Student Achievements
August 28, 2013 | Student Achievements
Graph-based Sybil Detection in Social and Information Systems receives Best Paper Award
Yazan Boshmaf and his LERSSE research colleagues received a Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their paper, Graph-based Sybil detection in social and information systems. Defending against sybil attack is essential for today's online sytstems. In this paper, Yazan and his co-authors present an analytical framework to evaluate graphic-based sybil Detection algorithms, a common method to defend against Sybil attack.
Sybil Attacks
July 31, 2013 | Student Achievements
Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE)
Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE) led by Prof. Konstantin Beznosov.
Engineers in LERSSE do empirical research to improve the ability and the security of real-world applications. Research projects span a wide range of topics, including network security, enterprise security architectures, secure software engineering, the usability aspects of security mechanisms, and critical infrastructure interdependencies.
June 20, 2013 | Student Achievements
Nima Taherinejad, New Chair of AUTO21 HQP Advisory Committee
As newly elected chair of the HQP Advisory Committee (HQPAC), Nima Taherinejad hopes to increase student engagement in AUTO21 Network activities.
May 29, 2013 | Student Achievements, Three Across
Welcome to our visiting students from IIT-Jodhpur!
This summer, five students from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J) will be joining ECE to collaborate on projects from the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) initiative.
The five visiting students, Rinku Meena, Rahul Malav, Rajat Jain, Yogendra Goyal and Junaid Masood, met with faculty members to discuss potential projects at an informal welcome last Friday.
May 28, 2013 | Student Achievements
Class of 2013
Congratulations to the Class of 2013
Cathleen Holtvogt, Undergraduate Student Services, and Shayan Farahbakhsh, newly minted ECE graduate, enjoyed a wet but warm graduation reception today.
May 8, 2013 | Student Achievements
Meet two rising stars from ECE
Harshanvit Chhatwal and Trevor Condon, two ECE graduates from the class of 2013, were asked to share some of their insights and experiences as recent graduates.
You can read the stories of outstanding students from all of the Applied Science disciplines in the 2013 edition of APSC Rising Stars.
April 10, 2013 | Student Achievements
UBC IEEE Project Fair 2013
Congratulations to the winners of the UBC 2013 Student Project Fair! On April 4, 2013, the UBC IEEE held a project fair for students in the ECE. Each year, this event provides a forum for students to connect with industry representatives and ECE professors. It was a great event and we hope that you will come out again next year! The winners from each division are as follows:
Senior Projects
April 2, 2013 | Student Achievements
Team 9 takes Bo Beep throw down
Little Bo Peep has taken up engineering. Tired of suffering through a search in the wilderness for her sheep, Bo Beep has designed a robot that will home in on her lost livestock. The robot’s goal? Get little lost Barclay and Beatrice back to the barn as quickly as possible.
February 28, 2013 | Student Achievements
Two ECE Students are going to the 3MT Semi-Finals
During the Three Minute Thesis Competition graduate students explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. Mai Hassan and Parmida Beigi were successful at the APSC 3MT competition and will go on to the university-wide semi-finals on Tuesday, March 12th. Check the FoGS website for event details.
Mai Hassan took second place at the APSC heat. She is completing her research to efficiently expand the frequencies available to cellular networks with Dr. Vijay Bhargava.
February 13, 2013 | Student Achievements, Three Across
Sustainable Power and Student Projects | Feb. 14
Subject:
smart grid
Jeff Giffin and Dianna Foldi from UBC Project Services will join us to discuss the Bioenergy Research and Development Facility. Two students who are currently completing their capstone projects at the facility will discuss their research. Naz Houshmand's capstone investigates the benefits of voltage optimization & power factor correction at the building level and Yohan Jeon's capstone considers the dynamic modelling of the Nexterra/GE Generator on UBC Campus.
