Could a DIY ultrasound be in your future? UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners.
ECE Team wins DSN Best Paper Award Runner Up
ECE PhD student, Guanpeng Li, and his advisor, Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman, received the Best Paper Award Runner Up at the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2018.
Dr. Julia Rubin, Lina Qiu and Yingying Wang win Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Julia Rubin and ECE grad students, Lina Qiu and Yingying Wang, for receiving the Distinguish Paper Award at the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing an Analysis!
ECE led research team receives CIHR award for prostate cancer imaging tools
ECE’s Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi and Dr. Peter Black were awarded a CIHR Project Grant for their research project, titled Multi-centre Temporal Ultrasound Image Analysis for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis.
From biomechanics to dentistry: The many roles of Amir Abdi
“It is indeed an honour to be the recipient of the Killam GTA award and I’m humbly grateful that my efforts have not gone unnoticed.”
Advanced Science cover features paper from ECE’s Kenichi Takahata and team
The cover for the May 2018 issue of Advanced Science features a research paper written by Associate Professor Kenichi Takahata and his team.
Francisco Paz aims to close the loop on student learning
Francisco “Pancho” Paz, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, recently received a Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
ECE team wins Distinguished Paper Award at ICST 2018
ECE PhD student Mohammad Bajammal and his advisor Ali Mesbah won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST 2018).
ECE alumna awarded NSERC postdoctoral fellowship
Saba Alimadadi, a UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) PhD graduate, has been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship to help support her work in analysis of asynchronous behaviour of modern applications.
ECE team runner up for Siemens Young Investigator Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 conference
Shekoofeh Azizi, postdoctoral fellow, Sharareh Bayat, along with Ajay Rajaram were recipients of the runner up prize for the Siemens Young Investigator Award.