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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.

The Faculty of Applied Science comprises a unique constellation of professional disciplines including; Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Nursing and Community & Regional Planning. The core purpose shared across all of our four disciplines is to discover, create and apply knowledge, provide unwavering top-tier education and champion a community of responsible professionals devoted to serving a thriving, sustainable and healthy society. Our work and the professions which our graduates represent span the entire human-centred built environment. 

The disciplines within the Faculty of Applied Science are celebrated for the scope, strength and impact of their research activities. Our Faculty claims the spotlight in the global arena for our research in clean energy, communication and digital technologies, health and health technology among many others. We offer disciplinary-specific research based graduate programs as well as a range of professional graduate programs and pride ourselves on our ability to open doors of opportunity to students beyond their time within our Faculty.

Mission
We shape the people and the professions that shape the world.
 

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Name Academic Unit(s) Research Interests
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
Gutierrez Monroy, Tania School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture Identity intersection
Gyenge, Elod Lajos Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Electrochemical engineering, fuel cells, batteries, electrodes
Haase, Kristen School of Nursing Nursing, n.e.c.; oncology; Older Adults; Geriatric oncology; Health systems research; Mixed Methods Research; Qualitative research; Self-management; E-health
Harten, Julia School of Community and Regional Planning
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
Havaei, Farinaz School of Nursing Nursing; factors that influence nurses’ ability to provide effective patient care; health human resource optimization
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
Hill, Jane Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Hirani, Saima School of Nursing Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Mental health nursing; Social sciences; mental health; Mental health promotion; psychosocial interventions; Vulnerable Groups; social support; resilience
Hodgson, Antony Department of Mechanical Engineering Image guided surgery systems; computer assisted orthopaedic surgery; Medical Imaging; surgical navigation; orthopaedics; biomechanics; surgical robots; Image Processing; Machine Learning
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
Hooper, Michael School of Community and Regional Planning
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
Hung, Lillian School of Nursing Geriatric nursing; Medical and biomedical engineering; Impact of technology and environment on the care experiences of persons with dementia; dementia education; quality improvement; Participatory action research
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
Jacobs, Sara School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
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 Mechanical engineering; Bluff-body flows and flow-induced vibration; Computational methods and numerical analysis; Data-driven computing; Flow control and drag reduction; Fluid-structure interaction; Model order reduction; Multiphase Flows
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 Civil engineering; Mechanical engineering; Finite element analysis; Metals and Alloys; Production and Process Optimization; Sandwich structures; Solid Mechanics; Stress Analysis; Structural optimization; Ultimate, fatigue and impact strength; Welding and joining of metals

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Social Justice in Nursing Education

David Black

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Novel approaches to teleoperation and human computer interaction in medical robotics

Wenwen Zhang

Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MASc)

Pathological gait pattern analysis

Cynthia Lam

Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering (MEng)

Mohammad Zandsalimy

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Stability analysis and improvement of finite volume methods

Catherine Liao

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

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Recent Publications

This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Applied Science.

 

Residual Stress Determination of Cast Aluminium Benchmark Components Using Strain Relief Techniques
Publication: Experimental Mechanics
UBC Author(s): Gary Schajer (Mechanical Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00144851
Volume: 64
Page Range: 441-452
Publication Date: April 2024

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Preserving domain private information via mutual information maximization
Publication: Neural Networks
UBC Author(s): Clarence Wilfred de Silva (Mechanical Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 08936080
Volume: 172
Publication Date: April 2024

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A comprehensive approach in post-earthquake blockage prediction of urban road network and emergency resilience optimization
Publication: Reliability Engineering and System Safety
UBC Author(s): Tsung-Yuan Yang (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 09518320
Volume: 244
Publication Date: April 2024

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Structural dependence of PFAS oxidation in a boron doped diamond-electrochemical system
Publication: Environmental Research
UBC Author(s): Madjid Mohseni (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00139351
Volume: 246
Publication Date: 1 April 2024

