Dr. HaoTian Harvey Shi, Ph.D., P.Eng., is an Assistant Professor of advanced manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Western University. Before joining Western, Dr. Shi was a post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, U.K., developing multi-length-scale hierarchical fibre-based printing technologies for sensing and electronics applications.

Dr. Shi received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2014. He then completed his M.A.Sc. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) in Mechanical Engineering, as part of the Toronto Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (TIAM) at the University of Toronto, with a specialization in designing hierarchical functionalized nanostructures for energy storage. Dr. Shi was a recipient of the NSERC PGS-D doctoral award, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), and the NSERC PDF Fellowship.