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\n<\/a>Principal Investigator:<\/h2>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\r\nA. Srikantha Phani, PhD (Cantab)\r\n\"\"<\/a>   \"\"<\/a><\/span><\/pre>\n
Current Members:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>Ignacio Puiggros (PhD)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Sivan Levi (PhD)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Ebrahim Pasbanian (PhD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Former Members:<\/h2>\n
Mewael Isiet (PDF, Now PDF at Columbia University)<\/p>\n
Celine Ruscher (MITACS ELEVATE PDF, Now Sessional Lecturer at UBC)<\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
\nSeyed Sahaf (MASc, 2025),<\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a>
\nShubham Agarwal (PhD, 2025),
\nPDF at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany<\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a>
\nMasoud Hejazi (PhD, 2020). JP Morgan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"Daniel Bruns <\/span>(PhD<\/a>, 2022<\/span>), PDF, at UBC.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Chenyi Zheng<\/span>\u00a0 (MEng, 2022),\u00a0 General motors, Canada.<\/td>\n\"\"Prabhat Srivastava\u00a0<\/span> (MASc<\/a>, 2022), Airbus, India.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Aashish Bhardwaj<\/span> (MASc<\/a>, 2020). Data Scientist at Life House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Manav<\/span> (PhD<\/a>, 2019). Currently, Post Doctoral researcher at Caltech<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Kui Pan<\/span>(PhD,<\/a> 2019). Currently, Software Engineer Intern at Google<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Ratul Das<\/span> (MASc<\/a>, 2019). PhD at University of Cambridge.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Behrooz Yousefzadeh<\/span> (PhD<\/a>, 2016). Currently, Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>Mohit Law<\/span>(PhD<\/a>, 2013). Currently Assistant Professor at IIT-Kanpur, India. co-supervised with Prof. Altintas<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Reza Talebi (MASc 2018). withdrew from PhD program <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a>Masoud Hejazi<\/span> (MASc<\/a> 2018). Currently,\u00a0PhD student at DAL-UBC<\/p>\n
 <\/td>\n
\"\"<\/a>Ehsan Moosavimehr<\/span> (MASc<\/a> 2015). Currently, Researcher at Novarc Technologies Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Manav\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0(MASc<\/a> 2014). Currently, PhD student at DAL- UBC. Co-advised with Dr. E.Cretu<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Lalitha Raghavan<\/span> (MASc<\/a> 2012). Currently, Senior Research Engineer at Saint Gobain\u00a0 India.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Greg Reynen<\/span> (MASc 2012). Currently working as Electrical engineer at Honeywell, Canda. Co- advised with Dr. E. Cretu<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Nuwan Dewapriya<\/span>\u00a0(MASc<\/a> 2012). Currently, Research engineer at SFU, Canada. Co-advised with Dr. N. Rajapakse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Graeham Douglas\u00a0<\/span>(MASc<\/a> 2012). Founder at Arete Medical Technologies, UK. Co-advised with Dr.\u00a0J. Gagnon<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Chandra Prakash Sharma<\/span> (MASc<\/a> 2011). Currently, Manufacturing Engineer at Backun Musical Services Ltd.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Prateek Chopra<\/span> (MASc<\/a> 2011) Currently, senior software developer at Sciex<\/p>\n
 <\/td>\n
\"\"<\/a>Farzad Khademolhosseini <\/span>(MASC<\/a> 2009)\u00a0Co-advised with Dr. N. Rajapakse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Chang Liu\u00a0<\/span>(MASc<\/a> 2010)\u00a0Co-advised with Dr. N. Rajapakse<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Yujian Chen, MEng (2022)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Poisson Baptiste <\/span> (Region nouvelle aquitaine funding)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Hrishikesh Danawe <\/span> (Shastri Research Student Fellow 2019)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Charly Jeunot <\/span> (Mitacs 2018)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Diana Nino<\/span> (Co-op, 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Adriel Lam\u00a0<\/span>(USRA 2010)<\/td>\n\"\"Jacob Allen <\/span>(USRA\u00a0 2010)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a>Pierre Bergonhe (2022)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Last updated 12\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Principal Investigator: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A. Srikantha Phani, PhD (Cantab) Current Members: Ignacio Puiggros (PhD) Sivan Levi (PhD) Ebrahim Pasbanian (PhD) Former Members: Mewael Isiet (PDF, Now PDF at Columbia University) Celine Ruscher (MITACS ELEVATE PDF, Now Sessional Lecturer at UBC)   Seyed Sahaf (MASc, 2025), Shubham Agarwal (PhD, 2025), PDF at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany Masoud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9827,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechanicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}