Samantha Grist has been awarded the esteemed Killam Doctoral Fellowship by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Doctoral...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
Congratulations Dr. Mehdi Moradi on your appointment as a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar during the 2013-2014 academic year.
This program brings together a cohort of researchers with promising...
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Kenichi Takahata was recently renewed as Canada Research Chair in Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS. Prof. Takahata will study medical micro-...
IEEE Canada has recognized Vijay Bhargava's sustained and distinguished service to Region 7 by awarding him the 2012 IEEE Canada W.S. Read Outstanding Service Gold Medal. Vijay's many years...
The 'heat-trap' effect of carbon nanotubes can be used to efficiently heat a conductor to one thousand degrees. Read about it in the UBC Reports story about Dr. Nojeh's research...
Dr. Mehdi Moradi is working to develop a method to allow more targeted prostate cancer treatment. Hired by ECE in May 2012 using a donation made to the Department of Urologic Sciences, Dr. Moradi is...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Professor Tyseer Aboulnasr recently addressed the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs on “The Arab Spring - Implications & Opportunities for Canada."
Outside of her...
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.
The importance of...
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...
NSERC has awarded a $1.65 million Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant to support the “Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits” (Si-EPIC) program; a...
In a recent interview done with Scott Simpson of The Vancouver Sun, Dr. Leo Stocco talks about the advantages of stereolithography: a 3-D printing technology that can produce prototypes of design and...
UBC recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching with the UBC Killam Teaching Prize. The Prize is adjudicated within each Faculty and recognized university-wide. Faculty members are nominated by...
When Professor David Pulfrey, P.Eng., came to UBC in 1968 as a postdoctoral teaching fellow, he planned to stay only a year. Forty-three years later, he’s retiring from the Department of Electrical...
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Wilton and Dr. Guy Lemieux whose papers were chosen as two of the 25 most significant papers written in the last twenty years on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays...
Robert Schober was awarded a 2011 Steacie Memorial Fellowship. Schober's many theoretical and applied discoveries have helped set new standards for the wireless industry.
Dr. Schober...
Grand Challenges Canada announced today UBC’s Dr. Walter Karlen is a Rising Star in Global Health—an innovator dedicated to improving health in the developing world. As a Rising Star, he will be...
The Disaster Response Network Enabled Platform can help to save lives around the world by modeling a community’s response to a nature disaster. The platform simulates multiple systems such as: the...
Members of the Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine team attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia this year and brought home two awards.
First prize in the...
Congratulations to Professor Victor Leung for being awarded a 2011 UBC Killam Research Prize. Established in 1986, the UBC Killam Research Prizes are awarded annually to top campus researchers. Up to...
