FUEL-S

Meet Our Team

Our interdisciplinary team brings together researchers, engineers and students working toward intelligent, energy-efficient and sustainable built environments.

LAB LEADERSHIP

Lab Incharge

Leading research and innovation at the Future Urban and Energy Lab for Sustainability.

Dr. Kuljeet Grewal
Lab Incharge

Dr. Kuljeet Grewal

Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering

Dr. Kuljeet Grewal leads the Future Urban and Energy Lab for Sustainability, with research focused on sustainable building systems, energy performance, intelligent technologies and resilient built environments.

Building Energy Sustainable Design Smart Buildings Energy Modelling
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LAB STAFF

Staff

Meet the staff members supporting the research, laboratory operations and technical activities of FUEL-S.

Misbaudeen Adesanya
Postdoctoral Researcher

Misbaudeen Adesanya

Supports research activities in sustainable energy systems, renewable energy integration, energy modelling and low-carbon technologies within FUEL-S.

Energy Modelling Sustainability
Alampratap Singh Tiwana
Postdoctoral Researcher

Alampratap Singh Tiwana

Working on wind turbine efficiency, electrical energy systems, sustainable technologies and intelligent control systems.

Electrical Systems Smart Systems Wind Energy
RESEARCH TEAM

Graduate Researchers

Graduate students contributing to research across energy systems, sustainable buildings, artificial intelligence and advanced engineering applications.

Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Sudipta Debnath

Ph.D. Sustainable Design Engineering

Research focuses on energy-efficient, low-carbon, and climate-resilient residential buildings and communities. His work integrates building energy modeling, retrofit strategies, renewable energy, thermal performance, and resilience analysis.

Energy Wind Modelling Sustainability
Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Kanwarpartap Singh Gill

Ph.D. Sustainable Design Engineering

Research focuses on unlocking urban solar energy potential using AI-driven energy modelling and validated building archetypes generated from drone and geospatial data. The work supports solar potential prediction, climate-resilient urban design, adaptive zoning, and targeted retrofit strategies for smarter and more energy-efficient cities.

ML Solar Energy Energy Modelling
Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Rahul Antil

M.Sc. Sustainable Design Engineering

Research focuses on CFD-based numerical modelling of extreme winds in real PEI neighborhoods and developing machine learning models for fast, accurate climate-resilient municipal design. His interests include computational modelling of physical phenomena, constitutive models, and high-performance scientific computing.

CFD Wind Energy Geotechnical Engineering
Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Prabhnoor Singh

M.Sc. Sustainable Design Engineering

Research focuses on recreating real-world grid load-shedding scenarios in virtual simulations using clustering algorithms, alongside IoT-based product development for data integration and real-time control. The work also includes developing a secure platform for integrating multiple energy and control systems.

IoT Robotics Automation
Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Shuvro Ghosh

M.Sc. Sustainable Design Engineering

Research focuses on advancing net-zero energy transitions in New Brunswick’s agricultural sector through energy audits, drone surveys, thermal imaging, calibrated EnergyPlus modelling, and retrofit analysis. His work integrates renewable energy solutions to reduce energy costs and emissions while improving farm efficiency, resilience, and pathways toward net-zero operations.

IoT Robotics Automation
Team Member
Graduate Researcher

Wajid Ali

M.Sc. Sustainable Design Engineering

Working on multimodal data fusion using thermal and RGB imagery with environmental data to predict building envelope properties like insulation and airtightness.

Thermal Imaging Image Processing Automation
FUEL-S COMMUNITY

Alumni

Former members who have contributed to the research and development activities of FUEL-S.

Shima N.

Former Graduate Researcher

2022 – 2024

Noushad Ahamed Chittoor

Former Graduate Researcher

2023 – 2025

Muhammad Jahandad

Former Graduate Researcher

2023 – 2025

Vasudha Kaura

Former Graduate Researcher

2024 – 2026

Email

kgrewal@upei.ca

Address

Lab 121, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering,
550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3