ECE PhD Student Mohammad Jafari, Governor General’s Gold Medal Winner
Congratulations to ECE PhD student Mohammad Jafari, who has been awarded the 2022 Governor General’s Gold Medal!
Making Deep Neural Networks Reliable
Two ECE grad students are making ML systems more reliable by improving how these systems work with computer hardware. Their tool, Ranger, is already being used by Intel.
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.
Jan Hammer awarded Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
ECE PhD candidate Jan Hammer has been awarded the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for exceptional teaching assistantship.
New wearable technology can measure blood sugar using sweat
ECE PhD student Safoora Khosravi has developed an advanced wearable glucose sensor that could reduce the need for painful finger pricks for people living with diabetes.
ECE Perspectives: Kumseok Jung, ACM/IEEE Symposium Best Demo Award Winner
“Active exchange with the industry is exciting; that our work could be immediately applied in the real world.”
ECE Student Perspectives: Abraham Chan, QRS’21 Best Paper winner
“I believe there are still large amounts of unsolved problems in machine learning, which makes for a fascinating research area!”
ECE Perspectives: Sakshi Mishra, Forbes 30 Under 30
“My desire to be part of the solution for climate change problems, a keen interest in conducting research in the all-things-electrified domain, and fascination with the field of artificial intelligence – these are the key drivers that led me to the path I’m on.”
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.
ECE Student Perspectives: Eric Cheng, SFU I2I Venture Pitch Winner
“Cell sequencing is changing the way we understand the most fundamental unit of life, but there are still many bottlenecks… This was the inspiration for Isolatrix.”