Tirtha Dhar, University of Guelph

Research

sustainability index agriculture machine learning artificial intelligence block chain

Latest funding

Behavior-Informed Agent-Based Models for Scalable Insights into Fad Diets and Healthy Behavior in the Era of Social Media
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$188,000
Bridging the Data Gap to Build the Canadian Agri-food Sustainability Index Using Remote Sensing, AI, and Machine Learning
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$35,000
Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$1,650,000

All 5 grants and awards

Behavior-Informed Agent-Based Models for Scalable Insights into Fad Diets and Healthy Behavior in the Era of Social Media

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dhar, Tirtha

$188,000

Bridging the Data Gap to Build the Canadian Agri-food Sustainability Index Using Remote Sensing, AI, and Machine Learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Preparatory funds for sustainable agriculture

Principal investigators: Dhar, Tirtha

Keywords: Agriculture and primary food production; Environment

$35,000

Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Training Grant: Healthy Cities Research Training Platform

Principal investigators: Ma, David W; Dubé, Laurette; Suh, Miyoung

Keywords: Big Data; Circular Economy Of Food; Food; Food Security; Health; Healthy Cities; Implementation Science; Indigenous Communities; Nutrition; Smart Cities

$1,650,000

Consumer Information Processing, Food Purchase and Stocking: Beginning, During and Post COVID-19

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Lin, Yuanfang

Keywords: COVID-19; Stockpiling; Information Processing; Consumer Behaviour; Media Consumption; Marketing Communication; Supply Chain Management; Cross Country Studies

$65,172

Environmental effects on choice decisions by consumers for food away from home

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dhar, Tirtha

Keywords: marketing; food; nutrition; health

$52,400

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: sustainability Dear Professor Dhar, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on sustainability connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Behavior-Informed Agent-Based Models for Scalable Insights into Fad Diets and Healthy Behavior in the Era of Social Media" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]