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2021 Research Grants Competition - Results by Institution
| Applicant name | Program | Title | EG | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alain, Claude Department Psychology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Attention and Auditory Scene Analysis | 1502 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Alain, Claude Department Psychology (St. George Campus) |
RTI | A new laboratory to study brain dynamics of soundscape in virtual environment | 1602 | 1 | $42,000.00 |
| Aleman, Dionne Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RGPIN | A mathematically-driven framework for pandemic planning and management | 1509 | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Andrews, Robert Department Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of |
RTI | Evaluation of Microplastic Contamination in Canadian Drinking Waters | 1609 | 1 | $149,999.00 |
| Barsyte-Lovejoy, Dalia Department Pharmacology and Toxicology |
RGPIN | Protein arginine methylation in nuclear organization, function, and stress response | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Bazylak, Aimy Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RTI | Accelerated catalyst layer design and fabrication: Materials discovery through machine learning | 1612 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Beaudry, Jacqueline Department Nutritional Sciences |
RTI | Metabolic Analyzer for the study of live cells and tissue explants | 1602 | 1 | $148,419.00 |
| Beaudry, Jacqueline Department Nutritional Sciences |
RGPIN | Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Action on Adipose Tissue Metabolism | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Bendayan, Reina Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate Department of |
RGPIN | Regulatory Mechanisms of Folate Transporters by Transcription Factors in the Brain | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Bennett, Neil Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Magmatic Salts as Agents of Extreme Fractionation | 1506 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Bollmann, Jörg Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Unravelling the fate of coccolithophores (marine microplankton) during times of rapid environmental change | 1506 | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Bozec, Laurent Department Dentistry, Faculty of |
RGPIN | Unlocking Collagen crosslinking | 1502 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Braeutigam, Katharina Department Biology (Mississauga) |
RTI | Chlorophyll fluorescence systems for real-time monitoring of plant performance | 1602 | 1 | $131,504.00 |
| Bremer, James Department Computer and Mathematical Sciences (Scarborough) |
RGPIN | Asymptotically Improved Solvers for the Helmholtz Equation | 1508 | 5 | $21,000.00 |
| Cadotte, Marc Department Scarborough College |
RGPIN | Enhancing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under multiple anthropogenic stressors | 1503 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Campos, Jennifer Department Psychology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Multisensory self-motion perception | 1502 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Chattopadhyay, Kinnor Department Materials Science and Engineering |
RGPIN | Physical, Mathematical, and Machine Learning Modeling of Iron and Steel Processes | 1511 | 5 | $46,000.00 |
| Chaudhuri, Swetaprovo Department Aerospace Studies, Institute for |
RGPIN | Structure, propagation, and stabilization of turbulent flames at aircraft engine conditions | 1512 | 5 | $32,000.00 |
| Chen, Jing Department Geography & Planning (St. George Campus) |
RTI | Field Measurements of Leaf Photosynthetic Capacity (Vcmax) for Carbon Cycle Research | 1606 | 1 | $85,223.00 |
| Christara, Christina Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | High-performance computational methods for Partial Differential Equations and applications | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Crites, Abigail Department Astronomy and Astrophysics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Novel Millimeter-Wavelength Spectrometers for Studying the Epoch of Reionization | 1505 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Crome, Sarah Department Immunology |
RGPIN | Defining factors that control human innate lymphoid cell development and function | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Desjardins, Julie Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Variation of the rank in families of elliptic curves | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Dillon, Marcus Department Biology (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | The evolutionary genomics of infectious phytopathogen emergence | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Diosady, Levente Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Fortification of beverages for prevention of maternal and infant mortality | 1511 | 5 | $39,000.00 |
| Duduta, Mihai Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RGPIN | Manufacturing the Next-Generation of Soft Robotics with Ultra-Efficient, Strong, Electro-Mechanical Artificial Muscles | 1512 | 5 | $32,000.00 |
| Ernst, Oliver Department Biochemistry (St. George Campus) |
