Federal funding boosts U of R research
Also announced today were Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants, Discovery Development Grants, and Research Tools and Instruments Grants. The following University of Regina researchers received awards as part of the federal government funding announcement:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grants:
Marcella Berg, Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Applications for Soft Condensed Matter, $137,500
Francis Bischoff, The Geometry and Topology of Singular Differential Equations, $142, 500
Guoxiang Chi, Basinal fluid flow systems and their relationships with mineralization - coupling of shallow-deep, hydrodynamic-geochemical, and channeling-trapping processes, $180,000
Leah Chibwe, The application of effect-based methods for the identification and characterization of contaminants of environmental concern in aquatic ecosystems, $137,500
Tanya Dahms, Linking cell wall integrity, stress and mechanosensing to candidal growth and development by correlative microscopy, $240,000
Dianliang Deng, Adaptive Approaches in Quantile Regression Framework, $120,000
Kerri Finlay, Climate and land use impacts on the magnitude and controls of aquatic methane fluxes in the northern Great Plains, $215,000
Amr Henni, Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks and Zeolite Geopolymers Composites for Carbon Capture and Utilization, $195,000
Hussameldin Ibrahim, Solar energy-based photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production using novel super-activated biochar nanomaterials, $230,000
Sharfuddin Khan, Knowledge-based decision support system for overall supply chain resilience performance evaluation, $167,500
Kamyar Khodamoradi, Towards a detailed map of computability and approximability for combinatorial optimization problems, $137,500
Peter Leavitt, Landscape effects of nitrogen on lake ecosystems: Applying a new paradigm for freshwater eutrophication, $475,000
James McVittie, Development of survival analysis methodologies for combined cohort studies and failure time data measured with error, $107,500
Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng, Development of a data-driven waste management system in Canada, $260,000
Arthur Situm, Development and Evaluation of Corrosion Mitigation Strategies in Molten Salts, $157,500
Farshid Torabi, Microfluidic Insights and Mathematical Modelling of CO2 Storage and Residual Oil Reduction in Heavy Oil Formations during CO2-Based Cyclic Solvent Injection: Transitioning to a Low Carbon Emission Energy Production, $165,000
Julia Totosy de Zepetnek, Clarifying mechanisms underlying physical activity's effect on the microbiota-gut-brain axis, $177, 500
Andrei Volodin, Asymptotic analysis and consistency of some statistical methods and models, $105,000
Chris Yost, Uncovering genetic determinants in Rhizobium leguminosarum necessary for on-seed survival and colonization of the spermosphere of peas and lentils, $240,000
Stephanie Young, Development of a sulfammox-based hybrid membrane bioreactor for the treatment of carbon capture and storage wastewater using experimental and computational approaches, $155,000
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Development Grants:
Kin-Choong Yow, Managing Decentralized Microgrids with Attention-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms, $40,000
Lei Zhang, Revolutionizing AI for Computing Speed and Energy Efficiency Using Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Network and Hardware Acceleration, $40,000
Yang Zhao, Statistical analysis with data missing in nonmonotone missingness patterns, $40,000
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Research Tools and Instruments Grants
Jinkai Xue, Gas Chromatography System for Water Research via the Water-Climate-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus, $138,308
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