Faculty Achievements
March 2, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
ECE’s Guy Dumont and Amir Abdi receive prestigious NSERC awards
February 2017 was a great month for national recognition of UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers, as Dr.
February 17, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Tor Aamodt receives Google Faculty Research Award
UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty member Dr. Tor Aamodt has been selected to receive a Google Faculty Research Award worth $31,153 USD to support his research on system-on-chip architecture modeling for mobile graphics.
February 1, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Leo Stocco: Robots are "expanding abilities" of humans in skilled occupations, not replacing us
UBC Senior Instructor and biomedical engineer Dr. Leo Stocco was recently interviewed in the Vancouver Sun about the future of robotic technology in medicine. While acknowledging that medically-oriented robots have tremendous potential to streamline surgeries and other medical procedures and can provide "a very big beneficial effect to the patient," Stocco does not believe that this technology will ever fully replace doctors, nurses, or other medical professionals.
January 31, 2017 | Faculty Achievements, Featured
Intel gives $60,000 USD to UBC software engineering team researching the Web of Things
UBC software engineers Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman and Dr. Ali Mesbah want to introduce your mobile phone to your office building. Sound too futuristic? It might not be.
January 10, 2017 | Faculty Achievements
Track your program as it executes and visualize the trace with DINAMITE
Understanding why a software program performs the way it does is a notoriously difficult task. Every year programmers spend hundreds of hours diagnosing performance issues that affect customers. The trouble is, existing tools that automatically “show” how different parts of the program perform are limited in the kind of insight they provide and are of little help for programmers who are new to the software source code (an increasingly common situation).
December 14, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Wireless-Powered Communication Networks will be published in January
This January, Cambridge University Press will be releasing, Wireless-Powered Communication Networks: Architectures, protocols, and applications. UBC’s Vijay Bhargava co-edited this essential text for researchers in the field along with Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University; Massachusetts; Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ekram Hossain, University of
December 14, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Three ECE Professors to become IEEE Fellows in 2017
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE members are engineers, scientists, and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and related disciplines. The highest grade of membership, IEEE Fellow, is attained through nomination by peers and approval by the IEEE Board of Directors for distinction in the profession.
December 6, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Prof. Rohling to become ICICS director in January
Robert Rohling, a professor with a joint appointment in electrical and computer and mechanical engineering, has accepted a five-year term as director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) effective January 1, 2017.
ICICS welcomes new director
Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
October 4, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Microdermics Wins BCIC-New Ventures Competition
This year’s top prize at the BCIC New Ventures Competition was awarded to Microdermics, a painless alternative to deliver vaccinations and therapeutics and monitor drugs in the bloodstream. Microdermics’ proprietary, hollow metal microneedle injection system both eliminates the need for hypodermic needles, and improves the patient experience.
September 13, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Prof. Abolmaesumi joins the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada has invited UBC Professor Purang Abolmaesumi to join the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, in recognition of his pioneering research in medical imaging. His work in this field has brought new technology into the healthcare industry. Thousands of cancer patients have directly benefited from his image analysis techniques. Scientists all over the world use Prof. Abolmaesumi’s ultrasound imaging techniques to make new discoveries through his contributions to open-source software. Prof.
