Faculty of Engineering, Friday, June 12, 2015, 2:30 pm

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Faculty of Engineering, Friday, June 12, 2015, 2:30 pm
ORDER OF EXERCISES
Musical Prelude
The Graduand Procession
The Academic Procession
The Chancellor’s Procession
C
Five hundred
and forty-seven
for conferring degrees
The Provost's Welcome
Dr. David Wilkinson
The Chancellor’s Welcome
Dr. Suzanne B. Labarge
The Conferring of the Degree Doctor of Science
honoris causa on P. Thomas Jenkins
Citation: Dr. Patrick Deane
The Convocation Address
Dr. P. Thomas Jenkins
Presiding
Chancellor
Suzanne B. Labarge
B.A., M.B.A., D.Litt. (Hon.)
President and Vice-Chancellor
Patrick Deane
B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D.
The Conferring of Degrees In-Course
Musical Interlude
The Presentation of the Graduates
The Valedictory Address
Sam Virtue
Awards of the 2014-2015 Session
The Alumni Address
McMaster Alumni Association
The President’s Address
Dr. Patrick Deane
Announcements
The National Anthem
Convocation ceremonies will be recorded, broadcasted live and archived at http://registrar.mcmaster.ca/grad
Follow @McMasterConvo on Twitter and tweet with #MacGrad2015
The President’s academic regalia is a gift of the McMaster University Alumni Association.
The Convocation Music Supervisor...................................... Arlene Wright (Piano)
Convocation Trumpeters....................................................... Bob Grim and Valerie Cowie
Piper...................................................................................... Jamie Connolly
Vocalist................................................................................. Emily Rebekah Taub
Immediately following Convocation, graduates and their guests are invited for a reception in Hamilton Convention Centre, Wentworth Room C.
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 1
THE RITUALS OF CONVOCATION
The procession of the graduands in plain black gowns and of faculty and officers of the University in
colourful and varied regalia; the blue-robed Bedel with his ornate silver Mace; the conferring of degrees
by the Chancellor; these are among the rituals of Convocation that stand in a tradition that has a history
of more than 700 years.
McMASTER UNIVERSITY:
The University’s Mace is carried to and from the Convocation
platform by the University Bedel and during the ceremony is
splendidly displayed on the Mace Table, resting on a velvet
cushion. The cushion is maroon with a piping of grey, the
McMaster colours. The Mace symbolizes the authority of the
University Senate to confer degrees, this authority being exercised
by the Chancellor.
1892 – 1895 Theodore H. Rand
Bedels were functionaries and maces were weapons hundreds of
years before universities emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries.
So it is that McMaster’s Bedel carries the University Mace directly
in front of the Chancellor, symbolically to protect her.
CHANCELLORS
1887 – 1890 Malcolm Mac Vicar
1895 – 1905 Oates C. S. Wallace
1905 – 1911 Alexander C. McKay
1911 – 1922 Abraham L. McCrimmon
1922 – 1941 Howard P. Whidden
The University
Mace was a gift
in 1950 from the
class of 1900
1941 – 1950 George P. Gilmour
1950 – 1955 E. Carey Fox
1955 – 1960 Roy L. Kellock
1960 – 1965 Charles P. Fell
The Chancellor sits on a massive oak ceremonial chair that bears
a carved representation of an early version of the University Seal.
She requests that members of the graduating classes rise from
their seats and then admits them to their respective degrees.
The graduating classes are then invited to join the Chancellor on
stage. Once a graduate’s name is called, they are hooded facing
the audience, and then are congratulated and welcomed to the
community of scholars by the Chancellor and President.
1965 – 1971 D. Argue C. Martin
1971 – 1977 Lawrence T. Pennell
1977 – 1986 H. Allan B. Leal
1986 – 1992 John H. Panabaker
1992 – 1998 James H. Taylor
1998 – 2007 Melvin M. Hawkrigg
The academic hood is symbolic of admission to a university degree
and carries colours specific to a particular degree. It is derived
from clothing worn in medieval times, when a hood was similar to
that of a modern parka and served the same purpose of protection
in inclement weather. The hood that the Registrar or pro-Registrar
deftly puts over a graduand’s head is a link to the dress of students
of at least seven centuries ago.
The backdrop to the Convocation platform displays McMaster’s Coat of Arms. The symbol of the stag and
tree, constituting the crest of these Arms, was the personal emblem of Senator William McMaster, whose
munificent benefaction made possible the founding of the University in 1887. Handcrafted by Dorothy
Gregson and Margaret Wallace, this banner celebrated 30 years of service at McMaster Convocation
ceremonies in 2014.
The President of the University attends Convocation but it is the Chancellor, the titular head of the
University, who presides over this ancient ceremonial. Her seniority is indicated by her robe being more
elegant than the President’s. The President relieves the Chancellor of making announcements, may
present an honorary graduand for his or her degree and, as Vice-Chancellor, confers degrees when the
Chancellor is unable to do so.
2007 – 2013 Lynton R. Wilson
2013 –
Suzanne B. Labarge
PRESIDENTS
1949 – 1961 George P. Gilmour
1961 – 1972 Henry G. Thode
1972 – 1980 Arthur N. Bourns
1980 – 1990 Alvin A. Lee
1990 – 1995 Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace
1995 – 2010 Peter J. George
2010 –
Patrick Deane
A Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Bedel and Registrar share with a seal, mace, colours, robes and coat of
arms a history of hundreds of years of association with universities. Each of these traditional inheritances
is a part of McMaster University and all of them come together on the platform of its Convocations.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Convocation is an exciting time in the calendar of any university; a time to celebrate achievement, to reflect
on the past, and to anticipate the future and the path that lies ahead. It also represents a time of liberation,
the ending of one phase of life and a last, symbolic statement of the discipline to which students have been
required to submit themselves throughout their studies.
While it is impossible at such events not to celebrate the infinite promise of individual lives, it is important
to be aware of the communal significance of convocation. In the ancient English universities, convocation
was the legislative body that oversaw operations of the institution, and to be admitted to a degree was to be
admitted to membership. By extension, therefore, convocation was a reaffirmation of not an individual but a
joint enterprise.
Students today have learned the importance of collaboration and partnership, and more than ever understand
that the future health, prosperity and cultural vitality of our society depends upon our ability to cooperate,
to act together, and to learn from one another. My fervent hope is that graduating students will see their
convocation not as an end of growing together, but rather as an opportunity for deepening that process. As
alumni they will have many opportunities to renew existing partnerships, and they will be well prepared to
forge new ones in the greater community beyond our own.
Personal fulfillment through community: this is indeed one of the longstanding paradoxes of university life, but
it is surely also a sound principle for us all to pursue in the world at large. In wishing today’s graduating students
good luck, I feel great confidence in our joint future and great anticipation of everything that, collectively, they
will achieve.
Patrick Deane
President and Vice-Chancellor
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GREETINGS
On behalf of your fellow McMaster alumni, I offer you sincere congratulations for having successfully earned
your degree. In addition to growing through the challenges of obtaining your formal education, I hope you have
taken full advantage of everything McMaster has to offer outside the walls of the classroom.
As an alumnus or alumna you are entering a new phase in your relationship with McMaster. Graduation is
merely a milestone in your life-long association with our University. As alumni, you can play a continuing role
as supporters of McMaster’s excellence by sharing your time, expertise, and enthusiasm with your alma mater.
As your Alumni Association, we are committed to providing you with many opportunities to maintain and grow
your links with McMaster. McMaster’s alumni network, events, offerings, experiences, and programs will be
great resources in your post-degree endeavours. I welcome you to the next step in a rewarding and dynamic
relationship with our world-class university.
Sandra Stephenson ‘78
President, McMaster Alumni Association
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 3
SUZANNE B. LABARGE
Chancellor, McMaster University
After earning her BA in Economics from McMaster and an MBA from Harvard
Business School, Suzanne Labarge joined the Royal Bank in 1971. She became an
executive officer eight years later. In 1985, she left the private sector to become
assistant auditor-general for the Government of Canada. In that capacity, she
made notable advances in the field of government risk management and served as
a member of the BIS Committee for Bank Supervision during the time it finalized
the Basel I regulatory capital regime. She joined the Office of the Superintendent
of Financial Institutions Canada in 1987 as deputy superintendent, policy. She also
served as deputy superintendent, deposit-taking institutions.
