Climate Change and Sustainable Engineering and Design Lab

Dept of Civil Engineering and TISED, McGill University

Team

About

Laxmi Sushama

Professor and Trottier Chair in Sustainability in Engineering & Design

  • BTech: Civil Engineering (University of Kerala)
  • MEng: Civil Engineering – Hydromechanics and Water Resources Engineering (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  • MSc: Engineering Hydrology (National University of Ireland)
  • PhD: Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Melbourne)
  • Postdoc: Theoretical Climate Dynamics (University of California, Los Angeles); Regional Climate Modelling (University of Quebec at Montreal)


MSc Students


Francisco Ramirez Casas

Project : Machine learning-based framework for climate model validation

Keihan Kouroshnejad

Project : Flash flood-transport infrastructure/traffic interactions

Annmary Vincent

Project : Optimizing green infrastructure for urban heat mitigation

Amro Faki

Project : Regional scale analysis of pile bearing capacity for Canadian permafrost regions (Co-supervised with Prof. Doré)
(Completed)

Caio J Ruman

Project : Study of the Planetary Boundary Layer using high-resolution GEM model simulations in support of wind power projections for the Canadian Arctic (Co-supervised with Prof. Monahan)
(Completed)

Timothee De Toldi

Project : Thermal mass for passive cooling: global limits and ideal quantities (Co-supervised with Prof. Craig)
(Completed)

Yijie (Katherine) Zhao

Project : Climate Change impacts on aviation
(Completed)

Tarek Dukhan

Project : Climate change impacts on wind-driven rain across Canada
(Completed)

Mojdeh Sharafi

Project : Sustainable transportation (Co-supervised with Prof. Sun)
(Completed)

Jeff Atrill

Project : Climate change impacts on polar aviation route
(Completed)

Enzo Angeles Pasco

Project : Sustainable mining equipment management (Co-supervised with Prof. Kumral)
(Completed)

François Roberge

Project : Simulating Montreal Urban Heat Island
(Completed)

Gregory Yang Kam Wing

Project : Inter- and intra-seasonal variability of land-atmosphere coupling over North America (Now at Environment Canada)
(Completed)

Bruno Fang

Project : Snow-albedo feedback in CRCM5 (Now at Ouranos)
(Completed)

Abdellah Boujannah

Project : Energy and water budgets over Africa as simulated by the Canadian RCM
(Completed)

Mehr Ben Mansour

Project : Multivariate analysis of spring floods
(Completed)

Arlette Chacón

Project : Impact of land-use change on North America
(Completed)

Bernardo Teufel

Project : Vegetation-climate interactions over North America (Now RA at McGill University)
(Completed)

Bessam Bouagila

Project : Dry spell characteristics over Africa as simulated by the Canadian RCM (Now at Environment Canada)
(Completed)

Jacinthe Clavet-Gaumont

Project : Canadian RCM projected changes to high flows for Quebec watersheds using Regional Frequency Analysis (Now at Ouranos/Hydro-Québec)
(Completed)

Jean-Philippe Morin

Project : Soil moisture variability from current to future climate over North America (Now at Météo Média)
(Completed)

Vincent Poitras

Project : Effects of climate change on runoff in Canada
(Completed)

Bratislav Mladjic

Project : Canadian RCM projected changes to the frequency and magnitude of extreme precipitation over Canada(Now at the Dept. of Electrical Eng. of McGill)
(Completed)

Ivana Popadic

Project : Terrestrial surface modelling in CRCM (Now at Environment Canada)
(Completed)

André Monette

Project : Projected changes to precipitation extremes for Northeast Canadian watersheds using a multi-RCM ensemble (Now at Météo Média)
(Completed)


PhD Students


Khalil Hashem

Project : Numerical and experimental modelling to support climate change adaptation of tailings management facilities in cold regions (Co-supervised with Prof. Sasmito)

Hang Yin

Project : Urban road weather and hydrology

Bernardo Teufel

Project : Evolving pan-Arctic land and atmosphere and its impacts on Arctic infrastructure (Now RA at McGill University)
(Completed)

Oleksandr (Sasha) Huziy

Project : Development of a lake-river module for Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)

Camille Garnaud

Project : Dynamic vegetation in the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)

Jean-Philippe Paquin

Project : On some aspects of the numerical modeling of the arctic climate (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)


Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Associates


Bernardo Teufel

Projects : Physics-guided deep learning super-resolution frameworks; dynamic flood inundation parameterization

Arun K. Sasidharan

Project : Integration of space-based observations using machine learning approaches in support of climate change and sustainability research for cold regions

