You may never lose your keys again | Franklin Antonio Intern Scholarship winner advances indoor mapping
As an intern at Qualcomm, Bader Alahmad worked on Indoor Map Technology and Indoor Localization. During his internship, he developed an indoor map solution that can pinpoint the location of assets inside a building. Bader received high praise from his mentor, An Chen, Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, “Bader is one of the best […]
Ainara Garde receives Mitacs Elevate Fellowship
Ainara Garde has recently received a Mitacs Elevate Fellowship supporting her work with Guy Dumont at LionsGate Technologies. She is specialized in advanced biomedical signal processing, focused on cardio-respiratory disorders. Her major research interests include the pathogenesis of breathing disorders such as sleep apnea and the cardiovascular complications caused by them. During her postdoctoral fellowship […]
Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarship supports Angelica Ruszkowski’s robotics research
Angelica Ruszkowski, a MASc student working with Dr. Tim Salcudean, recieved the Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarship to support her research in ECE’s Robotics and Control lab. The focus of Angelica’s research will be on augmenting the sensory perception of a surgeon performing telesurgery with robotic surgical systems. Robotic surgery enhances a surgeon’s performance by improving patient outcomes, […]
ECESS tours Silicon Valley
The UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Society (ECESS) visited the Silicon Valley this past reading break. Their second annual trip down to San Francisco, students got to learn about exciting job opportunities and new technological advances from companies such as Leap Motion, Salesforce, Facebook, Google, Agilent, VMWare, Zynga, AVG Anti-Virus, and Linkedin. Each company […]
LionsGate receives major funding to increase production/distribution
A medical technology invented by UBC faculty receives major funding to scale up production and distribution to the developing world. Developed by Mark Ansermino, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Guy Dumont, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Phone Oximeter measures blood oxygen levels through a […]
Nobuo Tanaka visits UBC’s Alpha Lab
Campus as a Living Lab Alex Tunner, Nobuo Tanaka, Martin Ordonez ECE was pleased to host Nobuo Tanaka, Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability at the Institute for Energy Economics, Japan and Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. Professor Tanaka was introduced to ECE’s commitment to research in power […]