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2023 Research Grants Competition - Results by Institution

University of Alberta
Applicant name Program Title EG Term Amount awarded
Ali, Declan
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN The role of the endocannabinoid system in neuronal and muscle development 1502 5 $51,000.00
Aminpour, Maral
Department
Biomedical Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
DGECR ProteinScanner – HYBRID APPROACHES FOR RAPID SCREENING OF PROTEIN SURFACES USING GEOMETRIC FINGERPRINTS 1505 1 $12,500.00
Aminpour, Maral
Department
Biomedical Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
RGPIN ProteinScanner – HYBRID APPROACHES FOR RAPID SCREENING OF PROTEIN SURFACES USING GEOMETRIC FINGERPRINTS 1505 5 $28,000.00
Ardakani, Masoud
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Practical Coding Solutions for Emerging Information Systems 1510 5 $50,000.00
Babadagli, Tayfun
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Next Generation In-Situ Techniques for Eco-Friendly and High Efficiency Recovery of Heavy Oil/Bitumen 1511 5 $42,000.00
Bayat, Alireza
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Long-Term Impact of Environmental and Load Factors on Pavement Performance in Cold Regions 1509 5 $59,000.00
Berger, Arno
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN New aspects of dynamical systems: Digits, statistics, and applications 1508 5 $30,000.00
Beverly, Jennifer
Department
Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of - Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of
RGPIN Fire-vegetation dynamics at multiple spatial scales in Boreal ecosystems 1503 5 $39,000.00
Bhatia, Maya P
Department
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
RGPST Community-based monitoring to understand the changing coastal ocean in Jones Sound 362 1 $130,000.00
Boisvert, Jeff
Department
Engineering, Faculty of - Engineering, Faculty of
RGPIN Validating and using spatial models of uncertainty in underground mine decision making 1509 5 $50,000.00
Boulanger, Pierre
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
RTI Robotic Needle Placement Using Multiview Ultrasound Imaging 1607 1 $111,403.00
Boyce, Mark
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN Conservation applications of ecological theory 1503 5 $51,000.00
Caplan, Jeremy
Department
Psychology - Psychology
RGPIN Basic mechanisms of directionality and association in relational memory 1502 5 $51,000.00
Chen, Guanqun
Department
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science - Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
RGPIN Identification and characterization of novel genes in plant lipid biosynthesis and regulation 1502 5 $44,000.00
Chernousov, Vladimir
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN Classification of Albert algebras/groups of type F4 via cohomological invariants 1508 5 $30,000.00
Cholodovskis Machado, Marlos
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
RGPIN Integrated Architectures for State and Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning 1507 5 $41,000.00
Cholodovskis Machado, Marlos
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
DGECR Integrated Architectures for State and Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning 1507 1 $12,500.00
Dhar, Bipro
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Electro-catalyzing anaerobic bioprocesses for expanding carbon waste valorization 1509 5 $59,000.00
Dick, Scott
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Improving the Explainability and Robustness of Deep Learning via Computational Intelligence 1507 5 $41,000.00
Dinavahi, Venkata
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Multi-Physics Modeling and Real-Time Digital Simulation of Multi-Terminal Direct Current Power Grids 1510 5 $50,000.00
Elhenawy, Wael
Department
Medical Microbiology and Immunology - Medical Microbiology and Immunology
DGECR Identifying the genome-wide regulatory elements of conjugation in bacteria 1501 1 $12,500.00
Elhenawy, Wael
Department
Medical Microbiology and Immunology - Medical Microbiology and Immunology
RGPIN Identifying the genome-wide regulatory elements of conjugation in bacteria 1501 5 $40,000.00
Field, Catherine
Department
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science - Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
RGPIN Discovery Grant 1502 5 $51,000.00
Gille, Stefan
