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  • 2D Game Development in Unity with C# – Session 5

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    On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 6:30 p.m., IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter will be hosting “2D Game Development in Unity with C# – Session 5”. Day & Time: Monday, August 24, 2020 6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. Speaker: Steven Medeot Organizers: IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter, IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Virtual – Zoom Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Abstract: Our interactive workshop welcomes new and experienced programmers who are interested in 2D game development.  This event hosted by IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter is sponsored by IEEE WIE and will provide the building blocks and best practices in developing a 2D level game including, creating a player, creating enemies, game loops, animations, and more!  All who attend all five sessions will get a certificate from IEEE WIE and can submit their 2D game into a friendly competition with small prizes at the end of the workshop series. Session 5 focuses on polishing your 2D game. Register: https://forms.gle/VvZW3oeZ81UCtgnX7 Biography: Steven Medeot is a 3rd-year Computer Science Student at Ryerson University. He has a background in Game Development, who completed the Game Programming curriculum at George Brown College with a few years of experience working in this industry and enjoys developing his own games on the side. He strongly believes that creating a game that people can find joy in is a wonderful experience and wants to share some of the basic knowledge he has learned throughout the years.

  • How to Start an App Idea Today that Gets Customers!

    On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., Aliya Amershi, Tech Coach & Startup Founder at Codefree App Launch will present “How to Start an App Idea Today that Gets Customers!”. Day & Time: Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Organizer: IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Virtual – Zoom Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Program Outline: My “5-Step System” to get to app launch without all the guesswork, inspired by proven Silicon Valley tech startup methods. The biggest mistake most entrepreneurs make without even knowing and why building the “perfect” app can fail. How to startup without depending on investors, finding co-founders, or paying for developers. What I did to go viral and start experiencing exponential growth! The latest tools on the block to make your app from scratch without having to write a single line of code. Entrepreneur mindset hacks to help break through your internal barriers so that you can get started today. Why getting customers for just your app idea before you even build your app is important and how to start making some real progress. Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/118328619085/ Biography: Aliya Amershi, Tech Coach & Startup Founder @ Codefree App Launch Aliya is on a mission to help ambitious women entrepreneurs break into tech and build an app idea that gets customers fast without all of the unnecessary barriers to entry. Aliya’s unique online accelerator is focused on empowering women to quickly get their app idea out to market and start making a positive impact without having to pitch investors, learn code, or find developers. Aliya is a former engineer turned entrepreneur with over 20 years of technology experience and 5 years of startup experience. She has helped build multiple popular apps and tech products, including the Emmy Award-winning Nick App. She has held senior tech and leadership roles at Fortune 500 Enterprises, built two bootstrapped Startups, and served as a local director for a Silicon Valley-based Incubator. In addition, Aliya is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council and regularly contributes to Forbes and Inc. for her expert advice on technology and entrepreneurship. One of her favorite quotes she goes by is: “If you decide not to quit, the only option is to win!”.

  • API Economy: Managing Security and Compliance Risks at Academia

    On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 11:00 a.m., Sherry Qin will present “API Economy: Managing Security and Compliance Risks at Academia”. Day & Time: Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker: Sherry Qin Organizer: IEEE Toronto WIE, York University WiCSE Contact: Hina Tabassum, Ayda Naserialiabadi Abstract: Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) have transformed our digital world by connecting data, processes, and people. There are thousands of Open APIs publicly available for creating innovative applications dealing with Public Services, Health Sciences, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and many others contributing to the Digital Economy. Researchers and students in academia are increasingly using Open APIs for various research/training related digital services and other academic purposes. Open APIs offer great benefits, but they come with security and legal risks. Unfortunately, not everyone (especially students) are aware of the underlying security and compliance challenges. Furthermore, there are no easily accessible repositories that provide security/legal assessments on these publicly available APIs. Existing repositories such as ProgrammableWeb, API.io, RapidAPI.com, APIs.guru and others are best at providing API endpoints, categories, and other information, which are not sufficient to address the security and legal concerns. In this presentation, speaker will discuss about the state of Open APIs from design and security perspectives that have been assessed by analyzing thousands of Open APIs from hundreds of vendors. Speaker will also talk about legal risks that should be avoided while using Open APIs. Overall, audience will learn about how to: (1) take advantage of the myriad of Open APIs; (2) accelerate research and product development; (3) meet compliance regulations; (4) reduce security/legal/privacy risks to make data-driven applications more INNOVATIVE (through Open APIs) yet SECURE (from cyber-attacks) and COMPLIANT (with Canadian privacy laws, GDPR, EU-US Privacy Shield, and other regulations). Register: Please visit here for more information and to register. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3263892360 Biography: Name: Sherry Qin Education: University of British Columbia Master of Business Analytics Current role: Business and Market Associate at TeejLab Current work: Expanding community and increasing public awareness of API Security by holding industry and academic reaching-out events. Have successfully organized several online Fireside Chats.

