News & Events

  • 2024 3MT Participants

    2024 3MT Participants

    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…


  • ECE/ECEGSA Research Day

    ECE/ECEGSA Research Day

    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…


  • Two UBC Engineering students awarded 2024 Cansbridge Fellowship

    Two UBC Engineering students awarded 2024 Cansbridge Fellowship

    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…


  • UBC Weather Advisory: January 18, 2024

    UBC Weather Advisory: January 18, 2024

    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…


  • ‘Smart Glove’ Can Boost Hand Mobility of Stroke Patients

    ‘Smart Glove’ Can Boost Hand Mobility of Stroke Patients

    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…


  • ECE Professor Vincent Wong and Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ming Tang Receive IEEE 2022 Best Paper Award

    ECE Professor Vincent Wong and Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ming Tang Receive IEEE 2022 Best Paper Award

    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…