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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
Jin, Xiaoliang Department of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering; Manufacturing Processes; Solid Mechanics; Machining Mechanics and Dynamics; Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Materials; Material Characterization; Surface Integrity; Vibration Assisted Machining
Kamizaki, Kuni School of Community and Regional Planning Architecture; Community development / social planning; Displacement; EDI perspectives and practice; housing; Planning theory
Kellett, Ronald School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture Environmental quality, urban form, development of tools for urban design, green neighbourhoods
Kim, Amy Department of Civil Engineering Land transportation systems engineering, n.e.c.; Traffic and highway engineering
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
Kravchenko, Sergii Department of Materials Engineering Polymers and polymer composites; Multi-functional composites; High-throughput manufacturing process modelling of composites; Multi-scale, multi-physics, probabilistic computational modelling of composites; Manufacturing-informed performance simulation of composites; Machine learning methods in composites manufacturing and performance analysis; Composite structures for renewable energy & unmanned vehicles; additive manufacturing
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
Lauck, Sandra School of Nursing health service delivery to support the implementation of innovative approaches to cardiac disease, minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart disease
Laval, Bernard Department of Civil Engineering Civil engineering; Oceanography
Lawrence, Gregory Department of Civil Engineering Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management
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 communication systems; digital communication networks; Wireless communications; network security; ageless aging technologies
Li, Xiaoxiao Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Trustworthy AI; Privacy and Security; Medical image analysis; Bioinformatics
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
Liao, Renjie Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical Learning Theory, Computer Vision, Machine Learning for Programming Languages, Natural Language Processing, Self-Driving
Liao-McPherson, Dominic Department of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering; Predictive and Constrained Control; Multi-agent Systems; algorithmic game theory; Real-time, Embedded, and Distributed Optimization; Energy Systems, Manufacturing, and Robotics
Lis, Mieszko Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Computer and Software Systems
Liu, Wenying Department of Materials Engineering Use of sea water in heap leaching; Release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials; Heap leach modelling
Lokman, Kees School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture design studios in the landscape architecture
Low, Margaret School of Community and Regional Planning Urban and regional planning; Indigenous community planning; Indigenous sovereignty; Reconciliation
Ma, Hongshen Department of Mechanical Engineering Microfluidics; Instrumentation; Cell Sorting; Cell Biomechanics; Circulating Tumor Cells; Malaria and Red Blood Cell Deformability; Single Cell Technologies; Cell Migration and Chemotaxis

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Graduate Student Stories

Louisa-May Khoo

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Ageing in a Neuropolis: The Social Epidemiology of Stress in Late Life among Older Adults in Global-City Singapore

Justin Wyss

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Soft Sensing Technology Designed for Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Elizabeth Castle

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Controlling endothelial cell dynamics to direct blood cell emergence

Rivkah Gardner-Frolick

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Quantitative evaluation of local air pollution in collaboration with the Strathcona community to inform environmental injustice concerns.

Emily Bliven

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Femoral augmentation to prevent hip fracture in a sideways fall

Meryem Belkadi

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

The gendered impact of a nationwide slum clearance program in Morocco on the interrelationship between housing markets and employment outcomes

Trevor Goodyear

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Out on the street: A community-based study with homeless 2SLGBTQ+ youth who use drugs

Manpreet Thandi

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Using primary care electronic medical record data in British Columbia, Canada to implement an electronic frailty index
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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.