  • Career Night Series: Which Direction Should I Take with My Career?

    On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., IEEE Toronto WIE will host the webinar “Career Night Series: Which Direction Should I Take with My Career?”. Day & Time: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Ryerson Computer Science Location: Virtual – Webinar Contact: Wincy Li Description: Not sure whether to pursue a PhD or Postdoc? Unclear about your career options? In this webinar, you will learn how to research the labour market so that you will be empowered with the tools and resources you need for career decision making and planning. If you require any accessibility needs, please contact Wincy at wincyli@ryerson.ca as soon as possible. Register: Click here to visit the registration page.

  • IEEE Day

    IEEE Toronto Section is inviting you to our VIRTUAL celebration of IEEE Day on Tuesday, October 6, 2020! Day & Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Speakers: Dr. Rasheed Hussain, Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci, Dr. Sahar Rahmani, Dr. Sarath Chandar, Dr. Haniyeh Yousefpour Organizers: IEEE Toronto Section, IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Virtual – Zoom Contact: Dustin Dunwell, Maryam Davoudpour Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/239738 for the Zoom link and to register. Agenda: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Panel Moderator: Dr. Fatima Hussain Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci Dr. Sahar Rahmani 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Keynote Dr. Rasheed Hussain 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Break 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tech Talk Dr. Sarath Chandat, MILA 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Tech Talk Dr. Haniyeh Yousefpour   Biographies: Rasheed Hussain, PhD, SMIEEE Topic: The Role of APIs in Connected and Autonomous Cars: A Case for Critical Applications Rasheed Hussain is working as an Associate Professor and the Director of Institute of Information Security and Cyber-Physical Systems at Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia. He is also the head of Networks and Blockchain Lab at Innopolis University and serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is a senior member of IEEE, member ACM, and serves as an editorial board member for various journals including IEEE Access, IEEE Internet Initiative, Internet Technology Letters, Wiley, Cluster Computing, Springer, and serves as a reviewer for most of the IEEE transactions, Springer and Elsevier Journals. He also serves as technical program committee member and chair of various conferences such as IEEE VTC, IEEE VNC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICCVE, IEEE ICC, ICCCN, and so on. He is a certified trainer for Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) and a recipient of Netherland’s University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO). His research interests include Information Security and Privacy and particularly security and privacy issues in Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs), vehicular clouds, and vehicular social networking, applied cryptography, Internet of Things, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), cloud computing, API security, and blockchain. Currently he is working on the machine and deep learning for IoT security and API security. Melike Erol-Kantarci, PhD., P.Eng., SMIEEE Topic: AI-enabled wireless networks: Opportunities and Challenges Towards 6G Melike Erol-Kantarci is Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in AI-enabled Next-Generation Wireless Networks and associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. She is the founding director of the Networked Systems and Communications Research (NETCORE) laboratory. She has over 140 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 5000 times and she has an h-index of 37. She is selected to the 2019 list of “N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications”. She has received the IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and the Best Editor Award of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee in 2017, in addition to several other best paper awards. She is the co-editor of three books on smart grids and smart cities. She has delivered 40+ tutorials, plenary talks and seminars around the globe. She has acted as the general chair or technical program chair for many international IEEE conferences and workshops. Most recently, she is the TPC co-chair for IEEE CAMAD 2020, a symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom 2020, and a track co-chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2020. She is a senior member of the IEEE. Her main research interests are AI-enabled wireless networks, 5G and 6G wireless communications, smart grid, electric vehicles, Internet of things and wireless sensor networks. Sahar Rahmani, PhD Work Domain: Data scientist on digital/cyber crime detection Dr. Sahar Rahmani is the Director of the Data Science team at the Global Cyber Security team at RBC. Her role involves leading a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers to provide AI solutions for detecting the ever-changing landscape of cyber/digital crime. She is responsible for implementing scalable real-time machine learning solutions for our stakeholders’ security related problems. Her team, also brings insight and analytics to RBC’s controls, and risks to help executives make data-driven strategic decisions. Her continuous encouragement and emphasizing on innovations in the application of AI/ML in digital risk, resulted in solving business problems in effective ways, creating multiple patents, and presenting multiple conference talks. She has a PhD in Astrophysics from the Western University, where she applied big data analysis and data science models on astronomical data.

