Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Headshot of Deborah Powell

Deborah Powell

My research focuses mainly on personnel selection, with an emphasis on finding valid and fair methods of hiring the best employees. Most recently, I have investigated employment interviews as a promising approach to measuring personality in job applicants. My research also...

Email: dpowell@uoguelph.ca

University of Guelph Biotechnology Professor Andrew Hamilton-Wright

Andrew Hamilton-Wright

We look at interesting data problems with real-world impact.​

Email: andrew.hamilton-wright@uoguelph.c

Portrait of Dr. Olga Smoliak

Olga Smoliak

I examine professional interactions in the context of therapy. I use discourse and conversation analysis to study the micro-details of social interaction.

Portrait of Dr. Marcel Schlaf

Marcel Schlaf

The ultimate goal of our research is to develop technology that helps to enable a shift of our carbon resource from fossil non-renewables (crude oil, natural gas and coal) to renewable biomass in form of agricultural and forestry byproducts such as corn stover, straws, wood chips and bark, etc.

Email: mschlaf@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Professor Fei Song

Fei Song

Statistical natural language processing has been actively studied in the field of Artificial Intelligence. My research is mainly focused on applying machine learning methods in Information Retrieval, Text Categorization, Sentiment Analysis, Text Segmentation, Text Summarization, Privacy Policy Analysis, and Text Mining.

Email: fsong@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of professor Leith Deacon

Leith Deacon

The central research goal of my research is to examine the concept of resiliency and sustainability within the context of resource-based communities to address the often problematic relationship(s) between resource reliance, community well-being, and adaptive capacity.

Email: Leith.Deacon@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. C. Megan McMurtry

C. Meghan McMurtry

My ultimate goal is to improve understanding of the complex interplay of factors that impact children’s pain and health to identify best practices for intervention.

Portrait of Dr. Judith Koenig

Judith Koenig

I am exploring various areas of tissue healing with an emphasis on modalities that improve tissue healing.

Email: jkoenig@uoguelph.ca