Yanuar Philip Wijaya
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation-hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived aromatics for the production of valuable chemicals and fuels
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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| Hutton, Thomas | School of Community and Regional Planning | theoretical and normative issues of urban and regional change among advanced and transitional societies |
| Isaacson, Michael D | Department of Civil Engineering | Coastal and offshore hydrodynamics, with a particular emphasis on ocean waves and their effects on structures. |
| Ivanov, Andre | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | microelectronics; integrated circuits, computer chip design, smart grid, engineering curriculum, Computer and Software Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Jaeger, Nicolas A | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Integrated-optics, fiber-optics, optical sensors, optical measurement of voltage and current in power substations, ultrahigh-speed electro-optic modulators, ultrahigh-speed measurement techniques |
| Jaiman, Rajeev | Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Jatskevich, Juri | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Power and energy systems, smart energy grids, power electronic systems and converter circuits, electrical machines and drives, controls, electromagnetic transients, computer modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel simulation |
| Jelovica, Jasmin | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering | Stress Analysis, Production and Process Optimization, Metals and Alloys, Solid Mechanics, Finite element analysis, Structural optimization, Welding and joining of metals, Sandwich structures, Ultimate, fatigue and impact strength |
| Jenkins, Emily | School of Nursing | |
| Jin, Xiao Liang | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Manufacturing Processes, Solid Mechanics, Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Materials, Vibration Assisted Machining, Machining Mechanics and Dynamics, Surface Integrity, Material Characterization |
| Kellett, Ronald | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Environmental quality, urban form, development of tools for urban design, green neighbourhoods |
| Kirchen, Patrick | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Thermochemical Energy Conversion, Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines, Ion Transport Membranes, Emissions, Fuel Injection |
| Klein, Bern | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | processing of precious minerals; processing of industrial metals, Ultrafine grinding, high pressure grinding rolls, hydraulic transport of non-Newtonion mineral slurries, industrial minerlas, mine-mill integration, continuous centrifugal gravity concentration, improved technologies for artisinal andsmall scale gold miners, metal leaching from waste rock, rheology of mineral suspensions |
| Ko, Frank | Department of Materials Engineering | Textile Structural Composites |
| Kruchten, Philippe | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | software, software design, software development, engineering design, entrepreneurship, project management, profession, licensing, Architecture of large-scale, software-intensive systems Software development processes Software project management |
| Kryworuchko, Jennifer | School of Nursing | Nursing, Interpersonal Communication, Family and Care Givers, Decision-making, Health Communication, Palliative and End-of-life Care |
| Lampe, Lutz | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Communication Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Communications, , Communication and information theory, Smart Grid, Grid diagnostics, Ultra-wideband (UWB), Wireless sensor networks, Localization and tracking, RFID, Cognitive radio, Power line communications, Compressed sensing, Machine Learning |
| Lau, Anthony K | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Environmental engineering, waste-to-resource recycling, composting, odor control, biohydrogen energy |
| Laval, Bernard | Department of Civil Engineering | physical limnology fluid mechanics environmental fluid mechanics underwater robotics, Field and 3D numerical modeling techniques to describe the spatial and temporal variations of physical processes and their impacts on transport in lakes and coastal waters |
| Lawrence, Gregory | Department of Civil Engineering | Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management |
| Leaf, Michael | School of Community and Regional Planning | urbanization and social change in Third World countries, particularly southeast Asia and China, Analysis and planning for societies in the midsts of their urban transitions, with particular attention to cases in Asia, Infrastructure and urban environments in developing countries |
| Lee, Jongho | Department of Civil Engineering | Membranes, Water/Wastewater Treatment, Desalination, Resource Harvesting, Nanoporous Media, Electrokinetics |
| Lemieux, Guy | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | 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 |
| Lence, Barbara Jean | Department of Civil Engineering | Hydrotechnical, Optimizing design and operational strategies of water resources projects, reliable withdrawal-treatment strategies for contaminated groundwater supply systems, asset management strategies for mid-sized water utilities with limited break data, water distribution system operational procedures to meet hydraulic and water quality objectives |
| Leung, Cyril | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Wireless communications, cellular systems, multihop mobile networks |
| Li, Loretta | Department of Civil Engineering | Contaminated site investigation and management, environmental monitoring, risk and impact assessment, soil-contaminant interactions, mobility and migration of contaminants, remediation technology, mine tailings waste disposal and treatment processes |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Robust control of miniaturized optical image stabilizers for mobile phone cameras (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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A UBC fluidized bed reactor investigation of K-struvite (Civil 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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Position control of a floating offshore wind turbine system using aerodynamic force (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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An optimal control strategy for an integrated solar thermal hydronic system with a heat pump (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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A two-step bio-oil upgrading study using carbon supported molybdenum carbide catalysts (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Modelling of drinking water treatment and disinfection by-product formation with artificial neural networks (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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A reduced-order power-system dynamical model and applications in design and monitoring of power systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Core movement during processing of sandwich panels (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Improved power loss estimation for device- to system-level analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Photovoltaic systems classification and sizing based on the historical power flow data (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Multisensor data fusion for sleep apnea monitoring and classification (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Lithium extraction from brine with ion exchange resin and ferric phosphate (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Three-layer control strategy for LLC converters : large-signal, small-signal, and steady-state operation (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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An efficient middle-out prediction structure for light field video compression using MV-HEVC (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Cupric ammoniacal thiosulfate leaching of natural acanthite ore in a continuous circuit (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Scalp and intracranial EEG quantitative analysis : robust detection and prediction of epileptic seizures (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Video annotations in helping locate in-video information for revisitation (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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A microfluidic platform to study real-time tumour cell and tumour spheroid response to chronic and transient hypoxia (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Experimental and computational study of an air-breathing micro liquid fuel cell with an extended active anode catalyst region (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Enabling practical deployment of silicon ring resonator-based systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Effect of thiourea on the dissolution of chalcopyrite in acidic ferric solutions at different temperatures (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Variational direct modeling for computer-aided design (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Innovations in natural organic matter removal using ion exchange (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Data structure splicing (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Shear strength of soil-pipeline interfaces under low confining stresses and large displacements (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Design, microfabrication, and characterization of a moulded PDMS/SU-8 inkjet dispenser for a lab-on-a-printer platform technology (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)