie civil |
Université de Sherbrooke | RGPIN | Hygrothermal and durability performance of building envelopes in the face of climate change | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Desai, Shital Department School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design |
York University | RGPIN | Prompting Systems for older adults with dementia/MCI | 5 | $28,120.00 |
| Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos Department Mining & Materials Engineering. |
McGill University | RGPIN | Towards an integrated, self-learning stochastic mining complex framework and new digital technologies for the sustainable development of mineral resources | 5 | $88,000.00 |
| Djeumou Fomeni, Franklin Department Management et technologie |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Developing novel and efficient binary quadratic optimization methodologies | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Dubrawski, Kristian Department Civil Engineering |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Nature-based METLands for water challenges in rural and Indigenous communities in Canada | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Dumais, Simon Department Civil Engineering |
Royal Military College of Canada | RGPIN | Mechanical design of transportation embankments built on thawed permafrost | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| El-Dakhakhni, Wael Department Civil Engineering |
McMaster University | RGPIN | City Digital Twin Hybrid Simulation for Systemic Risk Assessment and Resilience Quantification: Application to Future Flood Projections in Canada | 5 | $73,000.00 |
| EL-HACHA, Raafat Department Civil Engineering |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Smart Structures using Shape Memory Alloy and Carbon Nanofibers Ultra-High Performance Concrete | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Farner, Jeffrey Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Investigating colloidal interactions to improve knowledge of transformations, transport, and impacts of micro- and nanoplastics in environmental freshwaters | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Fiorillo, Graziano Department Civil Engineering |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Multi-hazard probabilistic risk assessment of bridge networks in cold regions | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Fiset, Mathieu Department Sciences appliquées |
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi | RGPIN | Sécurité structurale et renforcement des structures en béton armé soumises à un effort de cisaillement | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| GHADIMI, SAEED Department Management Sciences |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Structured Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Ghobrial, Tadros Department Génie civil et génie des eaux |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Towards Developing a Physically Based Ice Jam Flood Early Warning System | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Ghoshal, Subhasis Department Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics |
McGill University | RGPIN | Next-generation sulfidated zerovalent iron nanoparticles for groundwater remediation: degradation of emerging and legacy halogenated pollutants and interactions with bacteria | 5 | $68,500.00 |
| Goldstein, Benjamin Department Bioresource Engineering |
McGill University | RGPIN | Sustainable Cities on an Interconnected Planet | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Gora, Stephanie Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Expanding the water safety toolbox for small and decentralized drinking water systems using risk analysis, photocatalytic technologies, and pilot scale equipment | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Görges, Matthias Department Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | A bi-directional data sharing platform for researchers and citizen science | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Gracie, Robert Department Civil & Environmental Engineering |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Computing Energy Advancement: Computational Engineering for Geomechanics and Fracture | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Grise, Emily Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Green light for the future of battery electric buses? Examining the performance of battery electric buses from the operator's and customer's perspective | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Gruson, Matthieu Department Head Office |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Mathematical models and algorithms to support the evolution of operational practices | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Guitouni, Adel Department Business, Faculty of |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Investigation of responsible decision-making for sustainable value management in distributed co-production networks | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Hamza, Rania Department Civil Engineering |
Ryerson University | RGPIN | Wastewater Biorefinery: Treatment and Resource Mining | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Hoult, Neil Department Civil Engineering |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Reimagined Environmentally-friendly Design (RE-Design) of Reinforced Concrete Infrastructure | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Hrynyk, Trevor Department Civil & Environmental Engineering |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Crack-Informed Structural Modelling and Assessment of Existing Concrete Infrastructure | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Hu, Ming Department Joseph L. Rotman School of Management |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | On-Demand Resource Sharing Management | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Huang, Kai Department Business, DeGroote School of |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Data-driven Spare Parts Inventory Management | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Huang, Wendy Department Civil Engineering |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Development of cold-climate bioelectrochemical wastewater treatment systems | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Jakubiec, John Department Architecture, Landscape and Design, John H. Daniels Faculty of |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Simulation methods and data collection for assessing non-image forming light levels and quantifiable impacts on building occupants | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Kaur, Guneet Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Mining and minding food waste through carboxylate value-added platform | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Khakzad, Nima Department Occupational & Public Health, School of |
Ryerson University | RGPIN | Toward safer chemical plants via optimal fire protection and firefighting | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Khern-am-nuai, Warut Department Management, Desautels Faculty of |
McGill University | RGPIN | Helping Retail Industry Navigate the Post-Pandemic World with Artificial Intelligence | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Kim, Amy Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Adaptive, Multimodal Planning of Long-Distance Transportation Systems | 5 | $62,000.00 |
