Research Interns Symposium Videos

Keerthana Krishnan, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Supervisor: Dr. Karen Goodman
Department: Medicine
Research Project: Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Helicobacter pylori infection among Indigenous Communities in Northern Canada

Atharva Rajendra Karanjgaokar, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution:  Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Supervisor:  Dr. James Hogan
Department:  Mechanical Engineering
Research Project:  Failure of Ceramics under shear loads

Vir Karan, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution:  IIT Madras
Supervisor:  Dr. James Hogan
Department:  Mechanical Engineering
Research Project:  Application of Physics-Informed Machine Learning to Solve Coupled Phase-Field Partial Differential Equations

Leon Brubacher, UARE intern

Home Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Supervisor: Dr. Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez 
Department: Department of Renewable Resources 
Research Project: Symbiosis between AMF and wheat in Albertan Soils

Akshat Ahuja, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: IIT Kharagpur
Supervisor:  Dr. Erik Rosolowsky
Department:  Faculty of Science - Physics
Research Project: Predicting Star Formation with Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)

Hassen Mnejja, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie 
Supervisor: Dr. Ehab Elmallah 
Department: Computer Science Department 
Research Project: Exploring Machine learning and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy Replenishment 

Bhautik Agrawal, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India   
Supervisor: Dr. Juliana Leung 
Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  
Research Project: Numerical Simulation of Geothermal Reservoirs

Swathi Ganesh, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras   
Supervisor: Dr. Vinay Prasad 
Department: Chemical Engineering 
Research Project: Attention Mechanism on Chemical Processes

Rishabh Singh, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: BIT SINDRI, DHANBAD, JHARKHAND
Supervisor: Wei Liu
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Project: Applying machine learning methods to the mining discipline

James Moorehead, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Queen’s University Belfast 
Supervisor: Dr. Odile Cisneros 
Department: Modern languages and cultures
Research Project: Harold de Campos’s Plural Poetics  

Matthew Ball, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Durham University 
Supervisor: Dr. Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez 
Department: Renewable Resources
Research Project: Greenhouse gas emissions from perennial wheat

Erin Gilchrist, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: University of Aberdeen
Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Birchall 
Department: School of Urban and Regional Planning 
Research Project: Climate adaptation and governance in Yukon 

Alejandro Mora Rubio, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Manizales - Colombia
Supervisor: Dr. Kumaradevan Punithakumar
Department: Department of Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging 
Research Project: Deep Learning Based Classification and Segmentation for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Respiratory Motion Artifacts 

Juliana Martinez Ducuara / Aayush Kumar, Mitacs Interns

Home Institution: Universidad Nacional de Colombia/ National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India
Supervisor: Dr. Bipro Dhar
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Project: Next-Generation Anaerobic Digestion Process for Waste-to-Bioenergy

Adhiraj Mukhopadhyay, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur  
Supervisor: Dr. Arman Hemmati 
Department: Mechanical Engineering 
Research Project: Flow over trucks at high yaw angles 

Tushar Prakash, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Delhi Technological University 
Supervisor: Dr. Xingyu Li 
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering  
Research Project: Adversarial Samples 

Nikita Bhrugumaharshiemberi  Emberi, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: VIDYALANKAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  
Supervisor: Dr. BENJAMIN V. TUCKER 
Department: LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT 
Research Project: Acoustic-Based Automatic Speech Intelligibility Scoring Using Deep Neural Networks.

Sarthak Antal, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Netaji Subhas University of Technology  
Supervisor: Dr. Hossein Rouhani 
Department: Mechanical Engineering  
Research Project: Rehabilitation using Brain Computer Interface

Chen Dorcas, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: University of Hong Kong    
Supervisor: Dr. Karen Pollock
Department: Rehabilitative medicine 
Research Project: Pilot study on the perceptual rating of Mandarin spoken by children in the Edmonton bilingual program 

Sreevathsa Golla, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Myers
Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Research Project: Analysis of high-resolution ocean general circulation models

Tim-Fabian Jeandey, UAlberta-RWTH Aachen Junior Research Fellow

Home Institution: RWTH Aachen
Supervisor: C. R. (Bob) Koch, PhD, PEng
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Project: New Biofuels for Jets

Srivathsan Badrinarayanan, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Supervisor: Dr. Zukui Li
Department: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Research Project: Data-Driven Optimization of Refinery Process Operations

Nikitha Kannan, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani
Supervisor: Dr. Ashwin K. Iyer
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Project: Multi-band GPS Antenna

Krittika Narasimhan, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur
Supervisor: Dr. Amit P Bhavsar
Department: Department of medical microbiology and immunology
Research Project: Defining and targeting drug toxicity pathways in vitro

María José Martínez Rodríguez, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Supervisor: Dr. María Cutumisu
Department: Dept. of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education
Research Project: Understanding Attitudes Toward Data Literacy: A Systematic Review

Gargee Dash, Mitacs Intern

Home Institution: Odisha University of Technology and Research (formerly CET)
Supervisor: Dr. Pierre Mertiny
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Research Project:  Electric vehicle charging infrastructure with flywheel energy storage support