Faculty Members

Email: rbenmrad@mie.utoronto.ca

Email: mkolios@ryerson.ca

Research Personnel (Research Associates and Post-Doctoral Fellows)

Project: Research and development of analytical instrumentation and techniques for photoacoustic diagnosis of early osteoporotic bone loss and density variations

Dr. Sun, Qiming, PDF

Project: Non-destructive optoelectronic imaging

Jeon, Raymond

Project: Dental Biothermophotonics

Kaiplavil, Sreekumar

Project: Research and development of analytical instrumentation and techniques for photothermal diagnosis of early osteoporotic bone loss and density variations

Matvienko, Anna

Project: Photothermal systems and analytical techniques for NDE and biology/bioengineering

Telenkov, Sergey

Project: Frequency-Domain chirp heterodyne photo-thermo-acoustic methodology for cancerous lesion imaging in turbid tissue.

Tolev, Jordan

Project: Photo-Carrier Radiometry of Ion-Implanted Si; general laboratory supervisor

Graduate Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Visiting Scientists

Name	Type of Training and Status	Years supervised/ co-supervised	Title of Project or Thesis	Present Position
Dodgson, James	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1983 – 84	Correlation photoacoustic spectroscopy of solids	Engineer, Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto, ON
Zuccon, John	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1983 – 85	High-frequency differential piezoelectric photothermal technique using beam position modulation	Director, Professional Affairs, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO), Toronto, ON
Siu, Edwin, K.M.	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1983 – 85	Electronic transport phenomena in n-CdS single crystals	Instrumentation scientist, Onset Electrooptics, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
Wagner, Robert E.	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1986 – 88	A photothermal spectroscopy study of CdS/polysulfide photoelectrochemical cells	Software Engineer, OPG Canada, Toronto, ON
Leung, Kwan	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1987 – 89	Laser thermal-wave interferometry	Automotive engineer, Windsor, ON
Dr. Power, Joan	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1986 – 88	Photopyroelectric multi-frequency spectrometry of solids	Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, McGill University, PQ
Vitkin, Alex	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1988 – 89	Laser Thermoreflectance Non-destructive Evaluation of Semiconductors and High-Tc Superconductors	Associate Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, ON
Ward, A. A.	M. Eng. Research Project (Mature student)	1987 – 88	Laser thermoreflectance of silicon p-n junctions	Retired process engineer, Toronto, ON
Dr. Boroumand-Moser Farnaz	Ph.D. Thesis (co-supervised with Dept. of Chemistry, EPFL)	1988 – 91	Photopyroelectric Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Powders	Chemical Engineer / Research Associate at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), SWITZERLAND
Dr. Mieszkowski, Marek R.	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1988 – 89	Photopyroelectric scanning imaging instrumentation and measurements	President, Digital Recordings, Halifax, NS; and Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University, NS
Dr. Christofides, Constantinos	Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Associate	1988 – 92	Photothermal Hydrogen Sensors	Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS
Dr. Zhao, Wang	Visiting Scientist	1987	Thermal-Wave Tomography	Nanjing University, Key State Lab. Modern Acoustics, Nanjing, CHINA
Dr. Peralta, Samuel	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1988 – 91	Photothermal Inverse Problems (Depth Profilometry)	CEO, Qvadis (IT Company), Toronto, ON
Duncan, Anne	M. A. Sc. Thesis (co-supervised with Metallurgy & Materials Science Dept., UofT)	1989 – 90	Corrosion Monitoring in Microelectronics using Photothermal Beam Deflection Techniques	Unknown
Dr. Wagner, Robert E.	Ph.D. Thesis	1989 – 94	Quantitative Photomodulated Optical Reflectance of Silicon and Germanium	Software Engineer, OPG Canada, Toronto, ON
Dr. Munidasa Mahendra	Post-Doctoral/Research Associate	1989 – 97	Thermal-Wave Imaging, Non-Destructive Evaluation, Sensors, Inverse Problems	Sensor Scientist, Metso Automation, Richmond Hill, ON
Dr. Chen, Zhuo-hui	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1989 – 92	Non-contact laser photothermal deep-level transient spectroscopy of semiconductors	R&D Scientist, Nortel, Ottawa, ON
Da Silva Alison	M.A.Sc. Thesis	1990 – 93	“Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy of Multiple Quantum Wells”	Unknown
