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10 Ventures Graduating from HATCH
10 Ventures Graduating from the HATCH Accelerator

10 Ventures Graduating from the HATCH Accelerator

HATCH Venture Builder is a collaborative initiative between entrepreneurship@UBC (e@UBC) and ICICS supporting UBC’s thriving community of interdisciplinary innovators who are building ventures driving social, environmental and economic impact to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. This summer, we are congratulating 10 ventures who are graduating from the program after some 18-24 months scaling […]

Prof. Sudip Shekhar Receives Schmidt Polymaths Award
PhD Student Amirhossein Omidvar Wins Award for Excellence in Microsystems Fabrication

PhD Student Amirhossein Omidvar Wins Award for Excellence in Microsystems Fabrication

July 19, 2022

Established by CMC Microsystems, TEXPO offers graduate students in Canada’s National Design Network® (CNDN) a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of micro-nano technologies to industry representatives and academic peers.

Vincent Wong and Team Secure DND IDEaS Funding for 5G Research

Vincent Wong and Team Secure DND IDEaS Funding for 5G Research

July 19, 2022

A team led by ICICS member and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professor Vincent Wong has won a 3 year, $1.5M award for a project titled “Toward Situational-aware and Adaptive 5G Networks for Defence and Security: A Machine Learning Approach”. Industry collaborators include Rogers Communications, Google Cloud, and General Dynamics Land Systems Canada.

Professor Rabab Ward Receives IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

Professor Rabab Ward Receives IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

Every year the IEEE’s most prestigious honors are bestowed on a select group of individuals whose achievements and contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and engineering. ECE Professor and former ICICS Director Rabab Ward has done all of this and more, and in recognition was given the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal […]

ECE Professor Sudip Shekhar First Canadian to Receive Schmidt Science Polymaths Award

ECE Professor Sudip Shekhar First Canadian to Receive Schmidt Science Polymaths Award

July 15, 2022

Dr. Shekar plans to build biosensors for inexpensive yet robust point-of-care biomedical testing – a potentially game-changing technology that could expand testing capacity for isolated communities, emergency services, drive-through testing and drug stores, and eventually for at-home use.

UBC-Rogers Collaborative Research Project on Tele-Ultrasound Wins Prestigious Best Paper Award

UBC-Rogers Collaborative Research Project on Tele-Ultrasound Wins Prestigious Best Paper Award

July 5, 2022

Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD candidate David Black  and his supervisor Professor Tim Salcudean have won the Best Paper Award at the 14th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics held June 26-29, 2022 at the Royal Geographical Society. Their paper, “A Mixed Reality System for Human Teleoperation in Tele-Ultrasound,” emerged from collaborative researchs enabled by the UBC-Rogers partnership on 5G research and development.

Graduate Student Supported by UBC-Rogers Earthquake Early Warning Project Wins Thesis Competition

Graduate Student Supported by UBC-Rogers Earthquake Early Warning Project Wins Thesis Competition

June 15, 2022

Ivelina Daiss feels privileged to work with Professor Jose Marti on the Earthquake Early Warning for the Smart City project supported by the UBC-Rogers partnership.

Best Paper Award for UBC-Rogers Partnership Project on Cellular Traffic Prediction

Best Paper Award for UBC-Rogers Partnership Project on Cellular Traffic Prediction

June 7, 2022

The UBC-Rogers partnership on 5G wireless technologies research and development has generated an award-winning paper at a highly competitive international communications conference.