Alumni Profiles

U of T Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) alumni continue their Alma Mater's tradition of excellence wherever they go. Meet some of our most innovative materials engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry leaders below.

• MSE = Materials Science & Engineering (alumni who graduated in 2001 and later)
• MMS = Metallurgy & Materials Science (alumni who graduated prior to 2001)

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Entrepreneurs

Michael G. Helander | MSE PhD 1T2 President, OTI Lumionics		Ibraheem Khan | MSE 0T5 President & CEO, Smarter Alloys
Gino Palumbo | MMS 8T3, MASc 8T5, PhD 8T9 President & CEO, Integran Technologies Inc		Shawn Xiaohua Qu | MMS PhD 9T5 Chairman, President & CEO, Canadian Solar Inc

Materials Processing, Metallurgy & Mining

Kirk Holz | MSE 0T5+PEY Senior Process Engineer, Vale Canada		Betty Lin | MSE 0T3, MASc 0T5 Lead Engineer & Project Manager, Backfill Systems Group, Hatch
Adam Roop | MSE 0T1+PEY President & General Manager, H. C. Starck Canada		Evelyn K. Ng | 0T4 + PEY, MASc 0T6, PhD 1T2 Subject Matter Expert, Materials & Corrosion Group Engineer, Callidus Group

Nathan Stubina | MMS PhD 8T8 VP Technology, Sherrit International Corporation

Bruce Barker | MMS 8T3, MASc 8T5 Director, Global Resource Recovery, Harsco Environmental

Academia

 

Donald R. Sadoway | MMS MASc 7T3, PhD 7T7 John F. Elliot Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT

David S. Wilkinson | MMS MASc 7T4 Provost & Vice-President, Academic, McMaster University

Finance

 

Nicole Martin | MMS 7T9 Sr. Director, Corporate Ratings Group (Utilities), Standard & Poor's

Jacqueline Przybylowski | MSE 0T1, MEng 0T5 VP and Metals & Mining Analyst, Desjardins Capital Markets

Law

 

Matthew Graff | MMS 0T0 Associate, Patent & Trademark Agent, Bereskin & Parr LLP

Robert B. Storey | MMS 7T7 Managing Partner, Bereskin & Parr LLPs

Manufacturing

 

Jacqueline Lim | MSE 0T7 OEM Sales Engineer, NSK Limited

Diana Mollicone | MSE 1T0 Applications Engineer, IPEX USA LLCs

Ante Lausic | EngSci 1T0 and MSE PhD 1T6 Sr. Process Engineer, General Motors (GM)

Colleen Fenrich | MSE 1T2 R&D Engineer, PsiQuantum

 

Medicine

 

Varuna Prakash | MSE 0T8
Doctor of Medicine (MD) student, University of Toronto

Clean Technologies

 

Ryan Gilliam | MSE 0T4, PhD 0T8 Chief Executive Officer, Chemetry & Calera Corporation

Phil De Luna | PhD 1T8 Director, National Research Council, Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program

Electronic Materials

 

Dwayne R. Shirley | MSE 0T1, MASc 0T3, PhD 0T9 Senior Engineer, Advanced Packaging, Qualcomm

Energy

 

Josie Barbato | MSE MASc 0T9 Technical Engineer, Ontario Power Generation (OPG)

Harish Iyer | MSE 1T1 Product Manager, Seal For Life Industries

Alex Di llio | MSE BASc 1T2+PEYProject Advisor, Application Policy & Conservation, Applications, Ontario Energy Board

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

 

Andrew Forde | MSE 1T1, IndE PhD 2T0 Partner & Global Lead, Strategy & Data Science, CGI Inc.