Jake Bobowski | Associate Head - Physics, Professor of Teaching | Physics |
jake.bobowski@ubc.ca | 250.807.9506 | SCI 200B
Research Interests: Custom microwave techniques for measuring electromagnetic properties of materials; low-temperature conductivity and penetration depth of unconventional superconductors; complex permittivity of waste-activated sludge.
Courses & Teaching: Experimental physics; electronics; solid state physics; statistical mechanics.
Jagdeep Brar | Research Associate | Mathematics |
jkaur87@mail.ubc.caResearch Interests: Optimization, Portfolio optimization, Credit risk management, Fuzzy linear programming.
Courses & Teaching: Vector graphics and animations
W. John Braun | Department Head, Professor | Mathematics, Statistics |
ubcokb5-g-DeptHead@mail.ubc.ca | 250.807.8032 | SCI 200E
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education. Most recently, I have been focusing on visualization methodology, using a class of techniques called Data Sharpening.
Courses & Teaching: Modelling and Simulation. Predictive Modelling. Data Visualization.
Rebecca Feldman | Assistant Professor | Medical Physics, Physics |
rebecca.feldman@ubc.ca | 250.807.8691 | ASC 350
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Medical Imaging, MRI, Pulse Sequence Design, Image Processing, Translational Imaging
Courses & Teaching: Physics, Waves
Yong Gao | Professor | Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics |
yong.gao@ubc.ca | 250.807.9503 | SCI 262
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Algorithmic and computational problems in artificial intelligence and network science; applications in social media and computational biology; graph theory and probabilistic method.
Courses & Teaching: Algorithm design and analysis; artificial intelligence; discrete structures; network science.
Mohammad Abdul Hadi | MSc Student | Computer Science |
hadi@alumni.ubc.ca | 250.899.6971 | ASC 164, Monday to Friday: 9am-4pm
Research Interests: My research focuses on two different paradigms of machine learning: unsupervised and transfer learning. In unsupervised machine learning, I am working on autonomous topic modeling in NLP.
In transfer learning, my aim is to figure out how to transfer knowledge across domains or tasks that have different feature spaces, and how to transfer from multiple such source domains.
Mohammad Khalad Hasan | Assistant Professor | Computer Science, Data Science |
khalad.hasan@ubc.ca | 250.807.8077 | SCI 260
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, mobile and wearable (e.g., smartwatches, smart glasses) user interfaces, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, information visualization, gesture interaction, computer vision, machine learning, navigation interfaces, input devices.
Courses & Teaching: Human-computer interaction, user interfaces, collaborative software development, scripting and reporting, data analytics.
Alex Hill | Assistant Professor | Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics |
alex.hill@ubc.ca | 250.807.8919 | SCI 261
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Radio, optical, and computational astronomy. Interstellar gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence in and around the Milky Way. Photoionization and radiative transfer in interstellar gas. High velocity clouds. Cosmology and the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).
Courses & Teaching: ASTR 210 (Physical Processes in the Universe), PHYS 321 (Stellar Astrophysics), ASTR 110/111/112 (Astrophysics I/Astronomy I)
X. Joan Hu | Honourary Affiliate | Statistics |
joanh@stat.sfu.caResearch Interests: Event history data; longitudinal data with latent classes; marked point processes with a spatial correlation.
Courses & Teaching: STAT-285. Intermediate Probability and Statistics, Fall 2018
STAT-445/645. Applied Multivariate Analysis, Spring 2019
STAT-854. Biometrics, Spring 2019
Bowen Hui | Associate Head Undergraduate, Associate Professor of Teaching | Computer Science |
bowen.hui@ubc.ca | 250.807.9353 | SCI 257
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Learning analytics; computer science education; decision making under uncertainty; probabilistic user modeling; human-computer interaction cost models; experiment design and analysis.
Courses & Teaching: Digital citizenship; computer programming; principles of computer science; human computer interaction; software engineering.
Youry Khmelevsky | Honourary Affiliate, Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science |
youry.khmelevsky@ubc.caResearch Interests: Software engineering; biomedical signal processing and control; source code generation; automatic source code debugging; database security and data protection; systems of systems; big data collection and analysis.
Courses & Teaching: Software projects; software engineering; object oriented systems analysis and design; special database management systems; special topics in DBMS; database administration.
Patricia Lasserre | Associate Professor | Computer Science |
patricia.lasserre@ubc.ca | 250.807.9502 | ADM 119B
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Active learning techniques for computer science; developing tools for learning, computational thinking and design thinking; application of HCI tools and techniques to improve teaching and learning.
Courses & Teaching: Programming; computer vision; HCI; project management; security.
Paul Lee | Instructor | Mathematics |
paul.lee@ubc.ca | 250.807.9990 | SCI 104
Research Interests: Algebraic number theory: Diophantine equations, elliptic and hyperelliptic curves, intersective polynomials.
Courses & Teaching: Mathematics and statistics, with a concentration on calculus and business math/statistics.
Yves Lucet | Associate Head - Computer Science, Professor | Computer Science, Mathematics |
yves.lucet@ubc.ca | 250.807.9505 | SCI 200C
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Computational mathematics, optimization and convex analysis; modeling; model road design to minimize construction costs under safety and environmental constraints; creating algorithms for computer-aided convex analysis; visualizing operators in 2D, 3D, and 4D.
Courses & Teaching: Optimization; data structures.
Firas Moosvi | Lecturer | Computer Science, Data Science, Physics |
firas.moosvi@ubc.ca | SCI 393
Research Interests: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Medical Physics; Learning Analytics
Courses & Teaching: Introductory Physics, Data Science, Data Visualization, Scientific computation and Programming. COSC 301; DATA 301; PHYS 111.
Apurva Narayan | Assistant Professor | Computer Science, Data Science |
apurva.narayan@ubc.ca | 250.807.8272 | SCI 110
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence/machine learning with emphasis on explainable AI/ML and quantum machine learning; data mining; data analytics, safety and security of cyber physical systems; software engineering; graph theoretic analysis of complex systems; decision making under uncertainty.
Courses & Teaching: Machine learning; Data structures; Data mining and analytics; Software engineering.
Javad Tavakoli | Professor | Mathematics |
javad.tavakoli@ubc.ca | 250.807.9535 | SCI 114
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: information geometry, topological data analysis, queueing theory and applications in telecommunication systems, random walks in quarter plane and applications in probability modeling.
Courses & Teaching: Recent teaching: Algebraic Number Theory, Abstract Algebra I & II, Stochastic Processes, Queueing Theory, Calculus (all levels), Topology, AlgebraicTopology, Topological Data Analysis and many Directed Studies in different areas in Math.