Faculty directory

  • Claire Yan

    Yu (Claire) Yan

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Computational fluid dynamics; Renewable energy technologies; Fluid mechanics

  • Tony Yang

    Tony Yang

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Seismic behavior and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behavior and design of tall buildings, develop performance-based evaluation methodology and code design procedures for new and existing structures, energy dissipation systems.

  • Nobo Yonemitsu

    Noboru Yonemitsu

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    IR-NDT technologies, turbulent fluid mechanics, environmental fluid mechanics, ecological fluid mechanics, wastewater treatment

  • Peter Zandstra

    Peter Zandstra

    Biomedical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Multi-scale modeling of complex biology; synthetic stem cells & regenerative medicine; synthetic niches to control stem cell fate; new therapies for blood diseases

  • Cristina

    Cristina Zanotti

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Infrastructure repair and durability, sustainable construction materials, alternative cementitious materials, durability of concrete structures, historical heritage structures, concrete-concrete bond, numerical analysis of reinforced concrete structures, early-age thermal cracking, fiber reinforced concrete

  • Mohammad Hossein Zarifi

    Mohammad Hossein Zarifi

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    State of the art sensors focusing on microwave resonators; High-speed and low-power analog circuit design; Analog-to-digital converters for a variety of applications

  • Ryan Ziels

    Ryan Ziels

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Sustainable biological wastewater treatment, resource recovery, microbial ecology, multi-omics, anaerobic digestion, biological nutrient removal, microbial biotechnology

  • Naomi Zimmerman

    Naomi Zimmerman

    Mechanical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Air pollution and climate impacts of policy interventions, renewable energy technology, low-cost sensing, traffic-related air pollution, aerosols

  • Zhengbo Zou

    Zhengbo Zou

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Building automation, facility management, responsive environments, automation in construction, construction robotics, virtual/augmented reality, computer vision, reinforcement learning, stochastic process.

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