Bleiss Ronald	Visiting Industrial Research Scientist, Carl Zeiss, Germany	1992 – 94	Infrared Radiometric Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy of Semiconductors	Technical Manager, Jenoptik Technologie GmbH, Jena, GERMANY
Dr. Fang, Songru	Visiting Professor, Nanjing University	1991	Theoretical studies in thermal-wave tomographic imaging	Unknown
Dr. Pade Offer	Visiting Scientist, Rafael, Israel	1991 – 92	Computational aspects of thermal-wave tomography	Senior Scientist, Aerodynamic Group, Rafael, Haifa, Israel
Dr. Ma, Tian-Chi	Visiting Professor, Tongji University, Director Ultrasonics Lab., Institute of Acoustics	1991 – 92	Thermal-wave inverse problem using laser photoacoustics	Tonji University, Director Ultrasonics Lab., Institute of Acoustics, CHINA
Dr. Buddhudu, Srinivasa	Visiting Scholar, Univ. Tirupati, India (NSERC Award)	1992 – 93	Optical materials diagnostics using infrared laser radiometry	Faculty, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Div. Microelectronics, Tirupati Univ., INDIA
Dr. Gusev Vitalyi	NSERC International Scientific Exchange Award	1992 – 93	Nonlinear thermal-wave physics	Professor, Physics Dept., Univ. du Maine, Le Mans Laval, FRANCE
Dr. Vanniasinkam, I. Joseph	Ph. D. Thesis	1993 – 97	“Laser Photothermal Investigation of Non-Radiative Sources in Solid-State Laser Materials”	Photonics Engineering Scientist, Tycoelectronics, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Komendantova (MacCormack), Elena	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1993 – 95	“Infrared Photothermal Radiometry of Aluminum”	Technical Sales Engineer, Ionsystems, Toronto, ON
Nicolaides, Lena	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1994 – 96	“Thermal-Wave Tomography”	Production Manager, Therma-Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA, USA
Dr. Heimlich Michael	Ph. D. Thesis (co-supervised with Dept. of Chemistry, UofT)	1992 – 97	“Photopyroelectric Surface Plasmon Sensors”	Unknown
Budiman, Arief	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1994 – 96	“Photothermal Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy”	Assistant Professor, Dept. Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Univ. Alberta, Calgary, AB
Pun, Larry W. H.	M. Eng. Research Project	1994 – 95	Computational studies in environmental photothermal sensors	Unknown
Dr. Wagner, Robert	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1994 – 95	Laser photoreflectance and thermoreflectance studies of industrial Si wafers	Software Engineer, OPG Canada, Toronto, ON
Dr. Othonos, Andreas	Visiting scientist, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, UofT	1993 – 94	Novel photothermal beam deflection instrumentation for in-situ laser rod ageing monitoring	Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS
Dr. Shen, Jun	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1993 – 97	Thermal-wave resonant cavity: development and sensor applications	Research Officer, NRC Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, Western Lab., Vancouver, BC
Dr. Wolff, Detlev	Visiting Scholar, DAAG Program, Germany	1993- 94	Defect semiconductors photothermal rate-window measurements and theoretical support	Production and Procurement Manager, Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH, Jena, GERMANY
Prescott, Valton	M. Eng. Research Project	1994 – 95	“Boxcar Rate-Window Thermophysics”	Instructor, DeVry / RCC Institute, Toronto, ON
Dr. Garcia Jose H.	Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Associate	1995 – 2001	Photothermal hydrogen sensor development	Vice-President Engineering, Photo-Thermal Diagnostics, Inc., Toronto, ON
Dr. Vargas-Luna, Miguel	Post-Doctoral Fellow (Recipient of Mexican Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Award)	1995	Laser photothermal studies of transport properties of defect semiconductors	Professor, Institute of Physics, Universidad Guanajuato, Leon, MEXICO
Dr. Dorodjkine, Leonid	Visiting Scientist, N. S. Kurnakov Institute, Russia; recipient of NSERC Visiting Award	1995	Thin-film hydrogen sensor development	Research Scientist, Dept. Chemistry, N. S. Kurnakov Inst., Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RUSSIA
Dr. Salnick, Alex	Post-Doctoral Fellow; Recipient of NSERC / NATO Award	1995 – 96	Photothermal radiometry of semiconductors	Research Scientist, Therma-Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA, USA
Nestoros, Marios	M. Sc. Thesis (co-supervised with Dept. Natural Sciences, Univ. of Cyprus)	1994 – 96	Infrared laser photothermal radiometry of doped silicon	Biomedical technical officer, Nicosia General Hospital, CYPRUS
Poulli, Zena	M. Sc. Thesis (co-supervised with Dept. Natural Sciences, Univ. of Cyprus)	1995 – 96	Laser photothermal studies of ion-implanted silicon	Unknown
Dr. Nicolaides Lena	Ph. D. Thesis	1997 – 2000	“Thermal-Wave Inverse Problems: Depth Profilometry of Hardened Steels and Diffraction Tomography of Sub-surface Defects in Metals”	Production Manager, Therma-Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA, USA
