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Civil and Mineral Engineering

Alexandre Milovanoff

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change mitigation
  • Electric vehicles
  • Energy systems
  • Environmental assessment
  • Sustainable transport

Office: +1-514-586-9367
Languages: French
Website
Email: alexandre.milovanoff@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Amer Shalaby

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Intelligent transportation systems with emphasis on advanced public transit systems
  • Public transit planning and operations
  • Simulation and modelling of transportation systems
  • Transportation planning of large-scale events and mega cities

Office: (416) 978-5907
Website
Email: amer@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Baher Abdulhai

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced traffic management
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) based street and freeway traffic control
  • Congestion management
  • Dynamic road pricing
  • Dynamic transportation networks
  • Emergency evacuation optimization
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Modelling and simulation of large scale dynamic transportation networks
  • Open transportation services innovation and network enabled ITS
  • Pervasive and mobile ITS
  • Smart cities under automated and transformative transportation systems
  • Traveller information systems

Office: N/A
Website
Email: baher.abdulhai@utoronto.ca
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Bryan Karney

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource systems
  • Educating engineers
  • Particular emphasis of transient events
  • Pipe breaks and failure in water systems
  • Pipe networks and water supply systems, including prediction of physical and chemical characteristics
  • Pumps and pumping stations
  • Water and energy systems (particularly hydro-electric)

Office: 416-978-7776
Website
Email: bryan.karney@utoronto.ca
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Constantin Christopoulos

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Development of design methodologies for structures incorporating damping and isolation devices
  • Development of seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices
  • Development of self-centering seismic resistant systems
  • Development of wind and earthquake damping systems for high-rise buildings
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Energy dissipation devices and seismic isolation systems
  • High performance seismic resistant systems
  • Sensing and structural health monitoring
  • Structural dynamics
  • Study of the non-linear dynamics of structures
  • Use of steel castings to enhance the seismic performance of infrastructure
  • Vibration-based health monitoring of structures

Office: 416-978-6238
Languages: French, Greek, Spanish
Website
Email: c.christopoulos@utoronto.ca
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Douglas Hooton

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Alkali aggregate reactions
  • Cement-admixture interactions
  • Concrete durability and service life, permeability, pore structure, chloride ingress, and moisture content
  • De-icer salt scaling resistance
  • Performance standards and specifications for concrete
  • Physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of Portland cements, supplementary cementing materials, admixtures
  • Properties of ancient concrete materials
  • Structures and Bridges
  • Sulfate resistance
  • Waste Materials Utilization

Office: 416-450-4605
Mobile: 416-978-5912
Website
Email: d.hooton@utoronto.ca
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Eric Miller

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Analysis of transit demand and operations
  • Analysis of transportation - land use interactions
  • Development and applications of disaggregate travel choice models
  • Microsimulation modelling methods
  • Transportation energy/emissions modelling
  • Transportation planning
  • Transportation policy analysis
  • Travel demand modelling

Office: 416-978-4076
Website
Email: eric.miller@utoronto.ca
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Evan Bentz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • AASHTO spreadsheets
  • Analysis of ancient structures by modern methods
  • Behaviour and design of concrete structures
  • Computer modelling of structures
  • Membrane-2000 program
  • Numerical modelling of reinforced concrete behaviour
  • Response of structures to fire
  • Response-2000 program
  • Service life modelling of reinforced concrete structures
  • Technology transfer applications for research on shear and torsion

Office: 416-978-4608
Website
Email: evan.bentz@utoronto.ca
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John Hadjigeorgiou

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Feasibility studies
  • Mining engineering
  • Risk management
  • Rock engineering
  • Slope engineering
  • Tunneling

Office: (416) 946-4032
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: john.hadjigeorgiou@utoronto.ca
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John Paul Harrison

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Mining & Geomechanics
  • Mining engineering
  • Rock engineering
  • Rock mechanics

Office: 416-978-1634
Website
Email: john.harrison@utoronto.ca

Khandker Nurul Habib

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Activity-Based Modelling
  • Choice Modelling
  • Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modelling
  • Survey Design, Stated Preference (SP) Experiment
  • Transport Policy and Transport Economics
  • Transportation in Developing Countries
  • Transportation planning
  • Travel demand modelling

Office: 416-946-8027
Languages: English
Website
Email: khandker.nurulhabib@utoronto.ca
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Marianne Hatzopoulou

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Traffic-related air pollution
  • Transportation and climate change

Office: 416-978-0864
Languages: French,Arabic,English
Website
Email: marianne.hatzopoulou@utoronto.ca
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Marianne Touchie

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Energy efficiency
  • High-rise buildings
  • Indoor environmental quality
  • Retrofits
  • Thermal Comfort

Office: (416) 978-5919
Website
Email: marianne.touchie@utoronto.ca
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Mason Ghafghazi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Assessment of liquefaction potential and post-cyclic response of tailings
  • Behaviour of gravelly soils
  • Constitutive modelling of soils
  • Earthquake
  • Foundations
  • Geotechnical field investigation
  • Ground failure
  • Iran politics
  • Numerical and physical modelling of geotechnical processes

Office: 416 978-5972
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: mason.ghafghazi@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Mohammed Basheer

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence in water resources
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Coupled human-water systems
  • Hydrology and Water Resource Systems
  • Hydropower planning and operations
  • Multi-hazard assessment and management
  • Water-energy-food nexus

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Arabic,German
Website
Email: mohammed.basheer@utoronto.ca

Murray Grabinsky

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Liquefaction + CPB
  • Mining & Geomechanics
  • Mining engineering
  • Sustainable Infrastructure

Office: N/A
Website
Email: murray.grabinsky@utoronto.ca

Paul Gauvreau

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applications of high-performance materials in bridge design
  • Behaviour and design of prestressed concrete structures
  • Bridge aesthetics
  • Bridge design
  • Bridge rehabilitation

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: pg@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Robert Andrews

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Disinfection to control pathogenic organisms and disinfection by-products
  • Emerging contaminants
  • Microplastics
  • Optimization of drinking water treatment processes
  • Water quality in distribution systems

Office: 416-978-5399
Home: 905-336-6141
Website
Email: andrews@civ.utoronto.ca
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Ronald Hofmann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Drinking water quality and treatment

Office: 416-946-7508
Website
Email: ron.hofmann@utoronto.ca
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Shamim A Sheikh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced composite materials
  • Bridges structural evaluation
  • Buildings
  • Concrete structures
  • Rehabilitation
  • Seismic upgrade using advanced materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers
  • Structural engineering

Office: (416) 978-3671
Mobile: (647) 278-8301
Languages: Urdu
Website
Email: sheikh@civ.utoronto.ca
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Shoshanna Saxe

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil engineering
  • Embodied carbon/GHG
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Infrastructure
  • Sustainable cities
  • Sustainable construction
  • Transport

Office: N/A
Website
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
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Tamer El-Diraby

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Building information modeling (BIM)
  • Construction engineering and project management
  • Data analytics for project management
  • Informatics & knowledge management
  • Infrastructure asset management
  • social network analysis

Office: 416-978-8653
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: tamer@ecf.utoronto.ca
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