UBC IEEE Student Branch wins Darrel Chong Student Activity Award for their International Field Trip
Every year in May, the IEEE Student Branch – UBC Chapter organizes a field trip overseas to visit exciting engineering schools, research institutions and companies. Over the years the club has taken students to some of the most advanced companies around the world. Their 2015 trip, a whirlwind tour of South Korea, won The Darrel Chong […]
Prof. Abolmaesumi joins the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada has invited UBC Professor Purang Abolmaesumi to join the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, in recognition of his pioneering research in medical imaging. His work in this field has brought new technology into the healthcare industry. Thousands of cancer patients have directly benefited from his image analysis techniques. […]
Recent UBC Graduate Receives Best Paper Award at Prestigious Computer Conference
Nithya Narayanamurthy received an award for her paper describing a unique way of reducing computing errors at the European Dependable Computing Conference this week. Narayanamurthy developed her research while completing her Masters in Applied Science degree in Professor Pattabiraman’s laboratory in 2015, and is currently working at Oracle Labs. Typically, application developers use compiler optimizations […]
Researchers use microneedles to make drug monitoring painless
Scientists at UBC and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland have created a microneedle drug monitoring system that could one day replace costly, invasive blood draws and improve patient comfort. These microneedles are being commercialized by Microdermics Inc., a UBC spin-off company born from the generative collaboration between Prof. Hafeli from the Faculty of […]
Guy Dumont elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control
“For innovative applications of advanced control and signal processing methods that have been commercialized worldwide.” Here are some of the groundbreaking research projects Dr. Dumont has been working on lately. Dumont and the team at UBC’s Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine Laboratory are developing a number of ways to use the computing power of […]
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UBC’s Aspect Biosystems named most promising startup
Aspect Biosystems, which aims to fundamentally change the way we develop drugs and treat disease by enabling the printing of living human tissues, was named “most promising startup” at the 2016 Technology Impact Awards. The ceremony, held last night at the Vancouver Convention Centre, brought together more than 1,000 people affiliated with the BC Tech […]