  • Career Night Series: Writing an Effective CV

    On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., IEEE Toronto WIE and IM/RA will host “Career Night Series: Writing an Effective CV”. Day & Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA, Ryerson Computer Science Location: Virtual Contact: Wincy Li Description: Not sure what the difference is between a resume and a CV? Unclear about how to structure your CV or what content to include? Join us for this webinar to learn how to construct an effective CV! If you require any accessibility needs, please contact Camara Chambers at c.chambers@ryerson.ca. Register: Please visit https://lnkd.in/gBaMf9y to register.

  • Python Project-based Workshop: How to build your own intelligent agent

    On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., Enas Tarawneh will present “Python Project-based Workhsop: How to build your own intelligent agent”. Day & Time: Friday, November 13, 2020 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker: Enas Tarawneh Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA, York University WiCSE Location: Virtual Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Abstract: The workshop will focus on creating an intelligent agent that can listen to questions given through natural language and generate natural language responses. The workshop will also dabble into customizing the voice used in these responses. This workshop includes: a) Programming speech recognition. b) Leveraging cloud-based resources such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech and AI querying to generate responses. c) Connect these together to create a turn taking intelligent agent. d) Customizing the voice used in these generated responses. Register: Please click here to register. Biography: Enas Tarawneh is a PhD student at York University in the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She works in the Vision, Graphics and Robotics (VGR) Laboratory as a research assistant. Her most recent research involves the development and evaluation of a cloud-based avatar (intelligent agent) for human-robot interaction that is part of a project funded by VISTA. She holds an OGS and VISTA doctoral scholarship. Prior to this, Enas worked as an academic Lead, instructor, and e-learning coordinator in the Institute of Applied Technology in UAE in which she received an award for “Distinguished Curriculum Support” and another for “Excellence in E-learning coordination”. Most importantly, Enas is a wife and mother of three, that believes that open-mindedness and positivism is the best accomplishment and the source of true happiness.

  • Python Project-based Workshop: How to track motion from bird eye multiple camera perspectives

    On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., Enas Tarawneh will present “Python Project-based Workhsop: How to build your own intelligent agent”. Day & Time: Friday, November 27, 2020 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker: Enas Tarawneh Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA, York University WiCSE Location: Virtual Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Abstract: The workshop will focus on extracting images from multiple sources (webcam, video, ROS bag) and perform image processing to detect regions of high motion or change over a period. The workshop will also show how to stitch the multiple bird eye views from multiple cameras together to form one image of the floor where the motion is detected. This workshop includes: a) Extracting frames from a camera, video or ROS bag and generating a image stream b) Stitching the multiple bird eye views and calibrating to create one 2D image of the floor c) Perform multiple image processing to extract motion d) Create a motion map on the generated image of the floor. Register: Please click here to register. Biography: Enas Tarawneh is a PhD student at York University in the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She works in the Vision, Graphics and Robotics (VGR) Laboratory as a research assistant. Her most recent research involves the development and evaluation of a cloud-based avatar (intelligent agent) for human-robot interaction that is part of a project funded by VISTA. She holds an OGS and VISTA doctoral scholarship. Prior to this, Enas worked as an academic Lead, instructor, and e-learning coordinator in the Institute of Applied Technology in UAE in which she received an award for “Distinguished Curriculum Support” and another for “Excellence in E-learning coordination”. Most importantly, Enas is a wife and mother of three, that believes that open-mindedness and positivism is the best accomplishment and the source of true happiness.

