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Yingjie Li, Assistant Professor, Engineering Science

Li completed her PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2025. Li鈥檚 research focuses on developing automation infrastructure for physics-driven computing systems, hardware-software co-design and efficient AI/ML algorithms. She also works in electronic design automation, focusing on machine learning for synthesis.

Fitsum Tariku, Professor, Sustainable Energy Engineering

Fitsum Tariku specializes in experimental and computational building engineering physics, focusing on sustainable building materials, high-performance building envelope systems, whole-building performance optimization and the integration of innovative building technologies. Given the significant contribution of buildings to greenhouse gas emissions, Tariku鈥檚 research focuses on advancing sustainable, high-performance design alongside operational practices that address both the environmental footprint of buildings and the health risks of overheating.

SiQi Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computing Science

SiQi Zhou obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) in 2022. She joined the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence as a postdoctoral fellow under the co-supervision of Animesh Garg and Angela Schoellig. Her research is centred on developing mathematical frameworks and algorithms for safe robot decision-making to enable robots to operate safely within unstructured environments and intelligently accomplish tasks alongside humans. Her research interests include control theory, machine learning, and robot decision-making, with a particular focus on semantically safe behaviours.

Gustavo Albuquerque, Lecturer, Economics

Gustavo Albuquerque is an economist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia, where he specialized in using non-experimental data to estimate causal effects. His research explores crime, state violence and their historical determinants.

Stephen Bero, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Stephen Bero completed his JD at Columbia University and his PhD at the University of Southern California. He was previously a senior lecturer at the University of Surrey and a research fellow of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, as well as a faculty fellow in the Law and Philosophy Program at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law.

John Bird, Assistant Professor, History

John Bird is a member of Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. He completed his PhD in history at the University of Saskatchewan where he studied how nineteenth-century Anishinaabe wrote about their past and envisioned their future. From 2023-2025, Bird worked as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. In that role, he began researching a new book on Anishinaabeg journeys to the British Isles from 1761 to the present. 

Guillaume Blanc, Assistant Professor, Economics

Guillaume Blanc鈥檚 research explores how culture and institutions shape long-run development. Prior to joining SFU, Blanc was an assistant professor at the University of Manchester and completed his PhD at Brown University. His work has been featured in media outlets such as , , , , , and in blogs such as . He is also an  grant winner.

Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Assistant Professor, History

Lauren Faulkner Rossi completed her PhD at Brown University in Rhode Island, and from 2009 until 2014 was an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Her first book, Wehrmacht Priests (2015), explores the motivations of German Catholic priests and seminarians who were conscripted into the military during the Second World War. In 2017 she co-edited Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education with Wendy Lower. She is currently working on revising the 4th edition of Martin Kitchen's History of Modern Germany (forthcoming, 2022) and assisting a Holocaust child survivor to write her memoirs.

Anushay Malik, Senior Lecturer, International Studies

Anushay Malik is a labor historian with a geographical focus on South Asia. Malik鈥檚 teaching and research interests focus on labour movements and how the city affects worker organization and possibilities. Her PhD dissertation explored how expansive political imaginations, made possible by the end of WWII and decolonization, made workers in Pakistan think that a revolution was possible. She was a research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam where she worked on a comparative project exploring how Partition in 1947 impacted the labor networks of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian sea faring workers. She was an assistant professor at Lahore University of Management Services where she taught courses on global histories of migration, nationalism in South Asia, labour and urban history and Pakistani history.

Megh Marathe, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Megh Marathe's research seeks to foster inclusion in the tools and practices that experts鈥攕uch as doctors and engineers鈥攗se to make decisions about people鈥檚 lives. Their work advances the fields of human-computer interaction and science and technology studies. They are currently investigating the uneven representation of transgender people in digital infrastructures, and ways to help epilepsy patients understand data generated by medical devices. They enjoy collaborating across disciplinary boundaries. Before SFU, they were an assistant professor at Michigan State University and President鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Irvine. They received a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Sara Ng, Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Sara Ng鈥檚 research focuses on issues in computational models of prosody and speech perception. Her primary research concerns how computational methods can be used to better understand the role of prosody in spoken language. Ng is interested in how humans use tune, rhythm and pronunciation to convey pragmatic meaning such as discourse structure and conceptual pacts, and how this exchange of information is affected by hearing impairment and speech disorders. Her recent work also concerns how large commercial speech recognition systems such as OpenAI鈥檚 Whisper leverage prosody. Ng uses corpus-based theory-agnostic engineering approaches with grounding in attested generalities of language acoustics. This fall, Ng is teaching a course on computational text analysis.

Angelina Polsinelli, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Dr. Polsinelli, a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, joins SFU鈥檚 Department of Psychology after serving as faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Indiana Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Research Center. She completed her graduate and postdoctoral training in the US, including a fellowship at Mayo Clinic, and brings extensive experience in dementia care, research, and clinical supervision. Her work focuses on neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, support for dementia care partners, and improving access to care in underserved communities.

