Our Research
Field test on a logging road.  AURORA Smart Intersection  28 GHz Channel Sounder
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The UBC Radio Science Lab conducts a variety of wireless research projects with support from industry sponsors, standards groups and government funding agencies. Our current research focuses on next-generation wireless and radar systems that will help to transform land and marine transportation, and the urban system, natural resources and national defence sectors.
Prof. Michelson is:- a co-founder and Director of the AURORA
Connected Vehicle / Smart Transportation Testbed. AURORA's mission is to contribute to
the succesful deployment of connected vehicle technology in
North America in both urban areas and the natuiral resources
sector through innovation in policy, technology, and
applications.
Collaborators/sponsors: Transport Canada, BC Ministry of Transportation and Innovation, Ministry of Tranportation of Ontario, and Rogers Communications - a co-founder and Director of the UBC Marine
Systems Initiative (MSI). MSI's mission is to support Canada's
shipbuilding industry, industrial marine sector and naval forces
by training highly qualified personnel and conducting applied
research in relevant areas of electrical, computer & systems
engineering, including wireless communications and radar.
Collaborators and Sponsors: Vard Electro, Vard Marine, Royal Canadian Navy, Lloyds Registry - a co-founder and member of the Steering
Committee of the NIST-sponsored
NextG Channel
Model Alliance. The Alliance's mission is to develop
breakthrough measurement, calibration, and channel modeling
approaches and technologies used for millimeter wave and submillimeter
wave frequencies.
Collaborators and Sponsors: U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology, Communications Research Centre, Rogers Communications - a co-investigator on ORCASAT, a component of the
Canadian Space Agency's Canadian Cubesat
Project. ORCASAT's mission is to demonstrate leading edge technologies
for calibrating optical and radio telescopes using space-based
calibration sources carried by Cubesats.
Collaborators and Sponsors: Canadian Space Agency, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University - president of the Canadian National Committee (CNC) of
the International Union of Radio
Science (URSI) and Chair of the URSI-ITU Inter-Union Working
Group. An NGO under
the International Council for Science, URSI's mission to
stimulate and co-ordinate, on an international basis, studies,
research, applications, scientific exchange, and communication
regarding electromagnetic fields and waves.
Sponsor: National Research Council of Canada - working with collaborators from the Spectrum Policy and Licensing Branch of the Government of Canada to develop a Spectrum Policy course to be taught at both universities. This will undoubtedly lead to research activity in this area at RSL.
More Information
Inquiries from prospective sponsors, graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows are most welcome.
Please contact Prof. Dave Michelson.
NEWS & PEOPLE
- 30 January 2024 - Prof. Michelson is appointed as Chair of the History of Technology Session at IEEE CCECE 2024 in Kingston.
- 4 December 2023 - Prof. Michelson is appointed as an ex officio director of the IEEE Foundation.
- 4 December 2023 - Prof. Michelson is appointed Area Editor for the History of Science & Technology with the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- 27 November 2023 - Prof. Michelson is appointed Chair of the IEEE History Committee.
- 28 Feb 2022 - Prof. Michelson is appointed as chair of IEEE P3162 - Synthetic Aperture Channel Sounding
- 17 Jan 2022 -The IEEE Board of Directors votes to recognize the Trans-Canada Microwave System as an IEEE Milestone!
- 8 Jan 2022 - Prof. Michelson is appointed as chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society's Mobile Radio Standards Committtee
- 11 Feb 2020 - Prof. Michelson is appointed as lead of the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative's Connected Vehicle Track