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN Cohomological invariants and hermitian forms 1508 5 $27,000.00
Gonzalez-Moret, Vicente
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN A Value and Human-driven Digital Twin Framework for the Construction of Energy Infrastructure Projects 1509 5 $69,000.00
Gorim, Linda
Department
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science - Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
DGECR The role of crop roots grown in the Canadian Prairies 1502 1 $12,500.00
Gorim, Linda
Department
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science - Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
RGPIN The role of crop roots grown in the Canadian Prairies 1502 5 $33,000.00
Gu, Yu
Department
Physics - Physics
RGPIN Improving regional seismic monitoring using integrated source and structure surveys 1506 5 $59,000.00
Hall, Dennis
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
RGPIN Reactivity-Guided Discovery of Practical Boron-Based Synthetic Methods, Catalysts and Pharmaceutical Bioisosteres 1504 5 $131,000.00
Hamidinejad, Mahdi
Department
Engineering, Faculty of - Engineering, Faculty of
RGPIN Manufacture of Three Dimensional Architected Nanocomposite Structures for Advanced Battery Electrodes 1512 5 $32,000.00
Hamidinejad, Mahdi
Department
Engineering, Faculty of - Engineering, Faculty of
DGECR Manufacture of Three Dimensional Architected Nanocomposite Structures for Advanced Battery Electrodes 1512 1 $12,500.00
Harris, Kenneth
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RGPIN Nanocolumnar thin films deposited by glancing angle deposition for high-performance biosensors and electrochemical devices 1511 5 $38,000.00
Heinke, Craig
Department
Physics - Physics
RGPIN Neutron star interiors, the Galactic Bulge, and exotic stellar objects 1505 5 $38,000.00
Hillen, Thomas
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN Nonlocal partial differential equations in mathematical biology 1508 5 $52,000.00
Hogan, James
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RGPIN Weight-Optimized High-Performance 3D-Printed Ceramic Structures: Additive Manufacturing, Testing, and Modelling 1512 5 $69,000.00
Hussein, Amina
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RTI High-repetition rate particle acceleration end-station for ultrafast science 1605 1 $141,739.00
Iyer, Ashwin
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Advanced Metasurface and Antenna Platforms for Next-Generation Communications and Wireless Sensing 1510 5 $50,000.00
Jagersand, Martin
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
RGPIN Learning robot object manipulation from human demonstrations using image, force, and contact geometry 1507 5 $52,000.00
Jin, Zhehui
Department
Engineering, Faculty of - Engineering, Faculty of
RGPIN Optimization of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage from Molecular Perspectives 1511 5 $42,000.00
Joudan, Shira
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
DGECR New analytical approaches to connect reactions of anthropogenic contaminants to exposure pathways 1504 1 $12,500.00
Joudan, Shira
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
RGPIN New analytical approaches to connect reactions of anthropogenic contaminants to exposure pathways 1504 5 $32,000.00
Kish, Gregory
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Power Electronic Converter Systems for Future Flexible Electric Grids 1510 5 $38,000.00
Krauss, Carsten
Department
Physics - Physics
SAPPJ Delivery of the PICO Dark Matter Program 19 3 $320,000.00
Landhδusser, Simon
Department
Renewable Resources - Renewable Resources
RGPIN Role of carbon reserves in tree and forest mortality 1503 5 $51,000.00
Lemieux, Mary Joanne
Department
Biochemistry - Biochemistry
RGPIN Deciphering the molecular landscape of membrane embedded enzymes 1501 5 $40,000.00
Leung, Juliana
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN A Multiscale Multiphysics Flow Simulation Framework for Fractured Subsurface Media 1511 5 $42,000.00
Liu, Jing
Department
Chemical and Materials Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering
RTI Energy And Chemical Gas Chromatography For Fast Refinery Gas Analysis 1611 1 $115,285.00
Loewen, Mark
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RTI Field Measurement System for Studying River Ice Processes and Water Quality in Northern Rivers 1609 1 $110,687.00
Lu, Ming
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN AI-Enabled Next-Generation Project Planning and Scheduling Methods for Construction in Northern and Remote Regions 1509 5 $38,000.00
