UTIAS News
On November 11, 2023, U of T Engineering students gathered in the basement of the Sandford Fleming Building — known to many as The Pit — to witness the deployment of HERON Mk. II into space. The 3U CubeSat satellite, […]
U of T Engineering researchers have partnered with Siemens Energy to tackle a key challenge in the energy sector: sustainable energy conversion for propulsion and power generation – such as developing gas turbine engines that can run on sustainable energy […]
For aviation, the path to reduced climate change impact and eventually net-zero carbon dioxide emissions is clear. We must replace fossil fuels with net-zero energy sources, and improve aircraft energy efficiency. The latter is essential given that future energy sources […]
Faculty Spotlight
Professor P. Nair
Decision Analytics for Computational Engineering
Research Focus
• Development of scalable algorithms for probabilistic data-driven and physics-based predictive modeling and robust optimization of complex systems
Current Projects
• Ongoing projects include scalable Bayesian learning algorithms, robust optimization, numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations, and low-rank tensor decomposition schemes for high-dimensional problems