GLSVLSI Best Poster Award (2nd Place) Awarded to ECE Members

Congratulations to Samuel Dayo, Ataollah Saeed Monir, Mousa Karimi, and Professor Boris Vaisband on their paper titled "Statistical Weight Refresh System for CTT-Based Synaptic Arrays." The paper was presented at the ACM/IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023. We are proud to announce that their work received the second-place Best Poster/Late Breaking Research (LBR) Award.

2023 IEEE EPS PhD Fellowship Recipient, Yousef Safari

We are proud to announce that Yousef Safari, a PhD candidate in our Department, is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) PhD Fellowship for 2023. Yousef’s work in large-scale heterogeneous integration has earned him this honor. We congratulate him on this well-deserved recognition and look forward to witnessing his continued success in the field.

Best Paper Award Presented to ECE and School of Computer Science authors

Congratulations to authors: Xi Chen, Ju Wang, Hang Li, Yi Tian Xu, Di Wu, Xue Liu, Gregory Dudek, Taeseop Lee (Samsung Korea)y, Intaik Park (Samsung Korea) for their paper entitled:  One for All: Traffic Prediction at Heterogeneous 5G Edge with Data-Efficient Transfer Learning.  It was presented at IEEE Globecome 2021 and awarded Best Paper.  

Congratulations to Professor François Bouffard, winner of the Outstanding Academic Service Award

Congratulations go to Professor François Bouffard, who is the winner of this year’s Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Academic Service Award. The award speaks to the impact Professor Bouffard has had on the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) community, recognizing his continuing dedication to the students as well as his commitment and contribution to student affairs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE Prof Thomas Szkopek and Mining & Materials Prof Marta Cerruti Obtain CFI Funding for Innovative Research

ECE Professor Thomas Szkopek and Professor Marta Cerruti (Mining and Materials Engineering) lead the team that has recently obtained CFI funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund competition for their project Functional Atomic-scale Materials Engineering (FAME).

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ECE Professor Christophe Dubach and the Bank of Canada Model X Challenge

The proposal "Central Bank Digital Currency with Asymmetric Privacy", by Professor Christophe Dubach (ECE), and Professor Katrin Tinn (Desautels Faculty of Management) has been chosen as one of the top three proposals by the Bank of Canada for the Model X Challenge.

Three ECE Students Receive Recognition from the Institute of Electric Power Engineering (IEPE)

Three ECE students were rewarded for their exceptional promise as future power engineers by the Institute of Electric Power Engineering (IEPE) at their annual scholarship award ceremony held virtually on December 4th, 2020. Saul Valery Cano (U4 Electrical Engineering) was a awarded the Schneider Electric Scholarship valued at $3000. Helene Ma Yang and Xavier Pellemans (both U4 Electrical Engineering) received one of the Jean-Jacques-Archambault prizes awarded by Hydro-Québec.

ECE Administrative Officer Carolyn Curiale wins Principal’s Award

Congratulations to Carolyn Curiale, who was the 2019-2020 Award winner in the M & Excluded category for the Principal’s Award: Administrative and Support Staff. We are all very proud of Carolyn and are pleased to see her recognized for the contributions she has made to the Department and the Faculty.

Team led by ECE professor Amin Emad wins Omics Data Against Cancer competition

Congratulations to Professor Amin Emad of ECE and his team, who won the Omics Data Against Cancer (ODAC) competition to develop AI models to predict response to drug combinations in poor-outcome cancer patients.

ECE Professors in the Fight Against COVID-19

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is proud to introduce you to the Professors in our Department who are using their unique research skills and experience and adapting their work to made significant strides in COVID-19 research:

Professor Benoit Boulet receives promotion

Congratulations to Professor Benoit Boulet in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who was recently promoted to the position of Full Professor.  

ECE Professors Selected Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, Tal Arbel and Christophe Dubach

Congratulations to Professors Tal Arbel and  Christophe Dubach who has just been named as two of the outstanding researchers to join the prestigious CIFAR AI Program, the goal of which is to "recruit and retain in Canada some of the world's leading researchers in AI and provide them with long-term, dedicated research funding to support their research programs, and to

ECE Professor Tal Arbel in the news

ECE Professor Tal Arbel recently presented research at the “AI and the Future of Cancer Research” (From the Goodman Cancer Research Centre’s Public Lecture Series).

Professor Arbel spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and specifically her research focus on computer vision, already showing clinical success in the fields of brain tumours and multiple sclerosis.

Boris Vaisband, New ECE Assistant Professor

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering would like to introduce Boris Vaisband, Assistant Professor, joining us from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Vaisband obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester. He is joining the Integrated Circuits & Systems Group.

ECE Welcomes Two New Assistant Professors

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering would like to introduce two new Assistant Professors:  Professor Marcello Colombino, Ph.D. ETH Zurich will be joining the Systems and Control Group, and Professor AJung Moon, PhD, University of BC will be joining the Intelligent Systems Group.  Please join us in welcoming them!