Troy Sebastian, Assistant Professor, English

Troy Sebastian  |nupqu 蕯ak路莻am虛  is a writer from the Ktunaxa community of 蕯aq虛am. His story tax ni蕯 pikak虛鈥斺�塧 long time ago- was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2019 Writers鈥� Trust Journey Prize.  In 2020, he was selected as a Writer鈥檚 Trust Rising Stars and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Troy鈥檚 story The Mission won the 2022 National Magazine Award Gold Prize for Fiction. His first short story collection Fine Particulate Matter will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and Pantheon in the United States. 

Lauren Schneider,  Assistant Professor, Linguistics - Indigenous Languages Program

Lauren Schneider鈥檚 research is focused on the morphosyntax of the Salish languages of the Pacific Northwest. She has served as a visiting assistant professor and interim director of the Native American Languages and Linguistics MA Program at the University of Arizona. Schneider鈥檚 research includes working with the Hul鈥檘鈥檜mi鈥檔um鈥� community on description, analysis and reclamation of their language. Hul鈥檘鈥檜mi鈥檔um鈥� is the Vancouver Island dialect of Halkomelem Salish, which is one of the coastal languages of the Salish Sea region. Schneider is also researching the morphosyntax of a broader range of North American Indigenous languages. She recently presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages.

Justin Tetrault, Assistant Professor, Criminology

Justin Tetrault holds a PhD in sociology and criminology from the University of Alberta. Tetrault鈥檚  research focuses on political extremism, Indigenous justice, and prisoner experiences and reintegration. As a Red River M茅tis person, Tetrault is dedicated to working alongside community members and practitioners to improve cultural supports for justice-involved Indigenous people.

Jozina Vander Klok, Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Jozina Vander Klok is a field linguist whose research investigates the cross-linguistic articulation of syntax and semantics, especially on the extended verb phrase, which includes phenomena like TAM (tense-aspect-modal) markers and applicative constructions. Vander Klok draws primarily on empirical insights from Javanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family spoken by about 70 million people in Indonesia. She has been conducting fieldwork in Indonesia since 2010, focusing on the varieties spoken in Yogyakarta and Semarang, Central Java, and Paciran, East Java. Vander Klok is teaching Field Methods in Linguistics this fall, in which students elicit, transcribe, organize and analyze linguistic data collected from a native speaker of an unfamiliar, understudied and often unwritten language.

Sally Xie, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Sally Xie earned her PhD in experimental psychology as a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Fellow at McGill University. She is fascinated by the flexibility of human thinking, reasoning, and feeling as we experience our dynamic social world. Research methods she uses include behavioral experiments, longitudinal experience-sampling, 鈥渂ig data鈥� archival analysis, narrative analysis, and computational modeling to study how people form mental models of others and themselves. Driven by the belief that understanding where our ideas come from can help us shape how they鈥檙e formed, her work aims to address collective problems and bridge ideological divides.

Mark Deggan, Assistant Professor, World Languages and Literatures

Mark Deggan鈥檚 teaching embraces an interdisciplinary ecocritical approach to the themes and aesthetics of world literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter. He has published broadly on the contestations of late-romanticist and modernist literary and cinematic cultures, with focus on East/West encounters. Like his research interests, his course materials continue to be inflected by previous careers in the visual and performing arts.

Mark Nazemi, Senior Lecturer, School of Interactive Art and Technology

Mark Nazemi is a creative technologist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores spatial audio, immersive technologies, and neuroarts to support nervous system regulation and human flourishing. He is also the co-founder of Sensorium Health, an immersive wellness studio that integrates spatial audio, biofeedback, and 360掳 projection to create restorative multisensory experiences crafted for deep human connection and calibrated for healing. His teaching philosophy emphasizes hands-on learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical making. By combining technical training with creative inquiry, Mark prepares students to thrive in the rapidly evolving fields of digital art, interactive media, and neuroaesthetics-driven design.

Palashi Vaghela, Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology

Palashi Vaghela previously held a President鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Diego and brings interdisciplinary training in computing, STS, anthropology, and feminist studies to her research and teaching. She contributes to venues such as ACM conferences and Catalyst, with work supported by Microsoft Research, SSRC, Mellon Foundation, and others. Her current book project examines caste and gender in the Indian computing industry through ethnographic and historical analysis, shaped by collaborations with anti-caste and Dalit communities.

Martin Fuchs, Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business

Martin Fuchs holds a PhD in Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research examines how inter-organizational collaborations鈥攑articularly among institutional investors鈥攃an promote corporate sustainability.

Anna Lukkarinen, Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business

Anna Lukkarinen earned her PhD from Aalto University in Finland, where she studied information and service management. Her research explores entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, equity crowdfunding, and the environmental impact of new ventures, with a focus on sustainability and access to capital.

