Louisa-May Khoo
Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)
Ageing in a Neuropolis: The Social Epidemiology of Stress in Late Life among Older Adults in Global-City Singapore
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 |
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| Kim, Amy | Department of Civil Engineering | Land transportation systems engineering, n.e.c.; Traffic and highway engineering |
| Kirchen, Patrick | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Thermochemical Energy Conversion, Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines, Ion Transport Membranes, Emissions, Fuel Injection |
| Klein, Bern | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | processing of precious minerals; processing of industrial metals, Ultrafine grinding, high pressure grinding rolls, hydraulic transport of non-Newtonion mineral slurries, industrial minerlas, mine-mill integration, continuous centrifugal gravity concentration, improved technologies for artisinal andsmall scale gold miners, metal leaching from waste rock, rheology of mineral suspensions |
| Kravchenko, Sergii | Department of Materials Engineering | Polymers and polymer composites; Multi-functional composites; High-throughput manufacturing process modelling of composites; Multi-scale, multi-physics, probabilistic computational modelling of composites; Manufacturing-informed performance simulation of composites; Machine learning methods in composites manufacturing and performance analysis; Composite structures for renewable energy & unmanned vehicles; additive manufacturing |
| Lampe, Lutz | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Communication Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Communications, , Communication and information theory, Smart Grid, Grid diagnostics, Ultra-wideband (UWB), Wireless sensor networks, Localization and tracking, RFID, Cognitive radio, Power line communications, Compressed sensing, Machine Learning |
| Lau, Anthony K | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Environmental engineering, waste-to-resource recycling, composting, odor control, biohydrogen energy |
| Lauck, Sandra | School of Nursing | health service delivery to support the implementation of innovative approaches to cardiac disease, minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart disease |
| Laval, Bernard | Department of Civil Engineering | Civil engineering; Oceanography |
| Lawrence, Gregory | Department of Civil Engineering | Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management |
| Lee, Jongho | Department of Civil Engineering | Membranes, Water/Wastewater Treatment, Desalination, Resource Harvesting, Nanoporous Media, Electrokinetics |
| Lees, Eric | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Electrochemical engineering, Electrochemical synthesis, Continuum modelling, Reactor design, Transport phenomena, Electrochemical separations, CO2 capture and conversion, Continuum and techno-economic/life cycle assessment modelling, Electrochemical reactions and separations, Atmospheric water harvesting |
| Lemieux, Guy | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | vector processors, parallel programming, programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGAs), computer architecture, computer arithmetic, custom computing hardware, computer engineering, Programmable logic and computing systems, multiprocessor and computer architecture |
| Lence, Barbara Jean | Department of Civil Engineering | Hydrotechnical, Optimizing design and operational strategies of water resources projects, reliable withdrawal-treatment strategies for contaminated groundwater supply systems, asset management strategies for mid-sized water utilities with limited break data, water distribution system operational procedures to meet hydraulic and water quality objectives |
| Leung, Cyril | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Wireless communication systems; digital communication networks; Wireless communications; network security; ageless aging technologies |
| Li, Loretta | Department of Civil Engineering | Contaminated site investigation and management, environmental monitoring, risk and impact assessment, soil-contaminant interactions, mobility and migration of contaminants, remediation technology, mine tailings waste disposal and treatment processes |
| Li, Xiaoxiao | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Trustworthy AI; Privacy and Security; Medical image analysis; Bioinformatics |
| Liao, Renjie | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Liao-McPherson, Dominic | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical engineering; Predictive and Constrained Control; Multi-agent Systems; algorithmic game theory; Real-time, Embedded, and Distributed Optimization; Energy Systems, Manufacturing, and Robotics |
| Lim, Theodore | School of Community and Regional Planning | Environmental and Climate Justice; Urban Analytics; Sustainability Planning |
| Lis, Mieszko | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer and Software Systems |
| Liu, Wenying | Department of Materials Engineering | Use of sea water in heap leaching; Release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials; Heap leach modelling |
| Lokman, Kees | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | design studios in the landscape architecture |
| Low, Margaret | School of Community and Regional Planning | Urban and regional planning; Indigenous community planning; Indigenous sovereignty; Reconciliation |
| Ma, Hongshen | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Microfluidics; Instrumentation; Cell Sorting; Cell Biomechanics; Circulating Tumor Cells; Malaria and Red Blood Cell Deformability; Single Cell Technologies; Cell Migration and Chemotaxis |
| Madden, John | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; artificial muscle; electrochemical devices; electronic skin; Functional and Intelligent Materials; medical devices; smart materials; supercapacitors; wearables |
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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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Towards a unified electro-optic circuits co-simulation (EECE - MASC)
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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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| 2024 | Dr. Izadi delved into the issue of leakage within the oil and gas industry, which is becoming an increasingly pressing environmental concern. He led the way in developing risk-based strategies to tackle this issue and pointed towards more sophisticated solutions to effectively mitigate its environmental impact. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Villalba investigated the mechanisms by which fibres form jams in pressure screening. He identified jamming as a random, intermittent process and discovered that the jamming intermittency provides insights into onset of permanent blockages, potentially leading to the development of a sensor for screening operations. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Wang's research focuses on accurately modeling Lithium-ion battery degradation from a data-driven perspective. He proposed various methods to enhance the generalizability of the model and developed a highly interpretable model. This study significantly advances the safe and reliable usage of Lithium-ion batteries. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Goyal developed a fast and accurate method to solve complex flow problems such as dust storms and the transmission of airborne viruses. The method uses the supercomputers efficiently to provide the solution five times quicker than the conventional method, allowing further investigation of complex flow problems in industries. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Zhang studied the displacement flows in narrow eccentric annuli. Her research spans a wide range of methods including 2D model development, 3D simulations and lab-scale experiments. A systematic classification metric has been built and the main emphasis lies in understanding the dispersion behavior of such flows. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Zhao investigated monolithic integration of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) on Si and Ge substrates. Successful VCSEL epitaxy on engineered Ge substrates has been illustrated with strong performance. Industry companies can use this study much more readily to adopt this technology. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Bakhshi advanced understanding of tack in carbon fiber composites during automated deposition processes by creating a simulator system, developing new characterization methods, and integrating novel sensors with high-resolution X-ray CT and numerical simulation. This enhances insights into material behavior, process, and manufacturing outcomes. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Pei studied bifunctional gas diffusion electrodes for reversible oxygen reaction catalysis. The findings provide valuable insights into designing durable and highly active transition-metal-based reversible oxygen electrodes for energy conversion and storage systems, contributing to a green future. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Arbabi developed a new approach to model the small-scale behavior of composite materials during manufacturing processes. This model empowers composite manufacturing companies to have better control over the processes, thereby facilitating the production of defect-free, lightweight structures. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Gill examined the safety concerns related to pedestrian interactions with other road users. He found that people perceive pedestrian interactions with bicycles to be most safe, less so with cars, and least safe with self-driving vehicles. His work provides guidelines to ensure pedestrian-friendly introduction of self-driving vehicles. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |