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Welcome Back!

Welcome Back!

Welcome from the Department Head It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2013/14 academic year in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department within the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.  This year, you are a part of an undergraduate population of 1040 and a graduate population of 415 students […]

Graph-based Sybil Detection in Social and Information Systems receives Best Paper Award

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 […]

ECE 375/474 Robotic Search and Rescue

ECE 375/474 Robotic Search and Rescue

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 […]