Faculty directory

  • Machiel Vander Loos

    Machiel Van der Loos

    Mechanical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Research into human-robot interaction in industrial settings; interface design for mobile robots; roboethics; development of mechatronic exercise systems for movement therapy and diagnostic technologies for improved sleep quality; the neurophysiology of standing balance

  • Klaske Van Heusden

    Klaske Van Heusden

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Data-driven and learning control; system identification; control of robotics and mechatronic systems; emerging applications in agriculture and health care

  • Reza Vaziri

    Reza Vaziri

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    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

  • Carlos Ventura

    Carlos Ventura

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    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

  • Jonathan Verrett

    Jonathan Verrett

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Leadership development, experiential learning, design education, Open Educational Resources (OER), energy generation and use, sustainability

  • Anthony Wachs

    Anthony Wachs

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Fluid mechanics, particle-laden flows, non newtonian flows, heat and mass transfer, numerical simulation, high performance computing, multi-scale modelling

  • Konrad Walus

    Konrad Walus

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations

  • Jane Wang

    Jane Wang

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Multimedia security, statistical signal processing, biomedical information, genomic signal processing and statistics, and wireless communications

  • Lele Wang

    Lele Wang

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Information theory, coding theory, communication theory, mathematical data science.

  • Liwei Wang

    Liwei Wang

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Electric power systems, high power electronics, HVDC and FACTS systems, electrical machines and drives, real-time simulation

  • Rizhi Wang

    Rizhi Wang

    Materials Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Biomaterials, biomechanics, biomimetics

  • Berend Wassink

    Berend Wassink

    Materials Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Applied chemistry of extractive metallurgy, specifically hydrometallurgy

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