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Vinny Gupta is an Assistant Professor in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is part of the Fire Research Group. His research focuses on fire safety, particularly in relation to emerging hazards associated with battery energy storage, tall building architecture, and sustainable construction materials. Vinny earned his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2021, studying fire dynamics in large compartments within contemporary tall buildings. Following his PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney from 2021 to 2024, developing advanced laser diagnostic techniques for investigating wall-bounded fires and the thermal runaway of lithium-ion battery cells. His expertise extends to multi-scale fire testing and the development of non-intrusive and intrusive diagnostic techniques to explore phenomena such as flame spread, fire growth, and fire suppression methods. Vinny is actively involved in research at the University of Waterloo's state-of-the-art Large Fire Research Facility, which supports a variety of experimental research projects encompassing material flammability, full-scale building fires, and wildland fire emission spread quantification.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.