Faculty Achievements
November 16, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
$17M Grant from Gates Foundation Funds Program for Women's Health
UBC researchers have received a $17 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This funding aids a program to treat women in the developing world for preeclampsia, the onset of high blood pressure during pregnancy. While preeclampsia is easily treatable, it is fatal for many women who are not properly diagnosed or transported to appropriate facilities. Through this program, a health worker can visit a woman in her home, test her blood and urine, and input the information into a smartphone platform.
November 6, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Most Downloaded Paper for Three Months
A paper written by Dr. Bobak Gholamkhass, Nima Mohseni Kiasari and Prof. Peyman Servati of the Flexible Electronics and Energy Lab (FEEL) has been the most downloaded paper in Organic Electronics for the past three months. This paper demonstrates the significant role of contact layers and device engineering in increasing the efficiency and stability of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices.
November 1, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Lionsgate Technologies Inc. Launches Phone Oximeter
Using standard medical sensors connected directly through the universal audio port of virtually any mobile device, the proprietary interface, called the Vital Signs DSP (Digital Signal Processor), provides precise monitoring of blood oxygen levels, blood pressure and body temperature which are displayed on the mobile device’s monitor.
October 2, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Abolmaesumi and Fels Receive National Funding for Health Research
Purang Abolmaesumi and Sidney Fels are among seven UBC researchers awarded grants from the Collaborative Health Research program (CHRP), funded jointly by NSERC and the CIHR.
Dr. Abolmaesumi’s research in biomedical technologies focuses on a 3D ultrasound imaging system for wrist fracture operations, which would allow more accurate surgery procedures and reduced radiation exposure for patients and surgical teams. For this project, Dr. Abolmaesumi was awarded $418,700.
September 12, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
From Darkest Absorber to Reflective Mirror
As one of the darkest materials on earth, a carbon nanotube forest can absorb the entire visible range of electromagnetic waves more efficiently than any other known black material. A research team at ECE, led by Kenichi Takahata and Alireza Nojeh, has transformed areas of this very dark forest into micro mirrors.
September 12, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Konstantin Beznosov Appointed to Independent Panel on Internet Voting
The panel, convened by the Attorney General, will study the benefits and challenges of introducing online voting to provincial or local elections in British Columbia. The Chief electoral officer and Chair of the panel, Keith Archer suggested B.C. legislators "consider providing greater flexibility to the Chief Electoral Officer to introduce, on a pilot basis, a variety of new voting technologies" in his report on Recommendations for Legislative Change in November last year.
August 29, 2012 | Faculty Achievements, Graduate Student Achievements
Best Paper Award to Boostanimehr and Bhargava
PhD Candidate Hamidreza Boostanimehr and ECE Professor Vijay K. Bhargava are recipients of the Best Paper Award from the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications held in Beijing, China from August 15-17. Their paper, entitled, "Outage Analysis and Relay Allocation for Multi-stream OFDM Decode-and-Forward Rayleigh Fading Networks", examines the outage behaviour of cooperative systems. Their study enables the authors to analyze the outage performance more reliably.
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August 22, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
The Arab Spring - Implications & Opportunities for Canada - Prof Tyseer Aboulnasr
Professor Tyseer Aboulnasr recently addressed the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs on “The Arab Spring - Implications & Opportunities for Canada."
July 5, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Green Radio Communication Networks Released by Cambridge University Press
Green Radio Communication Networks, edited by Ekram Hossain, Vijay K. Bhargava and Gerhard P. Fettweis was recently published in the UK and Europe by Cambridge University Press.
July 3, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Researchers Win Best Paper at IPCAI
The ECE research team of PhD students Mohammad Najafi and Narges Afsham, Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi and Dr. Robert Rohling won the best paper award at the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Intervention (IPCAI).
