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Victor Leung receives 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research

Victor Leung receives 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research

UBC ECE’s Professor Victor C.M. Leung has been awarded the Canadian Society of Information Theory’s 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research.

ECE Professor Tim Salcudean receives Canada Foundation for Innovation funding

ECE Professor Tim Salcudean receives Canada Foundation for Innovation funding

UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Tim Salcudean, has received $639,322 in Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding.

ECE’s Guy Dumont and Amir Abdi receive prestigious NSERC awards

ECE’s Guy Dumont and Amir Abdi receive prestigious NSERC awards

Dr. Guy Dumont received his third NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation and graduate student Amir Abdi was awarded the NSERC Gilles Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. 

Dr. Tor Aamodt receives Google Faculty Research Award

Dr. Tor Aamodt receives Google Faculty Research Award

UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty member Dr. Tor Aamodt has been selected to receive a Google Faculty Research Award to support his research on system-on-chip architecture modeling for mobile graphics.

Leo Stocco: Robots are “expanding abilities” of humans in skilled occupations, not replacing us

Leo Stocco: Robots are “expanding abilities” of humans in skilled occupations, not replacing us

UBC Senior Instructor and biomedical engineer Dr. Leo Stocco was recently interviewed in the Vancouver Sun about the future of robotic technology in medicine.

Electrical Engineering undergraduate Tony Tang makes video featuring image guidance research

Electrical Engineering undergraduate Tony Tang makes video featuring image guidance research

Tony Tang is a third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student at UBC. In this video, submitted as part of the NSERC Video Competition, he spotlights current departmental research on image guidance.

Intel gives $60,000 USD to UBC software engineering team researching the Web of Things

Intel gives $60,000 USD to UBC software engineering team researching the Web of Things

UBC software engineers Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman and Dr. Ali Mesbah want to introduce your mobile phone to your office building. Sound too futuristic? It might not be.UBC software engineers Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman and Dr. Ali Mesbah want to introduce your mobile phone to your office building.

Aspect Biosystems Announces Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Aspect Biosystems Announces Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Tearing your meniscus, the “shock absorber” of your knee, is one of the most common knee injuries, and incidence could rise with an aging population. Surgical treatment of a torn meniscus may involve partial or complete removal which is associated with increased incidence of osteoarthritis. DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. has formed a collaboration with Aspect […]

Track your program as it executes and visualize the trace with DINAMITE

Track your program as it executes and visualize the trace with DINAMITE

Understanding why a software program performs the way it does is a notoriously difficult task. Every year programmers spend hundreds of hours diagnosing performance issues that affect customers. The trouble is, existing tools that automatically “show” how different parts of the program perform are limited in the kind of insight they provide and are of […]