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Supervisor/Director
Amirkianoosh Kiani – PhD, PEng
Dr Kiani works as an Associate Professor in the department of Auto,otive, Mechanical and manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at University of Ontario Institute of Technology(UOIT). His research areas include Laser micro/nano fabrication and laser materials processing, Solar cell and photovoltaic devices fabrication, and MEMS and Biomedical devices fabrication.
Ontario Tech University:
Master of Applied Science
Nishant Singh Jamwal (Fall 2021 – Present)
Nishant Singh Jamwal is pursuing MASc at Ontario Tech University. He completed his Bachelors in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with Honours from Kalasalingam University, India in 2019. He has previously worked in the field of Material Sciences and has published a paper in a renowned journal, which was based on Fiber Metal laminates- their mechanical behaviour and drilling studies. He has also been in a project of an electromagnetic launcher whose idea is based on the rail gun. He is currently working on Gallium oxide based semiconductor.
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Mayuresh Khot (Fall 2021 – Present)
Mayuresh Khot graduated from Ontario Tech University as a B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering. He is now pursuing MASc at Ontario Tech University. He has professional experience of 1 year working as an Engineering Intern at BWXT Precision Manufacturing Ltd, a manufacturing industry specialized in manufacturing CANDU components. His research at Ontario Tech University builds upon the potential ways of utilizing nanostructure on the electrodes of energy storage devices to see potential increase in the energy density, mainly supercapacitors.
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Amirhossein Gholami – PhD (Fall 2019- Spring 2022)
Amirhossein received a master of Science in Electrical Engineering from university of Guilan with honors. His research interests spanned both control strategies and renewable energies. Amirhossein has extensively published journal and conference papers in the field of energy. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at Ontario Tech. University. His research in Silicon Hall focuses on the role of nano materials in energy-related applications.
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Mohammad-Hosseing Beigi (Winter 2020 – Winter 2022)
Mr. Beigi is currently pursuing his grad studies at Ontario Tech University in the field of natural bone grafting material fabrication. Before joining Silicon Hall Lab., he had been working as a senior researcher at the International Royan Institute for Biotechnology in the field of biomaterials, medical implants, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. He had published several research articles in high-ranked journals like Scientific reports by nature, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Micro & Nano Letters, Cleaner Production and J Biomed Mater Res Part A.
Behrang Mohajer – MASc (Winter 2020 – Summer 2020)
Behrang Mohajer received his B.Sc. at Sharif University of technology in mechanical engineering. In 2016, he finished his master’s degree in Energy Engineering and renewable studies from Politecnico di Milano. Following years of working in the photovoltaic industry and energy sector, he joined the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at Ontario Tech. as a graduate student. His research mainly focused on nanofabrication and thin films in Silicon hall.
Meisam M.Abed – MASc (Spring 2019 – Summer 2020)
Meisam is a mechanical engineer with 10+ years of experience in oil and gas production and maintenance. Possess a B.S. from Isfahan University of Technology and an MSc from Amir Kabir university. His research area in Silicon Hall was focused mainly on using solid state laser in nano-scale manufacturing of thin films for their fantastic characteristics as optical functional structures. Rapid and controllable fabrication of tangled fibrous structures are highly demanded in sensing techniques, biomedical applications and semiconductor technology as well.
Shreeniket Joshi – MEng (Winter 2020- SUmmer 2020)
Shreeniket developed a hybrid method to derive important insights on the physical properties of Nanofibrous silicon thin films, manufactured using pulsed-laser ablation. His research was focussed on using data science techniques to analyze experimental data and building an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based prediction algorithm.
Shreeniket is a problem solver and enjoys working in cross-functional projects. He has experience in Design Thinking, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, and Software development frameworks.
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Naghmeh Safaie – MASc Student (Winter 2018 – Spring 2020)
Naghmeh Safaie done her bachelor in metallurgy engineering from department of Material Science and Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2013. She had done her research in the “effect of geometry on mechanical properties resulted from oriented quenching of aluminum 2024”, after that she graduated as a master of applied science student in Biomedical Engineering (Tissue engineering) from School of interdisciplinary Sciences and technologies at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2016 with research in the “Design and development of nanostructured biodegradable Fe-Mn alloys for orthopedic application . She was a MASc student in the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at Ontario Tech. Her research mainly focused on characterization and fabrication of biocompatible bioactive glass coated by nano fibrous titanium using high intensity laser induced reverse transfer method (HILIRT) for biomedical applications. She is currently pursuing her PhD at University of Toronto.
Chirag Paladiya – MASc (Fall 2017 – Fall 2018)
Chirag Paladiya graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Charotar University of Science and Technology, Gujarat, India in 2014. He was a MASc graduate student between 2017 to 2018 in the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at Ontario Tech. Prier joining Silicon Hall, he has worked in two different companies in India and Saint John, New Brunswick as a production and project controls engineer. His research was mainly focused on characterization and fabrication of Hybrid nano fibrous Silicon suitable for numerous sensing and optical applications.