Dr. Wang, Chin-Hua	Ph. D. Thesis	1997 – 2000	“Laser-Induced Purely Thermal Wave Interferometry using a Novel Photopyroelectric Instrument”	Post-Doctoral Fellow, CADIPT, UofT
Elek, Francis	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1997 – 99	“An Investigation of Photothermal Radiometric Thermal Diffusivity Measurements of Thin Steel Samples”	Ph.D. thesis, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofT
Dr. Ikari, Tetsuo	Visiting Professor, recipient NSERC / JAPAN Society for Promotion of Science Award	1997 – 98	Photothermal spectroscopy of semiconductors	Professor, Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Miyazaki Univ., Miyazaki, JAPAN
Dr. Rodriguez, Mario	Post-Doctoral Fellow (Recipient of Mexican Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Award)	1998 – 2000	Transport phenomena in crystalline and percolative semiconductors	Professor, Fisica Aplicada y Tecnologia Avanzada, Inst. of Physics UNAM, MEXICO
Dr. Pan Guang	Post-Doctoral Fellow	1997 – 1999	Thermodynamics with thermal-wave cavities	Senior Scientist, Microbridge Technologies, Montreal, QC
Li Li	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1998 – 2001	Infrared Friction Instrumentation	Unknown
Eccles Chris	M. Eng. Research Project	1998 – 99	“Design and Development of an Infrared Interferometry Friction Measuring Device for Space Station Applications”	Unknown
Shaughnessy, Derrick	M. A. Sc. Thesis	1999 – 2001	“Carrier Density-Wave Depth Profilometric Measurements in Semiconductor Si Wafers using Laser Infrared Photothermal Radiometry”	Ph. D. student, CADIPT
Dr. Rabago, Felipe	Visiting Scientist; Recipient of Mexican Research Award	2000 – 2001	Common-mode rejection demodulation technique with applications to high-resolution ion-implantation monitoring in Si wafers	Professor, Dept. of Physics, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, MEXICO
Dr. Balderas, Abraham	Post-Doctoral Fellow, on leave from CICATA-IPN, Mexico; recipient of Mexican Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Award	1999 – 2002	Photoacoustic and photothermal techniques and measurements of thermophysical properties of liquids and solids	Professor, Dept. Mathematics, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnologia del IPN (UPIBI – IPN), Mexico City, MEXICO
Liu, Yue	M. A. Sc. Thesis	2000 – 02	“Thermal-Wave Depth Profilometry of Heat-Treated Steels”	Ph.D. Candidate, CADIPT
Dr. Wang, Chin-hua	Post-Doctoral Fellow, NSERC PDF Award; and Post-Doctoral Fellow	2000– 01 2003 – 06	Carrier-density-wave depth profilometric imaging in electronic solids	Post-Doctoral Fellow, CADIPT, UofT
Dr. Baddour, Natalie	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2001 – 04	Case-depth non-destructive evaluation in hardened industrial steels	Chevening Technology Enterprise, UK
Shaughnessy, Derrick	Ph. D. Thesis	2002 – 05	“Photo-Carrier Radiometry of Industrial Si Wafers”	Staff Scientist, Therma-Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA
Dr. Jeon, Raymond	Research Associate	2002 – present	Dental Biothermophotonics
Dr. Batista, Jerias	Post-Doctoral Fellow, on leave from Universidade Federal Maranhao Centro Tecnologico, Dept. Physics, Sao Luis, Brazil; recipient of PDF Award by Government of Brazil	2002 – 04	Photo-Carrier Radiometry of Semiconductors: experimental and computational studies	Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Maranhao Centro Tecnologico, Dept. Physics, Sao Luis, BRAZIL
Liu, Yue	Ph. D. Thesis	2002 – 05	Optical thermometer development for industrial applications	Post-Doctoral Fellow, CADIPT
Dr. Liu, Yue	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2005 – December 06	Optical thermometer development for industrial applications
Dr. Guo, Xinxin	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2001 – 02	Photothermal diagnostics of glucose in biofluids	Research Scientist, Photo-Thermal Diagnostics, Inc., Toronto, ON
Xie Ming	Visiting Technologist (funded by Shanxi Province, China)	2002	Thermal-wave resonant cavity design for fluid measurements	Unknown
Matvienko, Anna	Ph. D. Thesis	2003 – 06 2009 –	Ultra-high resolution fluid mixture thermophysics using a thermal-wave cavity	Post-Doctoral Fellow, CADIPT
Dr. Matvienko, Anna	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2006 –	Dental Thermophotonics
Choi, Mervyn	M. Eng. Research Project	2004	Optical thermometer: applications to ultrathin thermal coatings	Unknown
Spirou, Gloria	M. Sc. (co-supervised with Dept. Medical Biophysics, UofT)	2003 – 05	“Photothermoacoustic imaging of thermal lesions”	Ph.D. student, McMaster University
Dr. Fan, Ying	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2002 – 04	Frequency-domain Photo-thermo-acoustic iamging instrumentation for breast cancer applications	Research Scientist, General Electirc Research Labs., Albany, NY, USA
Dr. Fukuyama, Atsuhiko	Research leave (funded by Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan)	2003	Comparison of laser infrared photo-thermal and photo-carrier techniques for transport propery measurements in Si wafers	Research Associate Professor, Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, JAPAN
Dr. Kumar, Shailhendra	Visiting scientist, on leave from Centre for Advanced Technologies, Indore, India	2002	Surface photovoltage of depletion layers in oxide semiconductors	Scientific Officer, Centre for Advanced Technologies, Indore, INDIA
Dr. Li, Bincheng	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2002 – 04	Photo-Carrier Radiometry of Semiconductors and Photothermal depth profilometry of trated ceramics	Research Professor, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Dept. Thin Film Optics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, CHINA
Dr. Telenkov, Sergey	Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Scientist	2004 – 2005	Frequency-Domain chirp heterodyne photo-thermo-acoustic methodology for cancerous lesion imaging in turbid tissue.	Research Scientist, Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc. Plantation, FL, USA.
Xia Jun	M. A. Sc. Thesis	2004 – 2006	Deep-Level Thermal Spectroscopy of Semiconductors	Ph.D. student, CADIPT
Girard, Sebastien	Visiting French graduate student (EU Overseas Research Award Recipient)	2004 – 2005	High-resolution photo-carirer radiometry of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structures
Dr. Mario E. Rodriguez Garcia	Visiting Professor, Centro de Fisica Applicada y Technologia Avanzada UNAM, Queretaro, Mexico	06 – 07/2005	Photo-carrier radiometry of ultra-shallow junctions in Si
Xia Jun	Ph. D.. Thesis student	2006 – 2010	“Development of deep‐level photothermal spectroscopy and photo‐carrier radiometry for the characterization of semi‐insulating gallium arsenide”	Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Lihong Wang, Biophotonic Imaging, Univ. of Washington
Dr. Yangdong Hu	Post-Doctoral Fellow	2006	Photothermal microfluidics	Unknown
Bahman Lashkari	Ph. D.. Thesis	2006 –	Biophotoacoustic Imaging	Ph.D. student, CADIPT
Pawlak, Michal	(co-supervised Ph.D. student from Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)	2004 – 2008	Non-linear phenomena in photocarrier radiometry dependence on resistivty of Si wafers	MIE visitor, Jan. – Apr. 06; and October 2007 – April 2008
Leong, Keith	Ph.D. Thesis student (ECE; co-supervised)	2005	Intrinsic Amorphous-Crystalline Silicon Heterostructure Characterization	Jan. 05 –
Thao Phan	(co-supervised with Prof. Kiran Kulkarni, DENT) M.D.Sc. (DENT)	Oct. 03 – Aug. 2006	Dental Diagnostics with Photothermal Radiometry and Luminescence	Practising dentist
Dr. Guo, Xinxin	Research Associate	2007 –	Industrial steels case depth hardness photothermal radiometric insrtumentation	Research Associate, CADIPT
Dr. Jose Garcia	Part-time Research Associate	2006 – 2010	Early dental caries diagnostic instrumentation.	Cross-appointed to Quantum Dental Technologies, Inc., VP Engineering
Professor Mario E. Rodriguez Garcia	Visiting Professor	2007	Studies in Photocarrier Radiometry of GaSb and Te-doped GaSb heterostructures	Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico
Garcia-Rivera Jose	Ph.D. Student (UNAM Mexico, co-supervised with Prof. Mario Rodriguez Garcia)	2006-07	Photocarrier Radiometry of Ultrathin Junctions in Silicon
Velasquez-Hernandez Roberto	Ph.D. Student (UNAM Mexico, co-supervised with Prof. Mario Rodriguez Garcia)	2006-07	Photocarrier Radiometry of Silicon-on Insulator structures
Adam Hellen	M.Sc. Dept. of Dentistry, UofT (co-supervised)	May 2007- March 2010	“Quantitative evaluation of demineralization and remineralization of simulated enamel caries using Photothermal Radiometry and Modulated Luminescence”
Dr. Telenkov, Sergey	Research Associate	March 2008 –	Biomedical Photothermoacoustics
Dr. Alexander Melenkov	Research Associate	October 2008-	Solar Cell Photo-Carrier Radiometry – Industrial steel hardness depth profilometry
Ms. Delia Hurtado	Visiting Graduate Student, UNAM, Mexico	June 1 – Aug. 31, 2008	Dependence of photo-carrier radiometric signals on crystalline orientation in Si wafers.
Dr. Pavlo Martinez-Torres	Visiting Scientist, Conacyt, Mexico	Nov. 1, 2008 – Apr. 31, 2009	Study of thermal diffusivity depth profiles of curing resins by laser photothermal radiometry and diffusion-wave inverse-problem methods	Researcher CINVESTAV, Merida, Cancun, Mexico
Mohamed Saleh-Lavaee	Volunteer researcher	Feb. – June 2009	Thermal-wave diagnostics of subsurface defects using complementary signal waveforms	Graduate student, UofT
Syed Haq	M.Eng. student	Sept. 2009-	Lock-in carrierography of solar cells