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Tetrabutylammonium lactate semiclathrate hydrate phase equilibria and polymorphs
Publication: Fluid Phase Equilibria
UBC Author(s): Petros Englezos (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 03783812
Volume: 579
Publication Date: April 2024

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Experimental Validation of Reconstructed Microstructure via Deep Learning in Discontinuous Fiber Platelet Composite
Publication: Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME
UBC Author(s): Sergii Kravchenko (Materials Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00218936
Volume: 91
Publication Date: 1 April 2024

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Validation of the brief version of the Susceptibility to Persuasion-II scale and evaluation of measurement invariance across age and gender in the Canadian general population
Publication: Heliyon
UBC Author(s): Bernard Mark Garrett (School of Nursing / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 24058440
Volume: 10
Publication Date: 30 March 2024

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A techno-economic analysis of diesel exhaust injection into mine tailings for carbon sequestration
Publication: Heliyon
UBC Author(s): Seyed Ghoreishi-Madiseh (Mining Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 24058440
Volume: 10
Publication Date: 30 March 2024

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Study of High-Transverse-Momentum Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Vector Boson in the qqbb Final State with the ATLAS Detector
Publication: Physical Review Letters
UBC Author(s): Wai-Shuen Vincent Wong (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00319007
Volume: 132
Publication Date: 29 March 2024

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Optimizing ZnO–Quantum Dot Interface with Thiol as Ligand Modification for High-Performance Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes
Publication: Small
UBC Author(s): Peyman Servati (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 16136810
Volume: 20
Publication Date: 28 March 2024

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Bioretention Design Modifications Increase the Simulated Capture of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Trace Organic Compounds
Publication: Environmental Science and Technology
UBC Author(s): Rachel Scholes (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 0013936X
Volume: 58
Page Range: 5500-5511
Publication Date: 26 March 2024

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Engineering the Neural Collapse Geometry of Supervised-Contrastive Loss
Publication: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
UBC Author(s): Christos Thrampoulidis (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 21595399
Volume: 38
Page Range: 23503-23505
Publication Date: 25 March 2024

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IBCA: An Intelligent Platform for Social Insurance Benefit Qualification Status Assessment
Publication: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
UBC Author(s): Cyril Leung (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 21595399
Volume: 38
Page Range: 22815-22823
Publication Date: 25 March 2024

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Class-Attribute Priors: Adapting Optimization to Heterogeneity and Fairness Objective
Publication: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
UBC Author(s): Christos Thrampoulidis (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 21595399
Volume: 38
Page Range: 16890-16898
Publication Date: 25 March 2024

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PoseGen: Learning to Generate 3D Human Pose Dataset with NeRF
Publication: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
UBC Author(s): Zhen Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 21595399
Volume: 38
Page Range: 1905-1913
Publication Date: 25 March 2024

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Incorporating non-linear effects in fast semi-analytical thermal modelling of powder bed fusion
Publication: Additive Manufacturing
UBC Author(s): Daan Maijer (Materials Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
Volume: 84
Publication Date: 25 March 2024

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A study on low-grade copper sensor based-sorting
Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
UBC Author(s): Bern Klein (Mining Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 0094243X
Volume: 3082
Publication Date: 22 March 2024

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Solid Wood Modification toward Anisotropic Elastic and Insulative Foam-Like Materials
Publication: ACS Nano
UBC Author(s): Orlando Rojas Gaona (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 19360851
Volume: 18
Page Range: 7959-7971
Publication Date: 19 March 2024

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Multi-task deep learning for large-scale buildings energy management
Publication: Energy and Buildings
UBC Author(s): Walter Merida-Donis (Mechanical Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 03787788
Volume: 307
Publication Date: 15 March 2024

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A non-substrate-specific technique of antifouling and antiwetting Janus membrane fabrication for membrane distillation
Publication: Desalination
UBC Author(s): Jongho Lee (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00119164
Volume: 573
Publication Date: 15 March 2024

