Current Research

Technology Transfer Projects

• Applied Research in Dynamic Risk Analytics Using Machine Learning (2021 – 2022)
• A Novel Consumer’s Behavior Analysis Platform to Enhance Customer Engagement (2021 – 2022)
• MIP-Based Sensing Technology for Emerging Water Contaminants (2020 – 2022)
• Translational R&D of a Water Treatment Technology for Emerging Contaminants of Concern (2020 – 2024)
• Dysbiosis Correction by NBI Gut Check Report—Balance the Healthy Bacteria (2020 – 2021)
• Reducing Waste in Seafood Supply Chains to Increase Sustainability (2020 – 2021)
• Simplifying the Chemistry of Cosmetics for Public Use (2020 – 2021)
• Employers’ Expectations of Technological Proficiency Levels of University Business Graduates (2019 – 2020)
• Nanoclay-Based Antimicrobial Coatings and Additives (2018 – 2020)
• Generation of a Business Model to Help Address Food and Nutrition Security in the Baie Verte Peninsula (2018 – 2019)
• Development of Improved Asphalt Mixture for the City of St. John’s: A Memorial University – City of St. John’s Joint Study (2019 – 2022)
• MIP-Based Technology for Water Quality Monitoring (2017 – 2019)

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Projects

• Identifying the Factors of Successful University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (2020 – 2021)
• Evolution of the Effect of the University’s Environment & Support System in Shaping Entrepreneurial Intention of Students: A Bayesian Approach (2020 – 2021)
• Analyzing the Effect of Entrepreneurship Education (2021 – 2022)
• Effect of Gender Role Identity in the Entrepreneurial Intention of Students (2019 – 2020)
• Effect of the University’s Environment & Support System in the Entrepreneurial Intention of Female Students (2019 – 2020)
• Effect of the University on the Social Entrepreneurial Intention of Male and Female Students (2018 – 2019)
• The Impact of Business Intelligence through Knowledge Management (2018 – 2019)
• Effect of the Entrepreneurial Orientation of the University on the Entrepreneurial Propensity of Academics (2019 – 2021)
• A Methodology for Assessing the Effect of the University’s Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Academic’s Entrepreneurial Propensity (2018 – 2020)
• Effect of the University’s Environment & Support System in Shaping Entrepreneurial Intention of Students (2017 – 2018)
• A Student’s Guide to Memorial University’s Start-up Ecosystem and Beyond—With Real Life Examples on How to Navigate It (2018 – 2020)
• Translational R&D Model and Methodology: “From Lab Bench to Store Shelves” (2017 – 2018)
• Intellectual Property Management Methodology (Research Project Level) (2017)

Prior Research

• Image Processing Techniques for the Assessment of Contractile Responses in Cardiac Myocytes
  Postdoctoral research with Prof. Paul Paolini, Rees-Stealy Research Foundation Laboratory, San Diego CA (07-2008 – 09-2013)

• PDE-Based Image and Structure Enhancement for Electron Tomography of Mitochondria
  Doctoral research with Prof. Peter Blomgren, San Diego State University, San Diego CA (09-2003 – 05-2009)