People
Faculty & Staff
- Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni, Principal Investigator
- Aleli Capuno, Admin Assistant to Associate Deans
Postdoc
Ying Xiong
Started 2019
MPC Design for the Mechanical Pulping Process
PhD
Yixiu Wang
Started 2019 | Co-supervisor: Yankai Cao
Modeling and Control of Battery Systems
Liang Cao
Started 2019
Predicting Quality-relevant Variables in Industrial Process via Causality Analysis PDF
Maricela Best McKay
Started 2019 | Co-supervisor: Brian Wetton
RNN Approximation of Mathematical Models of Li-Ion Batteries
Nathan Lawrence
Started 2018 | Co-supervisor: Philip Loewen
Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Maintenance-free Control in Industrial Applications PDF
Ali Chamkalani
Started 2018 | Co-supervisor: James Piret
Data Analytic Techniques for Cell Therapy
Seoeun Kim
Started 2017
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wheat Crop Modelling
Started 2017 | Co-supervisor: Philip Loewen
Process Analytics and Machine Learning Techniques for the Kraft Pulping Process
Ryan Jacobson
Started 2016 | Co-supervisor: Shahab Sokhansanj
Optimization of Biomass Supply Chains
Yiting Tsai
Started 2016
Data-based Deep Optimal Feature Learning
MASc
Ibrahim Yousef
Started 2019 | Co-supervisor: Sirish Shah
Developing Predictive Analytics Techniques Towards Fault Detection in an Electric Arc Furnace
Hashim Migaybil
Started 2019
Performance Prediction of a Photovoltaic Assisted Single-Slope Solar Still via ML Models
Undergraduate
Shams Elnawawi
Started 2019
Data Visualization and Analysis for Large-Dimensional Model Predictive Controllers
Alumni
Former students and visitors
| Name | Year | Degree | Position After Leaving/Now At |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yi Luo | 2020 | Ph.D. (Visiting) | BUCT, Beijing |
| Hui Tian | 2020 | PhD | |
| Ruyi Yang | 2019 | Summer Student | |
| David Kong | 2018 | M.Sc. | ML Engineer, Realtor.com |
| Kai Wang | 2018 | Ph.D. | Associate Prof, CSU, Changsha |
| Qiugang Lu | 2018 | Ph.D. | General Motors, now UW-Madison Zavala Lab Postdoc |
| Simeng Li | 2018 | Co-Op Student | UBC BASc |
| Logan Phillips | 2018 | Undergraduate Thesis | DuBois Chemicals |
| William Xi | 2018 | Undergraduate Thesis | UC Berkeley MSc |
| Shams Elnawawi | 2018 | NSERC USRA | Mitsubishi Ireland (Internship), now UBC BASc Thesis |
| Yilin Fan | 2017 | M.Eng. | Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) London |
| Koji Kitano | 2017 | M.A.Sc. (Visiting) | Kyoto University |
| Steven Spielberg | 2017 | M.A.Sc. | Amazon |
| David Zamar | 2017 | Ph.D. | Data Scientist, UBC SPPH |
| Siang Lim | 2017 | NSERC USRA | FortisBC, now Burnaby Refinery |
| Aigerim Ongalbayeva | 2016 | M.A.Sc. | Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools |
| Lee Rippon | 2016 | M.A.Sc. | UBC PhD |
| Mahsa Sadeghassadi | 2016 | Ph.D. | inCTRL Solutions |
| Melissa Barazandegan | 2016 | Ph.D. | Vancouver Coastal Health |
| Alireza Nazari | 2016 | Undergraduate Thesis | Accenture then Harvard Law |
| Yiting Tsai | 2015 | M.A.Sc. | UBC PhD |
| Ramin Khoie | 2015 | M.A.Sc. | AutomationX Industrial Solutions |
| Navid Ghaffari | 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Sanofi |
| Fatemeh Ekram | 2015 | Ph.D. | STEM Education Instructor, Insight Chemistry Tutors |
| Feras Al-Rowaie | 2015 | Ph.D. | Assistant Prof, Jubail Industrial College |
| Yang Liu | 2015 | Internship | Yale PhD |
| Jiaqi Gao | 2015 | Internship | Tsinghua then Yale, now Harvard |
| Clarin Houle | 2015 | Undergraduate Thesis | Corvus Energy |
| Mahdi Yousefi | 2014 | M.A.Sc. | Avestec Technologies |
| Sravan Nandhakumar | 2014 | Internship | |
| Vinay Bhavdekar | 2013 | Postdoc | Postdocs UofA and UC Berkeley, then GE, now Wabtec Corp |
| Kenneth McClure | 2013 | M.A.S.c | Spartan Controls |
| Omid Vahidi | 2013 | Ph.D. | Assistant Prof, IUST Iran |
| Aditya Tulsyan | 2013 | Ph.D. | MIT Postdoc, now Amgen |
| JiChuan Wu | 2012 | M.Eng. | Petrochemicals, China |
| Cai Long | 2012 | M.A.Sc. | World Health Organization |
| Sayyed Soroush Nasseri | 2012 | M.A.Sc. | UBC PhD |
| Adriana Cajiao | 2012 | Ph.D. | Response Biomedical Corp |
| Jalaj Jain | 2012 | Internship | Shell then Schlumberger, now McKinsey |
| Norman Siu | 2012 | Undergraduate Thesis | Solaris then Coanda, now Enbridge |
| Daniel Esau | 2012 | Undergraduate Thesis | UBC Medicine |
| Mankaran Mehrok | 2011 | M.Eng. | Seven Generations Energy |
| Parisa Towfigi | 2011 | M.A.Sc. | Siemens |
| Phanindra Jampana | 2010 | Postdoc | Assistant Prof at IIT, Hyderabad |
| Yanqin Li | 2010 | Research Associate (Visiting) | |
| Lin Sun | 2010 | Postdoc (Visiting) | China University of Petroleum, Beijing |
| Devin Marshman | 2010 | M.A.Sc. | NORPAC Controls |
| Shreyas Rangan | 2010 | Internship | |
| Naveen Karthik | 2010 | Internship | |
| Do Yun Kim | 2009 | Postdoc | |
| Shelly Jang | 2009 | M.A.Sc. | University of Washington PhD |
| Anand Kaushik | 2009 | Internship | |
| Harigopal Raghavan | 2008 | Research Associate | Shell |
| Ma Edo Tanujaya | 2008 | Co-Op Student | |
| Prince Nimoh | 2008 | Co-Op Student | |
| Varun Agarwal | 2006 | Co-Op Student | |
| Anshul Jain | 2006 | Co-Op Student |