Teaching
I have taught a large number of courses on a variety of subjects in Electrical and Computer Engineering. These include digital signal processing, digital image processing, communication theory, coding, control theory, discrete structural design, optimization, operations research, numerical computations, electromagnetic theory, computer programming, electrical machines, and electronics.
Graduate Students Supervised
I have supervised 47 Ph.D. students and over 50 Research Master students. All these graduates are presently employed both in Canada and across the world. Fifteen of them hold faculty jobs in universities.
The Ph.D. theses of 7 of my Ph.D. students were nominated by UBC for best doctoral thesis award.
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: January 1986
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Deputy Director Reference Design & Standards at Intel Corporation, USA.
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: December 1986
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Financial services, private consultant.
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: April 1987
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1988
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Professor, Electrical & Computer Eng, Dept., UBC, and Director of ICICS, UBC.
Ph.D.
Graduation date: January 1989
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1989
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Senior Systems Engineer, STEMCELL Technologies Inc. Vancouver , Canada
M.Eng.
Graduation date: April 1990
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: V. Leung
Current Position: Currently in Hong Kong
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 1990
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Director of System Engineering at JDS Uniphase Corporation and Director at Overcome Depression Ministry, Indiana, USA
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1990
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Consultant at Brown Electronics, Squamish
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1990
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1992
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: June 1993
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: M. Ito
Current Position: Client Platform at Telecommunication Systems (formerly Networks In Motion).
Ph.D.
Graduation date: September 1993
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: C. Laszlo
Current Position: Distinguished technologist at Adara Networks, Chicago, USA
Ph.D.
Graduation date: October 1993
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: November 1993
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 1994
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of ICICS
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1994
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Seger
Current Position: CEO of AdvancedIO., Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: January 1995
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Director of Innovation at Schneider Electric, California, USAPreviously , Professor at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: July 1995
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1995
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Principal Architect at MobilQuest Systems Inc.
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1997
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: C. Laszlo
Current Position: Director - Client Service Management at TELUS
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1997
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: D. Forsey
Current Position: At Gener8 Digital Media, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: December 1997
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: At StemCell technologies Inc. Previously with BC Cancer Agency Research
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: April 1998
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Current Position: Manager, Investment Research at CPP Investment Board, Toronto
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 1998
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: F. Kossentini
Current Position: Technical leader at Cisco Inc., San Francisco, USA
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1998
Principal Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ph.D.
Graduation date: November 1998
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Senior Project Manager at Motion Metrics, Vancouver, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 1999
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: At AMD Canada, Toronto
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 1999
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2000
Principal Supervisor: F. Kossentini
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 2000
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: F. Kossentini
Current Position: Principal Video Codec Engineer Magnum Semiconductor, Waterloo, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: November 2000
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Sr Principal Engineer at Broadcom, Vancouver. Prviously with UBVideo Inc, Vancouver
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: September 2001
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist at Danaher, USA. Editor of Advances in Mathematics
Ph.D.
Graduation date: September 2001
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
M.Eng.
Graduation date: November 2001
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: At EATON, Guangzhou
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: February 2002
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Ops Specialist – WIND
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: March 2002
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: N.Kharma
Current Position: At IBM, Egypt
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2002
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Director, Advance Engineering at Bombardier Transportation
M.Eng.
Graduation date: August 2002
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Adams, Michael
Current Position: Ph.D.
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: December 2002
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: CEO, Baustem Broadband Technologies, Ltd.Previously, co-founder of Roxus Inc, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2004
Principal Supervisor: B. Hamidzadeh
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Associate Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2004
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Current Position: Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2004
Principal Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Research Leader at Nokia, Findland
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2004
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: October 2004
Principal Supervisor: B. Hamidzadeh
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Sr. Software Engineer at Barco, Portland, USA. Prviously , Assist prof at Amir Kabir University, Tehran
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: October 2004
Principal Supervisor: M. Beddoes
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Guangzhou, China
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: December 2004
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Biomedical Imaging Specialist at Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: January 2005
Principal Supervisor: Z. Moussavi
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Sr Controls Engineer at Capstone Turbine Corporation
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2005
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: At Sigma Designs Inc, Toronto
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2005
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Dolby, Beijing,China
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2005
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: TI engineer, UBC, Fac. of Medicine
M.Eng.
Graduation date: April 2007
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: RA, Qatar University
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: May 2007
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: J. Wang
Current Position: Lecturer at King Abdulaziz University
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2007
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Research Engineer at Point Grey Research, Vancouver
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2007
Principal Supervisor: Ian Cumming
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: September 2007
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: G. Birch
Current Position: Research Fellow at BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: January 2008
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: G. Birch
Current Position: Chief Technology Officer at BroadbandTV Corp, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2008
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Current Position: Research Engineer at BroadbandTV Corp, Vancouver, Canada. Previously , Assoc. Professor ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico. Also he is founder of Dos Tres Media, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: November 2008
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Research Scientist at Intellview Technologies, Calgary, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: July 2009
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Indraprastha Institute of Technology, India
Ph.D.
Graduation date: November 2009
Principal Supervisor: I. Cumming
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: At ASL Environmental Sciences, Victoria, BC. Previously with MDA, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2010
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Current Position: Research Engineer at Point Grey Research, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: June 2010
Principal Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Research Scientist at TELUS and Systems Consultant at ICICS, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: June 2010
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: O. Yilmaz
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of California, San Diego, USA
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 2010
Principal Supervisor: R. Saleh
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Assistant Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
M.A.Sc. (p/t)
Graduation date: December 2011
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Computer Software Professional
M.A.Sc. (p/t)
Graduation date: April 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Stantec consulting ltd., Vancouver
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: April 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Avanade (Accenture and Microsoft)
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: April 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Director, Applied Vision Science Group - Dolby Laboratories
Ph.D.