Jankhan Patel – MASc (Spring 2018 – Spring 2019)
Jankhan Patel graduated from Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India in year 2015. After that he travelled to Canada and perceived Mechanical Technician at Durham college. Along with that, He worked for Ontario Power Generation as Summer student and at signature aluminum as production associate. He was a MASc graduate student in Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME) at Ontario Tech. His major area of research was nano additives in lubricant to enhance Tribological Properties.
Research Assistants / Interns
Wania Touseef – NSERC USRA (May 2022 – September 2022)
Wania is currently doing her undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering at Ontario Tech University. Her time at Silicon Hall was focused on Advanced Nanomaterials for Supercap and Battery Fabrication under Dr. Kiani supervision.
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Prasanna Sarkar – MITACS Globalink (May 2022 – September 2022)
Prasanna Sarkar is a final year undergrad in BTech (2019-2023) in Metallurgical and Materials engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India. He has been involved in undergrad research related to material characterization, FEM analysis, Corrosion, and failure. His research interests are in sustainable energy storage/production devices.
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Rahaman Sharif Shaik – MITACS Globalink (May 2022 – September 2022)
Rahaman Sharif Shaik is a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern. He is currently studying B. Tech final year mechanical engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India. His previous research projects dealt with Mechanical Design, Nanotechnology-based Oil spill cleanup; The review article details the in-depth study of various Oil spill control techniques and polymer nanocomposites. His research work at Silicon Hall focuses on improving and analyzing various factors in the supercapacitors and investigating the Opto-electronic characteristics of Silicon-based nanomaterials.
Olivia Shurtleff– NSERC USRA (May 2019 – September 2019)
Olivia Shurtleff is currently a BSc undergrad in Mechanical Engineering at UOIT. She has already completed an undergraduate degree at Trent University in Physics.
In her NSERC URA, she conducted research on fabrication of nanofibers for optical sensors fabrication using a picosecond laser pulses.
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Pradeep Kumar – MITACS Globalink (May 2019 – September 2019)
Pradeep Kumar is a final year Mechanical Engineering student at Aligarh Muslim University. He had worked in the Computational Mechanics Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee during summer 2018 as the research intern. During his internship, he worked on “Advanced Functional Nanomaterials Fabrication using Electrospinning Technique”.
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Yi (Max) Sun – NSERC USRA (Summer 2018 – Fall 2018)
Max Sun is currently a BSc undergrad in the Math Faculty of UOIT. In his NSERC USRA, he conducted research on manipulating conductivity of electrospun nanofibers for biomedical applications.
His current interests include Math Modeling and Control Theory.
University of New Brunswick (UNB):
Doctorate of Philosophy
Babak Baradaran Naghshine – PhD Student (Winter 2016 – Summer 2017)
Babak received his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology. He has previously worked on thermal radiative properties of thin films, thermal modeling in manufacturing & materials processing and bio-heat transfer modeling. During his MSC, he worked on laser processing and electrospinning in Silicon Hall.
Master of Science
Mitra Radmanesh – MSc (Fall 2014 – May 2016)
Mitra worked as a research assistant at University of New Brunswick, in the field of Laser Material Processing for biomedical applications. She has completed her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of New Brunswick, along with acquiring a Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Diploma.
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Arash Davari Zanjani – MSc (Fall 2014 – Summer 2017)
Arash studied Master of Science in mechanical engineering at University of New Brunswick. He is currently working on 3-phase plasma reactor which is used in manufacturing fullerene (C60). He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from School of Mechanic, Takestan Azad University, Iran.
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Candace Colpitts – MSc (Summer 2015 – May 2017)
Candace graduated on dean’s list from a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of New Brunswick. She pursued her MSc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNB in the field of Laser Processing of Materials for biomedical applications.
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Sarah Hamza – MSc (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017)
Sarah Hamza received her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Brunswick. She completed her MSc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNB in the field of Laser Processing of Materials for biomedical sensor fabrication.
Research Assistants / Interns
Dongchen Zhu – Globalink Research Intern (Summer 2016 – Fall 2016)
Dongchen was an intern from Mitacs at University of New Brunswick in the research program of laser materials processing. He was undergraduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University, majoring in Materials Science and Engineering.
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Justin Bell – RA (Spring 2016)
Justin received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Brunswick. He was working in the field of Laser Material Processing of Titanium for biomedical applications, as well as using Ls-Dyna to create finite element models of Laser Treated Titanium
James Cosman– RA (Winter 2016 – Summer 2016)
James 
graduated from the University of New Brunswick – Saint John with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He completed his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering while working as a Research Assistant in Electrospinning Fabrication in Silicon Hall.
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Amin Ektesabi Motamed – RA (Fall 2015 – Summer 2017)
Amin was an undergraduate student, majoring in Bio-Chemistry at University of New Brunswick, his project in Silicon Hall was the measuring of Bio-compatibility of titanium alloy implants enhanced with nano scale texture.
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Piao Hu – Globalink Research Intern (Summer 2015 – Fall 2015)
Piao was an intern from Mitacs at University of New Brunswick in the research program of laser materials processing. She was an undergraduate of Jilin University, China, majoring in Materials Engineering.