Labarge returned to Royal Bank in 1995 as executive vice-president, corporate
treasury and assumed global responsibility for balance sheet management,
funding, liquidity and market risk management. She retired as chief risk officer
and vice-chairman of RBC Financial Group in 2004.
An active corporate director, Labarge is a member of the board of directors and
chair of the audit committee of Coca-Cola Enterprises, a member of the supervisory
board and risk committee of Deutsche Bank and a member of the Board of XL
Group Plc. Previously, she has been a director and chair of the audit committee of
Novelis Inc. and a member of the board of the Bank of China, Beijing. Labarge is
also an engaged volunteer, particularly at McMaster where she has served on the
University’s Board of Governors and the cabinet of The Campaign for McMaster
University. Her McMaster-based philanthropy created the Raymond and Margaret
Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging as well
as the multi-faceted Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative. She is also a director of the
Ontario Brain Institute.
McMaster granted Labarge an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2011. She began her
service as the University’s chancellor on September 1, 2013.
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PRESENTERS OF DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, AND CERTIFICATES
Dr. Ishwar Puri
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Kenneth Coley
Associate Dean (Academic),
Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Michael Thompson
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
(Engineering)
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Xiaojun Liang
Thesis:
Analysis and Compensation of Nonlinear Impairments in FiberOptic Communication Systems
Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Medra
Thesis:
Linear Precoding in Wireless Networks with Channel State
Information Feedback
Reza Pournaghi
Thesis:
Coded Acquisition of High Speed Videos with Multiple Cam
Collection
Kenneth Leung
Thesis:
Effect of Flow Blockages on Interfacial Area in Two-Phase Flows
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Hamedhossein Afshari
Thesis:
The 2nd-Order Smooth Variable Structure Filter (2nd-SVSF) for
State Estimation: Theory and Applications
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Jason Anthony Jaskolka
Thesis:
On the Modelling, Analysis, and Mitigation of Distributed
Covert Channels
ENGINEERING PHYSICS
Jason John Ackert
Thesis:
High-Speed Silicon Detector Structures for Photonic Integrated
Circuits
Sandra Jean Gibson
Thesis:
Ga-Assisted Nanowire Growth on Nano-Patterned Silicon
Lucian Mircea Patcas
Thesis:
Implementability of Requirements for Safety-Critical Embedded
Systems
Morteza Yousef-Sanati
Thesis:
A Metric Interval-based Temporal Description Logic
MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Qiudi Ding
Kavya Prabha Divakarla
Zeyu Hu
Taralyn Schwering
Yuxiang Shen
ENGINEERING PHYSICS
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Fouad Ramzi Hejazi
Edilson Nogueira Jacinto
Peihai Li
Salma Mahzooni
Michael Scriven
Alexander Shlomo Shneider
Teng Guo
Yakoob Hana
Xiang Hu
Mahmoud Ahmed Ali Ismail
Buddy Joseph Ledger
Mohamed M. Mohamed Omar
Kai Yang
Alex Yip
Aaron Zaretsky
Behzad Akbari
Monika Bialy
Sasan Vakili
Mattias van de Hoef
Marvin Zuzarte
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 5
MASTER OF ENGINEERING
ADVANCED DESIGN
AND MANUFACTURING
INSTITUTE
Yao Ding
Daniel Alexander Matzeg
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Xiaoxiao Ma
Sayed Salman Qaiser
ELECTRICAL AND
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Neda Abagherymahabady
Imad Al-Omeri
Claudio Esteban Angius
Gurbir Antaal
Osama Ahmed Aziz
Haris Bilal
Matthew Howard Cott
Saswati Das
Thayalan Gnanasoundram
Astrik Golendukhin
Babita Jaura
Vishwindera Singh Kailey
Omid Kheirollahi
Ji Gang Li
Niharika Mittal
Mohammad Irshaad Oozeer
Devin Lawrence Packer
Dip Patel
Irina Reznikova
Maria Daniela Sandoval
Jasmine Shant
Bhavin Shukla
Dilpreet Singh Sidhu
Hardeepkumar Solanki
Zhuxi Sun
John Kabemba Tshimbalanga
Yan Wang
Krystien Wolff
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Mohamed Nabil AbouElNaga
Merhawit Berhane Habte
Ye Li
UNIVERSITY NETWORK OF
EXCELLENCE IN NUCLEAR
ENGINEERING
Vladimir Liviu Costiuc
Sharon Kaufman
Yunkon Kim
Danielle Major-Carriere
Charles Derek Malcolm
Vikram Sharma
Dinesh Kumar Singh
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
★Richard Andrew Bartens......................Mechanical
★Matthew Mitra Boodoo.......................Mechanical
Harmanpreet Singh Brar........ Engineering Physics
Brandon Vincent Cantwell...................Mechanical
★Taylor Andrew Chapman......................Mechanical
★Daniel Conrad Chaput...................... Mechatronics
Zhe Chen..................................................Electrical
Nicholas Paul Cianflone................... Mechatronics
★Joseph Daniel Maxim Cirtwill.............Mechanical
★Adam Dorlan Dickson............ Engineering Physics
★Clement Julian Emmanuel............... Mechatronics
★Omar Enan............................................Mechanical
★Peter Eng..................................................Software
Michael Frassetto................................Mechanical
Jeffery Charles Freeman......................Mechanical
Adam Fry..............................................Mechanical
Cameron Martin Galipeau...................Mechanical
Ammar Hakim..........................................Electrical
Neal Henry...............................................Electrical
Don Dinesh Hettiarachchi....................Mechanical
★Derek Man-Jun Ho...............................Mechanical
Tony Huynh..............................................Computer
★Muhammad Jamil................................Mechanical
Asim Kamran........................................Mechanical
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Mahmoud Khattab................. Engineering Physics
John Mathew Kuruvilla.......................Mechanical
Eric Labrie............................................Mechanical
★Joy Lama..............................................Mechanical
Zachary Lanoue....................................Mechanical
★Matthew Sheldon Legacy....................Mechanical
★Haoding Li................................................Electrical
★Ryan Martin.............................................Software
Zackary Kenneth Marych....... Engineering Physics
Gurpreet Singh Matharu......................Mechanical
Cameron McCullough..............................Electrical
Sumit Mistry............................................Electrical
Shayan Mukhtar.......................................Electrical
John Matthew Murphy........................Mechanical
Tareq Nabil Nassar..............................Mechanical
Shawn Craig Neely..............................Mechanical
★Jeff Ong........................................... Mechatronics
Lloyd Gladden Pinto.............................Mechanical
Nazim Mohammad Quasimuddin............Electrical
Jonathan Rajasingam..........................Mechanical
Burkeley John Ramsay.........................Mechanical
★Muzamil Mohammad Rashid...................Electrical
★Michael William Reid..........................Mechanical
★Paul Richard Ricciuti............................Mechanical
Benjamin David Riddell........................Mechanical
★Mitchell Rohrer....................................Mechanical
Faisal Dahir Said..................................Mechanical
★Joshua Sammut.......................................Electrical
★Joshua Segeren............................... Mechatronics
★Mark Shanks............................................Electrical
Shoaib Mohammed Shariff......................Electrical
Mandeep Singh Sidhu.............................Electrical
Joshua Alexander Simon....... Engineering Physics
(Minor in Economics)
★Harjot Singh Sirpal...................................Electrical
Alexander Small...................................Mechanical
★Alejandro Soto.........................................Software
Marko Spasojevic................................Mechanical
Kyle Robert Stott.................... Engineering Physics
Kaichen Su...............................................Electrical
★Edward Vincent Sullivan..........................Software
(Minor in Japanese Studies)
Michael Tiberio....................................Mechanical
Robert John Van Gemeren..... Engineering Physics
★Paul Jonathan Vanoostveen................Mechanical
Ross Clark Willett....................................Electrical
Scott Edward Yurek..............................Mechanical
Xiao Xu Zheng..........................................Electrical
Faculty of Engineering
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING & SOCIETY
Doreen Abraham.............................. Mechatronics
(Minor in Music)
Dustin Carl Cowan...................................Electrical
Ian Alexander Currie................................Software
Benjamin Willem Debruyne.....................Electrical
(Minor in Business)
Abbey Marie Desjarlais...........................Electrical
(Minor in Business)
Elizabeth Barrett Hodgson...................Mechanical
(Minor in French)
Jennifer Maxine Hutt...............................Software
Paula Leigh MacDonald.......................Mechanical
Daniel James Perlman............................Computer
Marcus Daniel Secor............. Engineering Physics
Fraser John Taylor................................Mechanical
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
Yasaman Abdolmaleki.............................Software
★Esam Abdulsatar......................................Electrical
★Trevor Louis Ablett........................... Mechatronics
Muhammad Esaad Afaque......................Electrical
Faisal Raees Ahmed................................Software
★Nima Akhbari................................... Mechatronics
Mohammad A. Al Faiyaz..........................Software
Mohammad Al Shadfan.......................Mechanical
Sufyan Al-Amad......................................Computer
Yaser Al-Saad...................Electrical & Biomedical
Nahar Aboud Alamoudi...........................Electrical
Hussam Abdulrahman Albulushi.............Software
Scott Timothy Allen..............................Mechanical
Naeem Ally..............................................Electrical
Dinu Kalana Amarasinghe.......................Electrical
