Sensing, Data & Analytics for Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDA-for-SDGs)
Team & Partners
Leadership
- SDA-for-SDGs Director
- Director, Centre for Global Engineering, University of Toronto
- Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Canada Research Chair in Engineering for Sustainable Global Development
- SDA-for-SDGs Co-Director
- Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
- Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling for Policy
- Professor, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
- Director of NSERC CREATE Program on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Centre for Aerial Robotics Research and Education
- Professor, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice, University of Toronto
- Director, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto
- Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
- Director of the newly established Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute in Mumbai
- Professor, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice, University of Toronto
- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
- Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering, University of Toronto
- Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
- SDA-for-SDGs Fellows Mentor
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Global Engineering, University of Toronto
Mila Vukomanovic
- SDA-for-SDGs Research Program Coordinator
- Research Program Coordinator, Centre for Global Engineering, University of Toronto
Fellows
Ali Ahmed
- MASc Candidate, Environmental Applied Science & Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Research interests:
Developing low cost environmental sensor systems to support ecosystem carbon modelling; environmental modelling, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis, informed by co-op experience in data analytics, quality assurance, and applied scientific computing.
Farnoush Attarzadeh
- MASc Candidate, Environmental Applied Science & Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Research interests:
Estimating carbon storage in tree biomass (especially within Toronto) and low-cost LiDAR drones to measure carbon stocks and evaluating the accuracy of different methods. This work aims to improve the reliability of above-ground biomass carbon storage estimation and lead to the development of better climate change mitigation strategies.
- MSc Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia
- Research interests:
How extreme weather events interact with indoor air quality and behaviours in residential settings; interested in developing tools and approaches that make air quality data accessible, with the goal of empowering communities to better understand and manage the health impacts of air pollution.
- PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
- Research interests:
Robust control theory, using a variety of methods to demonstrate that a system is stable under a given disturbance. Applying this theory to a variety of cases, from multirotor, fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft. Current research focuses on applying adaptive learning structures to modern control theory, implementing methods to inform and update the control structure in real time.
- MASc candidate, Water & Energy Research Laboratory and the Weckman Lab, University of Toronto
- Research interests:
Developing a CRISPR-based sensor to detect bacterial contamination in drinking water. He aims to increase accessibility and reduce equipment requirements for testing. This can increase the safety of decentralized water systems in remote areas.
Partners
While the University of Toronto operates on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, we acknowledge that our partners join this initiative from across Canada. From coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people who call this land home.
