The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Joseph Salfi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Salfi’s research focuses on the investigation, realization and assembly of building blocks for quantum information systems that could one day perform calculations … Read more
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Hooman Vaseli is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering! He received his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering at UBC. Hooman’s focus is in the Robotics and Control Lab (RCL) where … Read more
Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professor Olivia Di Matteo on being awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Quantum Software and Algorithms! Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the institution receives $100,000 annually for five years, with … Read more
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Mustafa Hammood is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Mustafa completed his BASc from UBC in 2017 and specialized in the field of semiconductor optics and photonics right after his graduation, … Read more
As we near the Fall semester, ECE is announcing the “Get to Know…” series, which is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Mohammad Shahrad is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Shahrad’s research focuses on building resource-efficient cloud computing systems. He leads the … Read more
Congratulations to ECE Professor Kenichi Takahata and his research team, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Dirk Lange, and Ben H. Chew, on being awarded the Oral Presentation Winner for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Transducers 2023, one of the largest international conferences on solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems! The presentation featured “A Sensor-Integrated “Smart” Ureteral Stent and Wireless In-Vitro Test for Real-time Obstruction Detection”, which … Read more
On June 23, 2023, the TrustML Research Excellence cluster (https://trustml.ubc.ca) hosted a TrustML Workshop @ UBC, in the Fred Kaiser Building at the UBC Vancouver campus! This event drew over 100 attendees, with representatives from over 20 organizations, including University of Pennsylvania, IBM Research, Simon Fraser University, Duke University, Michigan State University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and more! The TrustML cluster facilitates the … Read more
Congratulations to ECE professor Dr. Julia Rubin, recipient of this year’s CS-Can|Info-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Prize! This prize recognizes top early-career computer science academic researchers who are within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. for excellence in research. Congratulations Dr. Rubin! To learn more about this award and Dr. Rubin’s work, please visit https://people.ece.ubc.ca/mjulia/
Join ECE for this year’s Ian F. Blake Lectureship speaker, Professor Vahid Tarokh from Duke University, on Wednesday, May 10th at 11am PDT, online. Tarokh’s lecture “Hypothesis Testing and Quickest Change Detection for Unnormalized Models” presents a fresh take on likelihood-based hypothesis testing, reflecting on first experiences with this topic from his graduate Digital Communications course taught by Ian Blake. The celebrated Neyman-Pearson Lemma proves that this … Read more
Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering Design and Innovation Day! We are excited to share the projects our students have worked on over the final year of their undergraduate program! The capstone design project is a major component of the ECE engineering curriculum where students work in teams of four to six to design a product/service of significance and to solve an open-ended problem in … Read more
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Joseph Salfi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Salfi’s research focuses on the investigation, realization and assembly of building blocks for quantum information systems that could one day perform calculations … Read more
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Hooman Vaseli is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering! He received his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering at UBC. Hooman’s focus is in the Robotics and Control Lab (RCL) where … Read more
Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professor Olivia Di Matteo on being awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Quantum Software and Algorithms! Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the institution receives $100,000 annually for five years, with … Read more
The “Get to Know…” series is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Mustafa Hammood is a 4th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Mustafa completed his BASc from UBC in 2017 and specialized in the field of semiconductor optics and photonics right after his graduation, … Read more
As we near the Fall semester, ECE is announcing the “Get to Know…” series, which is meant to introduce incoming students to the people in ECE and learn more about the ongoing research and work happening in ECE! Dr. Mohammad Shahrad is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC! Professor Shahrad’s research focuses on building resource-efficient cloud computing systems. He leads the … Read more
Congratulations to ECE Professor Kenichi Takahata and his research team, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Dirk Lange, and Ben H. Chew, on being awarded the Oral Presentation Winner for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Transducers 2023, one of the largest international conferences on solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems! The presentation featured “A Sensor-Integrated “Smart” Ureteral Stent and Wireless In-Vitro Test for Real-time Obstruction Detection”, which … Read more
On June 23, 2023, the TrustML Research Excellence cluster (https://trustml.ubc.ca) hosted a TrustML Workshop @ UBC, in the Fred Kaiser Building at the UBC Vancouver campus! This event drew over 100 attendees, with representatives from over 20 organizations, including University of Pennsylvania, IBM Research, Simon Fraser University, Duke University, Michigan State University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and more! The TrustML cluster facilitates the … Read more
Congratulations to ECE professor Dr. Julia Rubin, recipient of this year’s CS-Can|Info-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Prize! This prize recognizes top early-career computer science academic researchers who are within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. for excellence in research. Congratulations Dr. Rubin! To learn more about this award and Dr. Rubin’s work, please visit https://people.ece.ubc.ca/mjulia/
Join ECE for this year’s Ian F. Blake Lectureship speaker, Professor Vahid Tarokh from Duke University, on Wednesday, May 10th at 11am PDT, online. Tarokh’s lecture “Hypothesis Testing and Quickest Change Detection for Unnormalized Models” presents a fresh take on likelihood-based hypothesis testing, reflecting on first experiences with this topic from his graduate Digital Communications course taught by Ian Blake. The celebrated Neyman-Pearson Lemma proves that this … Read more
Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering Design and Innovation Day! We are excited to share the projects our students have worked on over the final year of their undergraduate program! The capstone design project is a major component of the ECE engineering curriculum where students work in teams of four to six to design a product/service of significance and to solve an open-ended problem in … Read more