Faculty (New)

Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells with and without fluid-structure interaction. Vibrations of shells and plates made of traditional, composite and functionally graded materials. Numerical and analytical tools, experimental techniques, bifurcation analysis.

Jorge Angeles
James McGill Professor
Office: MD 455
Tel.: 514-398-6315
jorge.angeles [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Design and control of robotic mechanical systems such as drives and sensors. Speed reducers for robotic and mechatronic applications: Robotics with emphasis on robustness regarding kinetostatic, elastostatic and elastodynamic performances.

Bantwal Rabindranath Baliga
Professor
Office: MD 370
Tel.: 514-398-6287
bantwal.baliga [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Numerical and experimental investigations of fluid flow and heat transfer, with applications to the design and optimization of energy exchange, storage, and conversion systems.

Francois Barthelat
Associate Professor
Office: MD 150
Tel.: 514-398-6318
francois.barthelat [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Mechanics of materials applied on biological systems: seashells, bone, teeth, scales, collagen. Microstructural characterization, fracture mechanics, nonlinear deformation mechanisms. Experiments, theoretical and numerical models. Design, fabrication and testing of novel bio-inspired materials.

Jeffrey M. Bergthorson
Associate Professor
William Dawson Scholar
Office: MD 157
Tel.: 514-398-2003
jeffrey.bergthorson [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Development and validation of models for the combustion properties of alternative and sustainable (bio-derived) fuels through a complementary experimental, computational, and analytical modeling approach.

Luca Cortelezzi
Associate Professor
Office: MD 153
Tel.: 514-398-6299
luca.cortelezzi [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Fluid mechanics combined with control theory. Optimization of laminar mixing for sustainable manufacturing, simulation of turbulent mixing for prediction of pollutants' dispersion, boundary layer control for drag reduction for sustainable aviation and transportation.

David Frost
Associate Professor
Associate Chair (Curriculum Affairs)
Office: MD 151
Tel.: 514-398-6279
david.frost [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Explosions, high-speed combustion processes, and shock wave physics. Explosive boiling, including steam explosions due to molten metal/water interactions and rapid-phase-transitions following rapid depressurization of a liquid; multiphase combustion of gases, liquids and solids, including detonation.

Wagdi G. Habashi
Professor
NSERC-Industrial Research Chair in Multidisciplinary CFD
Office: 688 Sherbrooke #717
Tel.: 514-398-3747
wagdi.habashi [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In-flight icing and computational wind engineering (CWE), analytical and computational basis for coupled CFD-CWE analyses, coupled multi-physics and multi-scale problems.

Andrew Higgins
Associate Professor
Office: MD 464
Tel.: 514-398-6297
andrew.higgins [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Detonation in gaseous, heterogeneous, and condensed-phase energetic materials. Shock waves, blast waves, and explosions. Supersonic reacting flow and propulsion. Hypervelocity flow and hypervelocity accelerators.

Pascal Hubert
Werner Graupe Professor
Office: MD 367
Tel.: 514-398-6303
pascal.hubert [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Development of process modeling tools for advanced composite materials. Mechanical and physical properties and processibility of nanocomposites. Combination of experimental and computational techniques.

Michael Kokkolaras
Associate Professor
Office: MD 156
Tel.: 514-398-2343
michael.kokkolaras [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Multidisciplinary design optimization of complex engineering systems; simulation-based engineering design; uncertainty quantification; optimization theory and algorithms; decomposition and coordination methods; design validation; platform-based product families, systems of systems.

Jozsef Kovecses
Associate Professor
Office: MD 158
Tel.: 514-398-6302
jozsef.kovecses [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Dynamics: computational methods, simulation and analysis of multibody and mechatronic systems, dynamics of interacting mechanical systems Robotics: modeling, analysis and design of space robotic systems and operations, dynamics and identification of robots.

John H.S. Lee
Professor
Office: MD 460
Tel.: 514-398-6301
john.lee [at] mail.mcgill.ca (email)

Dynamics: computational methods, simulation and analysis of multibody and mechatronic systems, dynamics of interacting mechanical systems Robotics: modeling, analysis and design of space robotic systems and operations, dynamics and identification of robots.

Tim Lee
Associate Professor
Associate Chair (Undergraduate Student Affairs)
Office: MC 211
Tel.: 514-398-6321
tim.lee [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Unsteady experimental aerodynamics, wingtip vortex, dynamic-stall flow control, turbulence and transition control, particle image velocimetry and wind tunnel studies, low-speed aerodynamics.

Mathias Legrand
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Program Director
Office: MD 350
Tel.: 514-398-5321
mathias.legrand [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Structural Dynamics, Nonlinear and Nonsmooth Vibrations, Reduced-order models, and Wave Propagation. Theoretical knowledge and development of new tools and methods capable of bringing solutions to practical problems in the industrial sphere.

Larry Lessard
Professor
Office: MD 362
Tel.: 514-398-6305
larry.lessard [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Design of composite materials and their structures: Fibre and resin behaviour. Stress, strain and failure analysis in both the static and fatigue regimes, design optimization.

Xinyu Liu
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)
Office: MD 155
Tel.: 514-398-1526
Xinyu.liu [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Robotics, MEMS/NEMS (Micro- or Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems), and applied microfluidics (also referred to as Lab-on-a-Chip technologies), with a strong focus on bio-oriented applications.

