Research Team
Principal investigators
Ryan Yunwei Li Professor, University of Alberta Senior Engineering Research Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
Petr Musilek Professor and Associate Dean – Research Operations, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta
Lisa Stein Professor and Associate Chair – Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
Amit Kumar Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta
David Bressler Professor and Associate Dean – Research, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Alberta
Sara Hastings-Simon Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, and School of Public Policy, Director, MSc Sustainable Energy Development Program (SEDV), University of Calgary
Justice Asomaning Ovintiv Applied Research Chair, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Hamid Zareipour Professor, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
Robert Benkoczi Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
Tonya Wolfe Associate Vice President, Centres for Manufacturing and Energy Innovation, Red Deer Polytechnic
Researchers
Lei Ma Associate Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii Fellow University of Alberta
Xiaoqi Tan Assistant Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii Fellow University of Alberta
Daya Gaur Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science University of Lethbridge
Shahadat Hossain Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science University of Lethbridge
Stephen Wong Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering University of Alberta
Omid Ardakanian Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science University of Alberta
Michael Chae Business Development Lead, Circular & Clean Technologies, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Jinguang Hu Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Calgary
Jason Olfert Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Alberta
Karthik Shankar Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta
Dominic Sauvageau Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta
Eric Flaim Director, NanoFab, Industry Sandbox for AI Computing UA Program Director – Innovation Catalyst Grant University of Alberta
Randy Goebel Professor, Amii Fellow University of Alberta
Corina Birghila Assistant Professor, Statistics University of Lethbridge
Veronika Shabunko Applied Research Chair, Centre for Grid Innovation, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Debjyoti Sen Applied Research Team Member, Red Deer Polytechnic
Greg Kish Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
Marek Reformat Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
Yize Chen Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
Alfred Wang Engineering Manager, Taifa Engineering Ltd.
Matt Desroches Chief Operating Officer, Innova Hydrogen Corp.
State-of-the-art Facilities
Alberta post-secondary institutions
Industry partners and collaborations
The 3 themes of RCES are working closely with industry partners, including APIC, Alberta Smart Grid Consortium, Innova Hydrogen Corp., as well as non-for-profit organizations including Bio-Conversion Databank Foundation, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), etc.
We are also actively developing new partnerships with Alberta SMEs and enterprises. Interested potential partner can reach out to: rcesi@ualberta.ca.