Team
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Western's Industry 4.0 Network is leading the Change of Industry 4.0 In Canada.
Team
We have established interdisciplinary research projects among the Faculties of Engineering, Science, and Ivey Business School.
Director
Jun Yang
Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Co-directors
Kostas Kontogiannis
WRC, Professor, Computer Science
Frank Henning
Managing Director, Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research at Western (FPC)
Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT)
Chair, Lightweight Technology Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT)
Director, Department of Polymer Engineering (KIT), Institutef Fahrzeugsystemtechnik FAST
Adjunct Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Western
Associate Director
Tengyuan Zhang
Research Scientist, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Co-Founder & CEO, Nectro Inc.
Executive committee
Tony Straatman
Professor and Chair, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Matt Davison 
Professor and Chair, Statistical & Actuarial Sciences
Professor, Applied Mathematics, Ivey Business School
Miriam Capretz
Associate Dean-Research, Faculty of Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mehmet A. Begen
Assistant Professor, Management Science, Ivey Business School
Sharon Guo
Head of North America R&D, TS+D Tire and Specialty Rubber of ARLANXEO (Formerly LANXESS)
Canada Inc.
Participants
Andy Sun
CRC Tier 1, Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Jeff Wood
Associate Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Michael Naish
Associate Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Remus Tutunea-Fatan
Associate Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Aaron Price
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Hamid Abdolvand
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Jesse Zhu
CRC Tier 1, Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Rajni Patel
CRC Tier 1, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xianbin Wang
CRC Tier 2, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mehrdad Kermani
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ana Luisa Trejos
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aleksander Essex
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charles Ling
Professor, Computer Science
Tsun Kong Sham
CRC Tier 1, Professor, Chemistry
John Corrigan
Professor, Chemistry
Paul Ragogna
Professor, Chemistry
Giovanni Fanchini
CRC Tier 2, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Darren Meister
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School and cross-appointed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lisa Cechetto
Executive Director WORLDiscoveries®
David Shoesmith
Director of SSW, IRC and Professor, Chemistry
François Lagugné-Labarthet
Director of Western Nanofabrication Facility
Jinfei Wang
Professor, Geography
Lauren Briens
Assistant Dean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Elizabeth Gillies
Professor, Chemistry, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Emily Lalone
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Jayshri Sabarinathan
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jin Zhang
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
George K. Knopf
Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Katarina Grolinger
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tatjana Stecenko
Senior Technical Specialist, 3M
Yara K. Hosein
Applications Specialist, Additive Design in Surgical Solutions (ADEISS) Centre
Michael A. Bauer
Professor, Computer Science
Hanan Lutfiyya
Professor, Computer Science
Anwar Haque
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Wenxin Zhou
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Haojie Mao
Professor, Western Engineering, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Head Mechanics.
Thomas Jenkyn
Assistant Professor School of Kinesiology
Walter Siqueira
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
John Barron
Professor, Computer Science