FORMER AND ONGOING UNDERGRADUATE, HIGH-SCHOOL AND NEW IMMIGRANT SCIENTIST MEMBERS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Name	Type of Training / Supervision and Status	Years supervised / co-supervised	Title of Project or Thesis	Present Position
Andreeta, C.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1984 – 85	Optical sensor applications in Robotics	Unknown
Branco, C. M.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1984 – 85	Thermal-wave studies of ion-implanted Silicon wafers	Unknown
Care, F.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1984 – 85	Photopyroelectric circuit for the investigation of phase transitions in solids	Unknown
Wagner, Robert E.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1984 – 85	Photoelectrochemical studies of CdS single crystalline electrodes using the Mirage effect	Software Engineer, OPG Canada, Toronto, ON
Lymer, John D.	Summer research student	1984	Thermophysical measurements of fuel cell electrodes	Unknown
Macchia, Enzo	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1983 – 84	Mechanical stress effects on electronic properties of crystalline silicon	Senior Staff Engineer, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Mississauga, ON
Zver, Martin, M.	UG Research Assistant	1985	Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy of Solids	Unknown
Burns, James and Leung, Anna	B. A. Sc. Thesis (Joint)	1985 – 86	Thermal-wave depth profiling of inhomogeneous solids	Unknown
Musing, Andreas N.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1985 – 86	Characterization of several n-type CdS photoelectrochemical cells	Unknown
Taylor, Martin	Summer research student	1985	Computer-aided theoretical investigation of optically excited solids with inhomogeneous thermal diffusivity	Unknown
McKenzie, Timothy	Summer research student	1986	Photopyroelectric imager design	Unknown
Verdin, Gordon	Summer research student	1986	Thermal-wave imaging of subsurface defects in engineering solids	Unknown
Gowman, Linda	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1986 – 87	Laser photothermal studies of biofluids	Department of Medical Biophysics, University Hospital, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.
Nguyen, T. D.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1987 – 88	Laser studies of biomaterials	Unknown
Ghandi, K., Baltman, R. Lin, M.	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1987 – 88	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Dr. Ghandi, Kamyar	UofT Engineering Science Research Assistant	1988 – 89	Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy of Amorphous Si:H Thin Films	MIT Ph.D. in Aerospace Sciences; VP, R&D Continuum Control Corp., Billerica, MA, USA
Romano, John	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1989 – 90	Photopyroelectric hydrogen detectors	Unknown
Ellis, Susan	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1989 – 90	Thermal properties of processed aluminum using time-delay spectrometry	Unknown
Lo, Andrew	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1989 – 90	An extension of Kubelka-Munk theory in reflectance spectroscopy using perturbation analysis	Technical Manager, Schneider Electric, 8 North Dong Sanhuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing, CHINA
Ferguson, C.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1990 – 91	Thermal-Wave Tomography of Solids	Unknown
Lam, K-S.S.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1990 – 91	Laser non-destructive evaluation of ceramics	Unknown
Rabadi, A.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1990 – 91	Thermal-wave imaging of engineering materials	Unknown
Gallardo, R.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1991 – 92	Gas laser system construction	Unknown
Shrivastava, A.	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1991 – 92	Inversion of Laplace Transforms; applications to thermal-wave diffraction tomography	Unknown
Ogg Cameron; Ficnar Frank; Rawski Jacob	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1991 – 92	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Wong Pauline Yang, Victor Carbajales, Sebastian Katz, Arrin Damczuk	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1992 – 93	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	V. Yang: Ph. D. student, Dept. Medical Biophysics, UofT; A. Katz: Scientist, NIST Advanced Technology Program (Biochips), NIST MD, USA
