Postdoctoral Research Fellow Listings
Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs) contribute to the research environment of the School of Engineering on UBC’s Okanagan campus.
A full listing of PDFs on the Okanagan campus is below (last update January 2022).
Supervisor: Mohammad Arjmand
Research Focus: Nanomaterials and Battery
Supervisor: Shahria Alam
Research Focus: Performance-based seismic design of concrete arch bridges.
Supervisor: Mohammad Arjmand
Email: aliakbarisehat@gmail.com
Supervisors: Lukas Bichler & Dimitry Sediako
Email: houman.amirabad@gmail.com
Supervisor: Anas Chaaban
Email: qiangan@utias.utoronto.ca
Supervisors: Jian Liu
Supervisor: Morad Abdelaziz
Research Focus: Expertise in power system expansion planning, power system decarbonization, and energy storage planning and operation. He has developed low-carbon power system expansion planning models for power systems with different capacity of clean energy resources.
Email: vahid.asgharian@gmail.com
Supervisor: Alexander Uhl
Supervisor: Solomon Tesfamariam
Email: ngbalek@gmail.com
Supervisor: Sumi Siddiqua
Email: chinchu0401@gmail.com
Supervisor: Kasun Hewage
Email: gyankumar.shrestha@gmail.com
Supervisor: Alexander Uhl
Supervisor: Sunny Li
Research Focus: Design and optimization of waste-heat recovery units —Thermodynamic analysis and CFD simulation of condensation heat transfer and multiphase flow. Development of thermal models and solutions for electric/electronic devices and energy systems
Email: arashhaddadi2016@gmail.com
Supervisor: Shahria Alam
Research Focus: Self-centering braced frame steel building under seismic loads.
Supervisor: Zheng Liu
Research Focus: Fault diagnosis and modelling of complex systems, sensor signal processing and data analytics, and mechanical system design.
Supervisors: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto) & Abbas Milani
Research Focus: Functional textile & apparel science, textile engineering & technology, comfort in clothing, protective textiles & clothing
Email: fgholamr@ualberta.ca
Supervisor: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto)
Email: hajiraissi@yahoo.com
Supervisor: Mohammad Arjmand
Research Focus: Nanomaterials and Polymer Processing
Email: arashhaddadi2016@gmail.com
Supervisor: Jian Liu
Email: huibinghe@whu.edu.can
Supervisor: Mohammad Arjmand
Research Focus: Nanomaterials and Polymer Processing
Supervisors: Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq
Research Focus: Expertise in the broad area of environmental engineering, covering hazardous waste treatment and management, public health protection in contaminated environments, complex decision-making and modeling of environmental systems, and sustainable environmental engineering practices (e.g., resource exploitation, water supply, contaminated site remediation, and waste management).
Email: guangji.hu@gmail.com
Supervisor: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto)
Email: cimjjang@gmail.com
Supervisor: Joshua Brinkerhoff
Email: uismail19@gmail.com
Supervisor: Chen Feng
Research Focus: Blockchain technology with a particular focus on consensus algorithms. His recent work has attracted the attention from Facebook Libra/Diem team.
Email: mjalal7@lsu.edu
Supervisor: Mina Hoorfar (University of Victoria)
Email: s.janfaza@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Sumi Siddiqua
Email: kamal.abu@gmail.com
Supervisors: Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq
Research Focus: Working on WLL net-zero home, working on life cycle sustainability of modular construction
Email: mohammad.kamali@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Kasun Hewage
Email: hirushie@gmail.com
Supervisor: Cigdem Eskicioglu
Research Focus: A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow by the EU-funded project under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. She is investigating the fate of emerging micropollutants and their transformation products by applying an innovative and energy-efficient radio frequency sludge pretreatment followed by anaerobic digestion for waste reuse.
Email: gokce.kor@gmail.com
Supervisor: Jian Liu
Research Focus: Advanced materials including novel design of electrodes and electrolytes for high-performance supercapacitors at wide range operational temperatures
Email: xuejun.lu@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Jian Liu
Supverisor: Sumi Siddiqua
Research Focus: Recruitment of Portland cement manufacture by-product, ornamental stones hazardous carbonate wastes, and metal sawdust, in the sustainable civil engineering construction applications.
Email: gehadelansarry@gmail.com
Supervisors: Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq
Research Focus: His expertise lies in the areas of drinking water quality modeling and management, source water protection, water distribution, and treatment systems, risk assessment, and decision making in environmental systems.
Email: hrmian@mail.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Jahangir Hossein
Email: hnavazi@gmail.com
Supervisor: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto)
Email: majid.mohseni@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Anas Chaaban
Research Focus: Modeling and performance analysis of wireless communication systems
Supervisor: Chen Feng
Research Focus: Blockchain technology with a particular focus on interoperability. In addition, he is exploring the healthcare application of Blockchain technology.
Supervisor: Lukas Bichler & Dimitry Sediako
Email: nisar.ambreen@gmail.com
Supervisor: Alexander Uhl
Supervisor: Anas Chaaban
Email: mhndbaz@gmail.com
Supervisor: Deborah Roberts (University of Northern British Columbia)
Research Focus: Project management; Advanced surface coatings
Email: anupilla@gmail.com
Supervisor: Shahria Alam
Research Focus: Piston based self-centering bracing systems for timber structures.
Supervisors: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto) & Sumi Siddiqua
Research Focus: Application of bio-based materials for triboelectric energy harvesting (bio-TENGs), cellulose nanomaterials, and paper coating and converting.
Email: arazrajabiabhari@gmail.com
Supervisors: Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq
Research Focus: Sustainable urban water systems, Performance assessment and benchmarking of aquatic centres.
Email: sana.saleem@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Mohammad Zarifi
Research Focus: Microwave biosensors and antenna structures for long-range sensing
Supervisor: Jian Liu
Research Focus: Developing materials for energy storage applications.
Email: h.saneifar@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Lukas Bichler
Supervisor: Joshua Brinkerhoff
Email: nidhisharmaiitk@gmail.com
Supervisor: Solomon Tesfamariam
Research Focus: Performance- and resilience-based design of RC buildings.
Supervisor: Joshua Brinkerhoff
Email: m.smith.1@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Joshua Brinkerhoff
Email: cswan007@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dimitry Sediako
Research Focus: Development and advanced characterization of novel lightweight alloys for the next-generation of the automotive powertrain. Stress and phase analysis with application of neutron diffraction. Metals’ casting and solidification.
Email: joshua.stroh@ubc.ca
Supervisors: Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq
Research Focus: His research expertise includes building energy efficiency, HVAC control, digital twins for modern integrated energy systems and urban building energy analysis. To complement his research, he has four years of industrial experience in a vertically-integrated electricity distribution company, demonstrating excellent project management and interpersonal skills.
Email: asad.hussain@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Homayoun Najjaran (University of Victoria)
Supervisor: Kevin Golovin (University of Toronto)
Email: xxzhao717@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dwayne Tannant
Email: wbheng@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Thomas Johnson
Email: faridzubir@utm.my