Faculty Achievements
November 15, 2011 | Faculty Achievements
Congratulations to Samantha Grist – Killam Doctoral Fellowship
Samantha Grist has been awarded the esteemed Killam Doctoral Fellowship by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Doctoral Fellowships are awarded every year to the most exceptional doctoral degree candidates at UBC. The fellowships are the University’s most prestigious merit-based graduate award. Samantha is pursuing her doctoral degree under the supervision of Dr. Karen Cheung and Dr. Lukas Chrostowski in the area of Microsystems and Nanotechnoloy.
April 8, 2021 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Ali Mesbah Receives Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
We are excited to announce that Dr. Ali Mesbah is one of the six recipients of the inaugural Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships this year!
April 8, 2021 | Faculty Achievements
Seminar - Michael Hind, IBM Research AI - “Trusted AI”
Speaker: Michael Hind, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research AI
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: For Zoom access info, please RSVP here: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5csduqhqzIpHdUTcEIFme-pZX-TeVO_X2K7
Host: Julia Rubin
Title: Trusted AI
April 8, 2021 | Faculty Achievements
Seminar - Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Amazon AI - "Fairness, Explainability, and Privacy in AI/ML Systems"
Speaker: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Principal Scientist, Machine Learning Services, Amazon AWS AI
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: For Zoom access info, please RSVP here: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YsceGpqT8pE9bCw-YrGL5Sh6Ql-2O_3-IR
February 3, 2021 | Faculty Achievements
ECE Projects Awarded Over $1.85M in NSERC Alliance Grants
Four research projects led by UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers have collectively been awarded over $1.85 million in Alliance grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC), the Government of Canada announced today.
February 1, 2021 | Faculty Achievements
Former Nuclear Bunker Now Hosts Life-saving Research
Photo retrieved from UBC News
New agreement between UBC and French subterranean lab boosts scientific collaboration
A Cold War-era nuclear bunker buried 500 metres below the countryside in southern France hums with new life today as an epicentre of vital research in science and technology.
November 12, 2020 | Faculty Achievements
Prof. Pattabiraman Receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
ECE professor Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman is the recipient of the 2020 Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring in the mid-career category. The award recognizes outstanding mentorship of numerous graduate students over many years.
October 20, 2020 | Faculty Achievements
ECE PhD Student Receives ACM TECS Best Paper Award 2020
ECE Alumnus Farid Molazem (former ECE PhD Student) and Professor Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman have received the ACM TECS Best Paper Award 2020 for their paper titled "Design-Level and Code-Level Security Analysis of IoT Devices".
September 28, 2020 | Faculty Achievements
Speeding Up COVID19 Testing with Artificial Intelligence
A University of British Columbia-led study has identified a computer technique that health facilities can use to screen, diagnose and monitor COVID-19 pneumonia more efficiently.
The researchers found that a pre-trained neural network called DarkNet-19 can rapidly and reliably detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays. The network recognized the disease’s imaging patterns on nearly 6,000 chest X-rays with 94 per cent accuracy, outperforming 16 other available networks.
September 3, 2020 | Faculty Achievements
Roberto Rosales Receives UBC President’s Staff Award
Congratulations to Dr. Roberto Rosales, ECE Engineering Services Team Lead, for receiving the 2020 UBC President’s Staff Award for Leadership. The President’s Staff Awards are presented by the university annually and recognize the personal achievements and contributions that staff make to UBC, and to the vision and goals of the University.