RTI | Detectors for Serial Nanocrystal Electron Diffraction | 1601 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Evans, Greg Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Clean Air for All: Assessment and Mitigation of Urban Air Pollution | 1504 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Farahmand, Amir-massoud Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Robust Decision-Aware Model-based Reinforcement Learning | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Farnood, Ramin Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Conversion of cellulosic biomass to value-added chemicals using solar-driven carbon-based photocatalytic systems | 1511 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Fekl, Ulrich Department Chemical and Physical Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Transformations of adamantyls and other molecular nanodiamonds in the coordination sphere of metals | 1504 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Foerster, Jakob Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Machine Learning in Multi-Agent Settings | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Frederickson, Megan Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Ecology and evolution of plant-animal and host-microbe mutualisms | 1503 | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Garg, Animesh Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Causal Models for Generalizable Robot Learning | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Gilbert, Benjamin Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Species diversity, stability and loss | 1503 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Gilitschenski, Igor Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Event-based Vision for Robotic Scene Understanding | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Goubran, Maged Department Medical Biophysics |
RGPIN | Computational platform for integrated multimodal analysis of brain networks across resolution scales | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Goyal, Sidhartha Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Phenomenological models of large complex populations of cells: from microbes to tissues | 1505 | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Grinspun, Eitan Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | A Geometric Approach to Simulating Knotting and Entanglement of Slender Objects | 1507 | 5 | $74,000.00 |
| Gronsbell, Jessica Department Statistical Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Statistical inference in labeled data limited settings | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Guttman, David Department Cell and Systems Biology (St. George Campus) |
RTI | High Capacity Microbial Growth Core Facility | 1601 | 1 | $39,646.00 |
| Haibe-Kains, Benjamin Department Medical Biophysics |
RGPIN | Development of a deep learning approach to predict noisy biological phenotypes | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Hardisty, Michael Department Surgery |
RGPIN | Machine Learning to Predict Damage Mechanics in Trabecular Bone | 1512 | 5 | $32,000.00 |
| Heath, Anna Department Public Health, Dalla Lana School of |
RGPIN | Innovative Methods for Research and Trial Design using Value of Information | 1508 | 5 | $18,000.00 |
| Herrmann, Björn Department Psychology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | How do we attend dynamically in time during listening? | 1502 | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Hu, Ming Department Joseph L. Rotman School of Management |
RGPIN | On-Demand Resource Sharing Management | 1509 | 5 | $52,000.00 |
| Hum, Sean Department Electrical & Computer Engineering |
RTI | Near-Field Antenna Measurement Upgrades for Characterizing Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Electromagnetic Metasurfaces | 1610 | 1 | $141,398.00 |
| Jackson, Hartland Department Molecular Genetics |
RGPIN | Quantitative Tissue Architecture | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Jakubiec, John Department Architecture, Landscape and Design, John H. Daniels Faculty of |
RGPIN | Simulation methods and data collection for assessing non-image forming light levels and quantifiable impacts on building occupants | 1509 | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Johnson, Elizabeth Department Psychology (Mississauga) |
RTI | Using eye-tracking and in-depth video analysis to understand how speech input relates to speech development | 1602 | 1 | $117,990.00 |
| Kelly, Jonathan Department Aerospace Studies, Institute for |
RTI | Within Arms' Reach: Infrastructure for Research in Support of the Canadarm3 Program | 1607 | 1 | $148,671.00 |
| Khalvati, Farzad Department Medical Imaging |
RGPIN | Attention Networks and Optimized Deep Learning Architectures for Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis in Medical Imaging | 1510 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Khan, Omar Department Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Inst. of (IBBME) |
RGPIN | Combination ribonucleic acid nanotechnologies to simultaneously study the multitude of mechanistic pathways found in complex diseases | 1504 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Koritzinsky, Marianne Department Radiation Oncology |
RGPIN | Mechanisms of disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum | 1501 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Koyama, Minoru Department Biological Sciences (Scarborough) |
RGPIN | Dissecting the mechanisms of neural circuit maturation that underpin behavioral development using zebrafish | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Kupers, Alexander Department Computer and Mathematical Sciences (Scarborough) |
RGPIN | Stabilization and destabilization of moduli spaces | 1508 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Kwon, Oh-Sung Department Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of |
RGPIN | Cyber-physical model of civil infrastructure system subjected to extreme loads | 1509 | 5 | $62,000.00 |
| Kwon, Oh-Sung Department Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of |
RTI | Advanced sensing, control, and high-temperature heating system for testing of structural members under extreme loads | 1609 | 1 | $149,263.00 |
