Current Members
Director
Professor Birsen Donmez
Professor
Email: donmez@mie.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.7399
Office location: RS305A
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Post-Doctoral Fellows
Holland Vasquez
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: holland.vasquez@mail.utoronto.ca
Basar Demir
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: b.demir@utoronto.ca
Graduate Students
Chelsea DeGuzman
PhD Student
Email: deguzman@mie.utoronto.ca
Mehdi Hoseinzadeh
PhD Student
Email: m.hoseinzadeh@mail.utoronto.ca
Suzan Ayas
PhD Student
Email: sayas@mie.utoronto.ca
Davide Gentile
PhD Student
Email: d.gentile@mail.utoronto.ca
Alia Galal
PhD Student, Civil Engineering
Email: alia.galal@mail.utoronto.ca
Mattea Powell
MASc Student
Email: mattea.powell@mail.utoronto.ca
Tselot Tessema
MASc Student
Email: tselot.tessema@mail.utoronto.ca
Visiting Scholars
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Shabab Salam
Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Yichen Mao
Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Yoonho Kim
Engineering Science
University of Toronto
Zeina Shaltout
Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Alumni
Fellows & Visiting Scholars
Zhuofan Liu
Visiting Scholar
Current Position: Lecturer
Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China
Xing (Jason) Tang
Visiting PhD Student
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Industrial Design, P.R. China
Vishnu Radhakrishnan
Visiting PhD Student
Current Position: PhD Student, Leeds University, UK
Jing Feng
Post-doctoral Fellow, Industrial Engineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Psychology
North Carolina State University
Nathan Lau
Post-doctoral Fellow, Industrial Engineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Virginia Tech
Dengbo He
Post-Doctorate Fellow
David Dongsoon Min
Visiting Researcher
Managing Director/Head of Future Growth Division
HYUNDAI AUTOEVER Corp./HYUNDAI MOTORS group.
Winnie Chen
Post-doctoral Fellow, Industrial Engineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University at Buffalo
Junmin Du
Visiting Scholar
Current Position: Lecturer
Beihang University, School of Transportation Science & Engineering, P.R. China
Joseilo Pereirafilho
Post-doctoral Fellow, Industrial Engineering
Current Position: Professor
Federal Technological University of Parana
Young Don Ko
Research Associate
Previous Graduate Students
Ziquan Wang
MEng Student (completed 2021)
Current Position: PhD Student, Tsinghua University
Harshul Varma
MEng Student (completed 2021)
Analytics and financial engineering
Data Analyst and Advanced Analytics Assosciate/TD
Joelle Girgis
MASc Student (completed 2021)
Sr. Design Research/TD Bank
Dengbo He
PhD (completed 2020)
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow at HFASt Lab, Univeristy of Toronto
Joey Chakraborty
MASc (completed 2020)
Current Position: User Experience Lead at Berkeley Lights Inc.
Braden Joseph Hansma
MASc (completed 2020)
Nazli Eser Kaya
MASc (completed 2019)
Current Position: Engineer analyst in Human Factors and Computer Design, Kinetrics
Wayne Giang
PhD (completed 2018)
Current Position: Assistant Professor,University of Florida
Canmanie Teresa Ponnambalam
MASc (completed 2018)
Current Position: PhD student, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Maryam Merrikhpour
PhD (completed 2017)
George Liu
MASc (transferred to PhD 2016)
Current Position: PhD student in the Netherlands
Patrick Stahl
PhD (completed 2015)
Current Position: Human Factors Researcher, Apple Inc.
Liberty Hoekstra-Atwood
MASc (completed 2015)
Current Position: Human Factors Researcher, Battelle Memorial Institute
Pamela D’Addario
MASc (completed 2014)
Current Position: Project Engineer, MEA Forensic Engineers & Scientists
Zishu Liu
MASc (completed 2011)
Currently Position: Senior Analyst, Bristol Gate Capital Partners Inc.
San Ha Kim
MEng (completed 2019)
Samantha Hopkins
MASc (completed 2018)
Current Position:Principal System Safety Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Martina Risteska
MASc (completed 2018)
Ahmed Zakir Mohamed Faizal
MEng (completed 2018)
Neil Sokol
MASc (completed 2017)
Current Position: Human Factors Specialist, Healthcare Human Factors
Jeanne Xie
MASc (completed 2016)
Current Position: Human Factors Specialist, Healthcare Human Factors
Farzan Sasangohar
PhD (completed 2015)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Susana Marulanda
MASc (completed 2015)
Current Position: Human Factors Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Adrian Matheson
MASc (completed 2013)
Current Position: Royal Canadian Air Force
Arsham Fatahi
MASc (completed 2013)
Current Position: Decision Support Analyst, Ornge Medical Transport
Previous Undergraduate Research Assistants
Amanda Leiva
BSc Student, Psychology
Claire Zhang
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Charlie (Cenyichao) Sun
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Yihan (Christine) Wang
BSc student, Statistical Science focus on Cognitive Psychology
Cole Stotland
BASc student, Industrial Engineering
Mohamed Abdelwahab
BASc student, Industrial Engineering
Ashna Jain
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Mansi Patel
BASc Student
Selena Lombardi
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Michael Lu
BASc Student
Margaux Roncière
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Shuran “Rayna” Tang
BSc Student, Psychology and Cognitive Science
Dahong “Steven” Zhang
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Shkhar Kumar
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Geoffrey Jiang
BASc Student, Engineering Science
XueGe Huang
HBSc Student, Mathematics and Statistics
George Su
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Songhui “Chloe” Xu
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Meining “Michelle” Ji
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Wenyi Peng
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Kaiyang “Bond” Chen
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Xiaonian “Sean” He
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Ana Medinac
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Nick Mirjalali
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Nicole Wongsoo
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Sowmya Tata
BASc Student, Engineering Science
David Belvedere
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Jaquelyn Monis Rodriguez
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Syed Tamzid
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Xiaoou “Bessie” Li
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
John Volpatti
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Guangkai Qiao
BASc Student, Electronic Engineering
Tanishq Singh
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Amir Ganiev
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Ryan Cheng
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Tianshu “Tina” Shen
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Yimamu Yilizhati “Elzat”
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Tony Ye
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Sam Zhang
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Seif Hassan
BASc Student, Mechanical Engineering
Areeba Zakir
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering
Marcus Tan
BASc Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emil Kerimov
BASc Student, Engineering Science
Faizan Rehmatullah
BASc Student, Industrial Engineering