Khaled Ahmed
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Protecting Mobile Phone Users Against Malware
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 |
| 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 |
| Lim, Choon Jim | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomass and fossil fuels, Spouted bed, Gas-particle system hydrodynamics, heat transfer, Hydrogen production |
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Graduate Student Profiles
Alumni on Success
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Robotic path planning for environmental field estimation and its application in aquatic monitoring (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Grid-connected large-scale hydrogen production by water electrolysis (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Development of a multi-layer V-model design process and computational tools for mechatronic conceptual design (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Wind and wave disturbance rejection control of floating offshore wind turbines (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Software-hardware co-design for energy efficient datacenter computing (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Decentralized connectivity-aware computational resource sharing system in the D2D networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Application and evaluation of payment channel in hybrid decentralized Ethereum token exchange (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Development of a fast methane sensor based on wavelength modulation spectroscopy for exhaust methane emission measurement (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Understanding radionuclide production in cyclotron target systems (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Improving perceptual quality of high dynamic range video (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Experimental evaluation of software-implemented fault injection at different levels of abstraction (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Impact of biofilm layer on virus removal capacity and integrity testing of passive membrane systems (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Context-dependent exogenous coordination for building large scale, dynamic fog computing applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Mineral carbonation to sequester CO₂ with concurrent metal sulfidization (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Numerical stability analyses and improvement of cell-centered finite volume methods on unstructured meshes (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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High-temperature high-pressure calorimetry for studying thermochemical energy storage materials (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Robust and optimal switching linear parameter-varying control (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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An experimental study of nonlinear oscillations in railroad friction control systems (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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H∞ position control of a 5-MW offshore wind turbine with a semi-submersible platform (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Impact of bidirectional seismic shearing on volumetric response of sand deposits (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Automatic tuning circuits for Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switches (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Study of mass transport in electro fluid dynamic devices (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Particle impingement onto a moving substrate (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Thiocyanate leaching of gold (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Monotonic and cyclic shear loading response of natural silts from British Columbia, Canada (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Machine learning in ultrasound-guided spinal anesthesia (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Computational annealing of superconducting radio-frequency cavities (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)