Reza Maram Qartavol (PhD)

Preventing the computation energy crisis through sustainable optics

Classified as: Sustainability, energy consumption, optical processors, logic gates
Published on: 20 Jun 2017

Marco Kassis

Parallel Time-Domain Analysis of Reduced Order Power Delivery Networks

Classified as: vanier scholar, power delivery networks, multicore computing, Simulation
Published on: 20 Jun 2017

Congratulations to Mr. Srinivas Vanka, Ph.D. Student under the supervision of Professor Ishiang Shih (and former ECE Professor Zetian Mi) who was awarded the Best Presentation Award at Symposium NM7—Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Applications for his presentation titled "An InGaN Nanowire/Si Tandem Photoanode for High‐Efficiency Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting". 

Classified as: engineering, energy, semiconductor, Nanowires, Photoelectrochemical, ECE
Published on: 26 Apr 2017

Prof. Lawrence Chen has agreed to serve as the first Academic Lead of the eLATE (enhancing learning and teaching in Engineering) initiative.  Prof. Chen will work in collaboration with academic staff and the Pedagogical Coordinator towards meeting the initiative’s objectives, bringing the perspective of a faculty member. Professor Chen is one of our Faculty’s leaders in teaching and learning improvement, and has a growing record of advancing the state of education in our Faculty by implementing new teaching methodologies in FACC courses as well as undergraduate and graduate ECSE courses.

Classified as: learning, Teaching, Pedagogy, Student Engagement
Published on: 6 Mar 2017

Work by Sharif Sadaf, Yong-Ho Ra, Prof. Thomas Szkopek, and Prof. Zetian Mi on Al-tunnel junction visible nanowire LED has been featured in the magazine Semiconductor Today.

Classified as: nanowire LED performance
Published on: 4 Nov 2016

The company, Nxtsens Microsystems, cofounded by ECE students, Charles Allan and George Xereas, and former ECE faculty member Vamsy Chodavarapu is now ranked among the World's top 60 emerging silicon companies by the EE times.

Classified as: ranking, microsystems
Published on: 26 Oct 2016

Prof. Dániel Varró received a Most Influential Paper Award at the recent IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2016) for the paper G. Varró, A. Schürr, D. Varró: Benchmarking for graph transformation published at VL/HCC 2005.

Classified as: most influential paper award, benchmark, graph transformation
Published on: 25 Oct 2016

Congratulations to Professor Fabrice Labeau, who has recently been honoured by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS):

Classified as: engineering, IEEE, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Vehicular Technology Society, VTS
Published on: 6 Oct 2016

ECE Student Jhelum Chakravorty, was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 6th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2016) for her paper "Remote-state estimation with packet drop".  This award is given on originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of estimation and control in networked systems.  Jhelum is supervised by Professor Aditya Mahajan.  Congratulations Jhelum!

Published on: 12 Sep 2016

September 16, 12:00-4:30pm

Open to all students, this half-day teaching workshop provides opportunities to develop teaching skills, learn about myCourses, and engage in discussions with other graduate students and TAs. Take advantage of this opportunity and learn skills to enhance your graduate experience. 

Classified as: AGSEM TA
Published on: 2 Sep 2016

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. Ali is supervised by Professor Warren Gross.  Congratulations to Ali – we are very proud of his accomplishment!

Published on: 1 Jun 2016

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.

Classified as: Awards, undergraduate research, Software Engineering, capstone projects in engineering
Published on: 19 May 2016

As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Université de Montréal adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate.

Classified as: Nanotechnology, Research, science, nanoelectronics, NSERC, transistor, Guillaume Gervais, McGill News, black phosphorus, semiconductor, electronics, Szkopek, CIFAR, FRQ
Published on: 7 Jul 2015

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