Newly Elevated IEEE Fellow Vincent Wong
Professor Vincent Wong will be elevated to the grade of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers this January; congratulations Dr. Wong! Prof. Wong is being recognized for his contributions to mobility management in wireless networks and demand side management in smart garid. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members […]
Get from Theory to Practice with Professor Jaeger
Using compassion and a developmental approach, three decades of experience in photonics and a passion for research, Professor Nick Jaeger helps each of his graduate students chart their own path to becoming an engineer. His approach to fostering writing skills that ultimately lead to professional opportunities is just one example of Prof. Jaeger’s approach. In […]
Getting over, or perhaps straight through, the T-ray wall
Killam Scholarship Supports Research in Experimental Chip Design Between microwave and infrared wavelengths is a tantalizing portion of the spectrum known as terahertz (THz), T-rays or submillimetre wavelengths. Ranging between 300 gigahertz to 3 terahertz this part of the spectrum is compelling for researchers because it has an array of potentially useful properties that have […]
Sometimes more traffic is a good thing
ECE’s New Vanier Scholar is working hard to bring us a wireless future UBC has recently added an outstanding young scientist to a team of researchers working to improve wireless networks. Mohammad Khoshkholgh joined Dr. Victor Leung’s Laboratory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) as a PhD student this year and has been awarded the prestigious […]
“Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You: Understanding JavaScript Callbacks” wins Best Paper Award for Keheliya Gallaba
Keheliya Gallaba, a graduate student working in ECE’s Software Analysis and Testing (SALT) Lab, has just brought home a Best Paper Award from the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. Keheliya’s research focus is software analysis of modern web applications. His award-winning paper sprang from his interest in server-side JavaScript code. Keheliya’s […]
To Compete with the Best
NSERC Accelerator Grants help to bring ECE research to Canadian Industry The National Science and Engineering Research Council supports the creativity and innovation of Canadian scientists through long-term funding known as Discovery Grants. From this select group of researchers, NSERC provides additional funding to scientists who show strong potential to become international leaders in their […]
Soheil Hor wins prestigious “MICCAI Young Scientist Award” for Best paper at MICCAI 2015 with Mehdi Moradi
Soheil Hor and Prof. Mehdi Moradi, recently proposed a fundamentally new paradigm for handling the missing data problem in machine learning based on the concept of random forest classifiers. Their contribution to the field was recognized at the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) conference. Soheil, an ECE MSc student, received the Young […]
Analogue, Digital, Hybrid: a non-linear history
In an abridged history of computing, digital computers simply replaced analogue computers. Of course, the reality is more complex. In fact, analogue and digital computing developed side-by-side throughout the 1960’s. The two technologies were also combined in hybrids to take advantage of the strongest features of both. Analogue computers are still used today, in […]
Securing the Internet of Things
Dependable Systems Lab wins Distinguished Paper Award at EDCC 2015 Everyone who owns a computer knows a thing or two about security software. One thing we have all learned is that security software can be cumbersome. On a system as complex, personalized and terrifically useful as a laptop, the benefits of running security software outweigh […]
The Academic Entrepreneur
Adjunct Professor Brad Quinton launches his second successful start-up, Invionics There are at least two moments in the course of a project an engineer savours. First, there is the breakthrough. Later, comes that moment when the carefully developed design is put to use in the real world. The first moment tends to be a quiet […]