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A Non-Intrusive Technique for Asserting User Identity in Internet of Things

Ameera Al-Karkhi
Internet of Things environments are an exciting new computing scene due to the recent advances in wireless communications and digital electronics. These environments are small smart worlds that have many advantages, such as continuous and distributed interaction with people using a variety of wireless …

Sahar Rahmani

Senior Director JSOC Analytics, Global Cyber Security, RBC

I am Sahar Rahmani, a PhD in science, an immigrant, a wife and a parent.  Currently, I am the Director of a Data Science team at the Global Cyber Security (GCS) group at RBC. My role involves leading a team …

Mehrdad Rostami

Managing Editor IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter

Mehrdad Rostami, has more than 30 years of engineering experience in utility and industry. He authored or co-authored more than 70 papers in engineering journals and conferences. As a senior member of IEEE and holding Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Mehrdad …

Sustainable Wireless Sensing and Communications

Xavier Fernando
Wireless access technologies have become ubiquitous and it is no-longer about just voice or data or even video communications. Myriad of new value-added wireless services, from wireless sensing based IoT systems to low latency autonomous vehicle guiding, appear every day that has transformed our …

Dennis Cecic & Trent Cecic

Let’s meet members of the Cecic family serving IEEE Toronto for two generations.
Dennis Cecic, Chair of the Computer Chapter

Dennis is a Senior Technical Training Engineer with Microchip Technology Inc. He is both a subject matter expert in 8, 16 and 32-bit Microcontrollers, Embedded Firmware and …

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Bruno Di Stefano
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is an 100 year old organization within IEEE, that develops global standards in the range of industries within the IEEE sphere of interest. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) is a young society and was born in …

COVID-19, A Game Changer

Fatima Hussain
At the time of writing this article, 4 million cases are reported for the novel Coronavirus (COVID19), with 300K casualties and almost 2 million recovered, around the globe. COVID-19 has badly affected our daily lives; however, we anticipate wider impact in the longer run.
COVID-19 …

Dr. Ali Nabavi

Chair IEEE Toronto Section
I am happy that after a pause in our newsletter, this is the first IEEE Toronto Section newsletter in my term as the Section Chair. I extend my appreciation to the newsletter team, especially the editor, Fatima, who worked tirelessly during Covid-19 …