Faculty Achievements
July 16, 2018 | Faculty Achievements
ECE led research team receives CIHR award for prostate cancer imaging tools
ECE’s Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi and Dr. Peter Black (Department of Urologic Sciences) along with their research team were awarded a CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Project Grant for their research project titled Multi-centre Temporal Ultrasound Image Analysis for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis.
The project aims to use ultrasound imaging technology with a machine-learning framework to establish patient-specific targeting techniques to detect early aggressive prostate cancer.
May 22, 2018 | Faculty Achievements
Advanced Science cover features paper from ECE’s Kenichi Takahata and team
The cover for the May 2018 issue of Advanced Science features a research paper written by Associate Professor Kenichi Takahata and his team consisting of Xing Chen, Babak Assadsangabi and Professor York Hsiang (a vascular surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Faculty of Medicine). The paper is titled Enabling Angioplasty‐Ready “Smart” Stents to Detect In‐Stent Restenosis and Occlusion.
April 24, 2018 | Faculty Achievements, Graduate Student Achievements
ECE team wins Distinguished Paper Award at ICST 2018
ECE PhD student Mohammad Bajammal and his advisor Ali Mesbah won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST 2018).
March 14, 2018 | Faculty Achievements, Graduate Student Achievements
ECE alumna awarded NSERC postdoctoral fellowship
Saba Alimadadi, a UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) PhD graduate, has been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship to help support her work in analysis of asynchronous behaviour of modern applications. She ranked first in the CS division of the competition.
March 8, 2018 | Faculty Achievements, Graduate Student Achievements, Student Achievements
ECE team runner up for Siemens Young Investigator Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 conference
Shekoofeh Azizi, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, postdoctoral fellow, Sharareh Bayat, along with Ajay Rajaram were recipients of the runner up prize for the Siemens Young Investigator Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 conference in Houston, Texas. The conference took place from February 10, 2018 to February 15, 2018.
Their paper and presentation is titled 3D Tissue Mimicking Biophantoms for Ultrasound Imaging: Bioprinting and Image Analysis
November 17, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Reliability of Deep Neural Network Accelerators and Applications, a growing concern, says Dr. Pattabiraman
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Case where a Self-Driving Car mistakes a transporting truck (left) for a bird (Right) due to soft errors in the hardware
Self-driving cars are the way of the future, and are poised to revolutionize the transportation industry. It is estimated that self-driving cars are only a few years away from large scale adoption. Further, self-driving cars have the potential to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities, and reduce transportation costs.
September 14, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
ECE Robotics Control Lab wins best paper award at MICCAI 2017
Congratulations to the ECE Robotics Control Lab team for receiving the MICCAI IJCARS Best Paper Award entitled "Detection and grading of prostate cancer using temporal enhanced ultrasound: combining deep neural networks and tissue mimicking simulations"! The award was received at MICCAI 2017, the 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
May 16, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Cyber Security Expert Dr. Konstantin Beznosov Discusses WannaCry Ransomware Attack
On May 15th, UBC ECE professor and cyber security expert Dr. Konstantin Beznosov appeared on Global News to discuss ongoing ransomware attack WannaCry. Although it was detected earlier, WannaCry’s presence ballooned on May 12th, and it has since been found in 150 countries.
“This particular attack is similar to other ransomware, where malware gets in your computer and encrypts data,” Beznosov explained.
May 1, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Karthik Pattabiraman receives Killam Research Fellowship for Internet of Things Security and Reliability Research
UBC software engineer Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman was awarded the Killam Research Fellowship on April 5th, 2017. The Fellowship, which supports faculty to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave, was granted to Pattabiraman in support of his research on the Internet of Things’ Security and Reliability.
March 28, 2017 | Faculty Achievements, Graduate Student Achievements
Dr. John Madden's research team develops innovative flexible sensor screen
An NSERC-funded UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering research team led by Dr. John Madden has developed a novel sensor that could facilitate the design of advanced devices like foldable tablets.
The sensor is comprised of a conductive gel enveloped in layers of silicone that are able to detect swiping, tapping, and many other kinds of touch even when it is folded. This is a huge breakthrough, as most other devices are only able to detect one kind of touch (such as pressure). It is small (5 cm x 5 cm) and inexpensive to construct.
