Faculty

Graduate Theses Supervised (Sole and Joint Supervision)

Doctoral Theses:

David Nielsen, Development of a Partitioning Bioscrubber Process for the Treatment of Waste Gases Containing Toxic Volatile Organic Compounds, 2006.

Amos Ben-Zvi, Identifiability of Differential-Algebraic Systems, 2004.

Timothy Ramsay, A Bivariate Finite Element Smoothing Spline Applied to Image Registration, 2000 (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University) - winner of the Robillard Award of the Canadian Statistical Society as the Best Doctoral Thesis in Canada for the year 2000.

Hana Sulieman, Parametric Sensitivity Analysis in Nonlinear Regression, 1998 (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University).

Sassan Hojabr, Modeling and Optimization of Reactive Extrusion, 1998.

Martin Guay, Measures of Nonlinearity in Chemical Process Control, 1996.

Jinghong Li, Experimental Investigation and Mathematical Modeling of Oscillatory Behaviour in the Ethanol Fermentation by Zymomonas mobilis, 1996.

Martin Pleau, Robust Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems, 1995.

Master's Theses:

John Wong, Fault Detection Application of Alternative Mean-Centering and Pattern Matching Techniques in Non-Repeated Multivariate Time-Series Data Trajectories, 2006.

Allan Soon, Diagnostics for Nonlinear Regression, 2005.

Andy Poyton, Identifying Process Dynamic Structure Using Principal Differential Analysis, 2005.

Colin Breck, Fault Detection for an Aircraft Environmental Control System Using Dynamic Principal Component Analysis, 2005.

Christine McLeod, Nonlinearity in Time Series, 2004.

Amar Bin Halim, Detection and Diagnosis of Plant-Model Mismatch for Real-Time Optimization (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta), 2003.

Ron Dier, The Effect of Process Nonlinearity on Linear Quadratic Regulator Performance, 2002.

George Pfaff, Information Generation for Real-Time Optimization (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta), 2000.

Mary-Ann Benda, Nonlinearity and Controller Performance for Product Property Control in a Gas-Phase Polyethylene Reactor, 2000.

Michael Patton, Describing Uncertainty in State Estimates, 2000.

Chris Sandink, Screening Diagnostics for Parameter Selection in Extended Kalman Filter Implementations, 1999.

Susan Cruickshank, Modeling and Optimization of a Xenobiotic Process, 1999.

Jon Mogan, Modeling and Optimal Temperature Profiles for Steel Ingot Reheating, 1999.

Judy Leung, Process Nonlinearity and Controller Performance, 1998.

Andrew Thake, Design of Filter-Based Controllers for CD Control on Paper Machines (Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto), 1997.

Judy Laflamme, Dynamic Model of Solid-State Polymerization of Nylon 6,6, 1997.

Sabine Arnold, Dynamic Modeling and Optimal Changeover Policies for an Extractive Fermentation, 1995.

Richard Piette, Graphical Interpretation for the Relative Gain, 1994.

Robyn Wilkinson Toffolo, The Modeling of Molecular Weight Distributions Using Laplace Transforms, 1994.