Chan, Howard Kuperman, Alex Luxat, David Yao, Daniel Kubelnik, Dalibor	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1993 – 94	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
McAllister, Ken	UTMIE 3^rd Year summer research student	1994	Laser photothermal archaeometry of ancient stones from Cyprus	Unknown
Thomas, Chris (Marc Garneau C.I.)	High-school co-op student	1993 – 94	Ti:Sapphire laser rod manufacturing studies	Unknown
Parucha, Joseph (De la Salle College “Oaklands”)	High-school co-op student	1993 – 94	Thermal-wave tomography	R&D module design engineer, JDS Uniphase Corp. Ottawa, ON
Aulicino, Anthony Correia Robert, Devalia, Devan Larsen C. Lee Ogbamichael, Tekle Sit, Shy-Yan	B. A. Sc. Theses	1994- 95	Various topics in thermal-wave science and engineering	Unknown
Bruscia, Rita Laskarzewska, Barbara Artham, Srinivasan Jain, Lily	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1994 – 95	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Persaud, Devindra	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1995 – 96	Thermal-wave assessment of coating adhesion	Unknown
Ho, Vivien	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1996 – 97	Biomedical photoacoustics	Unknown
Dummit, Stephen	B. A. Sc. Thesis	1997 – 98	Computational simulations of thermal coatings on metals using thermal-wave frequency scans	Unknown
Leies, Nick (Humberside C. I.) Marinova, Margarita (Northern Secondary) Ting, Elmer (Brebeuf C.I.) Chen Yan (Jarvis C. I.)	High-school co-op students	1997 – 98	Various topics in diffusion-wave sciences	Marinova: Graduate student, Caltech, Pasadena, USA Chen: Engineer, Software QA, Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Lee Billy Martin, Steven C.	B. A. Sc. Theses	1999 – 2000	Various topics in diffusion-wave sciences	Unknown
Feng, Chris (Western Technical Commercial School) Wong, Pauline (Mary Ward Catholic Secondary) Januszonis, Arvydas (Bishop Allen Academy) Nazareno, Nicholas (Markville Secondary, Markham, ON) Vicram Ralh (Missisauga Private School) Nelson, Liz (Jarvis C.I.)	High-school co-op students	1998 – 99	Various topics in diffusion-wave sciences	Feng: Graduate student, MIT; Januszonis: Graduate, EECE, UofT
Ng, Jessica, Raghunanan Sita	High-School Students (Grade 13)	1998 – 99	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Ng: Undergraduate student at Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON
Feng, Chris	Engineering Science research assistant; Work-study program, UofT; and NSERC USRA Award	1999 – 2000 2001	Computational problems in diffuse photon density wave physics	Graduate student, MIT
Chen, Yang	Engineering Science, summer research student; and Work-study program, UofT	2000 2000 – 01	Diffusion-wave simulations in solids	Engineer, Software QA, Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Ziman, Robert	High-School Student (Grade 11 Gifted Program)	1999 – 2000	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Ip, Tony (Jarvis C. I.) Park, Peter (Woburn C. I.)	High-school co-op students	1999 – 2000	Various topics in diffusion-wave sciences	Unknown
Dr. Sanchez, Victor	Research Assistant (New Immigrant, Colombia)	1999 – 2003	Development of dental histology and diagnostic imaging techniques	Candidate for School of Dentistry, UofT
Dr. Chiclov, Serguei	Research Assistant	2000 – 2001	Computer software development in CADIPT	Unknown
Chahwan, Alain	2^nd-Year MIE Student; NSERC USRA Award	2001	Dental caries diagnostics using laser infrared photothermal radiometry	Unknown
Lee, Richie, Moore, Jessica, Premachandran, Thadsan Wei, Dennis Wei, Guowen	High-School Students (Grade 13)	2000 – 01	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Chiu, Bernard, McCracken, Mike, Conor, O’Hara, Wong, Samuel, Yeung, Edmond	High-School Students (Grade 13)	2001 – 02	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Piatkowski, Nicolas	2^nd-Year MIE Student; NSERC USRA Award	2002	Photothermal imaging of industrial ceramics	4^th-Year MIE student
Yick, Wilson (Northern Secondary) Razl, Chris (Northern Secondary)	High-school co-op students	2001 – 02	Various topics in diffusion-wave sciences	Razl: Undergraduate student, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Lo, William, Fung, Peter,	High-School Students (Grade 13)	2002 – 03	Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Unknown
Swzedowski, Thomas	2^nd-Year MIE Student; NSERC USRA Award	2003	Computer implementation of frequency-domain photo-carrier radiometry theory	Candidate, Graduate school
