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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.
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Salcudean, Tim | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical technologies, Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design, prostate cancer |
| Salfi, Joseph | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Quantum Physics; Quantum Information; Solid State Physics; Electronic Transport; Mesoscopic Physics; Nanoelectronicx; Micro Technologies; Nano Technologies; Quantum information science and technology; Quantum computers; Quantum Simulators; Machine Learning; Information security |
| 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 | Solid mechanics; optical metrology; residual stress measurement; ESPI; DIC; wood mechanics |
| Scholes, Rachel | Department of Civil Engineering | Environmental chemistry; Trace contaminants; Water reuse; Nature-based treatment systems; Stormwater treatment; Green Chemistry |
| 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 |
| Shahrad, Mohammad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer engineering; Computing systems; cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; Sustainable computing; data center efficiency |
| 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 | Materials engineering |
| 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 |
| Srebnik, Simcha | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Bioinspired engineering and biomimetic design; Carbon nanotubes; Developing models for interfacial polymerization membraned; Diffusion in nanostructured materials; Functional materials; Hierarchical modeling; Mechanical properties of polymers melts and polymer networks; Molecular simulation of polymers and composite materials; Molecular simulations; Optimization of protein-imprinted polymers; Polymers and biopolymers; Protein folding and stability; Statistical thermodynamics of polymers and biopolymers; Understanding polymer-carbon nanotube interactions |
| 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 |
| Steen, John Thomas | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | Strategy; Innovation; Network analysis; Projects; Mining industry |
| Stevens, Sara | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | history and theory of architecture and urban design, urban history, economic theory, and the history of infrastructure |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Taghipour, Fariborz | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Artificial Photosynthetic Systems, UV Photoreactors, Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors, Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| Taiebat, Mahdi | Department of Civil Engineering | Geomechanics; Geotechnical engineering; theoretical and computational geomechanics; constitutive modeling of engineering materials; physics and mechanics of granular materials; geotechnical earthquake engineering; seismic soil-structure interaction |
| Tak, Thena | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | |
| Takahata, Kenichi | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Tang, Shuo | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Medical devices; Optical instrumentation (including sensing and metrology); biophotonics; Biomedical imaging |
| Tavasoli, Alex | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Chemical engineering; Materials engineering; Mechanical engineering; industrial decarbonization; community-based and/or distributed infrastructure; chemical and materials manufacturing processes; carbon dioxide capture and conversion; photocatalysis |
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.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Penner fabricated, tested and successfully characterised a cost-efficient optical fibre-based multi-point sensing system for proton and proton FLASH radiotherapy. The organic scintillator and optical fibre arrays have potential to increase safety of these modalities and, in the future, further enable clinical access. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Sampara investigated approaches to optimize wastewater treatment. He demonstrated approaches to integrate process modelling and microbial community traits, and developed tools to quantify microbial activity. His work advances our understanding of biological wastewater treatment process design and operation to ensure a healthy environment. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Afifi’s doctoral studies focused on light processing silicon microchips that can generate and filter quantum states of light. He developed photonic integrated circuits to generate quantum light for quantum information processing applications. His findings contribute to scaling up photonic quantum computing and secure communication systems. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Gardner-Frolick studied how to tailor air quality methods to environmental justice analysis and applied the knowledge to understand the inequitable impacts of air pollution in Canada. Her findings aid in identifying effective and efficient means of increasing environmental equity. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Alharbi conducted a two-phased study to adapt the revised version of the U.S. Hospital Survey on patient safety culture for use by registeried nurses working in Saudi hospital settings, following well-established guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument. Her findings yielded promising evidence of the instrument's validity in the Saudi context | Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) |
| 2024 | During the progression of Osteoarthritis, a common joint disease, the joint cartilage wears down, causing pain, swelling, and joint stiffness that gets in the way of everyday activities. The overall goal of Dr. Jones' work was to learn more about how changes in the hip bone are related to changes in hip joint cartilage using specialized medical imaging techniques. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Wu developed compact multimodal multiphoton microscopes for biomedical imaging. Volumetric 2- and 3-photon imaging is achieved with a fiber laser and miniaturized scanners and optics which can be integrated into a handheld imaging probe. This research brings the technology closer to clinical applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Daemi applied Gaussian Processes and Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis in transfer learning. She introduced three novel methods for extracting domain invariant features. These methods have been validated through multiple case studies, demonstrating their efficacy in real-world process monitoring and soft sensor design. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Plavsic developed a virtual reality-based digital twin platform for facilitating remote mining operations. She applied her method to real-time monitoring and maintenance of mining equipment. She also studied the impact of optimization techniques on application performance to ensure its scalability and usability. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Caliskan developed a comprehensive numerical model to simulate dense,slurry flows, with a specific focus on gravity separation processes in mineral processing. This model is suitable for large-scale industrial settings, common in mineral processing plants, and aims to enhance understanding of slurry flow dynamics, ultimately improving the efficiency of the relevant units. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |