Expert

Dr. Gregory Paradis, RPF, P.Eng.

Dr. Gregory Paradis, RPF, P.Eng.

Assistant Professor

forest management and planning, harvest scheduling, timber harvesting, climate change mitigation, forest carbon modelling, forest industry, supply chain planning, forest resource analysis, landscape-level modelling, forest economics, operations research, optimization, industrial engineering, business analytics,

Dr. Aastha Mehta

Dr. Aastha Mehta

Assistant Professor

systems security, operating systems, data privacy, distributed systems, side channels,

Dr. Vered Shwartz

Dr. Vered Shwartz

Assistant Professor

natural language processing, commonsense reasoning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning,

Dr. Ricky Turgeon, BSc(Pharm), ACPR, PharmD

Assistant Professor

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Heart Failure

Cardiology, drug safety, heart failure, medications, pharmacy,

Dr. Mauricio Ponga, PhD

Dr. Mauricio Ponga, PhD

Assistant Professor

Modelling and simulation, Atomic and molecular simulations, Metallic and high-entropy alloys, High-strain rate mechanical behaviour, Mechanics of Materials, Bioinformatics,

Salima Samnani

Lecturer

Co-Legal Services Director

Family Law, Civil Litigation, Human Rights, Social Justice, Downtown Eastside issues, Indigenous issues, Civil Law, Civil Liberties,

Dr. Jonathan Fannin, PhD, PEng

Professor

Internal erosion, geosynthetics, debris flow travel distance on steep mountainous terrain, slope stability in engineering practice,

Dr. Allison Man, PhD

Assistant Professor

Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy formation and evolution, Early Universe, Star formation, Supermassive black holes, Galaxy mergers, Galaxy structure and kinematics, Stellar populations, Interstellar medium, Gravitational lensing, Optical and near-infrared observations, Sub-millimeter/radio observations,

Dr. Louis Maraj , PhD

Dr. Louis Maraj , PhD

Assistant Professor

race, antiracism, rhetoric, Black studies, digital media, antiracist pedagogy, activism, gender,

Dr. Amy Wilson, PhD, DVM

Dr. Amy Wilson, PhD, DVM

Adjunct Professor

Ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing wildlife health and disease, role of domestic animals in the transfer of disease between humans and wildlife, conservation ecology of bats in British Columbia,

Dr. Fred Voon, MD, CCFP-EM

Dr. Fred Voon, MD, CCFP-EM

Clinical Assistant Professor

Emergency physician

Emergency Department, Emergency Medicine, Evidence-based Happiness, Physician Wellness, Physician Peer Support, Non-fiction book writing and publishing process,

Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), MBA (Exec)

Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), MBA (Exec)

Professor and Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry

Regional Head and Regional Program Medical Director, Vancouver Coastal Health & Providence Health Care

Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Mood Disorders, Mental Health, Mental Health Care, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Research, Leadership,

Dr. Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, PhD

Dr. Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow & Sessional Lecturer

Seismic retrofit strategies for low-rise unreinforced masonry, Ecofriendly Ductile Cementitious Composite (Earthquake-Resistant Concrete or EDCC), structural engineering, earthquake engineering, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), vibrations of structures, structural rehabilitation, building condition assessment, civil infrastructure repair & strengthening, innovative construction materials, advanced concrete technology, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), high performance materials,

Dr. Tony T.Y. Yang, PhD, PEng

Dr. Tony T.Y. Yang, PhD, PEng

Professor

Seismic behaviour and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behaviour and design of tall buildings,

Ingrid Jarvis

Ingrid Jarvis

PhD candidate

urban natural environments, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being,

Dr. Helena Wu, PhD

Dr. Helena Wu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Studies

Hong Kong, Hong Kong culture, cinema, and literature, identity, popular culture, media, spectatorship, community,

Dr. Crystal Webster, PhD History

Assistant Professor

Black history, history of childhood and youth, history of crime and incarceration,

Prof. Mathias Lécuyer

Prof. Mathias Lécuyer

Assistant Professor

Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, Systems,

Dr. Tyler Black, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Tyler Black, MD, FRCPC

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Clinical Assistant Professor

suicide, mental health, child, adolescent, emergency, video games, media, screen time, violence, psychopharmacology, medications, mortality,

Dr. Ken Byrne, PhD, RPF

Dr. Ken Byrne, PhD, RPF

Lecturer

Windthrow, Tree Stability, Wind Damage, Modelling, Sustainable Forest Management, Forest Operations,