Team

Damian Marek

Damian Marek is a Ph. D. student working on a high-performance electromagnetic solver for 3D integrated circuits. He received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2012 and 2014 respectively. In 2014, he joined Optiwave Systems where his most notable achievement was developing a finite element solver for electromagnetic waveguiding problems. His interest in computational electromagnetics led him to return to academia and join the Modelics group in 2018. Damian always makes time to enjoy his favorite hobbies: soccer, hiking and canoeing.

Yiyang (Roger) Fu

(co-supervised with Dr. Laura Jimenez Juan, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center)

Yiyang Fu received his B.Sc degree at the University of Alberta in 2019, and joined Professor Triverio's group in the same year to pursue his MASc degree. He is interested in the interdisciplinary area of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, and is currently working on the project of Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to Coronary Artery Disease. In his spare time, he enjoys playing sports like tennis and ping-pong, reading, and he has interests in history and Chinese culture.

Nhien Tran-Nguyen

(co-supervised with Dr. Laura Jimenez Juan, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center)

Nhien Tran-Nguyen received her B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science in 2019 at the University of Toronto with a major in Biomedical Systems Engineering. Her research focuses on the application of biomedical engineering to clinical settings. Currently, she is investigating the applications of computational fluid dynamics to coronary artery bypass graft surgeries. Outside of her research, she is involved with the Discovery program in IBBME to engage young adults seeking a career in STEM. On the weekends, she enjoys exploring the local food scene in Toronto.

Yongzhong Li

Yongzhong Li received his B.S. degree at the Beihang University in 2020 with a major in Electronic and Information Engineering. His research focuses on numerical modeling for multiscale and multiphysics problems, wave functional material and machine learning. When he is not doing research, you can find him hiking, swimming, reading poems and history.

Qinghao Zhang

Qinghao Zhang received his B.Sc. in Honor Physics and computing option from University of Waterloo and his B.Sc in Honor Physics from Shandong Normal University in 2021. It was his honor to join the Modelics group and he is interested in computational electromagnetism. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball.

Jasper Hatton

Jasper received his B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science (Electrical and Computer Engineering option) from the University of Toronto in May 2023. During his bachelor's he took a Professional Experience Year (PEY) at AMD, where he worked on performance validation for HPC/AI accelerators. After graduating, he was pleased to join Modelics as a master's student to pursue his interest in computational electromagnetism. Jasper's research focuses on computational techniques for robust full-wave solvability of 3D packaging and integrated circuit problems. Outside of school he may be found on the badminton court or at the climbing gym.

Atacan Tuhan

Having received his B.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in June 2023, following his interest in computational electromagnetism, Atacan was honored to join the Modelics group as a Master’s student. In his leisure time, you can find him playing/watching soccer and chess, or reading about history and politics.

Michael Acquaviva

Michael Acquaviva is a fourth-year Engineering Science student majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his Professional Experience Year (PEY), Michael worked on the design, layout, and verification of continuous-time analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits at Analog Devices. In 2024, Michael also co-founded a defense startup which aims to use directed acoustic waves as a short-range counter-drone measure in urban environments and around critical infrastructure. Michael is completing his Engineering Science thesis under the supervision of Prof. Triverio on the topic of the Interpolated Factored Green Function Method to accelerate the solving of scattering problems in electromagnetic simulations.

Ethan Sovde

Ethan Sovde is a fourth-year Engineering Science (ECE) student. He spent his PEY term at Siemens EDA working on optimization and new tools for parasitics extraction software and is fascinated by the EDA industry. He's currently focusing on optimizing Rebel for AMD hardware and multithreaded compute.