Arun K. Misra
Thomas Workman Professor
Office: MD 457
Tel.: 514-398-6288
arun.misra [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Satellite dynamics and control, space robotics, and dynamics of aerospace structures. Active space debris removal using robots, dynamics of tethered space systems, spacecraft motion in the vicinity of asteroids, formation flying of satellites, and space elevator.

Luc Mongeau
Professor and Chair
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)
Office: MD 458 / MD 270B
Tel.: 514-398-2777 (res)
Tel.: 514-398-5869 (dept)
luc.mongeau [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Primary Research Theme: Bioengineering, Vibrations, Acoustics and Fluid-Structure Interaction, Combustion and Energy Systems. Secondary Research Theme: Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Materials and Structures.

Rosaire Mongrain
Associate Professor
William Dawson Scholar
Office: MD 369
Tel.: 514-398-1576
rosaire.mongrain [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Blood flow modeling in circulatoriy pathologies (stenoses, aneurysms) and the influence of the flow on these diseases, mechanical properties of vascular tissues, the design, development and evaluation of cardiovascular devices.

Laurent B. Mydlarski
Associate Professor
Office: MD 374
Tel.: 514-398-6293
laurent.mydlarski [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Experimental fluid mechanics. Turbulent flows and mixing. Thermo-fluid processes including combustion and pollutant dispersion into the environment. Mixing of momentum. Fundamental perspective applied to engineering problems.

Siva Nadarajah
Associate Professor
Office: MD 159
Tel.: 514-398-5757
siva.nadarajah [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Development of numerical methods for the analysis and design of aerospace systems. Advanced numerical techniques for computational fluid dynamics, mathematical techniques for automatic aerodynamic shape optimization, high-performance parallel computing.

Meyer Nahon
Professor
Associate Chair (Graduate Student Affairs)
Office: MD 452
Tel.: 514-398-2383
meyer.nahon [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Dynamics and control of mechanical systems. Motion measurement. Cable dynamics. Vehicle dynamics. Aeronautical: Dynamics and control of aircraft, motion measurement. Underwater: Dynamics and control of ROVs, AUVs, towed vehicles. Robotics: Kinematics, dynamics, control of parallel mechanisms.

Aditya Paranjape
Assistant Professor
Office: MD 351
Tel.: 514-398-4858
aditya.paranjape [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Dynamics and Control. Flight dynamics of fixed and flapping wing aircraft. Control of nonlinear and infinite dimensional systems. Aeronautical: departure phenomena in flight, bifurcation analysis, aeroelasticity, control of flexible systems, flapping flight, design and control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Damiano Pasini
Associate Professor
Office: MD 372
Tel.: 514-398-6295
damiano.pasini [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Micromechanics of hybrid materials. Multiscale mechanics. Structures with controlled micro-architecture, optimization. Fundamental and applied research in aerospace and biomedical engineering.

Inna Sharf
Professor
Office: MD 148
Tel.: 514-398-1711
inna.sharf [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Unmanned aerial vehicles: dynamics, navigation and control of small UAVs (quadrotors, indoor airships) Multibody systems: contact dynamics, modeling, simulation, parameter identification. Dynamics, control and motion planning of mechatronic systems. Computational mechanics.

Evgeny Timofeev
Associate Professor
Office: MC 121
Tel.: 514-398-4382
evgeny.timofeev [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Numerical modelling of unsteady high-speed compressible flows, with particular emphasis on unsteady effects. Development of accurate and efficient numerical methods and computer codes, validation and application in aerospace propulsion, industrial safety, transportation, mining, biomedical.

Srikar Vengallatore
Associate Professor
Office: MD 363
Tel.: 514-398-2174
srikar.vengallatore [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Energy dissipation and structural damping in micro/nanomechanical resonators using both theory and experiments. Thermoelastic damping in micromachined structures and internal friction in thin films. Design and prototyping of MEMS for energy harvesting and energy storage.

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
Assistant Professor
Office: MD 355
Tel.: 514-398-2523
yaoyao.zhao [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Manufacturing information technologies for the integration of design, manufacturing processes, and sustainability assessment. Theory and technology to integrate classical CAD/CAM/CNC/CMM with new internet-based manufacturing (e-manufacturing) and additive manufacturing technologies.

Paul Zsombor-Murray
Associate Professor (Post-retirement)
Office: MC 421
Tel.: 514-398-6311
paul [at] cim.mcgill.ca (email)

Simplification of mechanism analysis and synthesis with kinematic mapping, Measurement of quadric surfaces using minimum data points, Shortest path on the torus; sewers, structures and stents.

Eliot Fried
Eliot.Fried [at] mcgill.ca (email)

James Richard Forbes
James.Forbes [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Helmi Attia
helmi.attia [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Peter Radziszewski
Office: MD 160
Tel.: 514-398-6282
peter.radziszewski [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Amar Sabih
Academic Associate Director, Undergraduate Laboratories
Office: MD 253
Tel.: 514-398-854

Abdul M Ahmed
Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor
Office: MD 353
Tel.: 514-398-6304
abdul.ahmed [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Dan Mateescu
Office: MC 212
Tel.: 514-398-6284
dan.mateescu [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Michael P. Paidoussis
Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor
Office: MD 366
Tel.: 514-398-6294
michael.paidoussis [at] mcgill.ca (email)

Fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, aero- and hydroelasticity, dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Fundamental investigations with applications in power-generating industry, offshore mechanics, and the aeronautical industry.