★Daniel Andronache................ Engineering Physics
Daniel Arias Bohorquez...........................Software
★Amir Bin Ariffin........................................Software
Amro Hani Atiyeh.....................................Electrical
Tyler Christopher Atkin.............................Software
Emily Au.........................Electrical and Biomedical
★Zi Hao Bai.................................................Electrical
★Nicholas Graham Bandiera..................Mechanical
Joshua Barkovic.......................................Software
Kurtis Berg...........................................Mechanical
Danish Aftab Bhatti.................................Electrical
Roshaan Hafeez Bhatti.................... Mechatronics
★Shray Bheda.........................................Mechanical
★Shivam Bhojak.........................................Electrical
Kulwinder Singh Billen............................Software
Kendall Boniface.................... Engineering Physics
Sahiti Reddy Bonthu................................Software
★Alan David Bot....................... Engineering Physics
★Michael Ryan Bot.....................................Electrical
★Joseph Robert Boudreau....... Engineering Physics
★Jeffrey Charles Boughton.......................Computer
Bartosz Brewinski....................................Software
★Austin Brown......................... Engineering Physics
Keely Brown.............................................Software
★Graeme Henry Aitken Browning..............Software
Adam Bysice............................................Software
Jordan Matthew Cabral...........................Electrical
Bradley Stephen Callaghan.................Mechanical
Melike Candemir...............Electrical & Biomedical
Jun Cao....................................................Electrical
★Nathan Shane Chadder............................Software
Gareth Shui-Yun Chan.......Electrical & Biomedical
Angad Channa......................................Mechanical
Ann Chazhoor................................... Mechatronics
Jiapeng Chen...........................................Software
★Jingnan Chen...........................................Electrical
Kuanyun Chen..........................................Software
Liangdong Chen...................................Mechanical
Xiao Chen.............................................Mechanical
Zheng Xia Chen........................................Electrical
★Shaun Chiasson...................................Mechanical
★Moagi Karabo Chimidza................... Mechatronics
Wilfred Yau-Chuen Cho....................Electrical and
Biomedical
Jonathan Alexander Chong.....................Electrical
★Devyn Estevez Clement........................Mechanical
Graeme Cliffe...........................................Software
Sarah Elaine Core....................................Electrical
Kurt William Crawford........... Engineering Physics
Nathan Richard Cutler.............................Software
Gagandeep Dhamrait...............................Electrical
★Yinghao Ding............................................Electrical
John Donnan........................................Mechanical
Tyler Symen John Doodeman............. Engineering
Physics
Mitchell William George Doughty.......Electrical &
Biomedical
Alexander Ranko Dragojlov.................Mechanical
Daniel Ebere.........................................Mechanical
★Rachel Lynn Eddy..............Electrical & Biomedical
Ahmed Eleish....................Electrical & Biomedical
Ahmed Mahmoud Elmeligi Rateb.....Electrical and
Biomedical
David Adam Erdos..........Electrical and Biomedical
★Avery Matthew Facca..........................Mechanical
Ashton Savio Fernandes.................. Mechatronics
Maureen Fitzpatrick............... Engineering Physics
Matthew Arthur Fluder............................Software
Nicholas Christopher Ford.......................Software
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Paul Albert George Fossenier..............Mechanical
★Joshua David Friedland....Electrical & Biomedical
Gregory Paul Gabourie.........................Mechanical
★Rebecca Gagnon...............Electrical & Biomedical
Nancy Gerges................................... Mechatronics
★Gurbhej Singh Gill............................ Mechatronics
★Karl Good.................................................Software
Yajurvin Govindraj.................. Engineering Physics
Samuel Bernd Habicht..................... Mechatronics
★Mujda Hakime...................Electrical & Biomedical
★Alexander Halliwushka............................Software
John Hanna..............................................Electrical
Ismail Hegazi.....................Electrical & Biomedical
Sameh Helmy.......................................Mechanical
Janelle Hinds.................Electrical and Biomedical
Salma Hindy...................Electrical and Biomedical
★Michael Ross Hissink...........................Mechanical
Andrew Hoang.........................................Electrical
Simon William Holden........... Engineering Physics
★Christopher William Hollingshead...... Engineering
Physics
Gregory Hong.................Electrical and Biomedical
(Minor in Music)
★Jian Qi Huang..........................................Electrical
Jonathan Huber............................... Mechatronics
Patrick Hung.............................................Electrical
Khanh Huynh...........................................Computer
Fady Ibrahim.............................................Electrical
(Minor in Economics)
Ali Idrees..................................................Electrical
Benjamin Isherwood................................Software
Marcus David Jacob........................ Mechatronics
Jonathan Andrew Janosi.........................Software
Michael Patrick Jansen...........................Software
Vighram Jogarasan.......................... Mechatronics
Erik Johanson...........................................Software
Keshav Vinay Joshi..................................Electrical
Alina Kaas............................................Mechanical
(Minor in Linguistics)
Pratham Kapoor...................................Mechanical
Jasoth Kathirgamanathan..... Engineering Physics
Monthusi Keabetswe....................... Mechatronics
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (CONTINUED…)
Piriyatharsan Kengkarasa.......................Computer
★Fahmi Khairul Azmi..............................Mechanical
★Ahmed Khan.............................................Electrical
Muhammad Wasif Khan......................Mechanical
Usman Ali Khan...................................Mechanical
Young-Min Kim...................... Engineering Physics
★Benjamin Gerald Kinsella.................Electrical and
Biomedical
Michael Naseem Kirolos.........................Electrical
Monica Kochofar......................................Software
Daniel Kokoszka.......................................Electrical
George Koranteng-Asante............... Mechatronics
Gopal Krishnan.........................................Software
Mukund Kumar.....................................Mechanical
Janarth Kumaresan..................................Software
Raminder Labana.....................................Software
Eric Raymond Labelle...........................Mechanical
Amando Jose Mangahas Lacsamana.....Computer
Nilay Lad..................................................Electrical
Thomas William Langille....... Engineering Physics
Wesley Kwokleung Lau............................Software
Zachary Ethan Lau............................ Mechatronics
Vincent Dan Le.........................................Software
Andy Lee..................................................Electrical
Sang Yeob Lee.........................................Electrical
Gilbert Yiu Loen Leung............................Computer
Wesley Leung................................... Mechatronics
Haoyu Li...................................................Electrical
★Jianglin Li.............................................Mechanical
Kevin Pui Wang Li....................................Software
★Xinyu Li.....................................................Electrical
Seung Gul Lim..........................................Electrical
Fred De Xiong Lin.....................................Electrical
★Hsiao-Hong Lin........................................Computer
Ivan Kah Liang Lin....................................Electrical
James Siu-Foo Lin....................................Software
Benjamin Christopher Linzel....................Software
Chang Liu......................................... Mechatronics
David Lobsinger......................................Computer
Daniel Perry Lochbihler.......... Engineering Physics
Eric Logeman.......................... Engineering Physics
John Louka...............................................Electrical
Sean Alexander Low................................Electrical
Ziyang Lu..................................................Electrical
(Minor in Economics)
Andrew Chandradatt Mahabal............Electrical &
Biomedical
Rachel Sylvia Mailach.............................Software
Purvil Majmudar.......................................Software
Paul Stanley Malcolm.......................Electrical and
Biomedical
Connor Michael Maloney....................Mechanical
Jack Ryan Marsh.................................Mechanical
★Michael Stephen Marshall.....................Computer
★Nurul Kamilah Mat Kamil.Electrical & Biomedical
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Jeffrey McKay......................................Mechanical
★Nabeela Merchant................. Engineering Physics
Ryan Sean Millward...............................Computer
★Nicholas Mio............................................Software
★Gregory William Misner......................Mechanical
Jack Edward Mitchell.............................Computer
Muhammad Irfan Mohamed Noordin..Mechanical
Thanus Mohanarajan...............................Software
Maano Moilwa........................................Electrical
Liam John Morrow...................................Electrical
(Minor in Business)
★Daniel Muirhead..................................Mechanical
Tyler J Munn........................................Mechanical
★Jason Michael Munro............ Engineering Physics
★Jordan Robert Dean Munroe........... Mechatronics
Nisshanth Navaratnam............................Electrical
Peter Willem Thomas Nearing........... Engineering
Physics
Matthew Gaetano Nero...........................Software
