‘Smart Glove’ Can Boost Hand Mobility of Stroke Patients
Originally published in UBC News New washable wireless smart textile technology developed at UBC in collaboration with Vancouver startup also has potential uses in virtual reality and American Sign Language translation This month, a group of stroke survivors in B.C. will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and ultimately restore use of […]
ECE Professor Vincent Wong and Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ming Tang Receive IEEE 2022 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to ECE Professor Vincent Wong and Dr. Ming Tang, who received the 2022 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. The award is for their paper with title “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Systems”, which was published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing in June 2022. Dr. Tang […]
ECE Student Perspective Story – From Computer Architecture to Future Industry Plans!
Lufei Liu is a 4th year PhD student in computer architecture, advised by Professor Tor Aamodt. Lufei completed her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at UBC in 2020, where she then directly started her PhD program. Lufei’s research primarily focuses on GPU (graphics processing unit) hardware architecture, specifically with computer graphics and hardware acceleration of […]
ECE/UBC engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’ in collaboration with Honda researchers
Originally published in UBC News Smart soft sensor can improve prosthetics and enhance human-robot interaction Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor developed by UBC and Honda researchers opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics. When applied to the surface of a prosthetic arm or a robotic limb, the […]
ECE Professor and Research Team’s Paper Chosen for IEEE Top Picks in Test and Reliability 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, whose paper “Understanding Error Propagation in Deep-Learning Neural Networks (DNN) Accelerators and Applications” was chosen for IEEE Top Picks in Test and Reliability (TPTR) 2023! The paper was initially published in 2017 with former ECE PhD student Guanpeng Li, now a faculty […]
Get to Know Your Professor
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Joseph Salfi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Salfi’s research focuses on the investigation, realization and assembly of building blocks […]
Get to Know an ECE Grad Student
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Hooman Vaseli is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering! He received his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering at UBC. Hooman’s […]
ECE Assistant Professor Awarded Canada Research Chair in Quantum Software and Algorithms
Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professor Olivia Di Matteo on being awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Quantum Software and Algorithms! Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 […]
Get to Know Your TA
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Mustafa Hammood is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Mustafa completed his BASc from UBC in 2017 and specialized in the […]
Get to Know Your Professor
As we near the Fall semester, ECE is announcing the “Get to Know…” series, which is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Mohammad Shahrad is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Shahrad’s research […]