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 […]
Undergraduates Contributing to ECE Research: Rudy Lam
Rudy Lam just graduated with a BSc in Engineering Physics, Electrical Option. Rudy worked at the Biomedical Signal and Image computing Lab (BiSICL) with Professor Rafeef Abugharbieh and her PhD student Seyed-Alborz Amir-Khalili over the summer researching software that enables real-time localization of bones in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound images. How would this technology be used […]
Konstantin Beznosov Appointed to Independent Panel on Internet Voting
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 Chair of the panel, Keith Archer suggested B.C. legislators “consider providing greater flexibility to the Chief Electoral Officer to introduce, on a pilot basis, a […]
From Darkest Absorber to Reflective Mirror
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 at ECE, led by Kenichi Takahata and Alireza Nojeh, has transformed areas of this very dark forest into micro mirrors. By moving a […]
Nikola Zlatanov: 2012 Vanier Scholar
Nikola Zlatanov, who was awarded the 2011 Killam Doctoral scholarship, is this year’s recipient of the 2012 Vanier scholarship. Supervised by Professor Robert Schober in the ECE PhD program, Nikola’s winning research proposal, Buffer-Aided Relaying: A New Protocol for Next Generation Wireless Networks, identifies a new protocol for wireless cooperative networks that can significantly improve their […]
Best Paper Award to Boostanimehr and Bhargava
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 from August 15-17. Their paper, entitled, “Outage Analysis and Relay Allocation for Multi-stream OFDM Decode-and-Forward Rayleigh Fading Networks”, examines the outage behaviour of cooperative systems. Their […]
The Arab Spring – Implications & Opportunities for Canada – Prof Tyseer Aboulnasr
Professor Tyseer Aboulnasr recently addressed the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs on “The Arab Spring – Implications & Opportunities for Canada.” Outside of her professional career, Dr. Aboulnasr has been very active in Arab-Jewish dialogue groups, in interfaith discussions, in bringing Muslim organizations in Canada to speak with a harmonious voice on national issues, and she has […]
Robotic Search and Rescue Projects
EECE 375/474: Computer-Based Instrumental Design Laboratory focuses on designing complex engineering projects within a team environment. In addition to implementing advanced technical principles into projects, students also learned about project management and team communication. Instructed by Dr Paul Lusina, this year’s theme is on Robotic Search and Rescue. Students had to build an autonomous vehicle […]
Tanaya Guha Receives Frank & Betty Woodhams Memorial Scholarship
Tanaya Guha is a PhD student specializing in artificial intelligence. Her research focuses on automatic understanding of human activities in videos, which has significant real-world applications in surveillance, medicine, sports and entertainment.“As an engineer, I am passionate about designing practical systems that can improve human lives.” Tanaya is having a terrific year. She just won […]