Wang, Yvonne (Northern Secondary)	High-school co-op student	2003	Review of biomedical optoacoustics literature	Engineering Science, UofT
Han, Calvin	Work-study program, UofT	2002 – 03	Dental Thermophotonics	Graduate student, UBC
Pan, Chun-Po	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program ; Engineering Science Work – Study student	2003 – 04 2004 – 05	Software development for scientific literature data-base construction at CADIPT. Research assistant, industrial steels hardness monitoring using photothermal radiometry	Engineering Science student, UofT
Wu, Alice	2^nd-Year Engineering Science, Biomedical Option; Work-study program and summer research student; Work-study program	2003 – 04 2004 – 05	Research Assistant, Dental caries diagnosis using laser photothermal techniques	Graduate student, Dept. of Dentistry, UofT
Lau, Christopher	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2004 – 05	Software development for technical literature documentation and retrieval
Tiedje, David	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2004 – 05	Laser diagnostics of hardness profiles in manufactured steel screws
Yu, R. Haoliang	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2004 – 05	Statistical analysis of laser radiometric data obtained by dental lasers from carious human teeth
Najafi-Ashtiani, Payam	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2004 – 05	Investigation of the physical properties of a novel optical thermometer
Bernard Lau	2^nd-Year MIE Student; NSERC USRA Award	May – August 2005	Photothermoacoustic Imaging of Soft Tissues
Alberto Esteban Gomez	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2005 – 06	Applications of lasers to noninvasive detection of caries in human teeth
Gustavo Arvisu	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2005 – 06	Quantitative dental caries diagnostics using micro-computed tomography
Ms. Diana Brahaj	New Immigrant Engineer – volunteer	2006 – 2007	Thermal-wave cavity design	Unknown
Chi-Hang Kwan	2^rd Year MIE Undergraduate, Summer NSERC USRA	May – August 2006	Thermodynamic studies of gases using a thermal-wave cavity	3^rd Year student, MIE
Angela Ying Jie Yao	3^rd Year Eng. Sci. Work-study program	Sept. 2005-March 2006	Dental photothermal diagnostics	4^th Year student, Eng.Sci.
Lin Lin Yang	William Lyon MacKenzie C.I. Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Sept. 2005 – May 2006	Thermal-Wave Cavity measurements of Liquids
Anthony Dos Santos	Michael Power St. Joseph Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	Sept. 2005 – May 2006	Dental experiments using laser photothermal radiometry
Adam Hellen	3^rd Year Biology student at Univ. of Western Ontario	May – August 2006	Experimental research on root caries in teeth	4^th Year student
Kehui (Kelly) Yan	Grade 12 student, Jarvis C.I.	Sept. 2006 – May 2007	Computational tools for thermal-wave cavity theory
Chi-Hang Kwan	3rd Year MIE Undergraduate, Summer NSERC USRA	May – August 2007	Photothermal radiometry of animal bones; project on osteoporosis detection	4^rd Year student, MIE
Alejandro Martinez	3^rd Year MIE Undergraduate, Work-Study Program	October 2006 – March 2007		4^th Year student, MIE
Minh Doan	Grade 12 student, Delphi Secondary Alternative School	October 2006 – May 2007	Experimental research on interproximal caries generation in teeth
Chi-Hang Kwan	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2007 – 08	Photothermal radiometry and modulated luminescence in osteoporosis detection	4^rd Year student, MIE
Amy Webster	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2007 – 08	Photothermal radiometry and modulated luminescence in osteoporosis detection	Exchange student, Univ. of Bristol, UK – Univ. of Toronto
Benjamin Tang	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2007 – 08	High-pressure photopyroelectric signal generation in air
Michael Forcht	B. A. Sc. Thesis	2007 – 08	Photothermoacoustic imaging of tissue phantoms	4^rd Year student, MIE
Ji Ke	Work-study program	2007 – 08	High pressure thermophysics using a thermal-wave cavity	4^rd Year student, MIE
Alexander Paizionis	Top 1^st Year Summer Student, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Undergraduate Summer Fellowship winner	May – August 2008	Photo-carrier techniques to measure silicon resistivity in a non-contact manner	2^nd Year student, MIE