 

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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Multifunctioning of carboxylic-cellulose nanocrystals on the reinforcement of compressive strength and conductivity for acrylic-based hydrogel
Publication: Carbohydrate Polymers
UBC Author(s): Orlando Rojas Gaona (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 01448617
Volume: 327
Publication Date: 1 March 2024

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Phase equilibrium in canonical cubic structure I (sI) and II (sII) and hexagonal (sH) gas hydrate solid solutions
Publication: Fluid Phase Equilibria
UBC Author(s): Petros Englezos (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 03783812
Volume: 578
Publication Date: March 2024

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Directional analysis of community wildfire evacuation capabilities
Publication: Safety Science
UBC Author(s): Amy Kim (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 09257535
Volume: 171
Publication Date: March 2024

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Evolution of biomass particles during pelletization process
Publication: Particuology
UBC Author(s): Anthony K Lau (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 16742001
Volume: 86
Page Range: 182-187
Publication Date: March 2024

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Exploration of intra-city and inter-city PM<inf>2.5</inf> regional calibration models to improve low-cost sensor performance
Publication: Journal of Aerosol Science
UBC Author(s): Naomi Zimmerman (Mechanical Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 00218502
Volume: 177
Publication Date: March 2024

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What causes mining asset impairments?
Publication: Resources Policy
UBC Author(s): John Thomas Steen (Mining Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 03014207
Volume: 90
Publication Date: March 2024

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A multi-feature-based fault diagnosis method based on the weighted timeliness broad learning system
Publication: Process Safety and Environmental Protection
UBC Author(s): Bhushan Gopaluni (Chemical & Biological Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 09575820
Volume: 183
Page Range: 231-243
Publication Date: March 2024

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Risk-based analysis of squeeze cementing operations
Publication: Geoenergy Science and Engineering
UBC Author(s): Ian Frigaard (Mechanical Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
Volume: 234
Publication Date: March 2024

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Removal of perfluoroalkyl acids from aqueous media by surfactant-modified clinoptilolites
Publication: Environmental Science and Pollution Research
UBC Author(s): Loretta Li (Civil Engineering / Faculty of Applied Science)
ISSN: 09441344
Volume: 31
Page Range: 16915-16927
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. Crosby developed a novel methodology to improve the prediction accuracy of occupants thermal comfort. Dr. Crosby's work suggested that predictions of thermal comfort can be improved by adding measurements of CO2 levels. Ventilation rates can be increased with minimal building energy demand increase while keeping thermal comfort maintained. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Le examined the structural hierarchical effects in electronic textiles, and their influence on performance of wearable sensors used for health monitoring. Contributions include functional materials development to address long-term performance and durability. Her findings will inform future e-textile materials evaluation, selection, and design. Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Huang revealed how the next-generation wireless networks can benefit from machine learning and artificial intelligence. He developed machine learning-based algorithms to push the limits of wireless networks, making it more intelligent, reliable, and efficient. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Nikzad has developed a model to simulate the performance of Liquid Crystals (LCs) in the devices with rubbing surfaces, such as journal bearing, to improve the energy efficiency. The results of his research provided us with a deeper understanding on how chiral and non-chiral LCs behave under complex flows. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Chen developed a novel method to mimic bone mineral structure on a polymer membrane as a coating. She applied this coating for bone health, osteoporosis treatment, and cancer-induced bone metastases studies. Her research provided a new platform for bone-related investigation and improved the understanding of the bone resorption process. Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Song develops a mechanics model to investigate the chip formation mechanism in machining of CFRP with different fiber alignment configurations. The models developed can be used to instruct and optimize the practical machining process planning, by selecting proper fiber orientation, cutting tool geometry, and process parameters. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Zakani developed a new class of water-based lubricants. These lubricants are environmenta-friendly and possess improved lubricity compared to other industrially available, water-based lubricants. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Tarazona developed a method for interfacing two different types of simulators for large electric networks. A hybrid simulator operating with such a method offers an accurate and efficient alternative for modeling the future electric networks which will have a high percentage of renewable energy sources. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Kuppusamy developed a process of extracting rare earth elements from waste material. These elements are essential for the manufacturing of EV motors & wind turbines and are critical for the transition to green energy-economy. Because of Dr. Kuppusamy's work, these elements can be co-produced from BC coal deposits in a sustainable manner. Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD)
2023 Dr. Ojerinde investigated the cervical screening experiences of Black African immigrant women in BC. She found that the participants' social identities interact with different contexts of Canadian society and the healthcare system to create barriers to cervical screening uptake. Her findings may have implications for practice. Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

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