Arman Seyed-Ahmadi
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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 positive change in the world through the generation, professional embodiment, and innovative application of new knowledge.
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 (MSL)
- 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 themes:
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 | 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 | Solid Mechanics, Adhesion and fracture , Soft materials, Biophysics |
| 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 |
| 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 | Transportation Systems, active transportation, bicycles, air quality, motor vehicle emissions, travel behaviour |
| 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 |
| Campbell, Heather | School of Community and Regional Planning | |
| Cao, Yankai | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Optimization, Control and Operations Research, Solar and Wind Energy, Artificial Intelligence |
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Graduate Student Profiles
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Automatic tuning circuits for Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switches (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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In-band full-duplex power line communications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Distributed reinforcement learning in emergency response simulation (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Understanding and modeling error propagation in programs (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Robust control of miniaturized optical image stabilizers for mobile phone cameras (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Position control of a floating offshore wind turbine system using aerodynamic force (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Resistance of reinforced concrete cantilever shear walls to seismic shear demands (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Fluidized calcium carbonate crystallization in alkaline liquids (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Impedance characterization of porous carbon electrodes with controlled pore size distribution : experimental verification (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Self-adapting control parameters in particle swarm optimization (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Parameters estimation based on recursive extended least-squares method in dc distribution systems and interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Characterization and system level study of air addition in a pilot ignited direct injection natural gas engine (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Physicochemical characterization of a carbon containing phosphate ore (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Experimental studies on creping and its influence on mechanical properties of tissue paper products (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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An investigation of a temperature-sensitive intein with regards to its use as metabolic control element for bioprocess enhancement (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Chemical vapor deposited single layer graphene as transparent electrodes for flexible photovoltaic devices (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Energy-efficient device architecture and technologies for the internet of everything (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Surface engineering of wood fiber/filler networks (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Improving the quality of crop residues by the reduction of ash content and inorganic constituents (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Data-driven spatial locality (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Artificial neural network based prediction of treatment response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depressive disorder patients (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Miniature multiphoton endoscopy using frequency-doubled Er-doped fiber laser (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Safety-preserving control of systems with multiplicative model uncertainty with application to closed-loop anesthesia (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Characterization of screw feeder compression and its effect on wood-chip cellulose accessibility (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Floatability of jarosites in the presence of anionic surfactants (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Adaptive active damping methods for DC-AC power-electronic-based systems with constant-power loads (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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A two-timescale approach for network slicing in C-RAN. (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)