William Dally Lecture on Youtube | Efficiency and Parallelism: The Challenges of Future Computing
Part of the ECE Colloquium SeriesWilliam Dally is chief scientist at NVIDIA and the senior vice president of NVIDIA research. He is also Professor (Research) of Electrical and Computer Science at Stanford University. Dally and his Stanford team developed system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing, and synchronization technology that is found in most large parallel […]
NSERC Strategic Network and Project Grants Announced by Minister Rickford
Professor Peyman Servati, NSERC Chief Operating Officer Janet Walden, Vice President Research and International John Hepburn, Minister of State for Science and Technology Greg Rickford, Member of Parliament for Vancouver South Wai Young, and President Stephen Toope. Photo by Darryl Dyck, Canadian Press Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, visited Prof. Servati’s lab […]
UBC Killam Research Prize goes to Purang Abolmaesumi
Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi is a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, and member of ECE’s Robotics and Control Laboratory. The Killam Prize will support his on-going research in computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis. Prof. Abolmaesumi’s work has had a significant impact in several biomedical areas. His contributions to ultrasound image calibration, ultrasound-guided interventions, cancer […]
Two awards to ECEM at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia Annual Meeting
The Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicince research group won awards for two of their projects at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA). STA Excellence in Technology Award – 1st Prize: A. Umedaly, N. West, K. vanHeusden, M. Görges, C.L. Petersen, G.A. Dumont, J.M. Ansermino, R.N. Merchant, “Robust Closed-Loop Control of Anesthesia in Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery” […]
NSERC USRA | Apply soon
If you are an undergraduate student who’d like to get research experience in an academic setting, you should consider applying for an Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA). Through these awards, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) subsidizes eligible professors to hire students to work on their research projects. The program creates […]
Sarah Walinga awarded IEEE PES Scholarship
ECE’s Sarah Walinga was awarded $2000 from IEEE Power and Energy Society for her achievements in the power engineering field. She was presented the award by department head Dr. Andre Ivanov, and Dr. Marti also came up to personally congratulate her. Sarah Walinga feels very fortunate to have been one of the first Canadian students […]
Advances in microneedle research
Painful injections may become a thing of the past. A team of researchers at Dr. Stoeber’s lab is looking towards a future where microneedles will completely replace hypodermic needles. A microneedle patch delivers medicine just below the skin surface removing the fear and discomfort of injections. In the video, PhD student Iman Mansoor explains just how painless […]