Harguneet Brar	4th Year MIE Undergraduate, Summer NSERC USRA	May – August 2008	Thermodynamics of high pressure gases using a thermal-wave cavity	4^th Year student, MIE
Philip Chen	Grade 12 student volunteer	June – July 2008	Glucose biosensor characterization	UofT; Engineering Science
Mauricio Curbello	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	January – July 2008	Dental caries statistics through photothermal and luminescence measurements	Bishop Allen Academy, Toronto
Nicole Chang	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	January – May 2008	Laser inspection of dental defects	Havergal College, Toronto
Jane Zhang	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	January – August 2008	Hardness case depth instrument design and testing for industrial uses	Branksome Hall, Toronto
Philip Chen	Engineering Science student; summer fellowship (ESROP)	May – Aug. 2009	Photocarrier Imaging of Si Solar Cells
Mark Mereshensky	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2008 – 09	Canary dental detection system (ergonomics)
Mona Amariei-Voiculescu	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2008 – 09	Canary dental detection system (hardware)
Rory Chong	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2008 – 09	Software design and data optimization of laser thermophotonic instrument for caries diagnosis in human teeth
Nadim Vira	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2008 – 09	Laser photothermoacoustic diagnostic tool design for noninvasive imaging of biological tissue (hardware)
Kavita Nayar	B.A.Sc. Thesis	2008 – 09	Laser photothermoacoustic diagnostic tool design for noninvasive imaging of biological tissue (software)
Cecilia Chen Liu	Work-study program, MIE 4^th year student	2008-09	Photopyroelectric device for high pressure and emissivity thermophysics
Nhan Nguyen	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	November 2008 – May 2009	Thermal-wave steel hardness measurements (data acquisition)	Weston Collegiate Institute
Kimberely Chen	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	November 2008 – May 2009	Thermal-wave steel hardness measurements (data analysis)	Bishop Strachan School
Michael Vecchio	High-School Student (Grade 12); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	November 2008 – May 2009	Photocarrier radiometry of Si solar cells	Chaminade College School
Konstantin Anosov	Work-study program, Physics 3^th year student	November 2008 – May 2009; Sept. 2009 –	Photocarrier radiometry of Si solar cells; photothermal bone diagnostics
Philip Chen	Engineering Science student; summer USRA	January – August 2010	Lock-in Photocarrier Imaging of Si Solar Cells
Kyu Hong Kim	B.A.Sc. Thesis	Sept. 2009 – March 2010	Laser dental Thermophotonics
Oren Zeev Kraus	B.A.Sc. Thesis	Sept. 2009 – March 2010	Blood glucose diagnostic iInstrumentation
Tian Xing Zhu	B.A.Sc. Thesis	Sept. 2009 – March 2010	Design and testing of thermal-Wave IR emissivity sensor
Ishaan Arora	Work-study program, 3^rd year Arts & Sciences student	October 2009 – March 2010	Dental enamel erosion studies uing PTR/LUM
Konstantin Anosov	Work-study program, Physics 4^th year student	October 2009 – March 2010	Photothermal measurements of chromophore decay lifetimes in human skull cortical bone
Albert Hu	Northern Secondary High-School Student (Grade 11); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	October 2009 – May 2010	Thermal-wave methods for depth resolution enhancement of photothermal radiometry applications to hardened steels
Romina Abachi	March Garneau C. I. Student (Grade 11); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	October 2009 – May 2010	Electrical and optical measurements on silicon multicrystalline solar cells
Askar Kasbekov	Bloor C.I. Student (Grade 11); Faculty of Arts & Sciences Mentorship Program	October 2009 – May 2010	Photocarrier radiometry of quantum dot solar cells
Cun Wei (Vincent) Ye	Work-study program, MIE undergraduate, 4^th year	October 2010 – March 2011	Glucose biomonitor
Vahid Amani	Work-study program, MIE undergraduate, 3^rd year	October 2010 – March 2011	Solar-cell lock-in carrierography imaging
Dora Chu	Work-study program, UofT Biochemistry undergraduate, 2^rd year	October 2010 – March 2011	Dental thermophotonic imaging
Isaac Lam	B.A.Sc. Thesis	Sept. 2010 – March 2011	Bone osteoporosis diagnostic instrumentation testing
Marc Pilon	B.A.Sc. Thesis	Sept. 2010 – March 2011	Acquisition and analysis of dental PTR-LUM data.