| Lawson, Christopher Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Engineering Anaerobic Microbiomes for Resource Recovery | 1501 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Lee, Chi-Guhn Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RGPIN | Reinforcement learning approach to the optimal stopping problem | 1509 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Lehman, Shawn Department Anthropology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Spatial and functional components of diversity in tropical mammals | 1503 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Liu, Qinya Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Full waveform inversions and source characterization based on spectral-element simulations: innovative datasets and inversion strategies | 1506 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Liu, Xinyu Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RTI | A Magnetic Microrobotic System with Raman Spectroscopy and Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy for Molecular Diagnostics and Cell Biology | 1612 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Maddison, Christopher Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Learning with Discrete Structure | 1507 | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Mansfield, Avril Department Physical Therapy |
RGPIN | How does the central nervous system use errors to optimize motor learning? | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Mariakakis, Alexander Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Continuous Passive Sensing for Bayesian Diagnostics in Mobile Health | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| McGuigan, Alison Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Platforms to quantitatively interrogate cellular competition in heterogeneous tissues | 1501 | 5 | $69,000.00 |
| McGuigan, Alison Department Applied Sc./Engineering, Faculty of |
RTI | An automated manufacturing and high speed imaging platform for identifying functional perturbations in engineered tissues | 1601 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| McQuibban, George Department Biochemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Understanding how the mitochondrial phosphatase PGAM5 regulates mitochondrial dynamics | 1501 | 5 | $32,000.00 |
| Miller, R. J. Dwayne Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
RTI | Femtosecond Laser for Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons | 1604 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Milstein, Joshua Department Chemical and Physical Sciences (Mississauga) |
RTI | Quantitative Optical Nanoscopy: Measuring the abundance and stoichiometry of proteins and nucleic acids with single-molecule microscopy | 1605 | 1 | $24,362.00 |
| Min, Jinrong Department Physiology |
RGPIN | Molecular basis for the recognition of N- and C-degrons | 1501 | 5 | $50,000.00 |
| Montenegro Burke, J. Rafael Department Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research |
RGPIN | Discovery of novel metabolites using click-chemistry tools | 1501 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Nguyen Ba, Alex Department Biology (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | High-throughput evolutionary systems biology for expanded genotype-phenotype mapping | 1501 | 5 | $37,000.00 |
| Nikolov, Aleksandar Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Geometric Methods in Data Analysis | 1507 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Nodwell, Justin Department Biochemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Development of CRISPR-Cas3 for genome editing tool in Streptomyces | 1501 | 5 | $50,000.00 |
| Osmond, Matthew Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Models to infer evolution in declining populations and across space | 1503 | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Papyan, Vardan Department Mathematics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Inductive Biases in Deep Learning | 1507 | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Paramekanti, Arun Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Controlling Quantum Materials: Exotic Orders and Light-Induced Dynamics | 1505 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Park, Chul Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RTI | Barrier Property Tester for Advanced Nanostructured Polymer Composites | 1612 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Porteus, Cosima Department Biological Sciences (Scarborough) |
RGPIN | Effects of environmental change on the olfactory system of fish | 1502 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Pullenayegum, Eleanor Department Public Health, Dalla Lana School of |
RGPIN | Longitudinal data subject to irregular observation: developing methods for variable selection, causal inference, and measurement error | 1508 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Rabin, Jennifer Department Medicine, Department of |
RGPIN | Using treatment with electroconvulsive therapy as a human model to study the involvement of the dentate gyrus in pattern separation | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Radisic, Milica Department Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Inst. of (IBBME) |
RTI | Equipment for biomechanical characterization of organ-on-a-chip devices | 1611 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Rousseaux, Sophie Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | New Strategies for the Synthesis of Medicinally Relevant Small Molecules | 1504 | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Sargent, Edward Department Electrical & Computer Engineering |
RTI | Next-Generation High-Speed Sensors for 3D Imaging Applications | 1610 | 1 | $150,000.00 |
| Schoellig, Angela Department Aerospace Studies, Institute for |
RGPIN | Safe and Efficient Robot Learning in Human-Centric Environments | 1507 | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Segal, Dvira Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Noisy quantum devices: Theory and realizations | 1504 | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Sejdic, Ervin Department Electrical & Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Novel data analytics tools combined with high-resolution cervical auscultation are needed to instrumentally screen for dysphagia | 1510 | 5 | $46,000.00 |