Lynch, Alan
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Control of aerial manipulator drones in unstructured environments 1510 5 $42,000.00
Meanwell, Michael
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
RGPIN Discovery of New Chemical Reactivity for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Biologically Relevant Molecules 1504 5 $28,000.00
Meanwell, Michael
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
DGECR Discovery of New Chemical Reactivity for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Biologically Relevant Molecules 1504 1 $12,500.00
Mirzavand Boroujeni, Rashid
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RTI High-Precision non-Invasive Electromagnetic Scanner for Characterizing Circuits & Devices 1610 1 $150,000.00
Mohamed, Yasser
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Enabling technologies toward connected construction virtual worlds 1509 5 $42,000.00
Nafziger, Jennifer
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Improving Ice Jam Flood Readiness 1509 5 $37,000.00
Nafziger, Jennifer
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
DGECR Improving Ice Jam Flood Readiness 1509 1 $12,500.00
Nafziger, Jennifer
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPNS Improving Ice Jam Flood Readiness 1509 5 $10,000.00
Nouri, Alireza
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Formation Damage Mechanisms and their Interactions during Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and Solvent-Assisted SAGD Production 1511 5 $42,000.00
Olefeldt, David
Department
Renewable Resources - Renewable Resources
RGPIN The Fenny Last Piece of the Peatland Puzzle: Understanding Impacts of Climate Change on Carbon Cycling in the Discontinuous Permafrost Zone 1506 5 $59,000.00
Olefeldt, David
Department
Renewable Resources - Renewable Resources
RGPNS The Fenny Last Piece of the Peatland Puzzle: Understanding Impacts of Climate Change on Carbon Cycling in the Discontinuous Permafrost Zone 1506 5 $13,000.00
Pilarski, Patrick
Department
Medicine - Medicine
RGPIN Continual Machine Learning for Intelligent Assistive Technology 1507 5 $46,000.00
Pinfold, James
Department
Physics - Physics
SAPPJ The MoEDAL-MAPP Project at the Large Hadron Collider 19 3 $127,000.00
Putkaradze, Vakhtang
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN Geometric mechanics, physics-informed neural networks and applications 1508 5 $30,000.00
Qureshi, Ahmed
Department
Engineering, Faculty of - Engineering, Faculty of
RGPIN In-situ material quality sensing and path planning for robotic additive manufacturing systems 1512 5 $42,000.00
Reformat, Marek
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Decision-Support and Reasoning Structures over Knowledge Graphs 1507 5 $46,000.00
Reyes, Alberto
Department
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
RGPIN Building geological records of permafrost response to past climate warming 1506 5 $30,000.00
Salari, Nooshin
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RGPIN Intelligent Fault Diagnosis, Prognosis and Maintenance Decision-Making: Towards A Smart Manufacturing 1509 5 $32,000.00
Salari, Nooshin
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
DGECR Intelligent Fault Diagnosis, Prognosis and Maintenance Decision-Making: Towards A Smart Manufacturing 1509 1 $12,500.00
Sander, Jφrg
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
RGPIN Towards Efficient and Automated Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Data Analytics 1507 5 $36,000.00
Scarpella, Enrico
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN Coordination of cell axes and polarities in plant tissues 1501 5 $72,000.00
Schiavone, Peter
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RGPIN Continuum-based modeling of the behavior of advanced composite materials: from size-dependency to thermoelectric effects 1512 5 $38,000.00
Sharp, Jonathan
Department
Medicine and Dentistry, Faculty of - Medicine and Dentistry, Faculty of
RGPIN Robust Low-Cost Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems 1505 5 $32,000.00
Simmonds, Andrew
Department
Cell Biology - Cell Biology
RGPIN Determining the mechanism of how Vestigal-like proteins regulate animal development. 1501 5 $52,000.00
St. Clair, Colleen
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN Behaviour-based solutions for human-wildlife conflict 1503 5 $51,000.00
Stachel, Thomas
