Rafiuzzaman Mohammad
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Towards an adaptive, robust and efficient resource allocation system for highly dynamic resource constrained IoT environment.
The applied sciences – architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, nursing, and planning – change society's conception of what is possible as a matter of course. Applied scientists make dreams real, turn ideas into practice. We embody the interface between present and future.
A community of diverse disciplines on campuses in two cities, we recognize the promise inherent in our differences. We are at our best when faced with problems considered by most to be impossible to solve, for it is there that our varied approaches, practice cultures, and discipline-specific languages, combined, become our greatest strength.
We are a Faculty of leaders. We take the initiative. We are defined by our integrity, excellence, innovative mindset, and passionate spirit of engagement. We are ideally positioned to address some of the greatest challenges of our time. From nurses and engineers working in First Nations communities and in Africa improving healthcare, to architects, landscape architects and community planners improving the built environment, our graduate students enlist their skills and networks to truly make a difference. As part of one of the world’s premier universities, it is not just our vision to educate the next generation of leaders, it is our responsibility.
Innovation and its application is our passion in the Faculty of Applied Science. We take pride in our ability to transfer knowledge and contribute to economic growth through research and entrepreneurship.
Mission
To create and apply knowledge and to educate globally responsible professionals empowered to effect enduring, positive change for society.
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Research Centres
Applied Science participates in a number of research centres and laboratories at UBC, some of which are inter-faculty collaborations and others of which are within Applied Science and involve inter-departmental collaborations.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)
- Design Centre for Sustainability
- The James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments
Community & Regional Planning
Engineering
- Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL)
- Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC)
- Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
- Michael Smith Laboratories
- Pulp & Paper Centre (PPC)
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Research Highlights
Through leadership and the relentless charge to improve professional practice, Applied Science researchers – often in interdisciplinary and pan-professional collaborations – advance knowledge, policies and technologies, and solve the global challenges facing society. In any specific year, over 100 leading companies partner with UBC APSC to advance their research agendas.
The UBC Applied Science research enterprise helps drive the reputation of one of the top research-intensive universities in the world. Our researchers claim the spotlight in the global arena in the following research clusters:
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Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Aamodt, Tor | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | computer architecture, optimizing compilers, Computer architecture, Microarchitecture and programming models for energy efficient computer accelerators |
| Abolmaesumi, Purang | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis, prostate cancer |
| Adebar, Perry Erwin | Department of Civil Engineering | Concrete structures, seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures |
| Altintas, Yusuf | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Virtual Machining, Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems, CAD/CAM, CNC Design, High Speed Feed Drive Control, Real Time Interpolation and Trajectory Generation for Machine Tools, Adaptive Control, Sensor Fused Intelligent Machining, Metal Cutting Mechanics, Chatter Vibrations in Machining, Piezo -Actuator Based Precision Machining, High Speed Milling, Optimal Machining of Aerospace Parts, Dies and Molds, Automation, Precision Engineering, Electro Mechanical Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Machining Processes, Mechanics, dynamics and control of micro-machining operations |
| Angeles, Leonora | School of Community and Regional Planning, Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice | Gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and other gender planning related tools, including feminist critiques and perspectives on the intergration of gender and other social axes of difference and diversity in community planning and international development work |
| Asselin, Edouard | Department of Materials Engineering | Hydrometallurgy (including leaching, electrometallurgy and residue characterization), Electrochemistry (including high temperature electrochemistry and sensors) |
| Bacca, Mattia | Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Baldwin, Susan | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Bioprocess engineering, bioremediation, biomedical reaction modelling |
| Banthia, Nemkumar | Department of Civil Engineering | Materials engineering, concrete, advanced composite materials, shotcrete, fibre reinforcement, rebound mechanics, kinamatic studies, optimization, supplementary cementing materials in concrete |
| Barton, Michael | Design, Design and Planning of Space, Architectural Conception, Environmental Design, Material Design, Industrial Design, Virtual Reality, Emerging Forms of Art, Wood, Manufacturing Processes, Human Factors in Manufacturing, Sensors and Devices, Performance, Video and New Media, Shape Recognition and Computer Graphics, Robotics and Automation, Human and Social Ecology, Human Ecology, Audiovisual, Visual, Audio and Written Communications, Production and Exploration in Visual Arts, Buildings, Construction Technologies, Augmented Reality, Actuated Media, Interactive Media, Human Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction | |
| Bass, John | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Constested landscapes Globalization and Contested Territory, Infrastructure, Social Equity, Visualization and Community Engagement |
| Baumbusch, Jennifer | School of Nursing | long-term residential care, family caregiving, Intellectual Disability, nursing care of older adults |
