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See the full list of Queen’s-funded NFRF and NSERC projects below. To learn more about other research at Queen’s funded as part of this announcement, read “More than $20 million awarded to advance Queen’s research” in the Gazette.

NFRF – Exploration

Qian Zhang (Mining Engineering): Can Nature-based Solutions Enable Responsible Investment in the Minerals Sector for Climate Transition Risk Mitigation? – $250,000

Xiaying Xin (Civil Engineering): Invasive Mussel Control using Nanobubble-Generating Robotics and Biopesticide – $250,000

Laurent Béland (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Moving Beyond Bone Mineral Density: Computer Models to Simulate Fracture Propagation and Help Diagnose Bone Fragility – $250,000

Qingguo Li (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Engineering Next Generation Smart Personal Protective Equipment to Combat Heat, Load And Radiation Exposure in Clinical Environments – $250,000

Amy Wu (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Breast Pump Designed with Ecological Breastfeeding in Mind – $250,000

Zihang Lu (Public Health Sciences): Leveraging Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Child Health for All: From Single Diseases to Multimorbidity – $250,000

Sara Nabil (School of Computing; Cultural Studies): Weaving Next-Gen Health: Smart Textile Sensors in Medical Wearables for Future Health Professions Education – $250,000

P. Andrew Evans (Chemistry): Revolutionizing Antiviral Therapy: Novel Prodrug Strategies for Broad-Spectrum Efficacy – $250,000

NSERC Discovery

Subatomic Physics – Application

Mark Chen (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): SNO+ Neutrino Physics and Double Beta Decay (2025-2028) – $1,080,000

Ken Clark (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Commissioning and Operation of the Scintillating Bubble Chamber – $95,000

Subatomic Physics – Major Resources Support

Carsten Krauss (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): The Institute of Particle Physics National Resource – $1,450,000

Discovery

Gunnar Blohm (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): Distributed Motor Planning and Control – $96,000

Ahmed E. Hassan (School of Computing): Software Engineering 3.0: From AI-Assisted SE (SE 2.0) to AI-Native SE (SE 3.0) – $81,000

Paul Kubes (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): The Biology of Cavity Macrophages Mast Cells and Nerves as Sensors of Danger – $80,000

Yan-Fei Liu (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Single-Stage Three-Phase Bi-Directional AC-DC Converter for EV Fast Charging and Energy Storage System Applications – $75,000

Tucker Carrington (Chemistry): New Collocation and Variational Methods for Computing Rovibrational Spectra and Inelastic Rate Constants – $74,000

Kim B. McAuley (Chemical Engineering): Combining Fundamental Chemical-Process Models with Data – $64,000

Chris Mechefske (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Surrogate-based Modeling for Improved Acoustic Performance of Electric Machines – $64,000

Bhavin Shastri (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Photonic Computing for Ising Machines and Cognitive Radios for Classical and Quantum Applications – $63,000

Bram Adams (School of Computing): Semantic Versioning in the Foundation Model Era – $62,000

David Zechel (Chemistry): From Genes to Molecules: Mining Bacterial Genomes for New Enzyme Reactions – $61,000

Joseph Bramante (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Discovering Dark Matter at the High Mass Frontier – $60,000

Shelley Arnott (Biology): Understanding the Importance of Context for Multiple Stressor Responses – $55,000

Gabriel Ciccarelli (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Hydrogen-Methane Mixtures – $55,000

Randy Flanagan (Psychology): Coordination and Control of Gaze and Hand Movements in Goal-directed Action Tasks – $55,000

Martin Guay (Chemical Engineering): Data Driven Control of Nonlinear Systems in Unknown Environments – $55,000

Ian D. Moore (Civil Engineering): Advances to Design, Installation, and Rehabilitation of Buried Pipe Infrastructure – $55,000

Ugo Piomelli (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Large-eddy Simulations of Complex Turbulent Flows – $55,000

Lidan You (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Engineering the Next-Generation Mechano-Organ-on-a-Chip with Integrated Mechanical Loading and Mechanobiology Analysis – $55,000

Xiaodan Zhu (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Exploring Robust Natural Language and Reasoning Models with Deployment in High-stakes Applications – $55,000

Bahman Gharesifard (Mathematics and Statistics): Mathematical Foundations of Verifiable Autonomy – $54,000

