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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 …