Our People

Meet the faculty in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences' five academic units: Department of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Department of Physics.

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Email: jslate04@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 521

Keywords: Bayesian statistics, spatiotemporal methods, Time Series, infectious disease models, Biostatistics, Epidemiology

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University Professor Emeritus, Mathematics

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: 519-824-4120 x53119

Email: bilsmith@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacNaughton 433c

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Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53548

Email: soldatov@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 338

Keywords: Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Supramolecular materials, Crystals, Polymers, Non-crystalline materials

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Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58067

Email: fsong@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 2225

Keywords: Topic modeling, Information retrieval, Text classification, Sentiment analysis, Key Phrase extraction, Text summarization, Document clustering, People search, Text Segmentation, Machine learning applications

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Associate Professor Emerita

School of Computer Science

Email: dastacey@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 3301

Keywords: Ontologies, Knowledge engineering, Machine intelligence, Artificial neural networks, Big Data Analysis, Smart animal health, Animal disease spread models

Carl Svensson

Professor, Research Chair in Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Rare Isotope Physics

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54573

Email: sven@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 221

Keywords: Subatomic Physics, Nuclear Physics, Fundamental Interactions, Nuclear Astrophysics, Radioactive Ion Beams, Nuclei Far from Stability, Evolution of Nuclear Shell Structure, Gamma-ray Spectroscopy, High-purity Germanium Crystals, Multi-detector Arrays

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Email: sykes@uoguelph.ca

Office: Reynolds Building, RM: 2209

Keywords: ai, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, AI and Health

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Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52268

Email: wtam@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 332

Keywords: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Chemical Reactions, Asymmetric Catalysis, Organic Synthesis

Daniel Thomas

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53961

Email: dfthomas@uoguelph.ca

Office: SSC 2504

Keywords: Energy conversion, Fuel cells, Nanoscience, Physical Chemistry, Electrocatalysis, Material Science, Science education

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Edward Thommes

Edward W. Thommes is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. He is a Global Modeling Lead in the Modeling, Epidemiology and Data Science (MEDS) team of Sanofi Vaccines, an Affiliate Researcher in the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), and a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Mathematics for Public Health program at the Fields Institute.

Adjunct Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: +1-519-824-4120 x53119

Email: ethommes@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN Rm:433C

Keywords: AI and machine learning, Epidemiology, biomathematics, infectious disease modeling, Dynamical systems

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Professor, NSERC Chair in High-Temperature Aqueous Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56076

Email: tremaine@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 314B

Keywords: Physical Chemistry, Water, Aqueous solutions, Organic solutes, Hydrothermal chemistry, Nuclear reactor chemistry, Thermal power generation, Carbon capture, Prebiotic Chemistry

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Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53288

Email: umphrey@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 551

Keywords: Biostatistics, Evolutionary biology, Biodiversity conservation, Systematics, Myrmecology

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Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53704

Email: rwickham@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 448

Keywords: Modelling bacteria surface motility, Nanostructures in block copolymers, Non-equlilibrium statistical mechanics, Peptide-cell membrane interactions, Polymeric materials, Theoretical soft materials physics

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Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58546

Email: martin.williams@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 213

Keywords: Physics Education, Physics teaching, Solid state physics

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Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52736

Email: awillms@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 512

Keywords: Climate Change Modelling, Bifurcation Theory, Mathematical Biology, Parameter Estimation, Dynamical systems