Members

Director

Prof. Patrick C. Lee

Email: patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-946-5407
Fax: 416-978-7753
Office Location: Mechanical Engineering Building, room MC311

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Dr. Rafaela Aguiar

Post Doc Fellow - RS204 raguiar@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Multifunctionality of Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Hybrid Composites

Dr. Mahmoud Embabi

Post Doc Fellow - RS204 embabi@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Crystallization Behaviours of Micro-/Nano-layered Structures under Gas/SCF Pressures

Dr. Junuk Lee

Post Doc Fellow - MB68 jjunelee@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Bio-Inspired Nano-Structuring of Laser Induced Graphene (LIG)

Dr. Mayesha Mahmud

Post Doc Fellow - RS204 mayesha@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Subcutaneous Vein Visualization for Biomedical Applications

Graduate Students

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Hamidreza Akrami

PhD Student - RS210D akrami@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Polymer Fibrillation Processing

Kody Cao

MASc Student - MB68 kody.cao@mail.utoronto.ca Research: PP/PE Foams and Polymer Foam Characterization

Nathan Chang

PhD Student - RS206 nchang@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Injection foam molding of high-melt-strength PP

Nichole Cheung

PhD Student - RS204 n.cheung@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Hybrid Hierarchical Polymeric Nanocomposites

Sumaiya Farzana

PhD Student - MB68 sumaiya@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Recycling Polymers into Carbon Nanomaterials and Sustainable Composites

Abdulla Faysal

PhD Student - RS206 faysal@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Electrical Properties of Multi-layered Films

Janet Kim

MASc Student - RS204 jbjanet.kim@mail.utoronto.ca Research: Polyethylene Foaming / Visualization & Molecular Dynamics & Machine learning

Taeyoung Lee

PhD Student - MB68 & RS206 taeyoungty.lee@mail.utoronto.ca Research: Optimizing composites' structures using ML

Sandra Romero

PhD Student - RS206 sromerod@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Gas Saturated Polymer System Property: Crystal and Cell Nucleation/Growth Theory and Visualization

Saadman Sakib Rahman

PhD Student - TBD ssrahman@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Crosslinking of Rubber in Nanofibrillation

Nello D. Sansone

PhD Student - RS204 nsansone@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Light Weighting Structural Injection Molded Parts for the Automotive Industry

Troy Su

PhD Student - RS206 troysu@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Development of Bio-Degradable PLA-based Flexible Packaging Applications Using In-situ Fibrillation and Micro-/Nano-Layer Extrusion

Anthony Tuccitto

PhD Student - RS204 tuccitto@mie.utoronto.ca Research: Carbon Foam and Aerogels from Biosources

Jianxiang Zhao

PhD Student - RS209 jxzhao@mie.utoronto.ca Research: In-situ Visualization, Passive Cooling, and Micro- and Nano-Layer (MNL) Coextrusion

Sima Zeinali Danalou

PhD Student - WB342 sima.zeinali@mail.utoronto.ca Research: Microscopy and 3D imaging of membranes

Previous Members

Dr. Linda O. Nwaeto (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2025)
Wai Ho (Jojo) Chau (MEng Student, U of Toronto, 2024)
Joshua Salim (MEng Student, U of Toronto, 2024)
Mayesha Binte Mahmud (PhD, U of Toronto, 2024)
Ali Reza Mahmud (PhD, U of Toronto, 2024)
Hanyang Ye (MEng, U of Toronto, 2024)
Xia Wei (Xavier) Shen (MASc, U of Toronto, 2024)
Dr. Xingyu Fu (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2024)
Dr. Lei Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2024)
Wesam Rabba (MEng, U of Toronto, 2024)
Utkarsh Chadha (MEng U of Toronto, 2024)
Qingyun (Ada) Yang (MEng U of Toronto, 2024)
Dorothy Yang (MEng U of Toronto, 2024)
Simon Zheng (MEng U of Toronto, 2024)
Dr. Andrew Anstey (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2023)
Dr. Pengke Huang (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2023)
Dr. Mohamed Cherif Azzaz (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2023)
Eric Sundong Kim (PhD, U of Toronto, 2023)
Li Ma (PhD, U of Toronto, 2023)
Harshil Thakka (MEng, U of Toronto, 2023)
Shanshan (Grace) Xue (MEng, U of Toronto, 2023)
Dr. Mu Sung Kweon (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2022)
Dr. Eunse Chang (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2022)
Dr. Zahir Razzaz (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2021)
Dr. Ruiyan Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2021)
Chongxiang Zhao (PhD, U of Toronto, 2021)
Steven Mendoza-Cedeño (MASc, U of Toronto, 2022)
Linhan Yu (MASc, U of Toronto, 2021)
Osama Abuharb (MEng, U of Toronto, 2021)
Yu Nakamura (Visiting Scholar, U of Toronto, 2021)
Zuolong Chen (MASc, Uof Toronto, 2020)
Dr. Yongna Qiao (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2020)
Mahmoud Embabi (MASc, U of Toronto, 2020)
Peixuan Li (MASc, U of Toronto, 2020)
Gautami Shah (MEng, U of Toronto, 2020)
Selina Xiangxiao Yao (PhD, U of Vermont, 2020)
Jung-Hyun Kim (MASc, U of Toronto, 2020)
Dr. Jean-Mathieu Pin (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Toronto, 2020)
Dr. Hee Eon Park (Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Vermont, 2018)
Sandra Romero Diez (MASc, U of Vermont, 2018)
Eric Sundong Kim (MASc, U of Vermont, 2017)
Jason G.H. Lee (MASc, U of Victoria, 2016)

Associates

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