Seok-Geun Oh

Project : Interactive modelling of floods in climate models
(Completed)

Ju Liang

Project : Convection permiting regional climate simulations for engineering applications (Now at UK Met Office)
(Completed)

Vincent Poitras

Project : Wave modelling for the Great Lakes in current and future climate
(Completed)

Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino

Project : Vulnerability assessment of freshwater communities in the Northwest Territories to a changing climate (Now at University of California Irvine)
(Completed)

Mahmoud Ahmed

Project : Footprint of mining activities in Canada’s north (Now at Journeaux Assoc.)
(Completed)

Oleksandr (Sasha) Huziy

Project : Heavy lake-effect snow events for the Great Lakes region and its implications for infrastructure and hydrologic applications (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)

Gulilat Tefera Diro

Project : Improving seasonal-to-subseasonal forecast for energy/water management/agricultural applications; Land-atmopshere coupling and extremes (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)

Dae Il Jeong

Project : Multivariate modelling of floods and droughts (Now at Environment and Climate Change Canada)
(Completed)

Arman Ganji

Project : Development of an improved hydrologic scheme (surface and sub-surface) for CRCM5 (Now at University of Toronto)
(Completed)

Andrey Martynov

Project : Advanced surface parameterization (Now at University of Bern)
(Completed)

Debashish PaiMazumder

Project : Short- and long- term drought characteristics in current and future climate (Now at NCAR)
(Completed)

Marko Braun

Project : Validation of Canadian RCM simulated hydrometeorological variables and their projected changes (Now at Ouranos)
(Completed)

Deepthi Joshi

Project : Land-Atmosphere interactions over Prairie regions
(Completed)


Research Assistants


Luis Duarte

Project : Targeted integration of new modules in the Regional Climate Model

Amro Faki

Project : Climate change adaptation of overpasses subject to flashfloods

Fernanda Carmo

Project : Physics-guided deep learning super-resolution frameworks

Keihan Kouroshnejad

Project : St. Lawrence seaway modelling
(Completed)

Hedieh Keshavarz Mohammadian

Project : Building Energy Modelling
(Completed)

Mónica González Linares

CNRCWP coordination
(Completed)

Adelina Alexandru

Projet : Projections climatiques avec le MRCC5 sur le domaine Nord-Américain de CORDEX
(Completed)

Samira Ben Saïd

Projet : Les caractéristiques des précipitations simulées au dessus de l'Inde par le MRCC5 en les comparant par les données d'observations IMD et APHRODITE
(Completed)

Leticia Hernandez-Diaz

Project : Analysis of climate simulations and climate projections for Africa in the context of CORDEX using CRCM5
(Completed)

Ryan Muncaster

Project: Comparison of composite and mosaic approaches of land-surface heterogeneity representation in CRCM5 (Now at RPN)
(Completed)

Katja Winger

Project : Model maintenance and integration of new modules in the regional climate model
(Completed)


Undergraduate RAs


Julia Rafferty

Project : Synthesis of sustainability indicators for Canadian mines
(Completed)

Dunyi Fu

Project : Comparison of Montreal 2017 and 2019 Floods
(Completed)

Stanley Francispillai

Project : Sea level rise and impact on infrastructure
(Completed)

Ye Zheng

Project : Low impact development alternatives
(Completed)

Irina Moraru

Synthesis : State-of-the-art in Urban Modelling
(Completed)

Weiting Gan

Project : Sustainable urban infrastructure
(Completed)

Jinrui Hu

Project : Synthesis of water and wastewater treatment in cold regions
(Completed)

Zijian Liang

Project : Projected changes to surface solar radiation and its influence on energy yields of photovoltaic systems
(Completed)


Recent Interns


Francisco Ramirez

(from National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

Yao Lu

(from Lanzhou University, China)

Diego Monteiro

(from Université de Nantes, UFR des Sciences et des Techniques)

Sareh Hesaraki

(from University of Sherbrooke)

Patrick Duplessis

(from UQAM)

Sébastien Gagnon

(from UQAM)

Rajaa Sghyar

(from UQAM)

Yu Chan Mei

(from Collège Brébeuf, Montréal)

Chitrang Gonawala

(from App. Math. Dept., S.V. National Institute of Technology, India)

Harpreet Kaur

(from IIT, Mumbai)

Xiao Hang Ma

(from collège Brébeuf, Montréal)

Bessam Bouagila

(from UQAM)

Jacinthe Clavet-Gaumont

(from UQAM)