"I am a strong believer that you can make a difference in the world at the local level. Opportunities for positive change exist all around us."
From the start of my degree, I wanted to get...
UBC’s very first virtual graduation is fast approaching! Ceremonies are scheduled for UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
You can learn more about virtual graduation here
In February, Hossam Shoman won first place in ECE Heat’s 3MT Competition and has also secured a spot in the UBC 3MT Semi-Finals for his presentation, “A Stable Laser, without an Isolator”. His...
Ahmed Elhamy Mostafa joined the ECE department in September 2015 and officially started his research about “Medium Access Control and Resource Allocation for Massive IoT” in January 2016...
ECE PhD Alum Dr. Guanpeng (Justin) Li (left) and PhD thesis advisor Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman (right).
Recently graduated ECE PhD student Guanpeng (Justin) Li won a distinguished dissertation...
Robotic vehicles like Amazon delivery drones or Mars rovers can be hacked more easily than people may think, new research from the University of British Columbia suggests.
The researchers, based at...
In May, students Casimir Kuzyk, Gabriel Robinson-Leith, Alexander Dimitrakopoulos, and Mike Chang, working with Alireza Nojeh and collaborators, received the best overall poster award for their paper...
UBC ECE Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Ali Saket, his advisor Dr. Martin Ordonez, and ECE alumni Dr. Navid Shafiei received a Second Place Prize Paper Award for 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Power...
For the original UBC News media release, please visit: https://news.ubc.ca/2019/06/06/ubc-researchers-find-ways-to-hackproof-smart-meters/
Smart electricity meters are useful because they...
From left to right: Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Daniel Holanda Noronha and Ehsanur Rahman
ECE PhD students Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Daniel Holanda Noronha and Ehsanur Rahman are recipients of the 2019 Vanier...
ECE graduate Dr. Shekoofeh Azizi has received UBC’s Governor General’s Gold Medal for 2018. The medal is awarded to the student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record as a...
Rabe Arshad, a PhD Fellow in the department of electrical and computer, has received UBC’s prestigious Killam Doctoral Scholarship.
“It is a matter of great honor that I have been chosen...
ECE’s Abdullah Al-Digs and Hassan Halawa are recipients of UBC’s Killam Graduate Student Teaching Awards for the 2018-2019 school year.
Al-Digs, a PhD candidate, is grateful for the...
EEG headsets are often worn 24 hours a day by patients with medication-resistant epilepsy.
Original article from UBC Applied Science
Technology to detect epileptic seizures may soon be more...
On this International Women's Day, we're celebrating the achievements of women in engineering. We chatted with Delaram Behnami, a PhD student in ECE, who recently won the departmental Three...
Congratulations to the Robotics and Control Laboratory, whose team has received both the first place and the second place student paper awards in image guided procedures, robotics Interventions and...
Hossam Shoman holding the integrated element designed by his research group. (Photo: Erica Yeung)
Have you ever stood in a checkout line at a store with 10 other people, waiting for one cashier to...
Photo credit: Clare Kiernan
Article by Lou Corpuz-Bosshart, UBC Media Relations
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could...
ECE PhD student, Guanpeng Li, and his advisor, Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman, received the Best Paper Award Runner Up at the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN...
Congratulations to Dr. Julia Rubin and ECE grad students, Lina Qiu and Yingying Wang, for receiving the Distinguish Paper Award at the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing an...
When Amir Abdi speaks about teaching and being an instructor, one thing is clear: he loves it. Amir’s passion and dedication to teaching has not gone unrecognized. He was the recipient of...
Francisco “Pancho” Paz, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, recently received a Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recognizing his...
Shekoofeh Azizi, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, postdoctoral fellow, Sharareh Bayat, along with Ajay Rajaram were recipients of the runner up prize for the...
Developing 5G caching for the Canadian landscape
In the near future, we will need more bandwidth, more cell towers, and more base-stations to support the huge increase in the demand for...
Every year in May, the IEEE Student Branch - UBC Chapter organizes a field trip overseas to visit exciting engineering schools, research institutions and companies. Over the years the club has taken...
Nithya Narayanamurthy received an award for her paper describing a unique way of reducing computing errors at the European Dependable Computing Conference this week. Narayanamurthy developed her...
Missed the ceremony?
You can still watch your favourite, newly minted, graduate cross the stage. All UBC graduation ceremonies are broadcast live online and archived. The live webcast will be...
Each response to this design challenge is unique.
Students in the Electrical Design Studio are designing, fabricating and testing a drone prototype that can lift, rotate 180°and land.
In their...
Capstone team designs gestural interface for surgeons
Client: St. Paul’s Hospital, Department of Radiology, Darra Murphy, Radiologist
Faculty Supervisor: Philippe Kruchten
Capstone Team...