| Berube, Pierre | Department of Civil Engineering | Water treatment, trace organic contaminants, membrane and advanced oxidation technologies., Drinking water treatment, filtration/membrane processes for water and wastewater treatment, distribution system water quality, advanced oxidation, wastewater reuse |
| Beznosov, Konstantin | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | usable security and privacy, mobile security and privacy, computer security and privacy, online social networks security and privacy |
| Bhargava, Vijay | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Green communications, cognitive and cooperative wireless systems, MIMO-OFDM systems, cross-layer analysis |
| Bi, Xiaotao | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomass and Bioenergy, Multiphase Chemical Reactors, Fluidization, Particle technology, Electrostatics of Powders, Life Cycle Analysis, Green Engineering, Industrial Symbiosis, Fuel Cells Water Management |
| Bigazzi, Alexander York | Department of Civil Engineering, School of Community and Regional Planning | Transportation Systems |
| Boschma, Geertje | School of Nursing | History of nursing and health care, with special emphasis on mental health and mental health nursing |
| Brown, Helen Jean | School of Nursing | Maternal-infant and women |
| Browne, Annette | School of Nursing | Health inequalities, indigenous peoples, women's health, cultural safety, primary health care interventions to improve health outcomes, marginalized populations, health policy |
| Bungay, Victoria | School of Nursing | sexuality, sex work, harm reduction, drug use, intersectionality, ethnography, communication technologies, community based research, Health inequities affecting men and women working in the commercial sex industry and people who are street-involved, leadership, public health nursing, mental health, sexual health, HIV, and harm reduction programming |
| Bushe, William Kendal | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Clean Energy, Combustion, Turbulence, Numerical Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, IC Engines andThermal Power Generation |
| Byrne, Fionn | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | |
| Campbell, Suzanne | School of Nursing | Community Health / Public Health, Health Promotion, Interpersonal Communication, Educational Technologies, Health Care Technologies, Modelization and Simulation, Social Determinants of Health, Global Health and Emerging Diseases, Adult Education and Continuing Education, simulation nursing education, interprofessional health professional education, health communication, lactation support, leadership in nursing, global maternal-infant-child health |
| Chang, Stephanie | School of Community and Regional Planning, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability | Community vulnerability and resilience to natural disasters |
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Rib-roughened heat and mass transfer enhancement in membrane-based energy recovery ventilators (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Physical characterisation of urban cyclists for advanced bicycle travel models (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Switching linear parameter-varying electronic throttle control for automotive engines (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Functional metagenomics and consolidated bioprocessing for valorization of pulp and paper mill sludge (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Fracture mechanisms and structural fragility of human femoral cortical bone (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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A novel functionalized composite coating for controlling bio-corrosion in wastewater concrete pipes (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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CFD modeling of wet agglomerate growth in gas-fluidized beds (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Laser ultrasonic investigations of recrystallization and grain growth in cubic metals (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Evaluating the desalination performance and efficiency of capacitive deionization with activated carbon electrodes (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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A power based approach for the selection and comparison of ball mill liners (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Heat transfer during run-out table bottom jet cooling of steel (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Displacement flows of foamed cement in primary cementing of oil and gas wells (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Hydrogen pore formation in an Al-Si alloy – an examination of the role of hydrogen macrosegregation (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Sinusoidal anti-coupling symmetric strip waveguides on a silicon-on-insulator platform (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Electrospun nanofibrous membranes for water vapour transport applications (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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A study of electric rope shovel digging effort and behaviour for diggability assessment in open pit mines (Mining Engineering - PHD)
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Development of a tower mill model using hardgrove mill tests (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Towards enabling human-robot handovers : exploring nonverbal cues for fluent human-robot handovers (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Nitrogen recovery from municipal wastewater through newberyite to struvite crystallization process (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Real-time applications of synchrophasor-based wide-area measurement systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Radio frequency CMOS : from ultra-high speed to ultra-low power (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Numerical estimation of discretization error on unstructured meshes (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Modification of MnO₂-based cathode materials for rechargeable alkaline batteries (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Aerobic granular biomass using municipal primary effluent : a comparative monitoring study (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Investigation of aqueous droplet-based electrostatic transduction (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)