| Kuzgunkaya, Onur Department Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering |
Concordia | RGPIN | Supply Chain Interdiction and Recovery Planning Under Uncertainty | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Kwon, Oh-Sung Department Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Cyber-physical model of civil infrastructure system subjected to extreme loads | 5 | $62,000.00 |
| Lee, Chi-Guhn Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Reinforcement learning approach to the optimal stopping problem | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Lefebvre, Mario Department Mathématiques et génie industriel |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Commande optimale stochastique avec applications en épidémiologie et en fiabilité | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Lefsrud, Mark Department Bioresource Engineering |
McGill University | RGPIN | Engineering and Development of a LED narrow wavelength system for plant growth | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Legrain, Antoine Department Mathématiques et génie industriel |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Online stochastic optimization for dynamic operations management systems | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Lei, Yanzhe Department Business, School of |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Real-time Dynamic Optimization for Omnichannel Retailers | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Lindenschmidt, Karl-Erich Department School of Environment and Sustainability |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Ice-jam flood forecasting | 5 | $38,400.00 |
| Liu, Yang Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Mechanistic understanding of simultaneous energy and phosphorous recovery in a single anaerobic reactor: Path to resource-recovery based wastewater treatment | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Loeb, Stephanie Department Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics |
McGill University | RGPIN | Engineering Light for the Control of Viral Pathogens in the Natural and Built Environment | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Magdouli, Sara Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Sustainable and Lean Technologies for Critical Elements Recovery from Oil sands tailing streams | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Mahdi, Tewfik Department Génies Civil, géologique et des mines |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Nouvelle méthodologie prenant en compte les hydrogrammes probabilistes de rupture de barrages par temps sec pour déterminer les vraies zones à risque tenant compte du recul des berges et de l'érosion fluviale. | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Maref, Wahid Department Génie de la construction |
École de technologie supérieure | RGPIN | Strategies For Sustainable and Energy Efficient Buildings | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Mohamadpour Tosarkani, Babak Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Design and optimization of sustainable closed-loop supply chain networks under uncertainty | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Mohamedelhassan, Eltayeb Department Civil Engineering |
Lakehead University | RGPIN | Electrokinetic-assisted phytoremediation of polluted sites | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Morin, Michael Department Opérations et systèmes de décision |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Improving Optimization-Based Scheduling and Path Planning Decision Support: An Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Approach With Applications to Surveillance and Search | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Mulligan, Catherine Department Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Concordia | RGPIN | Green remediation and recovery of contaminants using biosurfactants | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Mumford, Kevin Department Civil Engineering |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Contaminant transport and remediation in dynamic gas-and-groundwater systems | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Nehdi, Moncef Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Revolutionizing Canada's Aging Civil Infrastructure Assessment and Renewal: An Integrated, Multi-Scale, Remote Sensing, Data-Driven Approach | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Niet, Taco Department Applied Sciences, Faculty of |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Deploying sustainable energy technologies to enhance global development and human well being | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Noel, Martin Department Civil Engineering |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Rethinking the Industrial Ecosystem for Concrete Structures: Innovative Applications for Advanced Composites in Construction | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Nourinejad, Mehdi Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Design and Control of Transportation Networks in the Presence of Autonomous Vehicles | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| O'Keefe, Kyle Department Geomatics Engineering |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Intelligent Geomatics Systems for Reliable Positioning in Smart Cities | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Paat, Joseph Department Sauder School of Business |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Dimension reduction techniques for mixed integer programs | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Paliwal, Jitendra Department Biosystems Engineering |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Optical techniques for quality monitoring and preservation of cereal grains | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Park, Peter Department Lassonde School of Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Safe and Resilient Logistics and Mobility Interventions for Supply Chain Workers in the New Normal Era | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Payne, Sarah Jane Department Civil Engineering |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Elucidating drinking water quality deterioration in premise plumbing | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Ponnambalam, Kumaraswamy Department Systems Design Engineering |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Development of computational tools for designing water and energy nexus: Novel applications of multidisciplinary optimization and machine intelligence | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Prévost, Michèle Department Génies Civil, géologique et des mines |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Improved design and operations of building water systems to reduce health risks caused by water & energy conservation and extended shutdowns | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Punnen, Abraham Department Mathematics |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Algorithms for hard quadratic combinatorial optimization problems and linkages with quantum bridge analytics | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Quilty, John Department Civil & Environmental Engineering |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Leveraging Big Data to develop an expert system for the optimal operation of smart water networks | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Rastpour, Amir Department Business and Information Technology, Faculty of |
