91心頭利 researchers awarded $9.5M in NSERC discovery research grants
91心頭利 (91心頭利) researchers have received $9.5 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support 43 research projects across a wide range of disciplines, as recently announced by the Government of Canada.
A total of $8.9 million was secured by 39 91心頭利 researchers through the NSERC Discovery Grants program, nine of whom received an additional Discovery Launch Supplement to support their early-career research. This funding will drive innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, life sciences, mathematics, quantum resilience, robotics, wireless networks and more.
���This important investment from the Government of Canada supports transformative research at 91心頭利 that will advance innovation in critical areas,��� said Steven N. Liss, 91心頭利���s vice-president, research and innovation. ���Congratulations to all the researchers who have received this funding to address major challenges in health care, environmental sustainability, engineering and science for the benefit of all Canadians.���
NSERC Discovery grants support discovery research across Canada in the areas of natural sciences and engineering. These five-year grants support high-impact research and the training of the next generation of researchers.
Additionally, three Research Tools and Instruments grants ($450,000) and a Discovery Horizons grant ($155,900) were awarded to 91心頭利 researchers. These grants will support research infrastructure and tools to develop advanced imaging systems for studying cells, plants and materials, and to enable real-time analysis and discovery.
NSERC Discovery Grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
- Margaret Moulson: Exploring the development of face perception in infancy: Perceptual, cognitive, and neural mechanisms
- Karl Szpunar: Mental simulation of what might happen next: Theory, methods, and generalizability
- Lixia Yang: Cultural influences on socioemotional cognition across adulthood with aging
Faculty of Community Services
- Aida Haghighi: Development of an innovative and comprehensive risk assessment tool for enhancing crane safety in the construction sector
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Marco Antoniades: Advanced electromagnetic metasurfaces for next-generation communication systems
- Mucahit Cevik: Algorithms for dynamic scheduling of cancer screening and diagnosis
- Robin Chhabra: Embodied intelligence for decentralized autonomy of collaborative space manipulators
- Said Easa: AI-Driven safety for smart highways and connected mobility systems
- Bilal Farooq: On-demand multimodal transportation systems for future cities: New technologies, methods, and applications
- Hossein Hassani: Accelerating embedded multimodal models for safe autonomous driving
- April Khademi: Investigating fairness in AI models for breast cancer pathology images
- Sridhar Krishnan: Next-generation biomedical signal sensing and multimodal analysis
- Songnian Li: Geospatial digital twin to support low-level airspace management
- Marcello Papini: Next-generation process modeling for constructive and destructive solid particle erosion processes
- Mohammed Saif: Intelligent surfaces for resilient networking and communications in beyond 5G wireless environments
- Mohamad Shahab: Adaptive and learning-based control systems: Performance improvement
- Vaseem Akram Shaik: Active matter in inhomogeneous environments
- Shaghayegh Shajari: Engineering smart and soft bio-interfaced materials for point-of-care health monitoring and therapeutic devices
- Seyed Mohammad Shushtari: Mobility empowerment through wearable robotics: An AI-driven paradigm for symbiotic hardware-software co-design
- Sharareh Taghipour: Leveraging emerging technologies for physical asset management: From design for reliability to operations and decision optimization
- Fengfeng Xi: A framework of morphable mannequins for contact-based bio-integrated design
- Fei Yuan: Development of energy-efficient high-resolution hybrid noise-shaping analog-to-digital data converters for power-constrained applications in healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and environment protection
Faculty of Science
- Marc Adler: Innovation in organosilanes to enable greener, efficient, impactful organic synthesis
- Manar Alalfi: Operationalizing SE 3.0: Autonomous, explainable agents for secure IoT ecosystems
- Costin Antonescu: Dynamic regulation of the endomembrane network
- Anthony Bonato: Pursuit-evasion games and processes on graphs
- Jeffrey Fillingham: Nuclear specialization of DSS1-associated complexes in Tetrahymena thermophila
- Raffi Karshafian: Cavitation dynamics and membrane bioeffects
- Janet Koprivnikar: Consuming danger: Influences and implications of parasite and contaminant exposure for host foraging and defensive behaviours
- Michael Olson: Actin cytoskeleton regulation and function in cell migration and three-dimensional growth
- Alexey Rubtsov: Unlocking artificial intelligence productivity in finance: A mathematical approach for fair and explainable models
- Sarah Sabatinos: Heat promotes genome: The mechanisms and crosstalk between cell cycle checkpoints and temperature stress responses
- Guanghui Wang: 3D scene perception and understanding with vision-language intelligence
- Foivos Xanthos: Vector lattice theory: From foundations to applications in mathematical finance
- Wei Xu: Numerical methods for real option analysis and hedging in incomplete energy markets
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan: Advancing quantum resilience for the Internet of Things
The Creative School
- Solmaz Karamikamkar: Multifunctional aerogel architectures: From structure-property relationships to bioadhesive therapeutic interfaces
- Jonghun Park: Multidimensional optimization of packaging systems and design for sustainable omni-channel distributions with emphasis on packaging-product waste dynamics
NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement recipients
Faculty of Community Services
- Aida Haghighi: Development of an innovative and comprehensive risk assessment tool for enhancing crane safety in the construction sector
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Hossein Hassani: Accelerating embedded multimodal models for safe autonomous driving
- Mohammed Saif: Intelligent surfaces for resilient networking and communications in beyond 5G wireless environments
- Mohamad Shahab: Adaptive and learning-based control systems: Performance improvement
- Vaseem Akram Shaik: Active matter in inhomogeneous environments
- Shaghayegh Shajari: Engineering smart and soft bio-interfaced materials for point-of-care health monitoring and therapeutic devices
- Seyed Mohammad Shushtari: Mobility empowerment through wearable robotics: An AI-driven paradigm for symbiotic hardware-software co-design
The Creative School
- Solmaz Karamikamkar: Multifunctional aerogel architectures: From structure-property relationships to bioadhesive therapeutic interfaces
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (Category 1) recipients
Faculty of Science
- Costin Antonescu: Facility for advanced cellular imaging and light-microscopy excellence
- Lesley Campbell: Next-generation plant communication platform for real-time stress detection and adaptive control
- Hadis Zarrin: SAFE-MAP: Soft-stylus, accurate, and field-expandable microscope for non-destructive electrochemical mapping of materials
NSERC Discovery Horizons grant recipient
Faculty of Science
- Nathan Churchill: An optimized neuroimaging protocol for assessing autonomic dysfunction
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