Pranav Shrestha
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
Developing a point-of-care diagnostics platform
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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.
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| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Trajano, Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Biomass (Energy); Wood; Pulp and paper; Biochemicals; Biomass extractives recovery and utilization; Biorefining; catalysis; Hemicellulose; Kinetics; Pretreatment |
| Tran, Martino | School of Community and Regional Planning | systems science, predictive modelling and simulation for understanding and tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability |
| Upham, David Chester | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Energy Transformation and Energy Using; catalysis; Energy; Greenhouse gas mitigation |
| Van Duzer, Leslie | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Body and Space, Contemporary Theory, Design Thinking |
| Vassos, Troy | Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Water Reclamation Reuse and Conservation; Water Treatment Technology; Wastewater Resource Recovery; Biosolids Management, Treatment and Resource Recovery; Bioenergy; Rare Earth Element Mineral Processing Water Treatment | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vujosevic, Tijana | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Architecture; History and theory of architecture; Modern period, with special expertise in art and architecture of socialism |
| Walus, Konrad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations |
| Wang, Lele | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Mathematics of data science; Machine Learning; information theory; Coding theory; Combinatorics; Communication theory; Random graphs |
| Wang, Rizhi | Department of Materials Engineering, School of Biomedical 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 | Civil engineering; Water; Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs; Drinking Water; Fresh Water; Information; Hydroelectricity; Ice and Snow; control of water systems; droughts; experimental hydrology; floods; Hydrological Prediction; Hydrology; information theory; mountain hydrology; sensors; uncertainty; water resources management |
| Wen, Kefei | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Kinematics, dynamics, and control of parallel mechanisms; Parallel continuum robots; Physical Human-robot cooperation |
| Wijewickreme, Dharmapriya | Department of Civil Engineering | Geotechnical, pipeline geotechnical engineering |
| Wilkinson, David | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Electrochemistry; carbon dioxide conversion; clean and sustainable energy and water; Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, electrochemical power sources, advanced electrolysis,; hydrogen production and storage; solar fuels; waste water and drinking water treatment |
| Wilton, Steven | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Integrated Circuits; Computer Architecture; Computer Hardware; Computer-Aided Design Algorithms; Field-Programmable Gate Arrays; High-Level Synthesis |
| Wong, Vincent | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Telecommunication networks; Computer Systems; Network Analysis (Information); communication systems; energy systems; Internet; Internet of Things (IoT); Machine Learning; mobile computing; protocol design; smart grid; wireless networks |
| 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 |
| Wu, Lyndia | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Biomechanical engineering; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Biomedical signal processing; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Injury biomechanics; Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep Biomechanics; Sensors and Instrumentation; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Wearable Sensing |
| Wytenbroek, Lydia | School of Nursing | History of medicine and health care; Nursing; Nursing/Health History; Gender/Women's History; Social justice; Science and Technology |
| 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, School of Biomedical Engineering | Chemical engineering; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Bioactive Molecules; Biocatalysis; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biomass (Energy); Biomaterials; Bioprocess engineering; Bioremediation; Biotechnology; drug delivery; Drug discovery & development; Medical biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials; Synthetic biology; Technoeconomics; Tissue Engineering; 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 |
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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.
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Low-cost scanning electron microscope (EECE - MASC)
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 |
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| 2023 | Dr. Roy developed a combinatorial method for printing thin films of electroactive material dispersions. He applied this method to fabricate and evaluate the temperature sensing performance of organic polymers using statistical test procedures. His research is expected to enable rapid prototyping of thin film materials with minimal material wastage. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | Dr. Yandrapally developed a series of novel techniques to facilitate automatic software analysis and testing. Through controlled experiments, he showed that the proposed techniques outperform existing state-of-the-art techniques and provide solutions that are first of their kind for web applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | P-F-A-S, per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, otherwise known as forever chemicals are one of the biggest environmental challenges of the decade. Dr. Banayan Esfahani studied the application and mechanism of photochemical processes in destroying PFAS molecules, providing insight into the better strategies towards treating polluted waters. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | Dr. Danesh studied thoroughly linear and nonlinear rheological properties of salt-induced gels of cellulose nanocrystals. She also examined stability of zirconia microparticles by using CNC through gelation. Her research produced long-term stable suspensions for bio-based ceramics. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | As the air flows through our towns, fields, and forests, it moves in chaotic, ever-evolving patterns. Dr. Schmid worked to improve the mathematical and computational tools we use to study this motion in order to enable more accurate and flexible modeling. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | Dr. Halawa advocated for a paradigm shift across two high impact areas: cybersecurity and data analytics. His research explored novel ways to effectively harness big data to improve the security of online services and their most vulnerable users, and to explicitly model the bitemporal evolution of graph data to efficiently enable emerging use cases | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2023 | Dr. Yuan examined self-supervised learning at the sensor layer in robotics. These studies help push the boundary of self-supervised learning at the sensor layer to a usable stage, demonstrate the potential for this direction and shed light on future research. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Yu investigated the mechanism of hydrothermal pretreatment. She subsequently applied her methods to treat different agricultural residues to produce durable pellets. These practical studies potentially help industries to curtail the dependence on fossil fuels. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Nie developed an efficient direct voxel tracing method which computes the workpiece geometry and cutter-workpiece engagement in multi-axis machining simulation. This method achieves high efficiency in calculating geometric information while being accurate and robust enough for physical modeling. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Wang developed a series of methods and frameworks for addressing possible problems in clinical diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer so that artificial intelligence can be better applied. The proposed methods will potentially save lives that suffer from skin diseases and reduce healthcare costs. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |