Browse recent news and event features in the ECE Department below!
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UBC researchers uncover new cyber threat to water and energy networks
Hackers could identify and block vital communications to essential infrastructure without ever breaking its encryption, researchers warn University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into a facility’s own systems or crack…
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UBC ECE Research Wins Best Paper and Distinguished Paper Awards at DSN 2026
A research collaboration involving the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia has won both the Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), one of the leading international conferences in dependable and trustworthy computing. A single paper…
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ECE Professor Delivers Keynote on AI and the Future of Software Engineering Education at FSE 2026
ECE Professor Julia Rubin recently delivered a keynote presentation at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Education Track (FSE SEET), one of the leading international conferences in software engineering: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2026/fse-2026-software-engineering-education Her keynote, titled “Training Models, Teaching Brains: Software Engineering Skills in an AI-Assisted World”, explored how generative AI is reshaping the…
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ECE PhD Graduate Pritam Dash Wins Prestigious William C. Carter Award in Dependable Computing
Pritam Dash, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate supervised by Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman in the Dependable Systems Lab, has been awarded the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability for his doctoral thesis, titled Software Solutions for Mitigating Physical Attacks against Robotic Autonomous Vehicles. The award was presented at the 56th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on…
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ECE PhD Student Awarded Prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship
We are thrilled to celebrate Rui Xi, a PhD student in UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering, who has been awarded the prestigious 2025 IBM PhD Fellowship, one of the most competitive doctoral fellowships in the world. This invitation-only program selects just around 25 PhD students globally each year, and Rui’s selection is a remarkable testament…
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UBC ECE PhD Student Andrew Gunter Shares His Experience at the Prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum
This past September, Andrew Gunter, one of our current PhD students in ECE was selected to attend the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany, a prestigious and highly competitive event that brings together outstanding early-career researchers from around the world with laureates of the Turing Award, Fields Medal, and other major international honors! We…