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Minghan Xu (he/him)*
Assistant Professor, Civil & Mineral Eng.
Team Lead and Principal Investigator (P.I.)
David Nsa (he/him)
MEng Student, Civil & Mineral Eng.
Project: Numerical investigations of saline mine water decontamination using spray freezing.
Gaston Boëda (he/him)
Research Trainee, École d’ingénieurs créée de Lyon (FR).
Project: Artificial ground freezing for permafrost protection in a changing climate.
Achievement: Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (2026).
Mouhamed Amine Kortoba (he/him)
Research Trainee, École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Monastir (TN).
Project: CFD modeling of spray freezing for mine heating in cold regions.
Achievement: Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (2026).
Stephanie Gao (she/her)
UG Thesis Student, Engineering Sci.
Thesis: Sustainable electrification of northern mines: A multi-objective optimization framework for wind-diesel hybrid systems.
Achievement: CivMin’s UG Summer Research Fellowship (2026); Conference Paper [C29].
Boyan Gao (he/him)
UG Student, Mechanical & Industrial Eng.
Project: Physics informed neural networks (PINNs) for heat conduction problems with phase change.
Achievement: Summer UG Data Sciences Research Award (2026); CivMin’s UG Summer Research Fellowship (2026); Conference Paper [C28].
Helen Li (she/her)
UG Student, Electrical & Computer Eng.
Project: Electrifying mine energy systems with small and micro modular reactors in Northern Canada.
Achievement: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (2026); CivMin’s UG Summer Research Fellowship (2025); Poster [O7]; Conference Paper [C24].
Wania Khalid (she/her)
UG Student, Electrical & Computer Eng.
Project: Develop a physics-informed neural network (PINN) for solving geothermal borehole heat exchangers.
Achievement: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (2026); CivMin’s UG Summer Research Fellowship (2025); Poster [O7]; Conference Paper [C24].
Ashfaq Sadi
UG Student, Civil & Mineral Eng.
Project: Integrating spray freezing technology for renewable mine heating and cooling in Northern Canada.
Achievement: J. Edgar McAllistar Foundation UG Summer Research Award (2026).
Sophia Krassiouk (she/her)
UG Student, Civil & Mineral Eng.
Project: Development of saltwater spray freezing for renewable mine heating and cooling.
Achievement: First Year UG Summer Research Fellowship (2026).
Michael Wang (he/him)
UG Student, Materials Sci & Eng.
Project: Integrating phase change materials in mine energy systems for Northern Canada.
Achievement: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (2026).
Ryura Ramadhina
UG Student, Mechanical & Industrial Eng.
Project: System-level analysis of spray freezing for renewable heating and cooling in northern mines.
Achievement: CivMin’s UG Summer Research Fellowship (2026).
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Former UG Students:
- Stefan Walker (he/him) Electrical & Computer Eng. Techno-economic assessment of solar power for northern mining operations (2026).
- Karan Kardam (he/him), Electrical & Computer Eng. Case studies on renewable energy integration in remote mines located in Northern Canada (2026).
- Daksh Khanna (he/him), Civil & Mineral Eng. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for renewable energy integration in northern mines (2025-2026).
- Jack Zhang (he/him), Civil & Mineral Eng. Mathematical modeling of spray freezing for mine wastewater decontamination (2025).
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* Preferred pronouns are shared with the member’s consent.