Wireless-Powered Communication Networks will be published in January
This January, Cambridge University Press will be releasing, Wireless-Powered Communication Networks: Architectures, protocols, and applications. UBC’s Vijay Bhargava co-edited this essential text for researchers in the field along with Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University; Massachusetts; Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada; Dong In Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea and; Lotfollah Shafai, […]
Three ECE Professors to become IEEE Fellows in 2017
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE members are engineers, scientists, and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and related disciplines. The highest grade of membership, IEEE Fellow, is attained through nomination by peers and approval by the […]
Prof. Rohling to become ICICS director in January
Robert Rohling, a professor with a joint appointment in electrical and computer and mechanical engineering, has accepted a five-year term as director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) effective January 1, 2017. ICICS welcomes new director Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
Increased funding for two of UBC’s outstanding computer engineers
Two of UBC’s computer engineers, Profs. Tor Aamodt and Ali Mesbah recently received Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The additional resources are provided by NSERC to accelerate and maximize the impact of their research. Each year, NSERC identifies superior research programs among Discovery Grant holders. The DAS […]
Vanier Scholar Duong Nguyen
Developing 5G caching for the Canadian landscape In the near future, we will need more bandwidth, more cell towers, and more base-stations to support the huge increase in the demand for internet services. The Cisco Visual Networking Index predicts a massive increase in wireless traffic in the next few years. Allot of this new traffic […]
Meet Our New Software Engineering Professor
Professor Julia Rubin has just joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is coming to us from MIT where she was a Postdoctoral Researcher. She also spent more than 10 years in industry, working for a startup company and later for the IBM Research Lab in Israel. Prof. Rubin is going to be […]
Sudha Lohani wins Best Student Paper Award at Prestigeous Vehicular Technology Conference
PhD Candidate, Ms. Sudha Lohani received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Ms. Lohani is supervised by ECE Professor Vijay K. Bhargava and co-supervised by Professor Ekram Hossain from the University of Manitoba. Her paper, “Resource Allocation for Wireless Information and Energy Transfer in Macrocell-Small Cell Networks” proposes a […]
Microdermics Wins BCIC-New Ventures Competition
This year’s top prize at the BCIC New Ventures Competition was awarded to Microdermics, a painless alternative to deliver vaccinations and therapeutics and monitor drugs in the bloodstream. Microdermics’ proprietary, hollow metal microneedle injection system both eliminates the need for hypodermic needles, and improves the patient experience. The BCIC-New Ventures Competition is the largest and longest-running tech competition in […]