Student Develops Life-Saving Smartphone App
Mitacs Globalink student Vicky Liu is working with Professor Victor C.M. Leung of ECE to develop a Smartphone application that will help save lives. The app will display a user’s vital signs onscreen after assessing his or her health via wireless Bluetooth sensors placed on the body. Vicky is working towards a Bachelor’s degree in […]
IEEE UBC Branch Receives Award for Exemplary Performance
Congratulations to the IEEE UBC branch on being awarded the Region 7 Exemplary Student Branch Award. The purpose of the award is to provide public recognition of exemplary IEEE Student Branch operations. The award was presented at the IEEE Canada Student Congress held in September in Mississauga, Ontario. IEEE UBC chairperson Saba Ardeshiri accepted the […]
Neda Eskandari Wins Best Student Paper Award
Neda Eskandari, has just won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Neda, an ECE graduate student working with Dr. Meeko Oishi, won the award for her paper titled, “Computing observable and predictable subspaces to evaluate user-interfaces of LTI systems under shared control”. This is quite an […]
Mark Dumont: A little advice from an Alumnus
When he graduated with a B.Sc. in 1973 Mr. Dumont was one the first students to receive a degree in Computer Science; a few years before that, students studying computer science received Math degrees. Mr. Dumont continued studying Computer Science at UBC and received his M.Sc. in 1974. Early in his career Mr. Dumont was […]
Abolmaesumi and Fels Receive National Funding for Health Research
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 research in biomedical technologies focuses on a 3D ultrasound imaging system for wrist fracture operations, which would allow more accurate surgery procedures and reduced radiation exposure for […]