| Senatore, Adriano Department Biology (Mississauga) |
RTI | Electrophysiology system for comparative structure-function studies of ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors | 1601 | 1 | $106,153.00 |
| Senatore, Adriano Department Cell and Systems Biology (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Studying mechanisms for the evolution of synaptic and electrical signaling in the nervous system | 1501 | 5 | $50,000.00 |
| Shkurti, Florian Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RTI | Autonomous Robots for Scientific Monitoring of Marine Environments | 1607 | 1 | $149,320.00 |
| Shlapentokh-Rothman, Yakov Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Stability of Black Holes and the Nature of Singularities in General Relativity | 1508 | 5 | $26,000.00 |
| Sio, (Corliss) Kin I Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Igneous petrology through the lens of non-traditional stable isotopes | 1506 | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Sivanandam, Suresh Department Astronomy and Astrophysics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Formation and Evolution | 1505 | 5 | $50,000.00 |
| Sousa, Elvino Department Electrical & Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Cloud Assisted Two-Tier Wireless Networks | 1510 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Stefanovic, Sasa Department Biology (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Comparative genomic and functional approaches for investigating biology and evolution of heterotrophic plants | 1502 | 5 | $47,000.00 |
| Su, Zhan Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Ocean Small Eddies Interaction with Large-scale Circulation and Sea Ice | 1506 | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Sun, Yu Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
RTI | A System for Coupled-Field Characterization of Nanomaterials and Nano Devices | 1612 | 1 | $148,208.00 |
| Swidinsky, Andrei Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Resource exploration for a net-zero emission future with electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics | 1506 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Taylor, Mark Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Discovery and mechanistic analysis of new catalytic reactions | 1504 | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Tran, Helen Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Macromolecular Bioelectronics Encoded for Biocompatibility, Self-assembly, and Degradability | 1504 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Truong, Khai Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Ubiquitous computing tools and methods for supporting the mental, physical and social well-being of people with disabilities | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Unger, Spencer Department Mathematical and Computational Sciences (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Combinatorial set theory and measurable combinatorics | 1508 | 5 | $23,000.00 |
| Uriarte-Tuero, Ignacio Department Mathematics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Problems in complex and harmonic analysis related to weighted norm inequalities | 1508 | 5 | $21,000.00 |
| Valencia, Diana Department Physical & Environmental Sciences (Scarborough) |
RGPIN | Thermo-chemical Evolution and Formation of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes | 1505 | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Vijaykumar, Nandita Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Architectural frameworks to leverage new hardware technologies for emerging data-intensive applications | 1507 | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Villemain, Olivier Department Medical Biophysics |
RGPIN | Towards 3D ultrafast Doppler imaging with a portable ultrasound scanner | 1505 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Vutha, Amar Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
SAPIN | Nuclear T-violation searches using ultracold atoms and molecules | 19 | 5 | $93,000.00 |
| Werber, Jay Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
RGPIN | Interfacial Polymerization of Nanofilms for Aqueous Membrane Separations | 1511 | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Wiebe, Nathan Department Computer Science (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Next Generation Quantum Algorithms for Simulation and Machine Learning | 1507 | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Wolfe, Benjamin Department Psychology (Mississauga) |
RGPIN | Mechanisms of Visual Information Acquisition in Driving | 1502 | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Wunch, Debra Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Atmospheric measurements of the carbon cycle | 1506 | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Xu, Xiaoyong Department Toronto at Mississauga |
RGPIN | Integration of state-of-the-art satellite soil moisture and terrestrial water storage products with hydrological modeling in support of water security in Canada | 1506 | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Yuzwa, Scott Department Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology |
RGPIN | Neural stem cell fate decisions: clonal and spatially-resolved approaches. | 1501 | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Zhou, Shurui Department Electrical & Computer Engineering |
RGPIN | Facilitating Interdisciplinary Teams to Build Better AI-Based Systems | 1507 | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Zhou, Zhou Department Statistical Sciences (St. George Campus) |
RGPIN | Statistical Inference for Complex Temporal Systems: Non-stationarity, High Dimensionality And Beyond. | 1508 | 5 | $37,000.00 |
| Zou, Yu Department Materials Science and Engineering |
RTI | A laser metal deposition system for multi-material additive manufacturing | 1611 | 1 | $150,000.00 |