Faculty directory

  • Steven Weijs

    Steven Weijs

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Water resources management, mountain hydrology, catchment hydrology, flood forecasting, uncertainty, information theory, control of water systems

  • Sabine Weyand

    Sabine Weyand

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Biomedical Engineering

  • Dharma Wijewickreme

    Dharma Wijewickreme

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Response of soils under earthquake loading with particular emphasis on liquefaction of silts; Advanced Soil Pipe Interaction Research (ASPIRe) program with physical modeling to solve pipeline engineering problems, and advanced laboratory geomaterial characterization research to solve earthquake geotechnical engineering

  • David Wilkinson

    David Wilkinson

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, electrochemical power sources, hydrogen production and storage, electrosynthesis, waste water and drinking water treatment, solar fuels, carbon dioxide and nitrogen conversion, clean and sustainable energy and water

  • Steve Wilton

    Steve Wilton

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Field programmable gate array architectures and CAD tools

  • Pamela Wolf

    Pamela Wolf

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Classroom culture in engineering communication and the development of post-secondary curriculum with a special focus on facilitation, collaboration, and decolonization

  • Vincent Wong

    Vincent Wong

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Wireless communication systems, mobile networks, smart grid, energy systems, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, optimization

  • Lyndia Wu

    Lyndia Wu

    Mechanical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Injury biomechanics, soft tissue biomechanics, traumatic brain injury, sleep biomechanics, sensors and instrumentation, data mining and machine learning

  • Gurangrui Xia

    Guangrui (Maggie) Xia

    Materials Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Group IV semiconductors in microelectronics, Ge-on-Si lasers, 2D semiconductors, 3D integration of ICs, Raman spectroscopy

  • Nozomu Yachie

    Nozomu Yachie

    Biomedical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Genome editing, cell engineering, mouse genetics, high-performance computing to trace molecular & cellular dynamics in high-resolution; DNA event recording; cell lineage tracing

  • Vikramaditya

    Vikramaditya Yadav

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Biocatalysis, bioremediation, bioprocess engineering, drug delivery, infectious disease pathogenesis & drug discovery, green chemistry, medical biotechnology, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, tissue engineering

  • Joseph Yan

    Joseph Yan

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Micromechatronics, microfabrications, microassembly and biomimetic robotics

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