University of Ontario Institute of Technology | RGPIN | Service Operations Management in the Mental Health Care Sector | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Rezazadeh Azar, Ehsan Department Civil Engineering |
Lakehead University | RGPIN | Automated data collection and machine learning methods for civil infrastructure condition assessment in sparsely inhabited regions of Canada | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Roche, Stéphane Department Centre de recherche en géomatique |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Conception d'une plateforme d'intelligence urbaine pour des villes intelligentes plus inclusives et résilientes | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Sadeghian, Pedram Department Civil and Resource Engineering |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Advances in Analysis and Design of Slender Concrete Columns Reinforced with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Sadiq, Rehan Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | `Digital Water' Paving a Way towards Resilient Urban Water Systems | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Salem, Osama Department Civil Engineering |
Lakehead University | RGPIN | Fire Performance of Timber-Concrete Composite (TCC) Systems in Mass Timber Buildings | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Sanchez, Leandro Department Civil Engineering |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Advanced Techniques to Design, Assess and Manage Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Santoro, Domenico Department Chemical and Biochemical Engineering |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Advanced Wastewater Treatment Strategies for Potable Reuse in Health-Resilient Cities | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Sartaj, Majid Department Civil Engineering |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Enhancing Renewable Energy (biogas/bio-hydrogen) Production from Organic Wastes - Towards a more Sustainable and Climate-neutral Approach | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Sasmito, Agus Department Mining & Materials Engineering. |
McGill University | RGPIN | Development of multiphysics mathematical models for sustainable minerals and energy extraction | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Selvadurai, Antony Department Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics |
McGill University | RGPIN | Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Evolving Multi-Phasic Geomaterials, Interfaces and Geoenvironmental Endeavours | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| She, Yuntong Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Prediction of Dynamic Ice Processes in Complex River Systems | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Shi, Chunming Department Business and Economics, School of |
Wilfrid Laurier University | RGPIN | Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience Using Strategic Inventories and Partial Vertical Integration | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Sun, Shangpeng Department Bioresource Engineering |
McGill University | RGPIN | Development of new means for advanced analysis of crop plant shoot architectonics and other phenotype attributes | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Svecova, Dagmar Department Civil Engineering |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | The use of UHPC in accelerated bridge construction | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Tam, Edwin Department Civil and Environmental Engineering |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Enabling the Circular Economy through Enhanced Recovery and Design | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Tighe, Susan Department Civil Engineering |
McMaster University | RGPIN | High-Performance Materials and Management Systems to Support Resilient Pavement infrastructure | 5 | $62,000.00 |
| Toyasaki, Fuminori Department Administrative Studies, School of |
York University | RGPIN | Data Analysis of R&D Partnerships to Design a Decision-Making Support System for Use in Alliance Formation | 5 | $31,000.00 |
| Tremblay, Robert Department Génies Civil, géologique et des mines |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | RGPIN | Innovative Steel Braced Frame Systems for Tall Buildings in Seismic Active Regions | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Tu, Qingshi Department Wood Science |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Vanrolleghem, Peter Department Génie civil et génie des eaux |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Towards digital twin based control of water resource recovery facilities - Methods supporting the use of adaptive hybrid digital twins | 5 | $73,000.00 |
| Verma, Manish Department Business, DeGroote School of |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Strategic and tactical issues in the transportation of freight, hazardous materials and relief-items | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Weiss, Adam Department Engineering and Design, Faculty of |
Carleton University | RGPIN | Modelling the Impact of New Mobility Trends and Technologies on Travel Behaviour and Demand | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Yang, Cancan Department Civil Engineering |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Next Generation Earthquake-resilient Precast Concrete Bridges in a Changing Climate | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Yang, T.Y. Department Civil Engineering |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Smart infrastructures and technologies for sustainable development of resilient megacities | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Zaccour, Georges Department Sciences de la décision |
HEC Montréal | RGPIN | Dynamic Games: Theory, Algorithms and Applications | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Zargoush, Manaf Department Business, DeGroote School of |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Trajectory Analytics for Data-Driven Predictions and Sequential Decision-Making Under Sequence Uncertainty | 5 | $29,705.00 |
| Zeeb, Barbara Department Chemistry and Chemical Engineering |
Royal Military College of Canada | RGPIN | Developing plant-based strategies for the sustainable remediation of salinized soils | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Zhang, Yun Department Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering |
New Brunswick | RGPIN | Development of a Universal Tri-level and Tri-sensor Fusion Solution to Retrieve High Resolution Hyperspectral Images for all Platforms | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Zheng, Wenbo Department Science and Management, College of |
University of Northern British Columbia | RGPIN | Improving characterization and modelling of the rock-proppant interaction in hydraulic fractures for deep-earth geo-resource extraction | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Zuo, Mingjian Department Mechanical Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Intelligent Reliability Assurance Using Dynamics Modeling and Machine Learning | 5 | $73,000.00 |