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

webfull — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:21:36 +0000

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. ACM/IEEE GLSVLSI showcases cutting-edge research and innovations in VLSI design and provides a platform for experts to exchange knowledge and foster collaboration.

Published: 2 August 2023

2023 IEEE EPS PhD Fellowship Recipient, Yousef Safari

webfull — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:05:51 +0000

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.

Please see IEEE’s announcement here: https://eps.ieee.org/awards/phd-fellowship.html.

Published: 5 July 2023

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

webfull — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:13:52 +0000

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.

Published: 14 December 2021

Thinking Outside the Zoom Box with the Large Class Teaching Exchange (Part 1)

webfull — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:27:32 +0000

Part 1: Engaging Students Online

By Jacqueline Kort Mascort, Hilary Sweatman, Véronique Brulé, Jennie Ferris

Published: 28 September 2021

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

webfull — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:33:40 +0000

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.

Published: 19 April 2021

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

webfull — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:36:23 +0000

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).

You can see the complete article here

Congratulations to Thomas and Marta!

Published: 16 March 2021

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

webfull — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:34:36 +0000

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.

Published: 16 February 2021

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

webfull — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:47:47 +0000

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 4^th, 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. Helene was awarded a $4000 scholarship, while Xavier grabbed the top $5000 award.

Published: 7 December 2020

ECE Administrative Officer Carolyn Curiale wins Principal’s Award

webfull — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:54:01 +0000

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.

Published: 1 December 2020

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

webfull — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:35:52 +0000

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.

You can see the full article at /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-teams-win-big-new-omics-cancer-competition-325933

Published: 27 November 2020