  • Improving Data Usability for Clinicians and First Responders in a Unified Healthcare System

    On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 1:30 p.m., Steve Delaney will present “Improving Data Usability for Clinicians and First Responders in a Unified Healthcare System” and Iwona Sokalska will present “Corda Blockchain as a Sustainable Supply Chain for Open Education”. Day & Time: Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Speakers: Steven Delaney, Iwona Sokalska Organizer: Ryerson CS Graduate Student Council, IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA Location: Virtual Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Abstracts: Title: Improving Data Usability for Clinicians and First Responders in a Unified Healthcare System Cost effective, efficient and exemplary healthcare services is of paramount importance to all Canadians.   Countries around the world are addressing this through the consolidation and integration of siloed patient healthcare records into a unified system.  However, consolidation and advances in technology that generate healthcare data threaten to overload clinicians with information. This makes the usability of healthcare data in terms of speed of access and relevancy that is optimized to the role of the clinician and healthcare scenario, key to the success of the unified healthcare system.   My research objective is to design and demonstrate a solution, that provides clinicians with a superior experience that provides them with the most relevant data for the current needs of the patient in order to determine and apply the best treatment in a timely manner, using Semantic Web and Blockchain technology to support patient privacy and role based access and permission controls. Title: Corda Blockchain as a Sustainable Supply Chain for Open Education: Blockchain solutions are disrupting the established supply chains. The ability to customize the transaction in the “business context” is one of the key reasons why blockchain will play a major role in reinventing the existing rigid supply chains. In this presentation, we are going to look at Corda blockchain features that enable powerful supply chains capable of supporting new business models. We are going to build a case of why such a disruption is needed in the publishing industry to support the Open Education and Higher Education Affordability Act. The open education licences require proper attribution of contributors. One of the challenges in open education is that licences can be easily misused by 3-rd party content purveyors. In addition, content creators often do not know where and how their content is being used. It is impossible for content creators to measure the impact of their works or to prevent licence misuse. Universities, professors, retail bookstores, libraries and 3rd party higher education platforms constitute a complex ecosystem. In this ecosystem, real barriers are causing scaling issues. The issues include content findability, compliance, licence misuse, licence rigidity and proliferation of licence types and lack of interoperability for licences. The presentation will outline a Corda based supply chain and Information Retrieval to addresses these issues. Providing a decentralized platform for independent players in a system to reduce the complexity of transacting. Mainly by using smart contracts to manage licence agreement workflows. Scalability, data privacy and data traceability are key considerations in the Corda blockchain which can be leveraged to support a sustainable business model and healthy ecosystems. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/246971 to register. Biographies: Steve Delaney Steve is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Ryerson University working on the data quality of healthcare records.  He has an MBA from York University and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.  He obtained his ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors/Rotman School of Business.  He is currently on the Board of the CIO Association of Canada and is a member of several Advisory Councils.  Steve is the Co-Founder of Capital Blockchain, a Canadian firm that develops blockchain solutions for the private and public sector.  Previously Steve was the CIO of the Ontario Telemedicine Network, CIO of MCAP ( $100B mortgage firm) and VP Technology at RBC and BCE. Email: steven.delaney@ryerson.ca Iwona Sokalska Iwona Sokalska is a 2nd-year Computer Science PhD student at Ryerson University. Iwona’s interests are in the automation of knowledge dissemination and knowledge extraction. Under the supervision of Professor Andriy Miranskyy, Iwona is developing techniques for semantic code analysis using Artificial Intelligence, specifically Graph Neural Networks. Iwona is a co-founder of OpenSail, a distributed platform for licenced content dissemination. With over 10 years of experience, Iwona has designed products and services in Medical Imaging, Medical Informatics and Enterprise Knowledge Management Systems. Iwona holds an Honours B.Sc. double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from York University and an M.Sc. Data Science and Analytics from Ryerson University. Her mission is to improve the support of Open Education Community and increase adoption of Open Education Resources in institutions around the world.

