Sounik Banerjee
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD)
Effect of initial fabric in behavior of granular materials influenced by multidirectional cyclic shear loading
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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The Faculty of Applied Science houses:
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Feng, Hsi-Yung | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Modelization and Simulation, Software (Tools), Machining and Assembling, Milling, Prototyping, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Geometric Modeling, Multi-Axis CNC Machining, Machining Simulation, 3D Laser Scanning, 3D Printing |
| Feng, James Jingtao | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Department of Mathematics | Fluid Mechanics, Complex fluids, Biophysics, Mathematical biology |
| Fernlund, Goran | Department of Materials Engineering | Polymer matrix composites, Biomaterials, Adhesive bonding |
| Frigaard, Ian | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mathematics | Fluid mechanics (visco-plastic fluids) |
| Froese, Thomas | Department of Civil Engineering | Construction Engineering and Management, Project Management, Computer-Integrated Construction, Product and Process Models for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Computers in Engineering Education |
| Frostad, John | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fluid Mechanics, Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods, Emulsions, Foams, Functional Foods, Interfacial Rheology, Interfacial Phenomena, Human Health, Sensory Analysis |
| Fujita, Mari | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Globalization and contested territory, urbanism, contemporary theory, spatial and cultural effects of globalism, material studies, wearables, gallery installations, interiors, building designs, urban proposals |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Image Computing, Machine learning in Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Image Processing and Analysis, Biomedical Engineering |
| Garrett, Bernard Mark | School of Nursing | Health Care Technologies, Ethics and Health, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented reality, Evidence-basedPpractice, Deception in Healthcare, Healthcare Regulation |
| Girling, Cynthia | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Landscape and Restoration, People, Cities and Lands, Design and Planning of Space, Sustainable neighbourhood design, Vizualization and community engagement, Public realm design and planning |
| Gopalakrishnan, Sathish | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | computer and software systems, real-time and embedded computing (computer systems as part of the real world); cyber-physical systems, Real-time systems, distributed systems, resource management |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Grecov, Dana | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Rheology, Rheometry, Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Crystals, Biolubricants, Lubricants, Journal Bearings, Multi-Phase Flow, Synovial Joints, Synovial Fluid, Arthrithis, Liquid crystals and nanomaterials, Biofluid Mechanics |
| Green, Sheldon | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Fluid Mechanics, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, building ventilation, railroads, papermaking |
| Gurstein, Penelope | School of Community and Regional Planning | Housing |
| Gyenge, Elod Lajos | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Electrochemical engineering, fuel cells, batteries, electrodes |
| Hall, Wendy Anne | School of Nursing | transition to parenting and the related areas of infant sleep and breast feeding; effects of infant behavioural sleep problems on infants and their parents and developing interventions to assist parents to manage those sleep problems |
| Hall, Eric | Department of Civil Engineering | forest industry pollution; pulp and paper wastewater, wastewater treatment, Environmental Engineering, Pollution Control and Wastewater Management |
| Hatzikiriakos, Savvas | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Polymer melt and suspension rheology, food rheology, polymer melt processing, superhydrophobicity, surface science, winter sports expert, ski/skate performance and snow/ice friction. |
| Haukaas, Terje | Department of Civil Engineering | Risk, structures, structural safety, seismic, earthquake, probability, computer analysis, Structures, Probabilistic mechanics, structural reliability and optimization, timber engineering, earthquake engineering, decision making, risk, advanced structural analysis, finite elements, response sensitivity analysis, software development |
| Herrington, Susan | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Children’s outdoor play environments, Playgrounds, Natural play environments, Risky play, Landscape architecture, Landscape architecture history, landscape theory, Comtemporary theory, globalization and contested theory, design and history of landscapes |
| Hodgson, Antony | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Medical or Surgical Robotics, Medical Engineering, Electoral Reform, Single Transferable Vote, STV, Citizens’ Assembly, Fair Voting |
| Holuszko, Maria | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | minerals characterization as it applies to mineral processing; recovery of metals from industrial and municipal waste streams |
| Honey-Roses, Jordi | School of Community and Regional Planning | environmental planning, water resource management, and impact evaluation |
| Howard, Fuchsia | School of Nursing | health service needs of vulnerable, high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, cancer survivors and survivors of critical illnesses; hereditary cancer prevention and risk management and psychosocial and ethnocultural factors that shape health and illness experiences |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Investigating the causes of software technical debt at the architectural level (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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DropBack : continuous pruning during deep neural network training (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Transformer-enhanced high-performance voltage-controlled oscillators (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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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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Assessment of using a Tesla expander to harvest waste heat from a photovoltaic panel for residential applications (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Cold flow simulation of gas flare auxiliary air (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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A fully-integrated complementary metal-oxide semiconductor receiver with avalanche photodetector (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Biological stability for vacuum UV advanced oxidation treatment of surface water (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Development of a quantitative risk analysis approach to evaluate the economic performance of an industrial-scale biorefinery (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Particle impingement onto a moving substrate (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Development of nanofibrous target materials for short-lived isotope production (Materials Engineering - MSC)
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Dynamic behavior of fluid film bearings, applications in the flexible rotor instability analysis (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Drying and co-pelletization of microalgae with sawdust (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Effect of electrolyte concentration in process water on flocculation (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Displacement flow of miscible fluids with density and viscosity contrast (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Cellulose nanocrystals aqueous suspensions as water-based lubricants (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Impact of humidity, temperature, and particulate fouling on membrane-based energy exchangers (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Analysis of data-at-rest security In smartphones (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Elastohydrodynamic interactions at small scales (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Analysis and design of mimo heterogeneous cellular networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Electrochemical evaluation and modulation of surface wettability (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Seismic design and performance evaluation of dual-fused h-frame system (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Interactive visual analytics for BIM compliance assessment and design decision-making (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Automatic translucency detection of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) via deep learning methods (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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An FPGA overlay architecture supporting software-like compile times during on-chip debug of high-level synthesis designs (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)