Sounik Banerjee
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD)
Effect of initial fabric in behavior of granular materials influenced by multidirectional cyclic shear loading
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 and apply knowledge and to educate globally responsible professionals empowered to effect enduring, positive change for society.
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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
- 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 clusters:
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The Faculty of Applied Science houses:
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Salcudean, Septimiu | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical technologies, Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design, prostate cancer |
| Sandercock, Leonie | School of Community and Regional Planning | multiculturalism and cities, urban policy, integration of immigrants, cross-cultural planning, First Nations collaborative community planning |
| Satterfield, Blair | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | use of second stream materials in construction, providing designers and the community with greater access to digital design and fabrication processes, and the design and application of energy and material efficient methods for construction |
| Sayed, Tarek | Department of Civil Engineering | transportation engineering, Transportation, Full Bayes safety models, Automated safety analysis using computer vision techniques, Safety evaluations, Traffic conflicts techniques, Pedestrian modeling, and ITS |
| Schajer, Gary | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Full-Field Optical Metrology, X-Ray CT Log Scanning, Industrial Residual Stress Measurements |
| Schaller, Rebecca | Department of Materials Engineering | |
| Scoble, Malcolm | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | Sustainable mining, mining with communities, mine-mill integration, workplace safety, mining innovation |
| Senbel, Maged | School of Community and Regional Planning | Urban design, environmental planning, climate change planning, public engagement, urban agriculture, multi-media, social media and youth engagement |
| Servati, Peyman | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Energy Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Shawwash, Ziad K | Department of Civil Engineering | Modeling and optimization of large-scale civil engineering systems; planning, design and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities; use of decision, policy and risk analysis techniques in water resource planning and management; use of artificial intelligence systems in water resource and hydroelectric systems. |
| Shekhar, Sudip | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Chip design, radio communication, mobile communication, data links, integrated circuits, photonics, CMOS, wireless, electronics, Internet of Things. |
| Sinclair, Chadwick | Department of Materials Engineering | Modelization and Simulation, Theoretical Approach, Metals and Alloys, Material Design, Mechanical and Physical Processes, Materials Science and Engineering, Computational Materials Science, Manufacturing, Alloy Design, Solid State Physics, Mechanics |
| Smith, Kevin | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fossil Fuels, Biomass (Energy), Chemical Processes, Applied catalysis |
| Soules, Matthew | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | relationship between contemporary capitalism and the built environment; three interrelated topics that collectively constitute a significant constellation within capitalism |
| Staub-French, Sheryl | Department of Civil Engineering | Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces |
| Stevens, Mark | School of Community and Regional Planning | evaluating the effectiveness of local and regional government land use planning efforts, with a goal of producing new knowledge that can help communities anticipate and adapt to changes according to the principles of sustainable development; plan-making and implementation, growth management, natural hazard mitigation, and legal issues in planning; (1) a study of municipal climate change planning in BC, (2) a meta-analysis of environmental policy adoption, (3) a plan evaluation study of award-winning plans, and (4) a study on the content and delivery of quantitative methods courses in urban planning programs |
| Stevens, Sara | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | history and theory of architecture and urban design, urban history, economic theory, and the history of infrastructure |
| Stoeber, Boris | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Microelectromechanical Systems, MEMS, Microfluidics, Sensor Technology, Biomedical Microdevices, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microflow Phenomena, Sensor technology, Integrated microsystems for biomedical applications and for environmental control |
| Swei, Omar | Department of Civil Engineering | Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation |
| Tafaghodi, Leili | Department of Materials Engineering | Sustainable high temperature materials processing; Synthesis and refining of high quality metals and alloys; Thermodynamics; Mineral processing |
| Taghipour, Fariborz | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Clean Technologies, Solar and Wind Energy, Drinking Water, Solar Fuels, Artificial Photosynthetic Systems, UV Photoreactors, UV-LED Reactors, UV Microplasma, Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
| Taiebat, Mahdi | Department of Civil Engineering | static and dynamic soil-structure interaction, Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure-interaction |
| Takahata, Kenichi | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Tang, Shuo | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
| Thorne, Sally | School of Nursing | Nursing, cancer care, chronic illness |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Investigating the causes of software technical debt at the architectural level (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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DropBack : continuous pruning during deep neural network training (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Transformer-enhanced high-performance voltage-controlled oscillators (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Robust control of miniaturized optical image stabilizers for mobile phone cameras (Mechanical 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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Assessment of using a Tesla expander to harvest waste heat from a photovoltaic panel for residential applications (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Cold flow simulation of gas flare auxiliary air (Mechanical 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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Biological stability for vacuum UV advanced oxidation treatment of surface water (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Development of a quantitative risk analysis approach to evaluate the economic performance of an industrial-scale biorefinery (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Particle impingement onto a moving substrate (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Development of nanofibrous target materials for short-lived isotope production (Materials Engineering - MSC)
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Dynamic behavior of fluid film bearings, applications in the flexible rotor instability analysis (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Drying and co-pelletization of microalgae with sawdust (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Effect of electrolyte concentration in process water on flocculation (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Displacement flow of miscible fluids with density and viscosity contrast (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Cellulose nanocrystals aqueous suspensions as water-based lubricants (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Impact of humidity, temperature, and particulate fouling on membrane-based energy exchangers (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Analysis of data-at-rest security In smartphones (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Elastohydrodynamic interactions at small scales (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Analysis and design of mimo heterogeneous cellular networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Electrochemical evaluation and modulation of surface wettability (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Seismic design and performance evaluation of dual-fused h-frame system (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Interactive visual analytics for BIM compliance assessment and design decision-making (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Automatic translucency detection of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) via deep learning methods (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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An FPGA overlay architecture supporting software-like compile times during on-chip debug of high-level synthesis designs (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)