The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has collaborated with a number of universities from the Asia Pacific region. See below for a list of professors and their projects in the region.
- Professor Vijay Bhargava is involved in a decade-long collaboration with Professors K.B. Letaief and R. Murch of the ECE department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in the area of wireless communications. The collaboration involves co-supervision of students and visits. Professor Bhargava is also an Adjunct Professor at HKUST.
- Professor Victor Leung has been collaborating with several universities in China, including Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Jiaotong University, Jilin University, South China University of Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Zhejiang University of Technology, in research projects on radio access, resource management, wireless sensor networks, and vehicular networks. The collaborations involve mutual visits, exchange of graduate students, a joint-project under the BC-China ICSD program, co-authoring papers, and guest professorship appointments, etc. Victor Leung has recently initiated collaborations with Qatar University, which is jointly supporting a UBC graduate student’s research on radio resource management.
- Professor Lukas Chrostowski has been collaborating with Professor Zigang Duan from the Optoelectronics Institute of Shenzhen University supported by the BCIC China program. Professor Zigang Duan is currently visiting UBC. The project title is High-Speed Transistor Microring Lasers.
- Professor Guy Lemieux is currently working with Professor Fujino of Ritsumeikan, University, Japan, to develop a design flow for designing a type of logic chip called a structured ASIC. Traditional custom chip (ASIC) design arranges hundreds of different brick-like objects into rows, where each brick has a different logic function. Instead, the structured approach uses the same brick everywhere, vastly simplifying chip design, but allows each brick to be customized into different functions by making only very small changes to the internal wiring. UBC is creating the design software for configuring the bricks, while Ritsumeikan is designing the hardware bricks. The final result is a far simpler and cheaper chip design methodology for latest advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
- Professor Sid Fels has the following collaborations:
- Hosting a visiting professor, Dr. Daesik Jang, from Kunsan National University in South Korea. They are working on creating a new description language for computer vision. Dr. Daesik Jang is staying with Dr. Fels for 1.5 years.
- Hosting a visiting professor, Dr. Masaomi Oda, from Ritsumeikan University. They began with working on psychological evaluation of facial expressions and are now working on an understanding of twitter usage for personal health management.
- Has initiated an MOU that details the collaborations with Kagawa University. The colleague that he is working with there is Dr. Hidenori Ishihara.
- Regularly hosting visiting students from Ritsumeikan University and have had several publications with these students.
- Professor Robert Rohling has a grant called “Ultrasound 3D Imaging Combined with MEMS-based Optical Coherence Tomography.” It is funded via BC Innovation Council and the People’s Republic of China Innovation and Commercialization Strategic Development Program (ICSD). Professor Rohling is the PI on the BC side. The PI in China is Professor Dai Enguang from the School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science, Peking University. The cooperation project will target the development of a prototype hybrid ultrasonic imaging and Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for imaging the eye. OCT can provide high resolution images at shallow depth, and ultrasound can provide medium resolutions images at greater depths with less dependency on tissue opacity. A hybrid system will be developed for ophthalmologic applications to cover a broad range of conditions and diseases.
- Professor Sathish Gopalakrishnan is collaborating with Dr. Qixin Wang at Polytechnic University of Hong Kong on developing improved real-time networking solutions for industrial automation.
- Professor Robert Schober is collaborating with Professor Ranjan Mallik from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India on a five-year, $1 million project on Wireless Communications under the umbrella of the International Research Chairs Initiative (IRCI) of the International Research Development Centre (IDRC) and the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program.
For more information on research from ECE, please visit their website at http://www.ece.ubc.ca/research/.
