Our People

Board of Directors

Maria Gallego
Director

Roderick Melnik
Founding Director

Sapna Isotupa
Associate Director

Marek Wartak
Deputy Director, Education

Xu (Sunny) Wang
Deputy Director, Operations and Advancement

Advisory Board

Albert-László Barabási
Northeastern University, Boston

Alan Edelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Carlos Garcia-Servera
University of California, Santa Barbara

Shaofan Li
University of California, Berkeley

Bruce Shapiro
NIH National Cancer Institute Centre for Cancer Research, Frederick

Research Theme Coordinators

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development: Vladimir Kitaev
Life Sciences, Biotechnology, and Bioinformatics: Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Mechanics and Materials Science: Ian Hamilton
Complex Systems, Networks, Information Theory and Algorithms: Stephen Perry
Ecology, Climate, and Environmental Sciences: Steven Roberts
Operations Research and Decision Science: Marc Kilgour
Mathematical Models in Finance: Joe Campolieti
Econometrics and Quantitative Approaches to Economics, Business and Political Science: Wing Chan
Quantitative Approaches in Social Sciences: Lindie Hanyu Liang
Human Interface Technology and Design: James Wallace
Basic Research Incubator: Kaiming Zhao

Members

Associate Members

Shyam Badu
Nick Costanzino
Stephanie Crowe
Anakkavoor Jagdish
Jevgenijs Kaupuzs
Carlos Leon
Roy Mahapatra
Nimer Murshid
Max Paliy
Sanjay Prabhakar
Sundeep Singh
Haijun Tan
Thoa Thieu
Anurag Tiwari
Linxiang Wang
Bin Wen
Karl Wouterloot
Jack Yang

Student Members

Adrian Adamescu
Reem Almarashi
Tina Arabian
Farah Ateeq
Mohsen Bahremani
Konrad Bania
Manoj Belavadi
Sia Bhowmick
Douglas Bowen
Richard Edward
Ahmed Mohamed Eid
Benjamin Friedrich
Heather Gaebler
Foad Ghasemi
Harold Hodgins
Christopher Hogan
Majid Hojati
Igor Ivashev
Courtney Jones
Mohammad Mehdi Jourabchi
Russell Kennedy
Yara Khalaf
Muhammad Khan
Colin Kirst
Shea Kraemer
Anisha Kuppa
Brenda Jerutha Kurorwaho
Haydn Lawrence
Sanwei Lu
Matthew McCreath
Julia Metelka
Sara Mitchell-Ewart
Wisam Mohammed
Kenneth Onuma
Divyang Patel
Katrina Protopapas
Mohammad Aminur Rahman
Nicole Ritter
Kelly Robb
Md Abdus Sabur
Carol Salama
Hina Shaheen
Mohammad Simjour
Arthur Situm
Sara Soldoozy
Tomendro Subedi
Yaode Sui
Emily Sung
Marzieh Tabefam
Logan K. Townsend
Anthony Trinh
Chelsea Uggenti
Dan Wang
Lauren Yee
Fahimeh Ziaei

Support Staff

Vacant
Administrative Assistant

Arman AP
Website Coordinator

In Memoriam

David Cai (1963-2017)

Professor Cai served on the Advisory Board of the Institute from its inception. See In Memoriam for David Cai at the SIAM webpage.

David Vaughan (1951-2015)

Professor Vaughan was one of the creators of the institute. He was deputy director, operations and advancement. Read his obituary.

Janis Rimshans (1951-2015)

Professor Rimshans was an associate member of the MS2Discovery Institute. He visited Wilfrid Laurier University and collaborated with the members of the institute on a wide range of scientific topics. Professor Rimshans was a Latvian mathematician and physicist, director of the Liepaja University, director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Information Technology, head of the Mathematical Modeling Hydrodynamics Laboratory in the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of the University of Latvia. Janis was a wonderful person and a great scientist who is missed by many of us who had an honour and privilege to work with him.

Join Us!

Membership is open to all faculty at Laurier and partner institutions who are interested in participating in research and/or activities within the institute's priority areas

If you are a student, our faculty members can supervise you through their affilation to a number of nearby universities, in addition to WLU. Please consult our Graduate Programs page for further information on your Masters or PhD studies in one of the priorities areas of the Institute.

If you are a student who is supervised by our faculty, become a student member to get involved in our activities. To become a member, contact ms2discovery@wlu.ca.