C-MORE Students
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Maliheh Aramon | Maliheh Aramon is a PhD Student with C-MORE. She completed her BASc and MASc at the University of Tehran, Iran. Her Master's thesis was in the area of scheduling, and she joined C-MORE to study maintenance scheduling problems from a stochastic perspective. |
| Corey Kiassat | Corey Kiassat, MBA, P.Eng., is a PhD student specializing in the area of human reliability. Before joining C-MORE, he worked at General Motors in various engineering and manufacturing positions. He holds a BASc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from York University. Find out more here! | |
| William Luff | William Luff is an MASc student, working on projects in condition-based maintenance. He attended Queen's University for Engineering Physics and Applied Economics. | |
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Mohammadreza (Soroush) Sharifi | Soroush is a graduate student at C-MORE. He holds Master of Management in Operations Research (MM in OR) from the University of British Columbia and BASc in Industrial Engineering from Sharif university. |
| Janet Sung | Janet is a graduate student at C-MORE. She received a BMath in Operations Research from the University of Waterloo while earning a BBA at Wilfrid Laurier University. | |
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Robert Svaluto | Robert is an MEng student working in spare parts provisioning. He holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. |
| Tanya Tang | Tanya is a PhD student working on reliability knowledge database design. She holds a MASc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. | |
| Lorna Wong | Lorna is a PhD student at C-MORE. She recently completed her MEng thesis on a study of armoured vehicle condition-based maintenance in collaboration with MOD UK. Lorna received her Honours BSc in Math and History, and her MEng in Industrial Engineering, both from the University of Toronto. Lorna was recently profiled by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering's online newsletter. |
Former C-MORE Students
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Pedram Sahba | Pedram completed his PhD in February 2011. He worked in the area of spare parts provisioning. His dissetation title is "The Benefit of Capacity Pooling for Repairable Spare Parts". He is working as a specialist at Hatch Ltd. |
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Sharareh Taghipour | Sharareh completed her PhD in Industrial Engineering in April 2011. Her dissertation titled "Reliability and Maintenance of Medical Devices", a collaborative project with the University Health Network. She is now a post-doctoral fellow at the
C-MORE. Find out more here! |
| Kelly Kinahan | Kelly is a recently graduated MASc student who collaborated with Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Baris Balcioglu on projects with Barrick Gold. Kelly also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University. | |
Diederik Lugtigheid │ Diederik Lugtigheid completed his PhD in Maintenance Optimization of Repairable Systems and is now Manager, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Australia. |
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| Darko Louit │Darko Louit obtained a PhD in Optimization of Spare Parts Inventories; he is employed as Contracts Manager, Komatsu, South America. | |
| Ardavan Shirazi │Ardavan Shirazi was granted a Masters in Modeling Imperfect Repairs using a Fault Simulator. Ardavan is now a Junior Reliability Engineer, ABB. | |
| Andrey Pak │Andrey Pak specialized in Maintenance and Repair Contracts: Modelling and Optimization. After completing his Masters, he found employment as a Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, Moscow. | |
| Michael Medeiros │Michael Medeiros finished his Masters, working on Asset Replacement at Hydro One. He is an Engineer, Hydro One Networks. | |
| Jason Hao │Jason Hao completed an undergraduate degree, specializing in Spare Parts Provisioning and is an Analyst, Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte and Touche. | |
| Sarah Chen │ Sarah Chen obtained an undergraduate degree in Spare Parts Provisioning and is working as an Industrial Engineer Intern, Walmart. | |
| Tom Pickles │ Tom Pickles completed his undergraduate degree, with a focus on Spare Parts Simulation Models. He is a Business Analyst, Strategy and Operations for Deloitte and Touche. | |






