Smart Transportation Research Intersection Opens at UBC
March 31, 2023
On March 28, 2023, over 130 provincial and municipal transportation engineers and suppliers attended the opening of a new Research Intersection at UBC enabled by the UBC-Rogers Partnership.
Jade Salazaar of UBC-Rogers Partnership Named Peak Emerging Tech Leader
March 1, 2023
Rogers Innovation & Partnerships Lead Jade Salazaar, who is based in ICICS and helps manage the UBC-Rogers Partnership, has been named an Emerging Leader in the Tech category by The Peak.
Addressing the Healthcare Crisis at the Leading Edge
January 31, 2023
Dr. Kendall Ho, Digital Emergency Medicine lead in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and a practicing emergency department physician at Vancouver General Hospital, is leading a multidisciplinary effort supported by the UBC-Rogers partnership to address the healthcare crisis in the emergency department with new patient monitoring technologies.
$2.85M Federal Funding to Study the Climate Impact of Travel Behaviour Changes Leverages UBC-Rogers Partnership Research
November 24, 2022
Professor Mahmudur Fatmi, a Civil Engineering professor at UBC-Okanagan (UBC-O) with a focus on transportation, is the PI on a recently awarded $2.85M federal grant from Environment and Climate Change Canada for “Integrated Development of Transport Data, Model and Community Outreach Tool for Urban and Rural Regions.”
UBC Campus Models Cities for Drone Operation over 5G
November 15, 2022
The “Campus as a Living 5G Lab” created by the UBC-Rogers Partnership is being used to research the viability of employing drones in cities—which UBC models—to safely deliver packages like prescription drugs.
Prof. Dave Michelson to Teach 5G Postgraduate Course at Harbin Institute of Technology
November 4, 2022
Professor Dave Michelson, who is an active researcher in the UBC-Rogers Partnership on 5G R&D, has been invited to share his expertise by teaching the postgraduate course “Propagation and Channel Modeling in 5G Communication System Design” atthe Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.
UBC-Rogers Partnership Climate Project at Microsoft Research Summit
October 26, 2022
Dr Naomi Zimmerman of Mechanical Engineering is the lead on the “Intelligent Transportation Data Platform and Environmental Sensing for Sustainable Cities” research project supported by the UBC-Rogers Partnership. She recently discussed her work at the Microsoft Research Summit, “Towards Climate-Smart Cities: IoT Networks for Air Pollution Sensing.”
UBC Team Led by ICICS Member Robert Xiao Wins World’s Top Cybersecurity Competition
October 7, 2022
A student team from Computer Science led by Professor and ICICS member Robert Xiao joined forces with crews from Carnegie Mellon University and the startup Theori.io to win DEF CON 2022, the world’s top cybersecurity competition.
NoTraffic Collaborating with Rogers to Improve Traffic Flow in Canadian Cities
September 16, 2022
NoTraffic is teaming up with Rogers Communications to provide a 5G-based smart transportation platform to Canadian traffic agencies. The collaboration builds on the UBC-Rogers 5G Partnership.
ECE Professor David Michelson to Chair Working Group Spanning International Telecommunications Organizations
August 26, 2022
With wireless technologies become increasingly complex and urgent demand for wireless spectrum, ITU and URSI are looking to make more researchers and research consortia aware of these questions and encourage them to work together to contribute research results.