Our People

Meet the faculty in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences' five academic units: Department of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Department of Physics.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 53033

Email: grichards@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 547

Keywords: Partial differential equations, Probability theory, Dynamical systems, Mathematical Physics, Fluid Mechanics

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Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52110

Email: rrudra@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2343

Keywords: Water Resources Engineering, Watershed monitoring, Water protection, Hydrologic and contaminant transport processes, Water resource management tools, Hydrology, Soil erosion, Drainage, Irrigation

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Assistant Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 53085

Email: jsaha@uoguelph.ca

Office: RICH 1517A

Keywords: Sustainable Energy Systems Design, Renewable Energies, Solar Photovoltaic, Fuel Cell Technology, Advanced Electromechanical Devices, Advanced Engineering Materials Development, Graphene from Biomass, Thin-Film, Smart Sensing Materials, Opto-Electronic Devices, Nanofabrication, Printing, Manufacturing Systems Design, Chipless RFID Sensors

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52902

Email: santosr@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2342

Keywords: Environmental Engineering, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Greener Chemistry, Sustainable Exploitation of Natural Resources, Waste Material Conversion, Process Intensification, Multi-Scale Engineering, Applied Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Computational Modelling

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Professor

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53277

Email: jsawada@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 2226

Keywords: Combinatorial Algorithms, De Bruijn Sequences, Universal Cycles, Gray Codes, Graph Theory

Headshot of Marcel Schlaf

Professor, Ph.D. (Toronto), Diplom-Chemiker (Würzburg)

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53002

Email: mschlaf@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 339

Keywords: Homo- and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Green Chemistry, Sugar Chemistry, Hydrodeoxygenation, (Petro-) Chemicals from Renewable Carbon Sources.

Adrian Schwan

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58781

Email: schwan@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 336

Keywords: Organic Synthesis, Organosulfur Chemistry, Lipid Chemistry, Pericyclic Reactions, Computational Chemistry

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Professor

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54153

Email: stacey.scott@uoguelph.ca

Office: Reynolds 3308

Keywords: Human-computer interaction, Emerging technology design, User-centred design, Computer-supported collaboration, Human-automation collaboration, User studies, Interdisciplinary sociotechnical system design, Precision livestock farming, Animal-computer interaction

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58262

Email: csimha@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 3502

Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Soft Robotics, Armor and Blast, Advanced Materials, Ductile Failure, Defense, Automobile, Nuclear, Pipeline, Alloys

Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Keywords: Biological engineering, Biomedical engineering

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Email: jslate04@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 521

Keywords: Bayesian statistics, spatiotemporal methods, Time Series, infectious disease models, Biostatistics, Epidemiology

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University Professor Emeritus, Mathematics

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: 519-824-4120 x53119

Email: bilsmith@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacNaughton 433c

Headshot of Dmitriy Soldatov

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53548

Email: soldatov@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 338

Keywords: Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Supramolecular materials, Crystals, Polymers, Non-crystalline materials

Headshot of Fei Song

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58067

Email: fsong@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 2225

Keywords: Topic modeling, Information retrieval, Text classification, Sentiment analysis, Key Phrase extraction, Text summarization, Document clustering, People search, Text Segmentation, Machine learning applications

Headshot of Petros Spachos

Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54012

Email: petros@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2505

Keywords: Engineering systems and computing, Computer Engineering, AI Affiliated Faculty, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Protocols, Network Programming, Network Security, Multi-hop Routing Protocols, Cognitive Radio, Opportunistic Networks