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UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, ICICS member, and CAIDA member Dr. Vincent Wong has recently received $1.5 million in funding from the Canadian Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces for a project titled…
Schmidt Futures has recently announced ten new recipients of the Schmidt Science Polymaths award. Among them is UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, ICICS member, and CAIDA member: Dr. Sudip Shekhar. The award provides $500…
19 of CAIDA’s Members have been successful during the 2022 NSERC Research Grants Competition, totalling over 2.2 million dollars in total research funding. CAIDA’s recipients span 4 different departments: Computer Science, Electrical and Computer…
As artificial intelligence tools continue to be developed and improved, its progress is also matched with questioning which tools are wanted and needed versus the importance of humans carrying out the work without the use of AI. AI-assisted writing…
Dr. Chen Greif is one of 26 international scholars who were elected as SIAM Fellows in 2022. The award recognizes outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for their distinguished contribution to their…
Dr. Karon MacLean has been appointed as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Interactive Human Systems Design, Tier 1 (senior) from the Canada Research Chairs program during the 2022 CRC appointments. Dr. Karon MacLean is a professor in the UBC Computer…
Dr. Alla Sheffer’s exceptional contributions in computer graphics research have been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) through her appointment as the sole Canadian representative of the 71 named ACM Fellows for 2021. Dr…
UBC was well represented at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security ( QRS 2021). Dr. Arpan Gujarati and colleagues were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper on machine learning reliability “…
25 researchers in UBC’s computer science department have been included in Stanford’s list of top 2% most-cited scientists. The Stanford ranking is based on the bibliometric information (citation metrics) contained in the Scopus database which…
Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed has been named a Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning during the 2022 CRC appointments. Dr. Abdul-Mageed is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Department of…