Department
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
RGPIN Diamonds as probes into Earth's deep interior through time 1506 5 $81,000.00
Stafford, James
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN Analysis of fish immunoregulatory receptor-mediated control of innate signaling events 1501 5 $52,000.00
Sullivan, Corwin
Department
Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences
RGPIN Structural and Functional Specialization in Some Important Dinosaurian Lineages 1503 5 $51,000.00
Sutton, Richard
Department
Computing Science - Computing Science
RGPIN Low-level Algorithms for Continual and Meta Reinforcement Learning 1507 5 $41,000.00
Tykwinski, Rik
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
RGPIN Acetylenic scaffolding for the synthesis of carbon-rich structures 1504 5 $111,000.00
Vritsiou, Beatrice-Helen (Veatriki Eleni)
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
DGECR Convex Geometric Inequalities and Extremal Problems from Probabilistic or Combinatorial Viewpoints 1508 1 $12,500.00
Vritsiou, Beatrice-Helen (Veatriki Eleni)
Department
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
RGPIN Convex Geometric Inequalities and Extremal Problems from Probabilistic or Combinatorial Viewpoints 1508 5 $27,000.00
Wiebe, Sandra
Department
Psychology - Psychology
RGPIN Executive Functions in the Early Years: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Approaches 1502 5 $39,000.00
Wilman, Alan
Department
Biomedical Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
RGPIN Advances in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping 1505 5 $59,000.00
Winship, Ian
Department
Psychiatry - Psychiatry
RGPIN Structural, functional, and behavioural consequences of perineuronal net loss in cortex 1502 5 $51,000.00
Wong, Stephen
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Transportation Infrastructure and Operational Resilience for Canadian Hazards 1509 5 $32,000.00
Wong, Stephen
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
DGECR Transportation Infrastructure and Operational Resilience for Canadian Hazards 1509 1 $12,500.00
Xu, Yunjie
Department
Chemistry - Chemistry
RGPIN Signatures of Chirality Recognition, Transfer and Amplification: Mechanisms and Applications 1504 5 $149,000.00
Yakout, Mostafa
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RGPIN Development of High-Performance Additively Manufactured Rare-Earth Alloys 1512 5 $32,000.00
Yakout, Mostafa
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
DGECR Development of High-Performance Additively Manufactured Rare-Earth Alloys 1512 1 $12,500.00
Yαρez Garza, Juan Pablo
Department
Physics - Physics
SAPPJ Data analysis and future developments for neutrino telescopes: IceCube and P-ONE 19 1 $450,000.00
Zambrano Narvaez, Gonzalo
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Long-term modelling of 3D tailings consolidation processes in end pit lake depositions scenarios using of 3D printed pits in a Geotechnical Centrifuge 1509 5 $32,000.00
Zambrano Narvaez, Gonzalo
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
DGECR Long-term modelling of 3D tailings consolidation processes in end pit lake depositions scenarios using of 3D printed pits in a Geotechnical Centrifuge 1509 1 $12,500.00
Zhang, Bo
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
DGECR Multi-Physical and Data-Driven Modelling for Subsurface Energy Geotechnics 1509 1 $12,500.00
Zhang, Bo
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Multi-Physical and Data-Driven Modelling for Subsurface Energy Geotechnics 1509 5 $32,000.00
Zhang, Xingqi
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
DGECR Towards Safe and Sustainable Railway Transportation: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Train Communication Systems 1510 1 $12,500.00
Zhang, Xingqi
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Towards Safe and Sustainable Railway Transportation: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Train Communication Systems 1510 5 $37,000.00
Zhong, Lexuan
Department
Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
RTI Submicron particle characterization system (SPCS) for airborne aerosol/bioaerosol research 1612 1 $150,000.00
Zhu, David
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Air flow dynamics and mass transfer in urban sewer systems 1509 5 $59,000.00
Zwiazek, Janusz
Department
Renewable Resources - Renewable Resources
RGPIN Functions of Aquaporins in Plants Under Stress 1502 5 $59,000.00