Alexander Jeremy Newton.....................Computer
Michael Minh Ngo...................................Software
David Nguyen.......................................Mechanical
Shane Ali Noormohamed.........................Software
Alejandro John Octubre..........................Computer
Jerry Oku..................................................Software
★Hebatalla Osman...........Electrical and Biomedical
Matthew Paine........................................Software
Meet Maheshkumar Pandya................Mechanical
(Minor in Business)
★Melissa Judith Parisi...........................Mechanical
Alexander Yesung Park........................Mechanical
Prerakkumar Patel....................................Electrical
Garrett Patriquin......................................Software
★Garik Gregory Patterson......... Engineering Physics
Warren Steven Pawlikowski....................Electrical
Brendan Robert Perusco......................Mechanical
(Minor in Business)
Sarkis Platis.........................................Mechanical
★Kabo Elliot Pule................................ Mechatronics
Rajiv Puri................................ Engineering Physics
David Richard Puttock..............................Electrical
Jim Anthony Rabaya................................Software
Abdus Rabbi.............................................Electrical
Bryan Ramoul...........................................Software
Aziz Rana........................Electrical and Biomedical
Thaksena Rangarajan....Electrical and Biomedical
Andrew Raudys........................................Software
Samuel Geoffrey Robert Rawson............Electrical
Didier Alain Launay Renault................Mechanical
★Selena Rikley...........................................Software
Jordan Daniel Robinson...........................Electrical
(Minor in Economics)
★Michael Rowinski............................ Mechatronics
Magy Salib........................Electrical & Biomedical
★Navjit Singh Sandhu......Electrical and Biomedical
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
Eric Robert Schoffro.................................Electrical
Matthew Schweitzer...............................Software
Monthusi Segau............................... Mechatronics
(Minor in Economics)
Keenan Sequeira.....................................Computer
Syed Asim Shah............................... Mechatronics
★Ammar Basir Shaikh............................Mechanical
Nan Shang..............................................Computer
Ravish Sharma.....................................Mechanical
Xianglu Shi...............................................Electrical
Brian James Shillingford.....................Mechanical
★Mohammad Sharif Siddiqui.................Mechanical
★Brendan Sim.............................................Software
Michael Jon Simion................................Computer
Renee Ho Sin Chee...........Electrical & Biomedical
Nathan Sinnathurai..................................Electrical
Purussoth Sivarajan......................... Mechatronics
★Evan Leighland Skeete.............................Software
Douglas Craig Sloggett............................Electrical
Mathew Henry Smith............. Engineering Physics
Sonny Solanki..........................................Electrical
Sagarkumar Soni.................... Engineering Physics
Taylor Richard Sorgini...................... Mechatronics
Taran Jose Sousa............................. Mechatronics
Michael David St. Germain......................Electrical
Justin William Staples.......... Engineering Physics
Kevin Stendzis......................................Mechanical
Kyle James Stewart.............................Mechanical
Zhemin Su................................................Electrical
Soorath Suliman...............Electrical & Biomedical
★Zhuoyu Sun..............................................Software
Ragavan Sundaran...................................Electrical
★Harsimran Singh Suppal......................Mechanical
★Wasi Syed............................................Mechanical
Maliha Tabassum............................. Mechatronics
Daniel Joseph Tadla............... Engineering Physics
★Daniel Tajik........................Electrical & Biomedical
★Chen Tang.................................................Electrical
Pirashath Thadchanamoorthy..................Electrical
(Minor in Economics)
Ryan Philip Thomas................ Engineering Physics
★Eric Thompson......................................Mechanical
★Hao Tian...................................................Electrical
Blayne William Roy Tilban.......................Software
Tanya Tipnis..........................................Mechanical
Miles Anthony Tjandrawidjaja................Software
Ali Toseef.............................................Mechanical
Chuan Pao Tran.......................................Computer
Adam Trela....................................... Mechatronics
Ho Yan Howin Tsui...................................Software
Brandon William Russell Tyler.............Electrical &
Biomedical
Rishaad Rusi Unvala............................Mechanical
Diego Valdivia..........................................Software
Benjamin Jacob Veerman....................Mechanical
Faculty of Engineering
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (CONTINUED…)
Ryan Albertus Veldhuizen................ Mechatronics
Garrett Vermey...............Electrical and Biomedical
Karun Vij.........................Electrical and Biomedical
★Samuel Virtue........................ Engineering Physics
Joshua Robert Gordon Wagstaff.............Electrical
Chang Kai Wang..................................Mechanical
Jiu Xin Wang...........................................Computer
★Li Wang....................................................Electrical
Minghao Wang....................................Mechanical
Xiao Wang................................................Electrical
Alexander Thomas White........................Software
★Dickson Yi On Wong.........Electrical & Biomedical
Kevin Wong..............................................Electrical
Thomas William Woudenberg.................Software
Siyao Xiao............................................Mechanical
★Mengying Xie...........................................Electrical
Yayun Xu..................................................Electrical
Amany Mohamed Yaakoub......................Electrical
Jinbin Yang..........................................Mechanical
★Tian Run Yang..........................................Electrical
Long Yao...............................................Mechanical
Yiyu Yao....................................................Software
★Dennis Yazhemsky............Electrical & Biomedical
Xiao Bo Yi.............................................Mechanical
Peng Hui You............................................Electrical
Brandon R Youmans......................... Mechatronics
★Simon Younan........................ Engineering Physics
Omid Allah Yousufi...................................Electrical
Chuan Yu................................ Engineering Physics
★Mingzhi Yu................................................Electrical
Vinay Yuvashankar........................... Mechatronics
★Alexander Zaranek...................................Software
MengXue Zeng.....................................Mechanical
Hangtian Zhan..........................................Software
Chao Zhang..............................................Electrical
Rex HaoYu Zhang.....................................Electrical
(Minor in Economics)
★Wei Zhang................................................Electrical
Runze Zhao...............................................Electrical
★Yukun Zhao...........................................Mechanical
★Cheng Zhou..............................................Electrical
★Yiliang Zhou.............................................Electrical
BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE
★Zahraa Abbas R. Alshammasi.................. Business
Informatics
Andrew Azores.......................... Computer Science
Noel Brett.................................. Computer Science
Brandon Michael Byskov.......... Computer Science
(Minor in Business)
Hanwen Cao.............................. Computer Science
Brandon Christian Da Silva...................... Business
Informatics
Kartikay Dani............................. Computer Science
★Gaurav Dawar........................... Computer Science
Justin Deschamp...................... Computer Science
(Minor in Mathematics)
Xuchao Ding.............................. Computer Science
David Hany Adel Elsonbaty....... Computer Science
(Minor in Business)
★Ashley General.......................... Computer Science
★Julian Glenesk......................Business Informatics
Dmytro Golubyev....................... Computer Science
Edward James Guloien............. Computer Science
Joy Evelyn Hopper................Business Informatics
Richard Ibanga.......................... Computer Science
Sasitha Piyasara Kaludeva....... Computer Science
Jazz John Adam Kersell............ Computer Science
(Minor in Mathematics)
Darren Kitamura........................ Computer Science
Michael Lawson........................ Computer Science
Manfred Li................................. Computer Science
Michael Adam Liut.................... Computer Science
Zaahir Ahmed Moolla...........Business Informatics
Emikele Emilia Oseni-Elamah.................. Business
Informatics
(Minor in Economics)
Barane Paramanathan.............. Computer Science
Pawel Paszko............................ Computer Science
★Natalie Perna............................ Computer Science
Herry Rigoroso.......................... Computer Science
Karol Julian Serkis.................... Computer Science
(Minor in Physics)
Aman Sharma........................... Computer Science
Atullya Singh............................. Computer Science
Kirisanth Subramaniam............ Computer Science
(Minor in Mathematics)
Humza Muhammed Tariq......Business Informatics
Amandeep Singh Uppal............ Computer Science
Pulkit Vij.................................... Computer Science
Ihejiamatu Chineme Wogu....... Computer Science
Ximeng Zhou............................. Computer Science
(Minor in Economics)
Matthew Zoratti....................Business Informatics
Names of graduands listed in this program are those recommended to Senate as of June 3, 2015. We regret that late additions to the graduation lists could not be included in this program.
