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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| Nair, Prashant Jayaprakash | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Nasiopoulos, Panos | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Interactive multimedia (eg, iDTV, DVD), video broadcasting and streaming, multimedia middleware, video indexing and retrieval, digital video watermarking, next generation video and audio processing and compression |
| Neumann, Oliver | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Digital Fabrication, Concepts of Context, Wood Construction, Contemporary Architecture Discourse, Digital technology in the building process, contemporary fabrication technologies |
| Noh, Minkyun | Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Nojeh, Alireza | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanostructures (esp based on carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems |
| Oliffe, John | School of Nursing | Suicide prevention, depression, smoking, mental health and illness, men's health, prostate cancer, masculinity, fathers, incarcertion, support groups |
| Ollivier-Gooch, Carl | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Numerical Analysis, Fluid Mechanics, Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools, Algorithm Development for Computational Fluid Dynamics , Error and Stability Analysis for Unstructured Mesh Methods, Unstructured Mesh Generation, Applied Aerodynamics |
| Olson, James | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Application of Physics and Fluid Mechanics to Problems Associated with the Pulp and Paper Industry, Mechanical Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping |
| Ordonez, Martin | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Energy systems, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, battery systems, fuel cells, electric vehicles, smart grid. |
| Pattabiraman, Karthik | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Software Reliability, Computer Security, Fault-tolerant computing, Software Security, Computer System Reliability, Computer Failures, Safety-critical computer systems, software failures, software faults, hardware faults, hardware failures |
| Pawlik, Marek | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | Surface chemistry, Adsorption of polymers and surfactants, Process water and reagent chemistry, rheology of mineral suspensions, interparticle and interfacial phenomena |
| Phani, Srikantha | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Dynamics of multiscale materials, structures and devices, Applied Mechanics, Micromechanics |
| Phinney, Alison | School of Nursing | Capacities of older people for successfully coping with the functional consequences of aging and disease |
| Ponga de la Torre, Mauricio | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Spallation in Metals; Sub-linear scaling methods for calculating crystal defects using DFT; |
| Poole, Warren | Department of Materials Engineering | Advanced aluminum alloys, High strengths, high formable steels, Metal matrix composites, Microstructure/property models |
| Poursartip, Anoush | Department of Materials Engineering | Polymer matrix composite materials |
| Ranger, Manon | School of Nursing | Prematurity, Stress, Infant / Child Development, Pain, Neurodevelopment, Early-adversity, Biomarkers of early stress exposure, Brain development |
| Ripeanu, Matei | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer Systems, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Storage Systems, Data Analytics , Graph Analytics , Social Networks |
| Rodney, Patricia | School of Nursing | Healthcare ethics; Nursing ethics; Nursing workplaces; Healthcare equity; Ethics and policy; Moral distress and moral climate |
| Roecker, Inge | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Social Equity, sustainable forms of urban habitation, social and cultural entities, urban living and communities, comtemporary programming, cultural context, sustainable building |
| Roehr, Daniel | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Sustainable communities, sustainable design, materials and construction, landscape architecture, integration of living roofs as holitstic system for stormwater management |
| Rogak, Steven | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Aerosols (their properties, strategies to minimize their creation and reducing aerosol concentrations where people spend most of their time |
| Rohling, Robert | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering | Medical Imaging, Medical Information Systems, Robotics, Interventional Ultrasound, 3D Imaging, Spatial Compounding, Robotic System Calibration, Elastography, BioMEMS, Biomedical Engineering, Medical imaging and information systems, robetics, ultrasound imaging in 2D and 3D, biomedical technologies |
| Rubin, Julia | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer Systems, Software (Tools), Computer Science and Statistics, software engineering, security and privacy, energy-efficiency , developer productivity , mobile and cloud-native software |
| Rysanek, Adam | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Environmental Systems |
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Graduate Student Profiles
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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)