PhD Students


Bálint Nyakas

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering


Research Interests: High-Performance Computing, Parallel Programming, GPU programming, Numerical Methods, AVX Vectorization

Supervisor: Dennis Giannacopoulos

Balint completed his MSc in Computational Science from Imperial College London in 2021. He joined Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics for a master-after-master before starting his PhD at McGill. My interests are preconditioners for asynchronous linear solvers on GPUs. He is a fan of FC Barcelona. In his free time, he likes playing football, climbing, biking and cooking.

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Issah Ibrahim

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering


Research Interests: EM Design

Supervisor: David A. Lowther

Issah hails from a small village called Garu in Ghana. He had his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana in 2007, and a Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, in 2011. Currently, he is the senior research scientist in the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Professor David Alister Lowther. Issah is a proud recipient of the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA, 2015), the Stotland Family ISEAD Fellowship Award (2015), and the Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award (2017). His favorite poem is "The Cathedral" by Kofi Awoonor, a renowned Ghanaian novelist and poet.

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Maleeha Khan

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering


Research Interests: Computational Electromagnetics

Supervisor: Dennis Giannacopoulos

Maleeha received her bachelor and master's degree from Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam University, India. She has been a scholar student at her institution with experience working on the projects associated with millimeter wave. She has had the experience of working as an Assistant Prof at SRMS College of Engineering and Technology, India. She is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering under supervision of Prof. Dennis Giannacopoulos at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is also receiving the MEDA award.

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Milad Mokhtari

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering


Research Interests: Antenna Design and Fabrication, Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection, Analog and Digital Circuit Design, Signal Processing

Supervisor: Milica Popovic

Milad received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunication at University of Tehran, Iran, in 2017 and 2020 respectively. His current research at McGill mainly pivots around improving the current time-domain breast screening prototype. His past experiences comprise of microwave system design, antenna design and fabrication and array signal processing for radar systems. He has done his thesis on radar image processing and direction finding for mmWave radar sensors.

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Olivier Cotte

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering


Research Interests: Computational Electromagnetics

Supervisor: Dennis Giannacopoulos

My research focuses on parallel 3-D mesh refinement for finite element electromagnetics with tetrahedron on CPU, GPU using tessellation shaders and FPGA comparison. This work investigates algorithm development for systems of heterogeneous multiprocessors and cost analysis of such methods. The benefits of this new approach are for developing high-performance parallel mesh refinement algorithms and accurate solutions for three-dimensional engineering electromagnetics applications.

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