Graduate Students 2021

M.H. El Naggar

Doctoral Students

  • Meshel Alkahtani, SSI for power transmission towers
  • Yazeed Alsharedah, Hybrid foundation for wind turbines in clay
  • Ahmed Abdelhalim - Seismic behaviour of three-sided culverts
  • Behrouz Ajaei, Rocking behviour of wind turbine foundations
  • Jamal Assaf, Amplification models for ShakeMap application in Western Canada
  • Ali Bawah, starting January 2022
  • Zainab Bianco - starting January 2022
  • Osama Drbe, Negative skin friction on piles (co-supervisor A. Sadrekarimi)
  • Esraa Elsayed, Innovative silicates based shotcrete
  • Zeyad Elsherbiny, Dynamic behaviour of helical pile groups
  • Kareem Embaby, Soil-structure interaction and design limit states for large-span Ultra-Cor steel bridges
  • Ahmed Hussein, Seismic behaviour of helical piles in liquefiable soil
  • Rouba Kaafarani, Efficient foundations for smart parking garages
  • Majid Kh Touqan
  • Moukhtar Khalifa, Seismic response of flexible retaining structures
  • Ahmed Mneina, Wind turbine-pile foundation SSI
  • Burak Ozturk, Quantify seismic response of pile-supported bridges using machine learning

Master's Students

  • Mai Elzamel,  Density of as-installed gap fill material

J. Gerhard

Doctoral Students

  • Angelos Almpanis, Characterization of organic compounds with DC resistivity and induced polarization (co-supervisor C. Power)
  • Taryn Fournie, Emissions and byproducts of smouldering reactions
  • Seyed Ziaedin Miry, Advanced thermodynamic modelling of smouldering remediation
  • Jiahao Wang, The influence of porous media heterogeneity on smouldering remediation (collaborator G. Grant, Savron Ltd.)

Master's Students

  • Joshua Brown, Novel industrial applications of smouldering remediation (collaborator G. Grant, Savron Ltd.)
  • Brian Harrison, Mineralization of PFAS compounds via smouldering (collaborator D. Major, Savron Ltd.)
  • Ryan Morales, Energy capture and reuse in STAR (collaborator G. Scholes, Savron Ltd.)
  • Gillian Wilton, Carbon injection for subsurface remediation

H.P. Hong

Doctoral Students

  • Ziad Elaghoury
  • Jiyang Gu - Typhoon induced rainfall intensity assessment
  • Hector Hernandez Landero - Response of bridge to wind load
  • Xiaohan Jiang - Simulate inhomogeneous and nonstationary seismic ground motion field
  • Yongxu Liu, Near fault seismic ground motion modelling and seismic hazard assessment
  • Edmundo Narancio Ferres - Tornado induced wind pressure for structures
  • Chao Sheng, Typhoon wind hazard and reliability of wind turbine
  • Minyun Xiao, Modelling of nonstationary wind and transmission tower line system

T. Newson

Doctoral Students

  • Alain Conrado-Palafox, Design of foundations for offshore structures on crushable soils
  • Nima Farasat, Tunnelling in soft saturated granular soils
  • Pablo Barbieri, Static liquefaction of tailings dams

Master's Students

  • Mohammad Hammad, Frost heave of piles for solar panels
  • Joshi Devansh, Simulating Martian rover soil-wheel interaction

C. Power

Master's Students

  • Darren Alvarenga, Assessment of use of geophysical techniques for monitoring stormwater bioretention systems
  • Joshua Brown,
  • Deanna Hersey, Comparative analysis of various engineered cover systems for mine waste rock piles
  • Maxwell Servos, Time-lapse monitoring of organic compounds with four-dimensional (4D) DC resistivity
  • Difan Su
  • Fuyue Tian
  • Xinyi Yuan

C. Robinson

Doctoral Students

  • Caitlin Kushnir, Geochemical model to predict lead dissolution from lead-bearing plumbing material
  • Grant Hodgins, The role of groundwater in delivering chloride to urban streams
  • Shuyang Wang, Phosophorus dynamics in agricultural stream corridors

Master's Students

  • Brennan Donado Visbal, Effectiveness of biorentention media in removing pollutants from urban storm water
  • James Gale, Impact of large storm events on coastal aquifer systems
  • Meghan Vissers, Phosphorus dynamics in the hyporheic zones in agricultural streams
  • Dillon Vyn

A. Sadrekarimi

Doctoral Students

  • Osama Drbe, Investigating downdrag forces on pile foundations (co-supervisor M.H. El Naggar)
  • Amir Fotovvat, Liquefaction behaviour of mine tailings, and innovative methods for improving and strengthening them
  • Grytan Sarkar, Liquefaction susceptibility assessment of oil-sand beach

Master's Students

  • Hamed Behzadipour, MICP effects on mine tailings
  • Mohammad Marandi,
  • Kaitlyn O'Sullivan
  • Farshad Zehforoosh, Liquefaction assessment of the unsaturated mine tailings