Get ready for ECE’s Three Minute Competition Heat, happening Wednesday, March 6 at 11am in room Kaiser 2020/2030! If you are interested in attending to watch the competition, please RSVP through the following link: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQ5suiuRs0LCK1w To get an idea of the presentations, take a look at some of the thesis topics for this year’s heat! Mohammadreza HallajiyanSecurity by Design: Systematic Security Assessment of AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices Mohammed… Read more: 2024 3MT Participants
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ECEGSA (ECE Graduate Student Association) hosted a Research Day on January 24th, 2024! The event was a graduate student-led effort organized by ECEGSA to showcase the research of ECE graduate students through poster sessions and lightning talks. The Research Day created an opportunity for students to show their research and creativity and encouraged communication and collaboration in… Read more: ECE/ECEGSA Research Day
Originally published in UBC Engineering News University of British Columbia engineering students Lily Watt and Matthew Chow are among this year’s recipients of the Cansbridge Fellowship. They are two of 15 fellows who will be joining a week-long conference in New York, a summer internship in Asia enabled by a $10,000 scholarship, and a lifelong professional network. Watt, a third-year engineering physics student and previously a research assistant at UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum… Read more: Two UBC Engineering students awarded 2024 Cansbridge Fellowship
In-person learning activities at UBC’s Vancouver campus are cancelled for January 18, 2024. Please review communications from your instructors to see whether classes will be moved online or given in another format. Campus is not closed, but UBC staff may be working remotely where possible. Please visit www.ubc.ca for updates about Vancouver campus. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering staff are available remotely from… Read more: UBC Weather Advisory: January 18, 2024
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 their limbs and hands. Participants will wear a new groundbreaking… Read more: ‘Smart Glove’ Can Boost Hand Mobility of Stroke Patients
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 was a former postdoctoral fellow at UBC. She is currently… Read more: ECE Professor Vincent Wong and Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ming Tang Receive IEEE 2022 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. Juri Jatskevich, who received the 2023 Nagamori Award “For Modelling, Analysis and Control of Electric Motors and Generators.” The Award was presented during a beautiful ceremony held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 3, 2023. The Nagamori Awards were established to “bring vitality to technological research of motors and related fields, such as generators and actuators, and also to support the researchers and… Read more: ECE Professor Juri Jatskevich Wins the 2023 Nagamori Award!
Congratulations to the University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) alumnus Dr. Partha Pande, who has been named interim dean of Washington State University’s (WSU) Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture (VCEA), effective February 12, 2024. Dr. Pande is a key member of the college’s leadership team, serving as director for WSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 2018… Read more: ECE Alumnus Partha Pande Appointed As Interim Dean at WSU
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 ray tracing. Ray tracing is a technique for computer graphics… Read more: ECE Student Perspective Story – From Computer Architecture to Future Industry Plans!
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 sensor skin provides touch sensitivity and dexterity, enabling tasks that… Read more: ECE/UBC engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’ in collaboration with Honda researchers