  • Career Night Series: Writing Attention Grabbing Resumes

    On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 6:00 p.m., IEEE Toronto WIE and IM/RA will host “Career Night Series: Writing Attention Grabbing Resumes & Cover Letters”. Day & Time: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA, Ryerson Computer Science Location: Virtual Contact: Wincy Li Description: Unclear about how to tailor a resume to industry jobs? Want to learn how to describe your accomplishments in an impactful manner? In this webinar, you will learn how to gain the attention of hiring managers with well-written resumes and cover letters! For accessibility needs, please contact Wincy at wincyli@ryerson.ca as soon as possible. Register: Please visit https://ryerson.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K0eDFX2LQtu97tfq0Wpy_w to register.

  • IndustrioTech© Seminars – Smart Maintenance

    IEEE Toronto WIE and IM/RA is hosting “IndustrioTech”, a series of seminars on Smart Maintenance (Predictive Maintenance) using variety of technologies. Day & Time: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Speakers & Topics: Dr. Ahmad Barari Director of Advanced Digital Manufacturing and Advanced Digital Metrology Laboratories, Associate Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology Topic: LIVE Simulation for Predictive Maintenance Mohsen Tayefeh Industry 4.0 strategic Business manager, CAD MicroSolutions Topic: Imperative foundations toward Smart Maintenace: Matching up the Technology with the Business Value Shafiul Alam Research Engineer McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) Topic: Predictive Maintenance and Industry 4.0 (Case study Honda manufacturing plant) Dr. Amir Harandi CEO, Artintech Inc. Topic: ML and GA: Artificial Intelligent techniques in Smart Maintenance Organizer(s): IEEE Toronto WIE, IM/RA Location: Virtual Contact: Ayda Naserialiabadi Register: Please visit here to register.

  • Project-based Python Workshop 3

    On Friday, February 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., IEEE Toronto WIE will host a Python workshop, “How to Use LSTM for Text and Time Series Classification”. Day & Time: Friday, February 5, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker(s): Enas Tarawneh Organizer(s): IEEE Toronto WIE, York University WiCSE Location: Virtual Contact: Hina Tabassum Abstract: This workshop focuses on how to classify or label text using bi-LSTM RNNs. It includes pre-processing/cleaning of the text and handling severely imbalanced classes using SMOTE, oversampling, under-sampling, class count, and log smoothen weights. Using different types of LSTM such as vanilla LSTM, and Bi-LSTM, we focus on time series problems with categorical data.  In summary, this workshop will cover: a) Preprocessing text and data b) Handling imbalanced datasets c) Use different types of LSTMs for text and time series classification d) Produce meaningful classification reports Register: Please visit http://bit.ly/39IQFXd to register. Biography: Enas Tarawneh is a PhD student at York University in the department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She works in the Vision, Graphics and Robotics (VGR) Laboratory as a research assistant. Her most recent research involves the development and evaluation of a cloud-based avatar (intelligent agent) for human-robot interaction that is part of a project funded by VISTA. She holds an OGS and VISTA doctoral scholarship.  Prior to this, Enas worked as an academic Lead, instructor, and e-learning coordinator in the Institute of Applied Technology in UAE in which she received an award for “Distinguished Curriculum Support” and another for “Excellence in E-learning coordination”. Most importantly, Enas is a wife and mother of three, that believes that open-mindedness and positivism is the best accomplishment and the source of true happiness.