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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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54013

Email: stasnim@uoguelph.ca

Office: THORN 2413

Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Clean Energy, Thermoacoustic Devices, Sustainable Building, Energy Storage, Phase Change Process, Energy Storage Materials, Porous Media Modelling

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Professor, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53644

Email: gwtaylor@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 3515

Keywords: Engineering systems and computing, Computer Engineering, AI Affiliated Faculty, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Representation Learning, Deep Learning, Generative Models, Computer Vision, Time Series, Forecasting

Daniel Thomas

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53961

Email: dfthomas@uoguelph.ca

Office: SSC 2504

Keywords: Energy conversion, Fuel cells, Nanoscience, Physical Chemistry, Electrocatalysis, Material Science, Science education

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Edward Thommes

Edward W. Thommes is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. He is a Global Modeling Lead in the Modeling, Epidemiology and Data Science (MEDS) team of Sanofi Vaccines, an Affiliate Researcher in the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), and a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Mathematics for Public Health program at the Fields Institute.

Adjunct Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: +1-519-824-4120 x53119

Email: ethommes@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN Rm:433C

Keywords: AI and machine learning, Epidemiology, biomathematics, infectious disease modeling, Dynamical systems

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Professor, NSERC Chair in High-Temperature Aqueous Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56076

Email: tremaine@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 314B

Keywords: Physical Chemistry, Water, Aqueous solutions, Organic solutes, Hydrothermal chemistry, Nuclear reactor chemistry, Thermal power generation, Carbon capture, Prebiotic Chemistry

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53404

Email: eukwatta@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 1507

Keywords: Faculty, Biomedical engineering, Engineering systems and computing, AI Affiliated Faculty, Machine Earning, Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Image Segmentation and Registration, Myocardial Tissue Characterization, Digital Histopathology Images, Computational Modelling

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Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53288

Email: umphrey@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 551

Keywords: Biostatistics, Evolutionary biology, Biodiversity conservation, Systematics, Myrmecology

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Associate Professor, Associate Director Undergraduate Studies

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54863

Email: jvale@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2340

Keywords: Engineering Education, Pedagogy, Problem Analysis Skills, Capstone Experiences, Engineering and Social Justice, School Administration, Computer Engineering, Engineering systems and computing

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Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53704

Email: rwickham@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 448

Keywords: Modelling bacteria surface motility, Nanostructures in block copolymers, Non-equlilibrium statistical mechanics, Peptide-cell membrane interactions, Polymeric materials, Theoretical soft materials physics

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Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58546

Email: martin.williams@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 213

Keywords: Physics Education, Physics teaching, Solid state physics

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Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52736

Email: awillms@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 512

Keywords: Climate Change Modelling, Bifurcation Theory, Mathematical Biology, Parameter Estimation, Dynamical systems

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Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Email: mwineber@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 2202

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial life, Computational intelligence, Evolutionary Computation

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Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Email: mwirth@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 2209

Keywords: Pedagogy, Usability, Programming, Image Processing, Digital Photography

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Professor Emeritus

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52824

Email: yxiang@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 3320

Keywords: Knowledge Representation in Multiagent Graphical Models, Uncertain Knowledge Representation, Probabilistic Inference in Multiagent Graphical Models, Probabilistic Inference in Bayesian Networks, Multiagent Constraint Satisfaction, Multiagent Collaborative Decision Making, Causal Modeling in Uncertain Knowledge Acquisition, Privacy in Multiagent Systems, Causal Independent Models, Bayesian Networks

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Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Email: yyan15@uoguelph.ca

Office: Reynolds 3302

Keywords: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Statistical Association, Graph Theory, Big Data Analysis