People

Current Members

Director

Professor Birsen Donmez
Professor
Email: donmez@mie.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.7399
Office location: Room 315, 800 Bay St

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Basar Demir
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: b.demir@utoronto.ca

Chelsea DeGuzman
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: deguzman@mie.utoronto.ca

Suzan Ayas
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: sayas@mie.utoronto.ca

Dina Kanaan
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: dina.kanaan@mail.utoronto.ca

Graduate Students

Alia Galal
PhD Student, Civil Engineering
Email: alia.galal@mail.utoronto.ca

Mark Wei
PhD Student
Email: mwei@mie.utoronto.ca

Jianbai Niu
MEng student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Chloe (Mingke) Zhu
MEng student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Mavis (Siting) Chen
MEng student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Yuanyuan Che
MEng student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Visiting Scholars

Jiyao Wang
Visiting PhD Student
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Charlie (Cenyichao) Sun
Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Erry Guan
Mechanical Engineering
University of Toronto

Alumni

Fellows & Visiting Scholars

Jinlei Shi
Visiting PhD Student
Zhejiang University, P.R. China

Yao Chen
Visiting PhD Student
Tongji University, P.R. China

Jinzhen Dou
Visiting PhD Student
Southeast University, P.R. China

Wenzhe Tang
Visiting PhD Student
Southeast University, P.R. China

Holland Vasquez
Post-doctoral Fellow

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, P.R. China
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Southwest Jiaotong University Telecommunications, P.R. China

Vishnu Radhakrishnan
Visiting PhD Student
Current Position: PhD Student, Leeds University, UK

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

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

Previous Graduate Students

Tselot Tessema
MASc (completed 2023)
Current Position:  PhD student at Wellness and Health Enhancement Engineering Lab, University of Toronto

Mehdi Hoseinzadeh
PhD (completed 2023)
Current Position:  Teaching Faculty, Ontario Tech University

Davide Gentile
PhD (completed 2024)
Current Position:  Post-doctoral Fellow at Cognitive Engineering Laboratory (CEL), Univeristy of Toronto

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

Rafael Simogiarto
BASc student, Mechanical Engineering

Ethan Ho
BASc student, Industrial Engineering

Jayasree Sreeram
BASc student, Industrial Engineering

Shabab Salam
BASc student, Industrial Engineering

Yichen Mao
BASc student, Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Yoonho Kim
BASc Student, Engineering Science

Zeina Shaltout
BASc student, Industrial Engineering

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