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Core Management Team

Meet the cluster leads, core faculty, postdocs and staff in the Blockchain@UBC Cluster below, and meet our graduate students here.

Cluster Leads

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Victoria Lemieux
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts
iSchool@UBC: School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies
Cluster Lead

I am an associate professor of archival science at the iSchool and lead of the Blockchain research cluster, Blockchain@UBC at the University of British Columbia – Canada’s largest and most diverse research cluster devoted to blockchain technology. My current research is focused on risk to...
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Chen Feng
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
School of Engineering
Cluster Lead (Okanagan Campus)

Dr. Feng's research interests include information & coding theory, wireless communications & networking, cloud computing & big data, and recently blockchain technology. In particular, he is interested in adapting new ideas and tools...

Core Faculty

Ivan Beschastnikh
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science
Computer Science
Core Faculty

I have broad research interests that usually touch on systems and software engineering. My current projects span distributed systems, formal methods, networks, and security. I enjoy building and studying real software systems and tend to be empirical in my research.
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Cristie Ford
Director, Centre for Business Law / Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Core Faculty

Dr. Cristie Ford’s research focuses primarily on regulatory theory as it relates to international, US and Canadian financial and securities regulation. Her publications have analyzed novel remedies in securities law enforcement, principles-based approaches to securities regulation, systemic risk...
Harish Krishnan
Director, Centre for Operations Excellence / Professor, Sauder School of Business
Operations and Logistics Division
Core Faculty

BEng (Delhi), MS (Alabama), MA (Michigan), PhD (Michigan)

Research Interests: Incentive distortions in supply chains, Contracts and supply chain coordination, Supply chain management....
Ning Nan
Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business
Accounting and Information Systems Division
Core Faculty

  • Digital business strategy
  • Evolvable IT infrastructure
  • Online community
  • Complex adaptive systems
  • Agent-based modeling
  • Blockchain
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Chris Rowell
Sessional Lecturer, Sauder School of Business
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division
Core Faculty

Chris is a sessional lecturer at UBC Sauder School of Business. He received his Doctorate in Science, in the field of Technology Strategy and Venturing, from Aalto University in Helsinki. He has been doing research and teaching on blockchain since 2017, with a

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Zehua (David) Wang
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Faculty

Dr. Zehua (David) Wang is an Adjunct Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2016. Before that, he had received Bachelor's...

Postdoctoral Researchers

Mohammad Jalalzai
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Applied Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Postdoctoral Researcher

Mohammad M. Jalalzai is  a  postdoctoral  re-searcher in Blockchain@UBC Cluster.  He  received  his master’s degree in computer science from Technical  University  of  Berlin  in  2010  and  his  PhD from...
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Chang Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
Strategic Management & Organization
Postdoctoral Researcher

Chang Lu, PhD in Strategic Management and Organization, is a postdocturate fellow at Blockchain@UBC. He received his doctorate at the University of Alberta, where he developed rigorous training in management theory, strategic management and organization behavior, and developed a deep...
Mohamad Jaafar Nehme
Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Postdoctoral Researcher

Mohamad-Jaafar NEHME is a Postdoctoral fellow at UBC who mainly focuses on Consensus Protocols in distributed systems. Alongside research, his interdisciplinary experience covers teaching, programming and technical engineering. Dr. NEHME is an Ethical Hacker who has ...

Staff Members

Michelle  Ho
Program Administrator, Faculty of Applied Science
Staff Member

Michelle Ho is the Program Administrator of Blockchain@UBC, she coordinates a variety of administrative logistics within Blockchain@UBC. 
Please connect with her for general inquiries.
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