Dr. Majid Bahrami
CREATE HyTEM Program Director
Professor, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University
Role: District energy network, thermal storage, and heat transformers.
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Dr. Behraad Bahreyni
Role: Embedded sensors, machine learning, and signal processing of the collected data.
Dr. Claudio Canizares
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Role: Modeling, stability, control, and optimization of microgrids and energy systems.
Dr. Cynthia Cruickshank
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University
Role: Solar energy systems, solar-assisted heat pumps, absorption chillers, thermal storage
Dr. Terri Griffith
Professor, Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Role: Business, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Anthony Lau
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Colombia
Role: Bioenergy production and biomass feedstock, renewable natural gas.
Dr. Alexandra Mallett
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Carleton University
Role: Sustainable energy and climate change policy, Northern communities, energy regulations.
Dr. Patrick Palmer
Role: Smart Grid interfacing power electronics for integration of renewable energy and grid services in microgrids.
Dr. Handan Tezel
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa
Role: Materials and processes for thermal energy storage in space heating and cooling applications.
Dr. Bala Venkatesh
Professor, Department of Electrical, Computing and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Role: Grid interfacing, control, and hydro power storage.
Dr. Hadis Zarrin
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
Role: Materials and processes for electrochemical energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells, electrolysers, supercapacitors).