Some names of graduands may not be included in this program at the request of these individuals.
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place ★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS
(2014-2015 SESSION)
MEDALS
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC
MEDAL
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
THE E. H. AMBROSE GOLD MEDAL
Zejiang Chen
THE BASU MEDAL
Steven Dueck
THE BINKLEY MEDAL
Natalie Perna
THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING MEDAL
Paul Ricciuti
THE DEAN’S MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE
HUMANITIES
Kendra Oudyk
Alison McNeil
Sierra Smith
Chloe Sukkau
Emma Bridgwater
THE ONTARIO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION GOLD MEDAL
Simon Younan
TROPHIES AND MERIT AWARDS
THE AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN BOOK PRIZE
Jeremy Angelini
THE BURKE MEMORIAL RING
Nicole Rakowski
THE CSEP/SCPE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
AWARD
Aaron Kipp
THE IROQUOIS TROPHY
Mitchell Rohrer
THE SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY MERIT
AWARD
Kalia Akkad
Thomas Mcgill
Sanjay Sonney
THE DR. RUDOLF DE BUDA SCHOLARSHIP
Joshua Sammut
THE JOHN DEERE LIMITED SCHOLARSHIP
Paulminder Brar
THE LAURA DODSON PRIZE
Michael Skinnider
THE BRUCE M. HAMILTON AWARD
Philip Badawy
THE JENNIFER HEADLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Christina Vietinghoff
THE BURTON R. JAMES MEMORIAL PRIZE
Zejiang Chen
THE W. NORMAN JEEVES SCHOLARSHIP
Chloe Sukkau
THE FRANK E. JONES PRIZE
Philip Badawy
THE DR. JEAN JONES MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
Wenda Debicki
THE J. E. L. GRAHAM MEDAL
Deborah Rimay
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
THE AMELIA HALL GOLD MEDAL
Hanah Itner
THE ANTHROPOLOGY PRIZE
Charlene Mohammed
THE HUMANITIES MEDALS FOR SPECIAL
ACHIEVEMENT
Katrina Owens
Amanda Nash
Sara King
Anna Kozak
Hanah Itner
THE WILLIAM AND LIDA BARNS MEMORIAL
PRIZE IN HISTORY
Sara King
THE KINESIOLOGY PRIZES
Jem Cheng
THE REV. ALLISON M. BARRETT SCHOLARSHIP
Andrew Case
THE RUTH LANDES PRIZE
Andrea Bankova
THE ABE BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZES
Christopher Galano
Siqi Huang
Scarlett Mackay
THE FELIKS LITKOWSKI PRIZE IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Chantal Cino
THE LEONE BETTY BLACKWELL MEMORIAL
BOOK PRIZE
Chelsi McNeill-Jewer
THE BERT MacKINNON MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
Devra Charney
CFUW-HAMILTON MEMORIAL PRIZE IN
POLITICAL SCIENCE PRIZE
Lindsay Robinson
THE AGNES AND JOHN MacNEILL MEMORIAL
PRIZE
Margaret Inman
THE DAWSON PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Lori vandenEnden
THE CATHERINE MacNEILL PRIZE
Madeleine Bondy
THE HURD MEDAL
Jessie Lu
THE JENSEN MEDAL
Brian McPherrin
THE GERALD L. KEECH MEDAL
Ashley General
THE MAPS GOLD MEDAL
Mark Coenen
THE R. C. McIVOR MEDAL
Peter Demaio
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THE KARL KINANEN ALUMNI PRIZE IN
GERONTOLOGY
Kendra Wait
Faculty of Engineering
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS (CONTINUED …)
THE ESTHER McCANDLESS MEMORIAL PRIZE
Elizabeth Culp
THE HARRY L. PENNY PRIZE
Irene Minaji
THE SOCIOLOGY PRIZE
Deborah Rimay
Lois Allen
THE A.G. McKAY PRIZE IN CLASSICAL
STUDIES
Emily Herron
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP GERONTOLOGY
PRIZE
Jillian Goltz
Kendra Wait
THE JOHN H. TRUEMAN PRIZE
Emily Herron
THE WALTER SCOTT McLAY SCHOLARSHIP
Margaret Inman
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP PRIZE IN NURSING
Ayla Vreman
Katherine Prain
THE McMASTER UNIVERSITY FUTURES FUND
GRADUAND SCHOLARSHIP
Christopher Galano
Miles Couchman
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE PRIZE
Scott Miranda
THE McMASTER NURSING ALUMNI
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Amanda Soukvilay
THE AUDREY EVELYN MEPHAM AWARD
Emily Cichonski
Rebecca Wardlaw
Michelle Simeoni
Taylor Heffering
THE MIDDLETON/WALKER PRIZE IN
SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
Rebecca Englert
THE E. S. MOORE PRIZE
Craig Allison
THE P. L. NEWBIGGING PRIZE
Alexandra Paris
Phil-Sun Paek
THE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL
WORKERS PRIZES
Irene Minaji
Wenda Debicki
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE HONOURS ESSAY
PRIZE
Christopher Telford
THE LLOYD REEDS PRIZE
Alanna Smolarz
Kimberly Dowell
Emily Schutz
Kristin Clements
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PRIZE
Andrew Case
THE ABRAHAM ISAAC ROSENBERG
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Stephen Petrina
THE SHELL CANADA PRIZES IN ENGINEERING
AND MANAGEMENT
Clement Emmanuel
Paul Ricciuti
Kalia Akkad
THE HARRY WAISGLASS BOOK PRIZE
Lindsay Robinson
THE ALVINA MARIE WERNER SCHOLARSHIP
Victoria Dorey
M.B.A. MEDALS AND AWARDS
THE D.M (MIKE) HEDDEN GOLD MEDAL
Matthew Bell
THE BASU MEDAL
Adam Prokop
THE ALLAN J. GREVE – ST. JOSEPH’S HEALTH
CARE MEDAL
Claire Seymour
THE LITVAK MEDAL IN MARKETING
Raza Khan
THE R.J. SPENCE MEMORIAL MEDAL
Robert Macrae
THE RICHARD SLOBODIN PRIZE
Andrea Bankova
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HONORARY DEGREES
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Business
Julian Davies, Doctor of Science
Richard Buckingham, Doctor of Laws
Julian Davies is a professor emeritus in the
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and
principal investigator of the Davies Lab at the
University of British Columbia (UBC). His earlier
academic appointments include serving as director
of the Life Sciences Institute at UBC and as a department chair at the Institut
Pasteur in Paris. Described by the journal Nature Biotechnology as “an icon of
the European biotech industry and a pioneer of metagenomics,” he has made
significant contributions to the understanding of antibiotics, bacterial resistance
and recombitant DNA. He has more than 280 peer-reviewed publications and
has served on a number of scientific boards and committees, including chairing
the External Scientific Board of the National Institutes of Health Human
Microbiome Project.
