Sudip Shekhar awarded Killam Teaching Prize
Dr. Sudip Shekhar, Associate Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Killam Teaching Prize.
Engineers at UBC get under the skin of ionic skin
Researchers Yuta Dobashi and ECE’s John Madden have discovered that ionic hydrogels sense pressure similarly to human nerves.
This research could be used to build smart skin that can mimic the real thing- and could be used in bionic prosthetics.
ECE Faculty awarded funding for Trustworthy ML research from UBC VPRI’s Research Excellence Clusters initiative
ECE professor Julia Rubin leads the “Trustworthiness of Machine-Learning-Based Systems (TrustML)” research cluster, which has been awarded funding through the 2022/2023 UBC Research Excellence Clusters initiative.
Solving bias in healthcare AI: A Q&A with Xiaoxiao Li
“Bias can be introduced during data collection, and is fatal in healthcare.” Xiaoxiao Li is working on a new interdisciplinary project that she hopes will help to solve issues of bias in AI healthcare applications.
Understanding blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs with Zehua Wang
Crypto assets and the mechanisms that support them can seem, well, cryptic. Dr. Zehua Wang explains the basics to UBC Beyond.
ECE Professor Julia Rubin appointed Canada Research Chair
ECE Professor Julia Rubin has been appointed as Canada Research Chair, one of four UBC Applied Science faculty members to be appointed to this prestigious position this year.
Karthik Pattabiraman named 2021 Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Karthik Pattabiraman has been named as one of 2021’s 63 ACM Distinguished Scientists by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Stretchy, washable battery brings wearable devices closer to reality
Dr. Ngoc Tan Nguyen and his colleagues have created a battery that is both flexible and washable. It works even when twisted or stretched to twice its normal length, or after being washed multiple times.
Krishan Dayal Srivastava, 1931-2021
Krishan Dayal Srivastava (KD), former Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, as well as Vice President of Student and Academic Services, passed away on October 20th. He will be dearly missed.
ECE Faculty Perspectives – Meet Xiaoxiao Li
“In biomedicine, the consequences of failed or biased AI decision-making can be fatal, and there are many privacy risks in existing Al algorithms… These challenges are what really keep me up at night.”