ICICS at 2018 BCTECH Summit
ICICS was well-represented at the this year’s BCTECH Summit, held from May 14 –16 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Technology leaders, industry executives, investors, senior government officials, researchers and students were among the roughly 9,000 attendees. ICICS Director Rob Rohling was on hand throughout the conference to discuss ICICS research clusters and HATCH with interested […]
Blockchain@UBC Students on Global News
Students from ICICS research cluster Blockchain@UBC demonstrated their blockchain-based HyperVote online voting software on Global News at the 2018 BCTECH Summit.
ICICS Research Cluster Bionics@UBC Hosts Workshop at Emerging Technologies Conference
Under the leadership of ECE Professors John Madden, Karen Cheung and Konrad Walus, the Bionics@UBC ICICS research cluster brought together many of its international collaborators for a workshop entitled “Advanced Prosthetics and Soft Robotics” at the 2018 Emerging Technologies Conference, held from May 9-11 in Whistler, BC. ET-CMOS (Emerging Technologies-Communications, Microsystems, Optoelectronics, Sensors) is a conference dedicated […]
ICICS Women in Tech Student Workshop
On Saturday, April 28, 20 high school and first-year university students (16 women, 4 men) participated in a Women in Tech workshop in ICICS led by two second-year biomedical engineering students. They wanted to see if they could build a heart-rate sensor from scratch. The group divided up into groups of 3-4, and within 4 hours had […]