Grad students
Rui Kai (Ray) Miao
Ray completed his BASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Mechanical Engineering. As an undergraduate research assistant, he worked in the Natural Gas Fuel System Laboratory to develop thermal management techniques to allow more natural gas to be injected during a compressed natural gas fast fill process. Ray joined the Sinton Lab in 2019 to develop effective electrocatalytic conversion technologies, converting CO2 to useful products.
Siyu Sun
Siyu completed her BASc in Engineering Science, Energy Systems, at the University of Toronto (2022). She joined the Sinton Lab as an undergraduate research student in summer 2021, and her undergraduate thesis focused on renewable hydrogen production using geothermal energy. As a MASc student, Siyu will be working on carbon dioxide reduction through electrocatalysis.
Jinhong Wu
Jinhong completed her BASc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto (2022). In 2021, she worked as a summer research student at the National University of Singapore to develop urban energy systems using machine learning and data-driven optimization. Her undergraduate thesis project investigated Explainable AI for Variational Autoencoder model used to generate synthetic data. Jinhong joined the Sinton Lab as a MASc student in Fall 2022. She will be working with the Catalysis group on carbon dioxide reduction through electrocatalysis.
Hanie Rezaie
Hanie holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran. During her studies, she focused on developing a novel thermal management system for electric vehicle (EV). After graduation, she worked as a mechanical engineer in the industry for two years, focused on batteries and EVs.
Hanie joined the Industrial Fluids group at Sinton Lab in 2023 as a MASc student, with the aim of broadening her knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of Energy and fluid mechanics. She is focusing on modifying and optimizing measurement methods to quickly and accurately assess fluid properties for EV coolants.
Mackenzie Gole
Mackenzie completed his BASc in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto in 2023. His research background is in thermal catalysis, where he investigated the partial oxidation of methanol to dimethoxymethane on vanadia-based catalysts for applications in sustainable diesel synthesis. Pursuing his interest in energy and renewable fuels, Mackenzie joined the Sinton Lab as a MASc student in 2023 as part of the electrocatalysis group to produce high-value products from carbon dioxide.
Riddhi Makwana
Riddhi Makwana graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from American University of Sharjah in 2020. Her capstone project focused on the design of a lightweight cable aerial manipulator with a CoG compensation mechanism for inspection purposes.
Riddhi’s academic interests lie in the field of thermofluids and in Fall 2023, she joined the Sinton Lab at the University of Toronto as a MASc student. She is part of the Industrial Fluids subgroup, and her research is centered on high-throughput microfluidic testing and computation.