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Synergistic effect of UV-A and UV-C light is traced to UV-induced damage of the transfer RNA
Publication: Water Research
UBC Author(s): Sara Beck (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00431354
Volume: 252
Publication Date: 15 March 2024

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A Highly Soluble Iron-Based Posolyte Species with High Redox Potential for Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Publication: Advanced Functional Materials
UBC Author(s): Kiana Amini (Materials Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 1616301X
Volume: 34
Publication Date: 11 March 2024

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Control of the Colloidal and Adsorption Behaviors of Chitin Nanocrystals and an Oppositely Charged Surfactant at Solid, Liquid, and Gas Interfaces
Publication: Langmuir
UBC Author(s): Orlando Rojas Gaona (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 07437463
Volume: 40
Page Range: 4881-4892
Publication Date: 5 March 2024

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Exact Sensitivity of Nonlinear Dynamic Response with Modal and Rayleigh Damping Formulated with the Tangent Stiffness
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering (United States)
UBC Author(s): Terje Haukaas (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 07339445
Volume: 150
Publication Date: 1 March 2024

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Multi-exposure diffraction pattern fusion applied to enable wider-angle transmission Kikuchi diffraction with direct electron detectors
Publication: Ultramicroscopy
UBC Author(s): Thomas Benjamin Britton (Materials Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 03043991
Volume: 257
Publication Date: March 2024

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Recent Thesis Submissions

Doctoral Citations

A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
Year Citation Program
2023 Dr. Ramsay explored concussions among children and youth in British Columbia. He found that most children and youth with a concussion do not receive follow-up and those with a delayed follow-up visit were more likely to experience poor health. This research provides new evidence to support the importance of timely follow-up after a concussion. Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)
2023 Dr. Heydari conducted research on how groups of stem cells behave together. He showed that we can use mathematics to understand and predict their behavior. This newfound knowledge can be used to develop better methods for creating tissues and organs in stem cell research. Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Rippon studied operating data from pyrometallurgy and kraft pulping processes to address troublesome process faults. By combining process knowledge and historical data with novel applications of machine learning and data visualization, his research contributes to improving operating outcomes of industrial processes. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Torkaman studied eco-conscious gold extraction for artisanal mining, aiming for cleaner, more efficient methods and a mercury-free future. Her work offers site-specific, cost-effective alternatives that can reshape the industry, benefit miners, and safeguard the environment. Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Chegounian studied the biological treatment of oil sands process-affected water from Alberta, Canada. She developed an innovative biological treatment technology that can help oil industries and regulators develop and evaluate a more sustainable approach to treating tailings ponds and safely releasing the water back to the environment. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Zhou examined the lithium deposition behavior and lithium corrosion behavior in lithium metal battery. She also applied her conclusion to the modification of liquid electrolytes. Her research promotes the development of lithium metal batteries and energy storage systems. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Shojaei innovated a camera-based system for the automated detection of indoor fall incidents. Her design balances privacy, accuracy, and real-time performance and accommodates diverse home configurations. Dr. Shojaei's research contributes to home wellness and aging in place by facilitating prompt assistance for fall incidents. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Suhane integrated atomistic and mesoscale simulations and investigated the effect of alloying on microstructural processes in steels. His work provides new avenues for designing high-performance steels for infrastructure and automotive applications. Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Asem studied security vulnerabilities within blockchain programs known as smart contracts. He subsequently developed novel methods to analyze the program code for security vulnerabilities with application to smart contracts. Dr. Asem's research thereby contributes to improving smart contract security and the broader blockchain ecosystem. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Jain studied Geopolymers, environment-friendly alternatives to Portland Cement, for cesium nuclear waste immobilization. Dr. Jain demonstrated enhanced cesium immobilization within the Geopolymers processed via one-step chemical synthesis route. Safer long-term nuclear waste storage will be possible because of Dr. Jain's work. Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD)

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