UBC Energy Storage Project
UBC, Alpha Technologies, Corvus Energy and Natural Resources Canada have started a joint research energy project. This project is part of UBC’s Living Lab enterprise which Dr Martin Ordonez plays a role. Martin talks about the project saying “This has huge research potential. We can get a level of functionality that used to be unthinkable. […]
Best Paper Award at ICWE 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Mesbah and Zahra Behfarshad for winning the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Web Engineering! Their paper titled Hidden-Web Induced by Client-Side Scripting: An Empirical Study reveals that DOM tree hidden-web content is prevalent in online web applications today. You can find the award information ont the ICWE website and […]
Rabab Ward named IEEE Signal Processing Society President Elect
Rabab Ward will serve as the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s President in 2016-2017. Prof. Ward has contributed to the Society in many ways. She will hold the role of President Elect of the society during the 2014-2015 term. She has served on the Society’s Board of Governors and as the Society’s Vice President in 2003-2005. […]
Thomas Chelliah Receives the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service
People use words like thoughtful, respectful, innovative and caring when they describe Thomas. We are very lucky to have him as a colleague. Thomas has been instrumental in establishing state-of-the-art teaching and research labs for ECE. His ability to coordinate with colleagues inside the department and out has been an important factor in bringing large […]
UBC researchers receive first and second place paper awards at IPCAI
At the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), researchers from ECE’s Robotics and Control Lab received two best paper awards. At this year’s conference, members of the lab focused on their work in augmenting 3D ultrasound images and methods of using 3D ultrasound to guide robotic assisted surgery. Find out more about this work through […]
Panos Nasiopoulos | Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
UBC engineering professors Panos Nasiopoulos, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Tarek Sayed and Dharma Wijewickreme have been inducted Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in recognition of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession. ECE professor Panos Nasiopoulos is the Director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC and the […]
Nima Taherinejad, New Chair of AUTO21 HQP Advisory Committee
As newly elected chair of the HQP Advisory Committee (HQPAC), Nima Taherinejad hopes to increase student engagement in AUTO21 Network activities. Nima works with the Power Line Communication for Electric Vehicles project led by Dr. Lutz Lampe. This research team is studying ways to reduce the amount of wiring in electrical vehicles dedicated explicitly to communication. […]
President Toope visits ECE
On a recent visit to the Department, President Toope spoke to some ECE graduate students about their research projects. President Toope toured the Robotics and Control, Radio Science and Systems on Chip/Computer Architecture Laboratories during this visit. Caitlin Schneider and her research colleagues demonstrated the da Vinci surgical robot to President Toope in the Robotics and Control […]
Welcome to our visiting students from IIT-Jodhpur!
This summer, five students from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J) will be joining ECE to collaborate on projects from the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) initiative. The five visiting students, Rinku Meena, Rahul Malav, Rajat Jain, Yogendra Goyal and Junaid Masood, met with faculty members to discuss potential projects at an informal […]
Class of 2013
Congratulations to the Class of 2013 Cathleen Holtvogt, Undergraduate Student Services, and Shayan Farahbakhsh, newly minted ECE graduate, enjoyed a wet but warm graduation reception today.