ECE Student Awarded at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

ECE student Ali Hashemi won second place in the Best Student Paper Award contest at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2016) for his paper  "Matrix Reordering for Efficient List Sphere Decoding of Polar Codes".  ISCAS is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, with 1687 submitted papers and 781 accepted papers.

ECE Students honoured at the 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

ECE undergraduates Jacob Barnett, Charles Gather, and Luke Soldano won the runner-up prize in the Mining Challenge of the 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories. Their submission to the challenge was based on their capstone design project that was supervised by Prof. Shane McIntosh this past academic year.

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

DNA ‘cages’ may aid drug delivery

Talks continue with AMURE / PSAC

The University submitted to AMURE (Association of McGill University Research Employees/Public Service Alliance of Canada) the latest version of the articles on posting, appointments and reappointments, and on probationary period. The two bilingual documents include suggested changes from the union. Texts applicable to associates and assistants will be reviewed by the union and should be ratified at the next meeting, set for September 19.