The Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) is a multidisciplinary research institute that supports collaborative research in advanced technologies systems. Over 160 faculty members from across UBC collaborate within ICICS and with industry, many of them in ICICS-supported research clusters. ICICS’ translational activities help to increase the impact of our members’ research outcomes.
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Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Lemieux, Guy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | vector processors, parallel programming, programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGAs), computer architecture, computer arithmetic, custom computing hardware, computer engineering, Programmable logic and computing systems, multiprocessor and computer architecture |
| Lemieux, Victoria | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Blockchain technology; information visualization and visual analytics; International development; Records and information management; Risk management; Transparency and the public interest (in public sector and financial contexts); Trustworthy records |
| Leung, Cyril | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Wireless communication systems; digital communication networks; Wireless communications; network security; ageless aging technologies |
| Leyton-Brown, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; theoretical computer science; Resource Allocation; Computer Science and Statistics; Auction theory; game theory; Machine Learning |
| Ma, Hongshen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microfluidics; Instrumentation; Cell Sorting; Cell Biomechanics; Circulating Tumor Cells; Malaria and Red Blood Cell Deformability; Single Cell Technologies; Cell Migration and Chemotaxis |
| MacLean, Karon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Information Systems; design of user interfaces; haptic interfaces; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction |
| Madden, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; artificial muscle; electrochemical devices; electronic skin; Functional and Intelligent Materials; medical devices; smart materials; supercapacitors; wearables |
| Marcus, Brian Harry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Coding and information theory, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory and dynamical systems |
| Marti, Jose | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer modelling of response to disasters, Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulation (I2Sim) project, electric power, Energy systems |
| McGrenere, Joanna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; computer science; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); human-computer interaction; interactive technologies for older users and people with cognitive disorders; personalized user interfaces; universal usability |
| McKeown, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurology; novel treatments for Parkinson's; Video Monitoring Parkinson's; Brain Stimulation; Biomedical Engineering; Machine Learning; fMRI; EEG |
| Mérida, Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clean energy, Electrochemical energy conversion, Thermodynamics, Low carbon fuels, Fuel cells and hydrogen |
| Mesbah, Ali | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and Software Systems; software engineering |
| Michelson, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | wireless communications, Propagation and channel modeling, low profile antenna design, wireless communication system performance, EMI/EMC |
| Mirabbasi, Shahriar | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Analog and mixed-signal intergrated circuits and systems design, intergrated circuit design with an emphasis on high-speed data communication and signal processing applications |
| Miskovic, Ilija | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Multi-physics of Geo-materials, Big Data |
| Mitchell, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | safety critical systems, assistive technology (mobility), robotics, scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, Mathematical software, computational science and engineering, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, verification and validation, reproducible research, level set methods, robotic path, planning |
| Munzner, Tamara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human-centered computing; visualization; information visualization; visual analytics; data science |
| Murphy, Gail | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Programming languages and software engineering; Software Development; knowledge worker productivity; software design; software engineering; software evolution |
| Nagamune, Ryozo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Systems control and automation; Manufacturing engineering; control engineering; data-driven modeling and control; robust and linear parameter-varying control; modeling and control of floating offshore wind turbines and wind farms; modeling and control of metal additive manufacturing processes; modeling and control of solar themal systems; modeling and control of automotive engines; optimization |
| Nasiopoulos, Panos | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Interactive multimedia (eg, iDTV, DVD), video broadcasting and streaming, multimedia middleware, video indexing and retrieval, digital video watermarking, next generation video and audio processing and compression |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Nojeh, Alireza | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nanostructures (esp based on carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems |
| Ollivier-Gooch, Carl | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aerodynamics (except hypersonic aerodynamics); Computational fluid mechanics; Algorithm Development for Computational Fluid Dynamics; Applied Aerodynamics; Numerical analysis; Unstructured Mesh Generation; Error and Stability Analysis for Unstructured Mesh Methods; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Fluid mechanics |
| Olson, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Application of Physics and Fluid Mechanics to Problems Associated with the Pulp and Paper Industry, Mechanical Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping |
| Ordonez, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Energy systems, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, battery systems, fuel cells, electric vehicles, smart grid. |
| Pai, Dinesh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Robotics, computer graphics, medical imaging, neuroscience, sensorimotor computation |
| Pattabiraman, Karthik | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Software Reliability, Computer Security, Fault-tolerant computing, Software Security, Computer System Reliability, Computer Failures, Safety-critical computer systems, software failures, software faults, hardware faults, hardware failures |
| Poole, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Decision Analysis; Knowledge Representation; Machine Learning; Preference Elicitation; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Relational Learning |
| Pottinger, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; data integration; data management; databases; metadata management |
| Poudrier, Eve | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Music theory; Theories of rhythm and meter, with a special emphasis on temporal multiplicity and twentieth-century music; Music cognition, especially rhythm, expertise, and cross-cultural issues; Schenkerian analysis |
| Pritchard, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Music composition; Linguistics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Composition; Interactive performance; Gesture tracking; Interdisciplinary performance; Hardware/software sensing |
| Rohling, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical biotechnology; ultrasound; Robotics |
| Salcudean, Tim | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical technologies, Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design, prostate cancer |
| Schajer, Gary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Solid mechanics; optical metrology; residual stress measurement; ESPI; DIC; wood mechanics |
| Schmidt, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Machine learning; Numerical Optimizaiton; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Causality |
| Servati, Peyman | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Energy Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Sheffer, Alla | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer graphics, shape modeling and geometry processing |
| Sigal, Leonid | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science and Statistics; Parametric and Non-Parametric Inference; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Semantic Recognition; Vision + Natural Language Processing; Visual Recognition and Understanding |
| Spering, Miriam | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biological sciences; vision; movement; perception and action; eye movements; hand movements; eye-hand coordination; sport vision; Parkinson's disease |
| Takahata, Kenichi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Tang, Shuo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
| Van de Panne, Michiel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer Science and Statistics; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Robotics and Automation; simulation of human movement; computer animation; Robotics; deep reinforcement learning; motor control; computer graphics |
| Ventura, Carlos Estuardo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, full scale vibration testing, shake table testing Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures |
| Virji-Babul, Naznin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Concussion/mild traumatic brain injury, Developmental disabilities (Down’s syndrome), Developmental neuroscience (mirror neurons, perception-action coupling) |
| Wagner, Alan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Parallel computation, interconnection networks, parallel programming environments |
| Walus, Konrad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations |
| Wang, Rizhi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomaterials, biomechanics Also, the structure and formation processes of biologically formed materials (eg seashells, silk, teeth) and applies the mechanisms to the design and processing of novel materials |
| Wilton, Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Integrated Circuits; Computer Architecture; Computer Hardware; Computer-Aided Design Algorithms; Field-Programmable Gate Arrays; High-Level Synthesis |
| Wong, Vincent | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Telecommunication networks; Computer Systems; Network Analysis (Information); communication systems; energy systems; Internet; Internet of Things (IoT); Machine Learning; mobile computing; protocol design; smart grid; wireless networks |