Davies also established a distinguished career in the private sector. He has
been executive vice-president of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, president and CEO
of TerraGen Diversity and president of Biogen SA. A member of the Scientific
Advisory Board of McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious
Disease Research, Davies has earned the recognition of his peers in Canada and
internationally. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada
and the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He has received
numerous honorary degrees and several prominent awards including the American
Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award and the Society of General
Microbiology Gold Medal.
A native of Manitoba who spent his teens in
Burlington, Ontario, Richard Buckingham graduated
from McMaster University and Harvard Law School.
After practicing law in New York City with the global
firm Graham & James (now Squire Patton Boggs), he
began a successful career in private investment banking. He worked with Echelon
Ventures LP of Boston, was managing director of Inter-Market Capital Associates
and president of Integrated Capital Associates.
As he has built a career that has taken him from Canada to New York and now
London, Buckingham has remained remarkably dedicated to and engaged with
McMaster, his undergraduate alma mater. His service began with his leadership
of the Friends of McMaster, the University’s American charitable arm, and the
New York Branch of the McMaster Alumni Association. He has been a diversely
interested philanthropist at McMaster, making significant gifts to areas
including engineering, music, athletics, philosophy, the McMaster University
Student Centre, the Bertrand Russell Centre, and the James Stewart Centre
for Mathematics. He also served on the volunteer cabinet for The Campaign for
McMaster University.
Buckingham’s signature contribution to McMaster, however, has been through his
service to the Board of Governors. Currently an honorary governor and a member of
the board’s Human Resources Committee, he served for many years on the board
and was an exemplary vice-chair from 2009 to 2010 and chair from 2011 to 2013.
School of Nursing & Medical Radiation Sciences
Judith Shamian, Doctor of Science
Judith Shamian is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto, president emeritus of VON (Victorian Order of Nurses)
Canada and the 27th president of the International Council of Nurses, Shamian is the second Canadian to hold this post. She was president
and CEO of VON Canada for eight years after serving in a series of key leadership positions including as executive director of nursing policy
for Health Canada, president of the Canadian Nurses Association and vice-president of nursing for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto where
she established a World Health Collaborating Centre for Leadership Development – the first collaboration of its kind.
Shamian is a respected researcher whose work has influenced nursing-related policy both in Canada and internationally. She has led the Canadian Nurses Association’s
National Expert Commission on Healthcare, served as co-chair of the Health Care Innovation Working Group of the Council of the Federation (of Canada’s premiers) and
been a member of the board of directors for the Canadian Home Care Association.
Shamian, who has been named one of Canada’s one hundred most powerful women, has received numerous honours including three honorary degrees, the Top Cited
Award 2006-2008 from the International Journal of Nursing Studies and the Canadian Nurses Association Centennial Award.
She is a lifetime member of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, and international fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
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Faculty of Engineering
HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Humanities and Arts & Science Program
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Joseph Tanenbaum, Doctor of Laws
Toby Tanenbaum, Doctor of Laws
Catherine Frazee, Doctor of Laws
Joseph (Joey) and Toby Tanenbaum have
established one of Canada’s most important
philanthropic legacies through a series of
organization-defining gifts primarily to the arts,
cultural institutions and healthcare. Joseph is the founder and chair of Jay-M
Enterprises and Jay-M Holdings Ltd., past chairman of Hydro-Pontiac Inc. and
Pembroke Electrical Light Co., and the former president and CEO of the Bridge
and Tank Company in Hamilton.
Together, the Tanenbaums have given landmark gifts to organizations including
the Canadian Opera Company, the Metropolitan Opera Association, the National
Ballet of Canada, Music Canada and the Toronto Symphony. They are also
important donors to hospitals and medical research, the Jewish community and
universities. They are best known, however, for building public art collections
with gifts to – among many others – the National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario,
the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Hamilton where their gift
established arguably the most important collection of nineteenth-century French
art in Canada.
The Tanenbaums have jointly received a number of awards including the Opera
Canada Award and Doctors of Commerce Honorary Degrees from Ryerson
University. Joseph has been presented the Arbor Award and an Honour and
Distinction Award from the University of Toronto. A member of the Order of
Canada, he has also received the Roy A. Phinnemore Award from the Construction
Safety Association of Ontario, the Lescarbot Award and been named a fellow of
the Society for Civil Engineering. Toby received the Order of Ontario in 2014.
Catherine Frazee is a Professor Emerita at Ryerson
University, where prior to her retirement she
served as Professor of Distinction and Co-Director
of the RBC-Ryerson Institute for Disability Studies
Research & Education. Through her scholarship,
activism, teaching, art and public service, she has challenged barriers to the full
social inclusion of people with disabilities and created identifiable change in
everything from artistic opportunities to legislation. The Chief Commissioner of
the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992, Frazee has worked for
decades to advocate for human rights through her involvement with numerous
organizations including the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the
Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD) and the Abilities Arts Festival. She has provided expert testimony
before Federal and Provincial Courts on human rights and disability disadvantage
and has contributed actively in Supreme Court of Canada interventions of strategic
concern to disabled Canadians. She has contributed to a wide array of texts and
journals in both academic and literary spheres, and has published numerous
opinion pieces in Canada’s national news media.
Frazee has been particularly active in the arts sector, helping to cultivate
opportunities for showcasing the disability experience through her role as a
director of the Abilities Arts Festival, co-curator of the award-winning exhibition
Out From Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and her prominent
role in the 2006 National Film Board film Shameless: The ART of Disability. Frazee
has received a number of awards including honorary degrees from Dalhousie
University and the University of New Brunswick. She was appointed an Officer
of the Order of Canada in December 2014, for her advancement of the rights of
persons with disabilities, and as an advocate for social justice.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Ela Bhatt, Doctor of Laws
Ela Ramesh Bhatt born in 1933, Padmabhushan Ela R. Bhatt, a Gandhian, is widely recognized as one of the world’s most remarkable
pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. Known as the “gentle revolutionary,” she has dedicated her life to improving
the lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed women workers. In 1972, she founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA),
a trade union with more than 2 million members now. She founded SEWA Cooperative Bank in 1974 which has an outreach of 3 million
women now. She was a Member of the Indian Parliament Rajya sabha and subsequently a Member of the Indian Planning Commission.
She founded and served as Chair for Women’s World Banking, the International Alliance of Home-based Workers (HomeNet), Street Vendors (StreetNet) and Women
in Informal Employment: Globalizing, Organizing (WIEGO). She also served as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation for a decade. She has received several awards,
including Padmashree, Padmabhushan, the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Right Livelihood Award, George Meany-Lane Kirkland Labour Rights Award by AFL-CIO,
US and Légion d’honneur by France, Madrid Creatividad Award, CGAE Human Rights Award by Spain, Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development as
well as honorary doctorates from Harvard, Yale, Natal, McMaster, M.S. Baroda and other Universities. Member of the Council of The Elders brought together by Nelson
Mandela (2007). Director, Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), (2011). She has authored “We Are Poor but So Many” book published by Oxford University
Press, NY (2006). Currently she has been nominated as Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
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HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Peter Calamai, Doctor of Science
George Roter, Doctor of Science
Peter Calamai’s journalism career began at
McMaster’s Silhouette and continued professionally
at The Hamilton Spectator. Working for more than
forty years with Southam News and at leading
Canadian newspapers as a photographer, reporter
and editor with postings in Ottawa, Vancouver, London, Nairobi and Washington,
he covered armed conflicts around the world and the Supreme Court of Canada.
He was the editorial page editor of The Ottawa Citizen and the national science
reporter for The Toronto Star.
Calamai has a national profile as a volunteer with numerous organizations
including the Science Media Centre of Canada, Environment Canada, the
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Youth Science Canada and
the Canadian Science Writers’ Association where he was a founding member.
