Updated: August 2026
- Zitao Chen won the UBC Applied Science dean’s graduate thesis award (one award given each year across the entire faculty of applied science at UBC, which includes all engineering departments)
- Pritam Dash won the 2026 William C. Carter award for his PhD thesis. This is the third time our group has won this award (Bo Fang won in 2020, and Karthik Pattabiraman in 2008). ECE story
- Our DSN’26 paper received a best paper award and a distinguished paper award. Congratulations to Abraham Chan and Mani Sadati for leading this work. ECE Story.
- Our research was recently spotlighted by UBC as part of the MASI center. (Engineering resilience: Building secure, integrated systems)
- Rui Xi won the IBM PhD fellowship, 2025 – one of about 20 students worldwide this year. (ECE news story)
- Karthik Pattabiraman received the 2025 Jean Claude Laprie award in dependable computing for the Flikker paper. (Picture)(ECE News story)
- Awarded Google Research Grant for “Compiler-based Techniques for Tolerating SDC-Causing Faults in Machine Learning (ML) Accelerators”, 2025. (PI, one co-PI)
- Gargi Mitra was named a distinguished reviewer for CCS’24.
- Ranger paper chosen as an IEEE Top Picks in Test and Reliability (TPTR), 2024. (ECE news story)
- Guanpeng Li, our group’s alumnus, awarded the IEEE TCHPC 2024 Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.
- Pritam Dash was named a 2024 Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). (ECE news story)
- Zitao Chen received a DaaD AINet PhD Fellowship for his research on Machine Learning (ML) security and privacy.
- Our SC’17 paper was chosen as a IEEE Top Picks in Test and Reliability (TPTR), 2023. (ECE news story)
- Amirhossein Ahmadi’s paper at the EdgeSys’23 workshop wins the “Best paper award”
- Udit Agarwal’s paper at the SELSE’23 workshop chosen as “Best of SELSE” (one of three papers).
- Karthik Pattabiraman named a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society, 2022.
- Rui Xi was featured on the ECE department’s homepage for his work on Smart Contracts’ Security
- Zitao Chen is chosen as a “Public Scholar” as part of the Public Scholars Initiative (PSI), 2022 by UBC.
- Awarded Meta Research grant “Silent Data Corruptions at Scale” (Co-PI )
- Zitao Chen and Ali Asgari were featured in an article about their work on Ranger – Ranger was recently adopted by Intel in the OpenVino toolkit
- Kumseok Jung was featured on the ECE department’s homepage for his best demo award at SEC’21
- Abraham Chan was featured on the ECE department’s homepage for his award-winning QRS’21 paper.
- Karthik Pattabiraman named a distinguished member of the ACM, 2021.
- OneOS paper wins best demo award at the SEC 2021 conference.
- Pritam Dash’s talk accepted at Usenix Enigma 2022. (Talk)
- NN-Ensemble Paper at QRS’21 wins a best paper award (1 of 3 papers).
- Ali Asgari’s Paper with Intel is best paper nominee at the AI Safety 2021 workshop
- Pritam Dash was featured on the ECE department’s homepage for his award-winning DSN’21 paper.
- PID-Paper wins best paper award at DSN’21 (one paper won the award).
- Ranger paper wins best paper runner up award at DSN’21 (1 of 2 papers).
- Ali Asgari wins second place in the ML Pre-fetching Competition
- Arpan Gujarati, former visiting PhD student in our group, won the ACM SIGBED Distinguished dissertation award!
