Heterogeneous catalysis and catalyst development for greener fuels, syngas, hydrogen, biofuels and fine chemicals production from fossil- and biomass-derived feedstocks. Chemical reaction engineering, kinetics and reactor modeling and design for CO2 capture, biofuel and syngas/hydrogen production. Agricultural residue catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction to HEV biofuels. Catalytic thermal conversion of biomass to syngas, bio-gas and bio-oil. Municipal wastes into energy via pyrolysis and gasification processes. CO2 utilization for producing value added products. Sorption-based functional materials for CO2 capture and utilization. Modeling, simulation and optimization of post- and pre-combustion CO2 capture with H2 production, and CO2 utilization. Catalytic methods for CO2 capture and utilization. The Economics of greenhouse warming. Conceptual design, economic evaluation, feasibility studies, and project planning and management.
Phase Behavior, Reservoir Fluid Characterization, Thermal Recovery, Miscible Displacement, Chemical Flooding, Asphaltene, Wax and Hydrate Precipitation and Deposition, Heavy Oil and Multiphase Equilibrium Testing, Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Equation of State (EOS), Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, In-situ Combustion, Kinetic Models Development, Reservoir Simulation, Mass and Heat Transfer.
Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Management, Education Technology & eLearning, Social Informatics, Computing Education, Decision Support Systems, Software Engineering Methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean), Business Analysis, Project Management, and Free/Libre Open Source Software.
Non-hazardous waste generation in Western Canada; Environmental geotechnics and sustainable solid waste treatment; Beneficial reuse of waste materials in civil and environmental applications; Design, operation, and remediation of municipal solid waste landfills and other solid waste containment systems.
Development and application of Simulation, Modeling, and Optimization, techniques for dealing with uncertainty in Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Process Engineering, and Management. 1. Statistical (Probability) Techniques. 2. Risk Assessment, Decision Analysis, and Control Planning. 3. Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, and Artificial Neural-Networks. 4. Drinking Water quality Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Water Resource Management, and Hydraulic Reliability Assessment. 5. Radiology Engineering. 6. Process Control Techniques in Industrial Applications.
Value-added product and manufacturing research and development from agricultural fiber and reclaimed material, Engineering management including principles of lean manufacturing, JIT, agile manufacturing, operational management, etc., Human Factors Engineering including ergonomics, safety design, procedures, etc., Applied mechanical engineering analysis and design including biomechanics, vibration control, structural analysis, strength of materials, instrumentation, chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics, manufacturing processes, Research experience in artificial intelligence including applications in knowledge based expert systems, artificial neural networks, wavelets, etc.
Reservoir description and dynamics, assisted history matching, formation evaluation, phase behaviour, heat and mass transfer, production optimization, CO2 EOR and storage, pressure transient analysis, reservoir nanoagents, jet dynamics, artificial lift methods, interfacial interactions in EOR processes, heavy oil recovery, unconventional resources exploitation, and oilfield wastewater treatment.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Smart Environments, Intelligent Systems, Artificial General Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Commonsense Reasoning, Artificial Consciousness, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Advanced manufacturing processes, Continuous Improvement of manufacturing processes, warehouse management.