He has been the Max Bell Chair in Journalism at the University of Regina and
both a visiting associate professor and adjunct research professor of journalism at
Carleton University. He has also produced a number of research projects including
a study that led to legal reforms to allow the use of tape recorders in Canadian
trial courts.
A three-time winner of Canada’s highest journalistic honour, the National
Newspaper Award, Calamai has also received the Michener Award for Meritorious
Public Service Journalism, the Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal, a UNESCO Literacy
Award and the Royal Canadian Institute’s Sandford Fleming Award. In December
2014, he was named a member of the Order of Canada “for his achievements as a
science journalist and his contributions to the cause of literacy.” He is a member
of the McMaster Alumni Gallery.
In 2000, George Roter was studying mechanical and
biomedical engineering at the University of Waterloo
when he co-founded Engineers Without Borders
(EWB) Canada with Parker Mitchell, becoming the
organization’s chief executive officer. Working literally
from an idea scribbled on a napkin, they built EWB Canada into an influential
international organization with more than 3,000 volunteers, 50,000 supporters,
50 chapters and teams in Canada and African nations including Malawi, Ghana,
Uganda and Zambia. Over the past 15 years, EWB’s staff and volunteers have
worked with more than 150 businesses, governments and organizations, and over
the past 5 years the organization has incubated 2 dozen entrepreneurial ventures.
The impact has been substantial: EWB supported or EWBer founded innovations
are serving literally tens of millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa.
In Canada and specifically at McMaster, EWB Canada has also had a signficant
impact. It has galvanized a movement socially minded engineers who, individually
and collectively, have contributed to the evolution of engineering education across
the country and have changed the shape of the international policy landscape in
our country. Roter, who delivered the 29th Annual Hodgins Lecture at McMaster
in 2013, is an Ashoka Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship and the recipient of
numerous honours including honorary degrees, the Public Policy Forum’s Young
Leaders Award, Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and the Action Canada Fellowship on
public policy. Time magazine recognized him as one of Canada’s next generation
of social leaders in 2001.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
P. Thomas Jenkins, Doctor of Laws
McMaster alumnus P. Thomas Jenkins is the chairman of OpenText Corporation after serving previously as president and chief executive
officer and as executive chairman and chief strategy officer as OpenText became Canada’s largest software company.
Jenkins has a strong record of public service including chairing the Government of Canada’s Military Procurement Review Panel, the
Research and Development Policy Review Panel and the 2011 panel on Innovation and Government Procurement. He is on the advisory
board of the Canadian Digital Media Network and is a member of the Canadian Government’s Advisory Panel on Open Government. He is a member of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and a past member of both the Government of Canada’s Competition Policy Review Panel and the
Province of Ontario’s Commercialization Network Review Committee.
Jenkins is a director of the C.D. Howe Institute and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives as well as a founder of Communitech, the Waterloo Region Technology
Association. He served as a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Reserve and is an honorary colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers. He has been named
Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year and received the McMaster Engineering L.W. Shemilt Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a fellow of the Canadian Engineering Society,
an Officer of the Order of Canada and the new chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
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Faculty of Engineering
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Deborah Cook
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Dr. Paul O'Byrne
Professor, Medicine
Deborah Cook is a world authority in critical care
medicine, evidence-based medicine and health
research methodology, including randomized trials
and systematic review methodology. Graduating from
the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine in 1985, Dr. Cook completed her
residency in internal medicine, and fellowships at both McMaster and Stanford
Universities. A full-time faculty member at McMaster for 25 years, Cook has made
outstanding contributions to scholarship, research, education and service at the
University and the broader international community. She is one of McMaster's
most prolific researchers (with more than 30,000 citations to her work) and has
elevated McMaster's worldwide reputation in health care. Dr. Cook was named
as a Fellow of the Royal Society for her multi-method, multi-disciplinary research
on life support technology, risk factors for critical illness, prevention of ICUacquired complications, end-of-life choices, and research ethics.
Paul O’Byrne is serving as chair of the Department of
Medicine for an unprecedented third term. A fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the first scientist
in McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences to hold two
decades of continuous career award support from the Medical Research Council
of Canada. His research has a major influence on understanding the causes of
and improving the treatments of asthma. He has been chair of both the Scientific
Committee and the Executive Committee of the Global Initiative for Asthma.
O’Byrne has received the James H. Graham Award of Merit from the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Congress Chair Award and Medal
from the European Respiratory Society. He also has honorary fellowships from
many international organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy,
Asthma and Immunology and the European Respiratory Society. He has also been
elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
A Canada Research Chair of Research Transfer in Intensive Care, Cook’s
contributions to clinical study design and clinical trial execution have led to
improvements in health care and continue to influence researchers around the
world. Dr. Cook was recently appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Dr. Christine Wilson
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Shiping Zhu
Professor, Chemical Engineering
The discoverer of Comet Wilson, Christine Wilson
is a globally recognized expert on star formation in
nearby galaxies. Among her most influential work is
an analysis and calibration of the CO-to-H2 conversion
factor, allowing scientists to obtain accurate measures of the amount of star-forming
gas in galaxies beyond our own.
Wilson leads the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey and the Very Nearby Galaxies
Survey, complementary multi-national projects making significant contributions
to a more comprehensive set of correlations of star formation rate with galaxy
size, structural type and environment. For 15 years she was the Canadian project
scientist for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile; she was also an associate
scientist with the SPIRE instrument for the European Space Agency’s Herschel
Space Observatory. She has received the Women’s Faculty Award from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Premier’s Research Excellence
Award. In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Shiping Zhu is Canada’s top academic chemical
engineer and among the world’s best polymer
science researchers. He was the first to report direct
detection of the elusive radicals in atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP), thus providing fundamental insight into a previously
controversial aspect of a vast research area. Zhu has also changed the way in
which discoveries in basic polymer science are scaled to practical commercial and
industrial applications.
Zhu has trained more than one hundred highly qualified personnel, published
over three hundred high impact research articles, and delivered more than three
hundred conference presentations and invited seminars.
Zhu is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering, the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Engineering
Institute of Canada. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Macromolecular
Reaction Engineering and received the 2011 Macromolecular Science and
Engineering Award, the top award in the field in Canada.
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DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Dr. M. Jamal Deen
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
M. Jamal Deen has established himself as arguably the top engineering scientist in Canada by making outstanding contributions to
optoelectronics and nanoelectronics, and to systems used in communications, biosensing and other fields. His work on the modeling of
photodetectors is the standard for excellence in physics-based and engineering models and his modeling and characterization of the noise in
semiconductor devices is one of his many innovations to have strong commercial impact.
Deen, who has received honorary degrees in Canada and Spain, is an elected fellow of ten societies and academies including the Royal Society of Canada, the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical Society. He is also a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India
as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC MEDAL
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
Elizabeth Culp is completing her undergraduate degree
in Honours Biology. During her degree, she engaged
in several undergraduate research opportunities
including an NSERC summer research scholarship and
senior thesis project working with Dr. Bhagwati Gupta
in the Department of Biology. Outside of class, she enjoyed playing trumpet in the
McMaster Concert Band and piano in the McMaster Children’s Hospital lobby. In the
fall, Elizabeth will begin a master’s degree in Biochemistry at McMaster.
Matthew is graduating from the Bachelor of
Health Sciences (Honours) Program with a minor
in Biochemistry. His research interests in both
rheumatology and genetic epidemiology have led to
journal publications and presentations at national
and international conferences. He has been the recipient of Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR) and McMaster research scholarships, in addition to numerous
academic and community contribution awards. As an advocate of education for his
fellow students, Matthew served as the Academic Coordinator for the Bachelor of
Health Sciences Society, collaborating with student, faculty, and administrative leaders
across McMaster. He has also shared his passion for learning as a Teaching Assistant,
mentor for first year students, and as a tutor and executive of McMaster’s chapter of
Students Offering Support. Matthew is excited to be continuing his education here at
McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine this coming fall.
Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up their
items in Wentworth Room A when the ceremony is complete and their gowns have been returned. Your degree will be
framed in this location.