Graduation date: June 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: G. Birch
Current Position: Assistant professor at KN Toosi University in Iran
Ph.D.
Graduation date: July 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Current Position: Research Engineer at Point Grey Research, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Indraprastha Institute of Technology, India
Ph.D. (p/t)
Graduation date: August 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: G. Birch
Current Position: Metafore Software, Vancouver
B.M.E
Graduation date: September 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Biomedical Engineer, MEng. Program
Ph.D.
Graduation date: December 2012
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: C. MacAulay
Current Position: Biomedical Imaging Specialist at Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: July 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Rigid Robotics Inc, Vancouver
Ph.D.
Graduation date: July 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Research Engineer, Magna Inc., Toronto
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: I. Blake
Current Position: Research Engineer at BroadbandTV, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: September 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at University of California, as of October 2013
M.Eng.
Graduation date: September 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Biomedical Engineer, MEng. Program
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: November 2013
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Now working as a Research Engineer at Nanyang Technological University
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2014
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Pipeline Technical Director, Nitrogen Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: December 2015
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Software Engineer at NetApp, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ph.D
Graduation date: July 2016
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, UCLA, California, USA
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: August 2016
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Data Scientist, SAMSUNG Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2017
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Microsoft, Deep Learning Research Scientist
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2017
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Machine Learning/Data Scientist, Electronic Arts, Vancouver, BC,Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: June 2017
Principal Supervisor: P. Nasiopoulos
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Data Analytics Researcher, Mobify, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2018
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Martial Guillaud
Current Position: Research Officer University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Ph.D.
Graduation date: June 2018
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Computer Vision Engineer, Ouster, San Francisco, California, USA
M.Sc.
Graduation date: January 2019
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position: Microsoft, Vancouver , BC
Ph.D.
Graduation date: August 2019
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position: Research Scientist at Stanford University
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2020
Principal Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: PDF, New York University
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2020
Principal Supervisor: L. Whitehead
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: Dolby California
M.A.Sc.
Graduation date: May 2020
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position: Ph.D Student
Ph.D.
Graduation date: May 2021
Principal Supervisor: v. Leung
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: April 2021
Principal Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Co-Supervisor: R. Ward
Current Position: PDF, NTU Singapore
Ph.D.
Graduation date: Ongoing
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: Ongoing
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: Ongoing
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position:
Ph.D.
Graduation date: Just Started
Principal Supervisor: R. Ward
Co-Supervisor: Z. Jane Wang
Current Position:
Supervision of other highly qualified people
Post Doctoral Fellows:
- Shi, Pingnan, May 1991 ‑ April 1992
- Zhang, Qin, September 1990 ‑ June 1992
- Xie, Qiaobing, September 1993 ‑ August 1995
- Shi, Xiaotian, March 1995 ‑ May 1997
- Docef, Alen, September 1997 - June 1999
- Kharma, Nawwaf, January 1998 - July 1999
- Ma, Liying, August 2002 ‑ January 2003
- Wang, Qing, September 2005 - September 2006
- Ghazel, Mohsen, September 2004 - October 2006
- Fatourechi, Mehrdad, March 2008 ‑ December 31, 2011
- Coria, Lino, June 2009 ‑ Dec. 31, 2010
- Joyce Chiang, October 2012 ‑ December 2014
- Xin Yi Yong, November 2012 ‑ Feb 2013
- Xun Chen, June 2014 ‑ March 2015
- El-Gendi, Mohamed, June 2016 ‑ Present
- Sima Valizadeh, Dec. 31, 2017 ‑ June 30, 2018
- Ramy Hussein, August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020
- Xinrui Cai, August 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Research Engineers Employed:
- Dr. Pingnan, Shi, 1992 ‑ 1995
- Dr. Zhang, Qin, 1992 ‑ 1995
- Dr. Qiling Qin, Visiting Scholar, 1994 ‑ 1995
- Dr. Kossentini, Faouzi, July 1995 ‑ December 1995
- Darwish, Mohammed, August 1995 ‑ August 1996
- Xu, Mei, May 1996 ‑ February 1997
- Ng, Andrew, September 1997 ‑ February 1998
- Du, Julong, November 1992 ‑ December 1998
- Barzykina, Ekaterina, May 1998 ‑ August 1999
- Dr. Aghdasi, Farzin, August 2000 ‑ February 2001
- Li, Xiaoli, January 1995 ‑ February 2002
- Dr. Shadaydeh, Maha, Maha, August 2007 ‑ January 2008
- Xiong, Victor, July 2007 ‑ February 2008
I have also supervised and employed a large number of undergraduate Students (around 35) as Research Students in my lab.
External Ph.D. thesis examiner
- External Examiner of Ryan (Reza) Moradi Rad, Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University, August 2019
- External examiner of Kemal Ugur, Ph.D. dissertation ,Tampere University of Technology, Finland, July 2010
- External Examine for Mr. Diego Sorrentino, Univ of Victoria, July 2009
- External examiner of Dr. Jun Cheng. Ph.D. dissertation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2007.
- External examiner of Dr. Naga Mudigonda - Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary, Nov., 2001.
- External examiner of Dr. Mahmoud El-Sakka, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Waterloo, April 1997.
- External examiner of Dr. Jianping Li - Ph.D. dissertation, University of Victoria, Sep. 1996.
- External examiner of Dr. Peter Jones - Ph.D. dissertation, Queen's University, Feb. 1993.
- External examiner of Dr. Aziz Qureshi - Ph.D. dissertation, Queen's University, Dec. 1991.
- External examiner of Dr. Salah G. Foda - Ph.D. dissertation, University of Victoria, July 1988.
