Faculty Achievements
July 10, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Rabab Ward named IEEE Signal Processing Society President Elect
Rabab Ward will serve as the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s President in 2016-2017. Prof. Ward has contributed to the Society in many ways. She will hold the role of President Elect of the society during the 2014-2015 term. She has served on the Society’s Board of Governors and as the Society's Vice President in 2003-2005. Prof. Ward has also chaired a number of the Society's Conferences and Symposia.
June 27, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
UBC researchers receive first and second place paper awards at IPCAI
At the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), researchers from ECE's Robotics and Control Lab received two best paper awards. At this year's conference, members of the lab focused on their work in augmenting 3D ultrasound images and methods of using 3D ultrasound to guide robotic assisted surgery. Find out more about this work through the links below.
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June 25, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Panos Nasiopoulos | Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
UBC engineering professors Panos Nasiopoulos, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Tarek Sayed and Dharma Wijewickreme have been inducted Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in recognition of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.
May 23, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Prof. Abolmaesumi receives NSERC Accelerator Grant for i-Guide-U
Spinal needle injections are widely applied for anesthetic purposes: for surgery, for the relief of back pain, and for epidurals in obstetrics.
May 17, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
ECE's LERSSE Password Meters
Do password meters create stronger passwords? ECE's LERSSE members, in collaboration with Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley wrote Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection. Password meters tell users whether their passwords are "weak" or "strong". In a laboratory experiment, by forcing users to change their current passwords, they found that having the meters did have users selecting stronger passwords. In a follow-up field experiment for unimportant accounts, the authors found that the meters did not change the outcome of the users’ passwords.
May 7, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Konrad Walus interview in International Innovation
Konrad Walus was recently interviewed by International Innovation Magazine. In the interview Dr. Walus describes some of the groundbreaking research being done by the interdisciplinary team in the Walus Lab. A focus of the lab is 3D printing and micro printing technology that are employed to build devices incorporating nanomaterials in new ways. Work in the lab develops active electronics, mechanically and chemically sensitive devices and the use of a 3D bio-printer for tissue fabrication.
April 16, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Matthew Yedlin Receives Killam Teaching Award
Matthew Yedlin has won a Killam Teaching Prize this year. Also selected from the Faculty of Applied Science were Dr. Perry Adebar (Department of Civil Engineering) and Dr. Geertje Boschma (School of Nursing). Congratulations to all!
April 10, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Takahata and Nojeh on the Front Cover of Physica Status Solidi (a)
Congratulations to Alireza Nojeh and Ken Takahata from the MEMS lab who had their journal paper recently published as the front cover publication in the Physica Status Solidi (a) April 2013 issue!
March 27, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
UBC power engineer recognized by the IEEE
The IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, has singled out UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering professor emeritus Hermann Dommel for its 2013 Medal in Power Engineering in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the methods of analyzing electromagnetic transients and optimal power flow in electric power systems.
March 20, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Moradi appointed Early Career Scholar
Congratulations Dr. Mehdi Moradi on your appointment as a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar during the 2013-2014 academic year.