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For those who have purchased a degree frame today before the ceremony, or would like to purchase a degree frame
after the ceremony please visit the main lobby where the Campus Store offers a wide selection of Official McMaster
Faculty of Engineering
University degree frames, crested giftware and limited edition Class of 2015 merchandise.
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS
TO TEACHING & LEARNING
School of Nursing & Medical Radiation Sciences
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Dr. Janet Landeen
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Dr. David Shore
Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Janet Landeen is an Associate Professor in the
School of Nursing, McMaster University. She earned
her BSN from the University of Connecticut in 1973,
her MEd from the University of Victoria in 1988, and her PhD in Medical Sciences
from the University of Toronto in 2000. Prior to beginning her academic career,
she had many years of direct clinical nursing practice in psychiatric/mental health
nursing. She has been at McMaster since 1987, first holding a joint appointment
with the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia and the School of Nursing, and
subsequently joining the School full time in 1997. Her research interests have
concentrated on best practices in nursing education and on living with serious
mental illness, including the importance of hope. While she was the Assistant
Dean of the Undergraduate Nursing Education Program from 2004 to 2012, she led
the development and implementation of the Kaleidoscope Curriculum. Her most
recent research projects have included examining the impact of the Kaleidoscope
Curriculum, and in exploring the unique perspectives of students in collaborative
college/university programs.
As the principle investigator of the Multisensory
Perception Laboratory, Dr. David Shore investigates
the interaction of different sensory modalities
across time and space. His fifty scientific publications address research topics on
human cognition and perception, face processing, visual attention, multisensory
integration, development, and special populations. An associate chair of PNB,
Shore has coordinated a large-scale curriculum overhaul to ensure that students
are realizing their potential, which required a reconsideration of the role of the
traditional lecture and textbook format.
Dr. Shore is actively pursuing basic research in the domain of teaching and
learning while applying this basic knowledge to the classroom. These research
efforts will take advantage of the newly created LIVE lab, which provides a venue
for exploring human interaction in a classroom setting. His basic research on
multisensory processes is also moving into an applied domain through exploration
of individuals with eating disorders—this research focuses on the updating body
representations through different frames of reference. As an adjunct member of
the Department of Linguistics and Language, Shore is exploring sex differences in
the linguistic representation of emotion.
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Kevin Dunn
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Kevin Dunn is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. He focuses on teaching students
the foundations of chemical engineering and teaches mostly third- and final-year courses. With a strong interest in teaching innovation, he
investigates the use of technology, behind-the-scenes software, and novel teaching techniques in engineering education. Kevin is a strong
proponent of constant improvement, whether it is in teaching or in his personal life. Never stop experimenting!
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ambika Tejpal
Ambika Tejpal has won the Rotary Club of Hamilton
Scholarship and Community Contribution Award,
as well as the Edwin Marwin Dalley Memorial
Scholarship. She has worked as a Teaching Assistant
and contributed to numerous research projects
at McMaster University. As a volunteer, Ambika has been an integral part of
numerous campus groups, including MSU Diversity Services, the McMaster
Mentorship Program, McMaster Medicine and You, United Against Gendercide,
and the McMaster chapter of the Canadian Red Cross. She also served as
the Co-President of McMaster Smiling Over Sickness, a student organization
dedicated to helping sick children smile through fundraising, volunteerism, and
community engagement.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Tristan Paul
Tristan Paul has been involved in multiple facets of
student life throughout his undergraduate career.
Most notably, he has been an active leader within the
McMaster Students Union (MSU) where he was elected
three times to the Student Representative Assembly and served, at various times, as the SRA
Operations Commissioner and as a member of multiple MSU and university committees.
He was also at the helm of the McMaster Social Sciences Society (MSSS), previously
serving as the Vice President (Academic) culminating in his presidency of the organization
for the 2014-2015 academic year. During his term he led projects aimed at improving the
first year experience and enhancing experiential education opportunities for his peers.
His student leadership has been recognized with the Albert Lager Prize for Student
Initiative and the MSU Merit Scholarship.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Christa Jonathan
Christa Jonathan is Mohawk, Bear Clan from Six
Nations of the Grand River Territory. She was named
an Education Works Champion, Six Nations Community
Youth Role Model, Miss Six Nations in the ambassador
competition, and served as the President of the
McMaster First Nations Students Association. Christa is an Aboriginal Mentor with
the Aboriginal Students Health Sciences office and volunteers with Let’s Talk Science,
where she presented at the regional conference on working within Indigenous
communities. She has presented at 8 different conferences, such as the Leaders in
Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Connection V in Australia, discussing issues
Indigenous peoples face in Canada. She has received the Brantford Alumni Branch
Community Contribution Award, the Ganohkwasra Acknowledgement Award, the
Ruby Sears Scholarship, the Grand River Post Secondary Scholarship and the Wilma
General Memorial Award. She has two publications, one academic paper published
with the Centre for Ethnicity and Race Studies for Mapping Global Racism at the
University of Leeds where she went for the MacAbroad exchange program and one
newspaper article for Wellness@Mac. Her goal is to become a family practitioner.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Janelle Hinds
Janelle Hinds has been an instrumental student leader
within McMaster University and the surrounding
community. She has worked with the National Society of
Black Engineers as the Program Coordinator with the aim
to increase the number of responsible engineers who
excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community. She
has also created a separate mentoring program for incoming students. Janelle founded
HackItMac, a collaborative technical community with students from all faculties
which has helped create experiential, self-directed, and interdisciplinary learning
experiences for her peers. She organized deltaHacks, the first student-run hackathon
in North America with a focus on enabling positive social change. Janelle has also
worked with Engineers Without Borders, the Alumni Office, Women In Engineering, in
addition to several other clubs across campus to promote entrepreneurship and student
development. Janelle has joined the Next36 program, a Canadian entrepreneurial
leadership initiative, and hopes to start a business of her own.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Benjamin Kinsella
Ben has been an active leader of the McMaster community and has contributed to numerous facets of student life. Aside from holding
various executive roles within the McMaster Engineering Society (MES), he has been involved with the McMaster Custom Vehicle Team,
Troitsky Bridge Building Competition, Great North Concrete Toboggan Race, and many other student organizations.
As Vice-President Academic of the MES, Ben created and facilitated the first student-operated peer-tutoring program on campus, which has
now served over a thousand students. He advocated for and built an official online test bank in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering, and helped implement a free
textbook library in the student lounge. As President of the MES in his senior year, Ben created EngDeals, a complimentary service that offers discounts to engineering
students at several local establishments. He also broke ground on the Society’s first Strategic Plan and founded the MES Board of Advisors, both of which will help
steer the Society towards beneficial long-term goals over the next generation of students.
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Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
VALEDICTORIANS
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students, and as a tutor and executive of McMaster’s chapter of
Students Offering Support. Matthew is excited to be continuing his education here at
McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine this coming fall.
Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up their
items in Wentworth Room A when the ceremony is complete and their gowns have been returned. Your degree will be
framed in this location.
For those who have purchased a degree frame today before the ceremony, or would like to purchase a degree frame
after the ceremony please visit the main lobby where the Campus Store offers a wide selection of Official McMaster
University degree frames, crested giftware and limited edition Class of 2015 merchandise.
A representative from Josten’s will be on hand before and after all graduation ceremonies to help size and design the
perfect ring for your graduate. Complementary degree framing also takes place in the lobby area.
Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up
their items in the Molson Canadian Studio (the room in which academic regalia is distributed). If your gown has been
returned and you have collected your degree, your degree can be framed at this location.
For those who wish to purchase a degree frame today before or after the ceremony, please visit the main lobby where
the Campus Store offers Official McMaster University degree frames and a wide selection of crested giftware and
limited edition Class of 2015 merchandise. Complementary degree framing also takes place in the lobby area.
A representative from Josten’s will be on hand before and after all graduation ceremonies to help size and design the
perfect ring for your graduate.
Friday June 12, 2015: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 19
Humanities/Arts & Science
Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Science (Morning Ceremony)
Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Krista Deverson
Philip Badawy
Jaskiran (Jess) Shoker
Giuliana Guarna
David Yun
Sean Mercer
Sam Virtue