Prospective UNBC undergrads: click here for UNBC research opportunities with funding (Undergraduate Research Experience Award, International Student Research Award, Research Project Awards, NSERC – Undergraduate Student Research Award)
Prospective visiting students: check Mitacs globalink programs. For undergraduate students, click here. For graduate students, click here.
Current members
Dr. Yan Wang: Dr. Wang is a visiting professor from the Qingdao University of Technology. Dr. Wang conducts research on geomaterials stability and BIM in underground mines and tunnels.
Gaoyang Hu: Gaoyang is a visiting Ph.D. student from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, co-hosted by Dr. Dwayne Tannant at the University of British Columbia. Gaoayng conducts research on CFD-DEM simulations of granular materials.
Emmanuel Oteng: Emmanuel is conducting his master’s research on pit wall deformation prediction using field monitoring data and machine learning. Emmanuel has an BSc in Geological Engineering from the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana.
Kamran Hassani: Kamran is conducting his master’s research on mineral precipitation in geothermal. Kamran has an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tehran.
Huan Yu: Huan is conducting her Ph.D. research on the creep indentation of shale formations from Western Canada, under the co-supervision of Dr. Jianhui Zhou. Huan obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geotechnical engineering from Sichuan Agricultural University in China.
Hassan Ahmadian: Hassan is conducting his master’s research on coupling the fluid-solid interaction for simulating grain migration in fluids with LBM-DEM, under the co-supervision of Dr. Jueyi Sui. Hassan obtained a master’s degree in computational fluid mechanics from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran.
Alumni
Dorsaf Lagha: Dorsaf was a Mitacs Globalink summer research intern at UNBC and she studied Geosciences Engineering at the University Tunis El Manar, Tunis. Research topic: Laboratory testing on Canadian gas shale rock with advanced instrumented indentation test. Dorsaf will start her Master’s studies at ETS, Montreal, Canada. For details about Mitacs Globalink, click here
Dongzi Liu: Dongzi was a visiting Ph.D. student from the China University of Geosciences, co-hosted by Dr. Dwayne Tannant at the University of British Columbia. Dongzi conducts research on reservoir landslides and their stabilization with piles. Dongzi now is an Assistant Professor at Xi’an University of Science and Technology in China.
Venkata Siva Ramakrishna ANNAPAREDDY: Siva was a visiting Ph.D. candidate at UNBC supported by a Mitacs Globalink Research Award. He studies geotechnical engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research on soil internal erosion.
Zhongjun Ma: Zhongjun (Mason) was a visiting Ph.D. candidate from the Southeastern University in China, co-hosted by Dr. Dwayne Tannant at the University of British Columbia. Mason conducts research on thermal-treated rock breakage.
Yang Zhang: Yang was a Mitacs Globalink summer research intern at UNBC and he studies geological engineering at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). Research topic: Identify sand proppants for use in engineered fractures of enhanced geothermal systems. Yang is now a PhD student at the China University of Geosciences.
Tadd Mao: Tadd was a research assistant working on digitizing rock surfaces with a 3D laser scanner. Tadd is now an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto.
Hritwik Ranjan: Hritwik was a Mitacs Globalink summer research intern at UNBC and he studied petroleum engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad. Research topic: Shale gas production from Montney formation using data mining and machine learning. For details about Mitacs Globalink, click here
Drew Gilchrist: 3rd-year undergraduate student in environmental engineering (won UNBC Undergraduate Research Experience Award). Research topic: creep deformation of sand at high compressive stresses. Drew delivered a research presentation at the GeoNiagara national conference.
Diego Sanchez: 2nd-year undergraduate student in UNBC-UBC environmental engineering (won UNBC International Student Research Award). Research topic: Identify proppants for use in engineered fractures of enhanced geothermal systems. Diego published a journal paper as the first author in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. Click here for the publication.
Zach Peng: 1st-year undergraduate student in civil engineering. Zach helped Drew with conducting creep deformation of sand at high compressive stresses.
Cedar Kang: 2nd-year undergraduate student in UNBC-UBC environmental engineering. Cedar helped Diego with mixing mortar samples and preparing soil samples.
Joana Gaspar: 1st-year undergraduate student in civil engineering. Joana helped Diego with preparing soil samples and performing sieve analysis.