ECE Researchers Awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Congratulations to ECE Professor Kenichi Takahata and his research team, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Dirk Lange, and Ben H. Chew, on being awarded the Oral Presentation Winner for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Transducers 2023, one of the largest international conferences on solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems! The presentation featured “A Sensor-Integrated “Smart” Ureteral […]
TrustML Workshop @ UBC
On June 23, 2023, the TrustML Research Excellence cluster (https://trustml.ubc.ca) hosted a TrustML Workshop @ UBC, in the Fred Kaiser Building at the UBC Vancouver campus! This event drew over 100 attendees, with representatives from over 20 organizations, including University of Pennsylvania, IBM Research, Simon Fraser University, Duke University, Michigan State University, The Chinese University […]
Ian F. Blake Lecture
Join ECE for this year’s Ian F. Blake Lectureship speaker, Professor Vahid Tarokh from Duke University, on Wednesday, May 10th at 11am PDT, online. Tarokh’s lecture “Hypothesis Testing and Quickest Change Detection for Unnormalized Models” presents a fresh take on likelihood-based hypothesis testing, reflecting on first experiences with this topic from his graduate Digital Communications course taught […]
Design and Innovation Day 2023: Winners, Projects, and Photos
Thank you to everyone who attended Design and Innovation Day! Congratulations to all of the groups on your hardwork and effort for this year’s capstone projects! The capstone design project is a major component of the ECE engineering curriculum where students work in teams of four to six students to design a product/service of significance […]
2023 Capstone Design & Innovation Day
Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering Design and Innovation Day! We are excited to share the projects our students have worked on over the final year of their undergraduate program! The capstone design project is a major component of the ECE engineering curriculum where students work in teams of four to six to design a […]
2023 Three Minute Thesis ECE Participants
Get ready for ECE’s Three Minute Competition Heat, happening Wednesday, March 8 at 12pm in room MCLD 3038! RSVP your spot as an audience member here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PZqyeHX3PFl7T0 To get an idea of the presentations, take a look at some of the topics for this year’s heat!
Faculty Perspective – Professor Karthik Pattabiraman Named a Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society Class of 2022!
Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, focusing on the research areas of dependable computer systems, computer security, cyber-physical systems and software engineering. He was recently named a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society class of 2022. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization […]
ECE/UBC Researchers Are Changing Pressure Sensors and Their Potential Applications
Through the hard work and determination carried out by members of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, we are seeing advances in the use of pressure microsensors with remarkable performance, enabling a whole new range of application opportunities. Congratulations Nabil Shalabi, Kyle Searles, and Kenichi Takahata, who have […]
ECE Alumni Perspective- From Electrical, to Software, to Microsoft!
Yasaman Gharib graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC in November 2012, with a Bachelors Degree in the Electrical area. After working in her field for a year, she decided to switch to become a software developer. Currently she works as a software engineer at Microsoft and is working on a […]