Philippe Di Stefano (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Classical, and Exotic, Rare Decays – $51,000

Dongmei Chen (Geography and Planning): AI-based Methods and Tools for Improving Change Detection from Multi-scale Time Series Remotely Sensed Environmental Data – $50,000

John Allingham (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): Molecular Mechanisms of Proteins and Small Molecules That Control Microtubule and Actin Polymerization Dynamics – $49,000

Stephen Lougheed (Biology): Evaluating Impacts of Human-driven Habitat Loss and Climate Change on At-risk Reptiles and Amphibians in Canada – $49,000

Jennifer Day (Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering): Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) Coupled Processes in Geologically Diverse Brittle Rocks for Excavation Damage Zone (EDZ) Science – $48,000

Carlos Escobedo (Chemical Engineering): Controlled Assembly of Plasmofluidic Structures for Ultrahigh Sensitive Chemical Sensing – $48,000

Vahid Fallah (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Irradiation-Tolerant High Entropy Alloys for Next-Ge neration Nuclear Plants – $48,000

Yves Filion (Civil Engineering): Managing Growth and Removal of Biofilms and Metals from Drinking Water Pipes – $48,000

Il-Min Kim (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Advancing Federated Edge Learning: A Secure and Adaptive Framework of Artificial Intelligence – $48,000

Michael Greenspan (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Machine Learning Based General 6DoF Pose Estimation – $47,000

Hossam Hassanein (School of Computing): Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Edge Computing – $47,000

Jun Gao (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Surfaces and Interfaces of Polymer Ionic/Electronic Mixed Conductors – $45,000

Lawrence Widrow (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys – $45,000

Vicki Friesen (Biology): The Interaction Between Gene Flow and Genetic Adaptation: The Good, the Bad and the Neutral – $44,000

Eva Kaufmann (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): Exploration of a Distinct Hematopoietic Stem Cell Population in the Lungs – $44,000

Fady Alajaji (Mathematics and Statistics): Information-Theoretic Methods for Two-Way Communication, Trusted AI and Network Contagion Mitigation – $43,000

Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Fundamental Solutions for High-Fidelity Human Haptic Interaction – $ 43,000

Christopher Pickles (Mining Engineering): Zero-Emission Metal Recovery: Microwave-Assisted Techniques for Sustainable Extraction and CO2 Conversion – $43,000

Effie Pereira (Psychology): Uncovering the Basic Mechanisms that Drive the Temporal Dynamics of Selective Attention – $42,000

Farhana Zulkernine (School of Computing): Advancing Machine Perception for Situation-Aware Goal-Oriented Human Machine Interaction – $42,000

Bingshu Chen (Public Health Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics): Statistical Models and Inferences for Biomarker Effects in Clinical Trials: Deep Learning and Bayesian Methods – $40,000

Frances Bonier (Biology): Avian Responses to Urbanization, from the Local to Global Scale – $39,000

Fady Abdelaal (Civil Engineering): Performance Evaluation of Bituminous Liners for Environmental Protection against Emerging Contaminants of Concern in a Changing Climate – $38,000

Pouya Amiri (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies): Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Human Balance Control – $38,000

Barbara L. da Silva (Mechanical and Materials Engineering): Flow and Wake Interactions Around Surface-mounted Bluff Bodies – $38,000

Geoffrey Eichhorn (Civil Engineering): Climate Resilient Buried Pipe Infrastructure for Canadian Communities – $38,000

Jianbing Ni (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Security, Privacy, and Robustness in Machine Learning at the Network Edge – $38,000

Laura Wells (Chemical Engineering): Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-based Controlled Release Systems and Modification Strategies to Modulate Inflammation – $38,000

Randy Ellis (School of Computing; Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): Information Processing for Spectral Signal Understanding – $37,000

Wenyu Jiang (Mathematics and Statistics): Statistical Inference and Learning Methodology for Modelling Heterogeneity in Biomarker Study – $37,000

Chunfang Devon Lin (Mathematics and Statistics): Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Systems – $37,000

Yuan Tian (School of Computing): Towards Advanced Intelligent Code Transformation – $37,000

Erin Meger (School of Computing): Algorithmic and Computational Advancements in Pursuit-Evasion Games with Real-World Applications – $36,000

James Stotz (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy): Spin Currents through Acoustic Circuits – $36,000