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  • UBC ECE Faculty Win Two Prestigious Awards at DSN 2025

    UBC ECE Faculty Win Two Prestigious Awards at DSN 2025

    UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that two faculty members, Dr. Prashant Nair and Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman, received major international honours at the IEEE/IFIP Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025) conference held this summer in Naples, Italy. DSN is the flagship global venue for research in dependable computing. This year marked a…

  • Exploring Software Innovation: Faridah’s Journey in ECE

    Exploring Software Innovation: Faridah’s Journey in ECE

    Faridah Akinotcho graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2024 under supervisor Professor Julia Rubin. Since graduation, Faridah has been actively engaged in her research while exploring opportunities in software and mobile engineering. Discover more about Faridah’s time in ECE, her journey in this field, and advice for current and future…

  • ECE 3MT Competition: Graduate Students Advanced to Semi-Finals

    ECE 3MT Competition: Graduate Students Advanced to Semi-Finals

    ECE graduate students Jonas Welsch and Mohammed Elnawawy made a significant impact at the ECE 3MT competition on March 4th, 2025. Jonas’s first place win and Mohammed’s second place triumph not only showcased their hard-work in ECE but also advanced them to the semi-finals competition hosted by UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. ECE spoke with…

  • ECE Professor at UBC Blusson QMI Collaborating to Advance Quantum Photonic Chip Technology

    ECE Professor at UBC Blusson QMI Collaborating to Advance Quantum Photonic Chip Technology

    March 14, 2025 Original publication A collaboration bringing together UBC Blusson QMI researchers with industry and government partners is set to accelerate research and commercialization of innovative photonic chips. With over $1 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the project aims…

  • Edna Clarke: UBC’s First Woman in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Edna Clarke: UBC’s First Woman in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    January 17, 2025 In 1944, Edna Anita Clarke entered the records of UBC history, becoming the first woman to graduate in Electrical Engineering. The life of our first female graduate was one of determination, novelty, and a lifetime of living right on the frontiers of engineering and adventure. Born in 1921 near Penticton, British Columbia,…

  • Transforming Hardware Faults in Machine Learning Systems

    Transforming Hardware Faults in Machine Learning Systems

    January 10th, 2025 ECE Professor Karthik Pattabiraman and research group members ECE PhD student Zitao Chen, who is graduating this year, and Assistant Professor Guanpeng Li from the University of Iowa and alumnus of ECE, focus on machine learning (ML) applications in high-stakes environments such as autonomous driving and their reliability to the effect of…