Faculty of Applied ScienceDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering

UBC researchers uncover new cyber threat to water and energy networks
Hackers could identify and block vital communications to essential infrastructure without ever breaking its encryption, researchers warn University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into a facility’s own systems or crack […] Read More
UBC ECE Research Wins Best Paper and Distinguished Paper Awards at DSN 2026
A research collaboration involving the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia has won both the Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), one of the leading international conferences in dependable and trustworthy computing. A single paper […] Read More
ECE Professor Delivers Keynote on AI and the Future of Software Engineering Education at FSE 2026
ECE Professor Julia Rubin recently delivered a keynote presentation at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Education Track (FSE SEET), one of the leading international conferences in software engineering: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2026/fse-2026-software-engineering-education Her keynote, titled “Training Models, Teaching Brains: Software Engineering Skills in an AI-Assisted World”, explored how generative AI is reshaping the […] Read More
ECE PhD Graduate Pritam Dash Wins Prestigious William C. Carter Award in Dependable Computing
Pritam Dash, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate supervised by Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman in the Dependable Systems Lab, has been awarded the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability for his doctoral thesis, titled Software Solutions for Mitigating Physical Attacks against Robotic Autonomous Vehicles. The award was presented at the 56th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on […] Read More