Claudia Diaz-Diaz, Assistant Professor, Education

Before coming to SFU, Claudia Diaz-Diaz was an assistant professor in leadership studies at the University of Victoria. Her scholarship focuses on leadership, climate and gender justice in non-formal educational settings. Her current SSHRC-funded research project is titled Pedagogies for Climate and Gender Justice in collaboration with women water protectors in Chile.

Jose Domene, Associate Professor of Practice, Education

Jose Domene brings 20 years of experience as a counsellor-educator to his role as the incoming Clinic Director of 51社区黑料Surrey Community Counselling. His areas of research include the relational contexts of career development and professional issues in counselling and counselling psychology. He is also a registered psychologist in Alberta and BC.

Eric Guiry, Lecturer, Archaeology

Eric Guiry is a bioarchaeologist and biological anthropologist whose research integrates biomolecular techniques with zooarchaeology and historical ecology. His work explores human-animal relationships and environmental change across the Holocene, with a focus on colonial trade networks, domesticated landscapes, and coastal ecosystem transformations. He has conducted research in regions including the Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Baltic Sea, and northern Atlantic and Pacific coasts, often in collaboration with Indigenous communities and conservation programs.

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Assistant Professor, Resource & Environmental Management

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht鈥檚 research focuses on carbon and nutrient cycling through forests with the goal of improving climate change projections that inform climate policy and decision-making. She applies an interdisciplinary approach, integrating empirical observations and modelling. She works closely with the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and CLASSIC, the terrestrial biosphere component of the Canadian Earth System Model.

Casey Lee Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor, Archaeology

Casey Lee Kirkpatrick is a bioarchaeologist and biological anthropologist specializing in ancient health and disease, with a regional focus on Egypt. Her multidisciplinary research spans paleopathology, trauma, molecular analysis, and dental anthropology. She has contributed to studies on ancient cancers, dwarfism, and mass violence at Jebel Sahaba, and helped resolve debates on the origins of syphilis through ancient DNA analysis. She also leads the Preserving Theban Archaeological Heritage (PTAH) Project, which investigates social and environmental change during the decline of the pharaonic empire

Bryn Letham, Assistant Professor, Archaeology

Bryn Letham is an archaeologist originally from the interior of British Columbia, now based in Prince Rupert on the northern coast. His research focuses on human-environment interactions along the Northwest Coast, examining how long-term settlement histories and environmental changes shape and are shaped by social organization at the landscape level.

Mengxin Pan, Assistant Professor, Geography

Mengxin Pan earned her PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021 and completed a postdoctoral appointment in the Division of Earth and Climate Science at Duke University鈥檚 Nicholas School of the Environment. Her research integrates advanced data mining techniques with climate dynamics to address real-world challenges. She focuses on two interconnected areas: advancing scientific understanding of climate and weather extremes鈥攑articularly atmospheric rivers鈥攁nd bridging physical and social dimensions in responding to climate change.

Sarah Rosengard, Lecturer, Environmental Science

Sarah Rosengard earned her PhD in ocean carbon cycling from MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and has worked with organizations such as the Arctic Eider Society and Teens Take on Climate to connect research with community engagement. Previously a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rosengard studied the geochemistry of the Chicago River and the role of art in environmental education.

Kyle Burrows, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences

Kyle Burrows received his PhD in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. His doctoral work identified a novel mechanism by which the micronutrient vitamin A, through transcriptional control, regulates gut-resident T cells and innate lymphoid cells (ILCs). Following his PhD, Burrows completed postdoctoral research in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. 

Milad Parpouchi, Continuing Lecturer, Health Sciences

Milad Parpouchi earned a doctorate in health sciences specializing in mental health and addiction recovery. Dr. Parpouchi has received numerous awards and distinctions for his work addressing the health and human rights of marginalized populations, and he is a former Canadian Institutes of Health Research doctoral scholar and a Trudeau Foundation scholar. His research is focused on health and social interventions that support recovery for individuals facing addiction, mental illness, and homelessness.

, Lecturer, Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology

Liane Jean is a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, where she will be instructing courses centered around applied exercise. Jean鈥檚 teaching style focuses on creating a welcoming environment where students can actively engage with the material. She hopes that this will help students understand the purpose, reasoning and science behind exercise to create more functional and appropriate programs and ultimately increase buy-in and motivation from clients and patients.  

Danielle Wills, Lecturer, Mathematics

Danielle Wills earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Durham University, UK, in 2015, where her research explored connections between cosmological phenomena and string theory. After moving to Canada, she followed her passion for teaching and, in 2021, received a Teaching Excellence Award. A gift of her journey as an educator in Canada was that it led her to work with Indigenous students, a path that soon became a central focus of her teaching practice. Her approach to teaching is always guided by the heart, and her goal is to create a learning space that is firmly rooted in inclusivity, anti-racism, respect, trust and connection.

, Division Head, Library

Abeer Siddiqui holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia, along with a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics and a BA in English & Cultural Studies from McMaster University. Since 2016, she has worked at McMaster University as the STEM Teaching and Learning Librarian and served as an adjunct lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Science, while also teaching in the Health Sciences and Life Sciences programs.