The Blockchain is a critical ledger that enables a trusted environment for transactions without the intervention of a centralized mechanism. Actual and proposed applications encompass cryptocurrencies, (e.g. Bitcoin) payment systems, clearing and settlement, securities trading, supply chain management, identity management, notarial services, the Internet of Things, land transfer and registration, health record keeping, voting, intellectual property management, and beyond. Blockchain @UBC harnesses research talent from across UBC and collaborations with an industry consortium to address some of the most significant challenges facing this rapidly emerging technology, including security, scalability, and records lifecycle management.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Beschastnikh, Ivan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; cloud computing; distributed systems; software analysis; software engineering |
| Cavusoglu, Hasan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | IT investment, information security, value of information technology, online product differentiation, information system security, Economics & sustainability, Management Information Systems |
| Fedorova, Alexandra | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | design of system software: the software that manages the hardware and decides how to allocate its resources to applications; building better performance tools. |
| Ford, Cristie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Law and legal practice; Law; Regulation; Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations; Laws, Standards and Regulation Impacts; Administrative Law; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Financial innovation and fintech; financial regulation; Legal innovation and law tech; regulation & governance theory; securities regulation; the legal profession |
| Krishnan, Harish | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics and business administration; Inventory and distribution logistics; Contracts and supply chains; Incentive distortions in supply chains; Management; Operations management; Supply chain management |
| Lemieux, Victoria | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Blockchain technology; information visualization and visual analytics; International development; Records and information management; Risk management; Transparency and the public interest (in public sector and financial contexts); Trustworthy records |
| Leung, Cyril | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Wireless communications, cellular systems, multihop mobile networks |
| Nan, Ning | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics and business administration; Management information systems; blockchain governance; complex adaptive systems; digital business; evolvable information systems; Information Systems; Management; online community |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Pattabiraman, Karthik | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Seidel, Marc-David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics and business administration; Organizational behavior; Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship; Distributed Trust Technologies (Blockchain, etc.); Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes; Economic Systems; Entrepreneurship; Impacts of New Information Technologies; Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.); Media and Society; New Technology and Social Impacts; Organizational Theory; Social Networks; Social Organization and Political Systems; Social networks and organizational decision making; Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations; Socio-Economic Conditions |
| Seltzer, Margo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer Systems; Data Quality; Storage; Machine Learning & Systems; Systems for capturing and accessing data provenance; File Systems; databases; Transaction processing systems; Storage and analysis of graph-structured data; New architectures for parallelizing execution; Systems that apply technology to problems in healthcare.; Artificial Intelligence; Decision-making & Action; Software Practices; Networks, Systems and Security |
| Wang, Zhen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Signal processing theory and applications, bioinformatics |
| Wong, Vincent | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |