Nikola Zlatanov, who was awarded the 2011 Killam Doctoral scholarship, is this year’s recipient of the 2012 Vanier scholarship. Supervised by Professor Robert Schober in the ECE PhD program,...
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. This is the first of four interviews with undergraduate research interns...
The ICICS Graduate Affairs Committee has selected ECE doctoral student Caitlin Schneider as the inaugural recipient of the Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship. Motion Metrics International is...
At this year’s Toyota Canada AUTO21 HQP Poster National Competition, a team of UBC engineers won Best in Theme A (Health, Safety and Injury Prevention), tied for first place overall, and...
Come cheer for your UBC Thunderbots as they compete against the best teams in the world in artificial intelligence and robotics on home turf, June 9 to June 15 at the Engineering Design Center!
Learn...
It’s not easy to achieve the highest academic standing in the Applied Sciences program, but that’s just what Alexey Pazukha has done. Professor Dr. John Madden can testify to the graduating student’s...
Last year she received the Google Anita Borg Scholarship. This year, PhD student Zahra Ahmadian is the winner of the IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Prize.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic...
It began with a simple wish to make video games.
Now five years later, William Gallego has refined his ambitions, accumulated a wealth of leadership experience and graduates from UBC with an Applied...
Along with her degree, when Annelies Tjebbes graduates in May, she’ll have in her hands an award-winning product and an impressive volunteer experience. In her undergraduate years, she co-...
Miguel Guillen Torres’ balance of approachability and professionalism as a teaching assistant has garnered him the 2011/2012 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. The Award is given out...
As the first recipient of a new Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research award, Noreen Kamal will have an opportunity to develop evidence-based provincial policy for emergency care. The...
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng received the best paper award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in Paris. This is Kwan's second, best paper award in four months, the first was...
Please join us on Wednesday for the IEEE Student Project Fair in the Atrium of the Fred Kaiser Building. Projects completed in the past academic year by students in the ECE department will be...
Wilson Fung, a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Dr. Tor Aamodt, has become the first Canadian student to win the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.
Wilson was selected for this award as one of...
Deepak S. Gautam, a PhD student in power electronics received an Outstanding Presentation Award at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference.
In the poster Deepak describes a novel zero...
Samantha Grist, doctoral student under the supervision of Karen Cheung, won the campus-wide semi-finals at the 3 minute thesis competition. The final round of the competition is today at noon in the...
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a voice synthesizer that allows people to speak by simply moving their hands.
Johnty Wang, a master's student in electrical and...
Kaizen Biomedical's MobiChill, took first place and the people's choice award at the Enterprize Canada National Business Plan Competition. Congratulations to the team brought together in APSC...
The ECE Graduate Student Association supports students by providing professional development and social activities.
The ECEGSA Executive organizes activities and services for the benefit of ECE...
Samantha Grist (PhD candidate) and Greg Reynen (MSc candidate) took first place in the ECE Three Minute Thesis competition this week. Samantha and Greg along with Rindra Ramamonjison will go on to...
ECE researchers received the prestigious Cum Laude best poster award in Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomograpy and Therapy at the SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging.
The poster was presented by...
Yazan Boshmaf and Ildar Muslukhov received Best Paper award on December 9th at the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) held in Orlando, Florida, for their paper The...
Congratulations to Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, recipient of the best paper award at the Wireless Communication Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2011, in Houston, Texas. In total 2923 papers were submitted, 1070...
By creating 120 'fake' Facebook users, referred to as Socialbots Ph.D. student Yazan Boshmaf and Dr. Beznosov, along with other researchers from ECE's NetSys Lab and...
Location: Room 222, West Mall Swing Space, 2175 West Mall, UBC
Date: Thursday October 20th, 2011
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Engineering students and alumni affiliated with Aeos Biomedical,...
Neda Eskandari, has just won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Neda, an ECE graduate student working with Dr. Meeko Oishi, won the...
Congratulations to Zahra Ahmadian, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Lampe, who recently received the Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Through this scholarship, Google hopes to encourage women to excel...
Runners up at the EECE 375/474 Project Fair, Group 6, designed technology for a smart parking lot. Here are group members Zetong Zhang, Kevin Leu, Jacky Cheung, Usman Muhammad and Justin Bisal...
Congratulations to the UBC IEEE Student Branch for receiving the George Armitage Outstanding Student Branch Award in recognition of their extraordinary achievements. This award will be presented at...
First Place at the EECE 375/474 Project Fair went to Group 7 for their design of a Medical Dispenser. The group, made up of Edgar Cave, Farhad Nazem, Usama Khan and William Huang talk about their...
