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My current research group members and their respective projects are provided below.

Graduate Students

Name	Degree	Co-supervision	Thesis topic
Jingyuan Guan	Ph.D.		Carbon dioxide conversion to commodity chemicals in a gas-liquid-solid slurry reactor
Maryam Rezaei	Ph.D.	Lars Rehmann	Biosurfactants production by fermentation
Nayab Nasir	Ph.D.	Cedric Briens	Fluid coker heater modifications to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
William McIllwraith	M.E.Sc.	Cedric Briens	Development of methods to monitor the fouling of stripper sheds in fluid cokers
Chenyue Liu	M.E.Sc.	Cedric Briens	Particle Entrainment in a Fluid Coker Pilot Plant
Adam Schubert	M.E.Sc.	Jose Herrera	Carbon dioxide conversion to liquid fuels

 Alumni

• Rachel Schneiderman, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Lars Rehmann, collaboration with InnuScience (2023), Biosurfactant Production by Fermentation
• Jessica Godin, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Cedric Briens, collaboration with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (2021), Development of a Cold Model Fuild Coker Pilot Plant
• Andrew Heaslip, M.E.Sc. thesis, collaboration with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (2021), Mitigation of Fluid Coker Cyclone Fouling with Consideration to Reactor Performance
• Ghazaleh Chegini, Ph.D. thesis, co-supervision with Cedric Briens (2021), collaboration with Origin Materials, Production of Engineered Carbons from Secondary Waste Streams for Environmental Applications
• Chantal Walker, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Jose Herrera (2020), The Effect of MoOx Reducibility on its Activity for Anisole Hydrodeoxygenation 
• Saleh Srabet, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Jesse Zhu (2020), Experimental Investigation of Inverse Liquid-Solid Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics
• Erfan Pazoki, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Cedric Briens, collaboration with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (2018), Adsorption kinetics of C9-C12 hydrocarbons on carbonaceous materials
• Joshua Idowu, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Cedric Briens, collaboration with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (2018), Spraying Slurries: Impact of Slurry Properties on Spray Characteristics and Agglomerate Formation in Fluidized Beds
• Jia Meng, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Jesse Zhu (2018), Hydrodynamics of a Gas-Driven Gas-Liquid-Solid Spouted Bed
• Erica Glatt, M.E.Sc. thesis, collaboration with Syncrude Canada Ltd. (2018), Modeling Fluid Coker Cyclone Fouling
• Brett Pomeroy, M.E.Sc. thesis (2017), Hydrodeoxygenation of Anisole in a Novel Externally Agitated Reactor
• Dhiraj Kankariya, M.E.Sc. thesis, co-supervision with Cedric Briens (2016), Agglomerate Formation and Heat Transfer study in a Novel Mechanically Fluidized Reactor 
• Shona MacIntyre, M.E.Sc. thesis (2016), Particle agglomeration in a slurry bubble column due to interparticle liquid bridging 

 Undergraduate and M.Eng. Students

 Alumni

• Varshiga Vijayakumar, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2022)
• Arav Saherwala, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2022)
• Georgia Auger, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2021)
• Seamus Glazier, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2021)
• Niall Murphy, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2021)
• Leah Fraiberg, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2020)
• Nicole Lesmeister, MEng in Chemical Engineering (2019)
• Sarah From, USRA recipient and summer student researcher (2019)
• Chenjingyi Wang, summer student researcher (2019)
• Ameen Meddaoui, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2019)
• Joanna Marton, MEng in Chemical Engineering (2019)
• Teri Doxtator, MEng in Chemical Engineering (2018)
• Julia Buono, USRA recipient and summer student researcher (2018)
• Jiawei Li, visiting student from Tianjin University (2018)
• Danmei Chen, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2018)
• Matthew Wong, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2017)
• Mark Pipher, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2016)
• Yara Alazki, 4th year B.E.Sc. Chem. Eng. thesis (2016)
• Yige Peng, visiting student from Tianjin University (2016)
• Ahmed Hammad, Western Work Study Program (2015)
• Mackenzie Atkinson, 4th year B.E.Sc. thesis (2015)