Associate Professor Xiaoliang Jin has been renewed as the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Manufacturing. Jin works to advance manufacturing and machining processes, investigating their applications to advanced materials such as nickel alloys and bulk metallic glasses, new processes for hybrid additive manufacturing, mechanics and dynamics of micro-cutting process, and system design for manufacturing instrumentation. His Advanced Manufacturing Processes Laboratory (AMP) develop new and innovative manufacturing solutions for aerospace, optics, bio-medicine, and electronics.
Newly appointed as a CRC Chairholder, Assistant Professor Lyndia Wu is the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Wearable Brain Injury Sensing. Wu’s research address the grand challenge of advancing human brain health, with specific focus on wearable technologies for brain injury sensing. At the Sensing in Biomechanical Processes Lab (SimPL), Wu and her team develop wearable sensors that gather real-world brain injury data and apply advanced signal processing, artificial intelligence, and data mining techniques in modeling complex brain biomechanics, physiology and function. Their work paves the way for a future where continuous brain health monitoring enables early diagnosis of neurological conditions and empowers personalized, more effective treatments.
Associate Professor Naomi Zimmerman has been renewed as the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Real-World Air Quality Sensing. Her research focuses on air quality and pollution monitoring, developing real-world-based quantitative tools to assess the effects of policy and technology decisions around pollution, climate, and energy. Dr. Zimmerman’s Integrated Research in Energy, Air, Climate & Health Lab (iREACH) develops sensing and data modelling techniques that can be used by or in collaboration with local and international communities to inform decision making, such as low-cost sensing tools and the mobile air quality monitoring laboratory, the UBC Plume Van.
Tier 2 Chairs recognize “exceptional emerging researchers acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field,” providing five years of $100,000 annual funding to the institution in support of their work. Newly appointed chairs also include a $20,000 research stipend. Dr. Jin, Dr. Wu, and Dr. Zimmerman are three of five Faculty of Applied Science chairholders included in the recent CRC announcement, out of 20 total new and renewed chairs across the University of British Columbia.