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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Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Trajano, Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomass (Energy), Wood, Pulp and Paper, Biorefining, Biochemicals, Biomass extractives recovery and utilization, Catalysis, Hemicellulose, Pretreatment, Kinetics |
| Tran, Martino | School of Community and Regional Planning | systems science, predictive modelling and simulation for understanding and tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability |
| Troczynski, Tom | Department of Materials Engineering | ceramics, coatings, biomaterials, refractories, fracture, Medical applications, Processing, microstructure and properties of ceramics |
| Van der Loos, Hendrik | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Rehabilitation Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Design for Safety, Design Methodology and Design Coaching, Roboethics |
| Van Duzer, Leslie | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Body and Space, Contemporary Theory, Design Thinking |
| Van Zyl, Dirk | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | The contributions that mining makes to sustainable development, life cycle systems, mine earth structures (tailings, heap leach, and rock disposal facilities) |
| Varcoe, Colleen | School of Nursing | How the inequities of ethnicity, class, place and ability are central to violence against women, enhancing practice and policy in the context of violence and inequity |
| Vaziri, Reza | Department of Civil Engineering | Finite element analysis, Mechanics of composite materials, Constitutive modeling of engineering materials, Plasticity, Damage mechanics, Process modeling of composite structures, Analysis of impact and blast loading of metallic and composite structures |
| Veiga, Marcello | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | effects of metals in the environment; pollution caused by mining; social effects of mining on communities; mercury pollution on fish, Biogeochemical cycle of heavy metals in the environment, Bioaccumulation and adverse health effects of metals in the environment, specially mercury, Artisanal and small-scale gold mining, Mercury pollution from gold mining and hydroelectric reservoirs, Acid Rock DrainageProcess mineralogy applied to mining and mineral processing, Sustainable development in mining, Mining communities and social issues related to mining, Mine closure and reclamation planning |
| Ventura, Carlos Estuardo | Department of Civil Engineering | Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, full scale vibration testing, shake table testing Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures |
| Walus, Konrad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations |
| Wang, Rizhi | Department of Materials Engineering | Biomaterials, biomechanics Also, the structure and formation processes of biologically formed materials (eg seashells, silk, teeth) and applies the mechanisms to the design and processing of novel materials |
| Wang, Zhen | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Signal processing theory and applications, bioinformatics |
| Weijs, Steven | Department of Civil Engineering | Water, Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs, Drinking Water, Fresh Water, Information, Hydroelectricity, Ice and Snow, Hydrological Prediction, hydrology, water resources management, information theory, uncertainty, experimental hydrology, sensors, mountain hydrology, droughts, floods, control of water systems |
| Wijewickreme, Dharmapriya | Department of Civil Engineering | Geotechnical, pipeline geotechnical engineering |
| Wilkinson, David | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, electrochemical power sources, advanced electrolysis, , hydrogen production and storage, waste water and drinking water treatment, solar fuels, carbon dioxide conversion, clean and sustainable energy and water |
| Wilton, Steven | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Integrated Circuits, Computer Architecture, Computer Hardware, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Computer-Aided Design Algorithms, High-Level Synthesis |
| Wong, Sabrina | School of Nursing | Primary Health Care, Primary Care, vulnerable populations, marginalized groups, ethno-cultural, patient experiences, quality of care, Organization and delivery of health care, informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequalities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty |
| Wong, Vincent | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Telecommunication networks, Computer Systems, Energy Networks and Distribution, protocol design, optimization, wireless networks, communication systems, Internet, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing, smart grid, energy systems |
| Wu, Chun | Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Xia, Guangrui | Department of Materials Engineering | Group IV semiconductors in microelectronics; Si compatible lasers; 2D semiconductors; 3D integration of Ics; Raman spectroscopy |
| Yadav, Vikramaditya | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Biomass (Energy), Bioremediation, Bioactive Molecules, Biomaterials, Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, Biocatalysis, Bioprocess engineering, Bioremediation, Medical biotechnology, Tissue engineering, Drug delivery, Drug discovery & development, Technoeconomics, Vaccines |
| Yang, Tsung-Yuan | Department of Civil Engineering | Seismic behavior and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behavior and design of tall buildings, develop performance-based evaluation methodology and code design procedures for new and existing structures, using innovative structural component and systems to improve structural performance, including the use of innovative active, semi-active and passive energy dissipation systems, develop accurate and cost effective experimental methods to analyze structural response under extreme loading conditions. |
| Yedlin, Matthew | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | earthquakes, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear weapons, flipped classroom pedagogy, geophysics, digital signal processing, electroencephalography |
| Zanotti, Cristina | Department of Civil Engineering |
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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)