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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
How the Rogers-UBC Partnership is Building Smarter Transportation and Healthier Cities
June 8, 2022
Rogers and its research partners are working on several projects related to intelligent transportation, leveraging UBC’s AURORA connected vehicle testbed.
Governor General’s Gold Medal awarded to ICICS Member’s PhD Student Mohammad Jafari
June 7, 2022
Mohammad’s high-achieving studies took place under supervisor and ICICS member Purang Abolmaesumi at the Robotics and Control Laboratory, where he studied deep learning for medical imaging.
UBC Ventures Working to End Plastic Pollution
This story originally appeared on UBC News The end of plastic pollution—in the oceans, on land and in our air—is within reach with two UBC ventures working hard on solutions that could make this vision a reality. “Tonnes of plastic waste pollute our land and oceans,” says Dr. Jordan MacKenzie, co-founder and CEO of Bioform […]