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SUMMARY:Molecular Bringing Precision to Measurements for Millimeter-wave 5G Wireless: Conducted and free-field modulated-signal measurements
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 27\, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Kate A. Remley from Wireless Systems Group\, NIST\, will be presenting “Molecular Bringing Precision to Measurements for Millimeter-wave 5G Wireless: Conducted and free-field modulated-signal measurements”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday September 27\, 2017\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Light lunch will be served) \nSpeaker: Dr. Kate A. Remley\nWireless Systems Group\, NIST \nLocation: Room BA 4287\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Arin Minasian \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47045 \nAbstract: At millimeter-wave frequencies and for wide modulation bandwidths\, the hardware performance of both modulated-signal sources and vector receivers becomes increasingly nonideal. These nonidealities make test and validation of devices\, circuits and systems not only more important\, but also more difficult. This is especially true because future systems will likely push the limits of modulation complexity and bandwidth to increase data throughput. We will discuss calibration and measurement techniques to correct millimeter-wave modulated-signal measurements illustrating that traditional assumptions at microwave frequencies may not be adequate at millimeter-wave frequencies. \nBiography: Kate A. Remley (S’92-M’99-SM’06-F’13) was born in Ann Arbor\, MI. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University\, Corvallis\, in 1999. From 1983 to 1992\, she was a Broadcast Engineer in Eugene\, OR\, serving as Chief Engineer of an AM/FM broadcast station from 1989-1991. In 1999\, she joined the RF Technology Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)\, Boulder\, CO\, as an Electronics Engineer. She is currently the leader of the Metrology for Wireless Systems Group at NIST\, where her research activities include development of calibrated measurements for microwave and millimeter-wave wireless systems\, characterizing the link between nonlinear circuits and system performance\, and developing standardized test methods for RF equipment used by the public-safety community. \nDr. Remley was the recipient of the Department of Commerce Bronze and Silver Medals\, an ARFTG Best Paper Award\, and is a member of the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished Engineers. She was the Chair of the MTT-11 Technical Committee on Microwave Measurements from 2008 – 2010 and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Microwave Magazine from 2009 – 2011\, and is the Chair of the MTT Fellow Nominating Committee.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/molecular-bringing-precision-to-measurements-for-millimeter-wave-5g-wireless-conducted-and-free-field-modulated-signal-measurements/
LOCATION:Room BA 4287\, 40 St George St\, Toronto M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170926T150000
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SUMMARY:Molecular Communication in Mobile Systems
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 26\, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Professor Robert Schober\, Institute for Digital Communications\, will be presenting “Molecular Communication in Mobile Systems”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday September 26\, 2017\n3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Professor Robert Schober\nInstitute for Digital Communications\nFriedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg\, Germany \nLocation: Room BA 2165\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Arin Minasian \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47028 \nAbstract: Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging research area offering many interesting and challenging new research problems for communication engineers\, biologists\, chemists\, and physicists. MC is widely considered to be an attractive option for communication between nanodevices such as (possibly artificial) cells and nanosensors. Possible applications of the resulting nanonetworks include targeted drug delivery\, health monitoring\, environmental monitoring\, and “bottom-up” manufacturing. \nIn this talk\, we give first a brief introduction to MC and nanonetworking. The main focus of the talk is on stochastic channel modelling for mobile MC systems where the transmitter and/or receiver are not fixed but move subject to diffusion and flow. Metrics such as the mean\, autocorrelation function\, and probability density function of the channel impulse response will be investigated and the notion of coherence time in MC is introduced. Subsequently\, the implications of time-variant channels for MC system design are studied\, and corresponding channel estimation and non-coherent detection schemes are developed. The talk concludes with a summary of potential topics for future work. \nBiography: Robert Schober (S’98\, M’01\, SM’08\, F’10) was born in Neuendettelsau\, Germany\, in 1971. He received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-AlexanderUniversity of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU)\, Germany\, in 1997 and 2000\, respectively. From May 2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, Canada\, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From 2002-2011\, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Vancouver\, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. His research interests fall into the broad areas of Communication Theory\, Wireless Communications\, and Statistical Signal Processing. \nDr. Schober received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG)\, the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications\, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize\, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC\, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship\, and a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship. In addition\, he received several best paper awards. Dr. Schober is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. From 2012-2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee of the new Communication Society (ComSoc) journal IEEE Transactions on Molecular\, Biological and Multiscale Communication and serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Furthermore\, he is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors and a Distinguished Lecturer of ComSoc.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/molecular-communication-in-mobile-systems/
LOCATION:Room BA 2165\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show 2017
DESCRIPTION:September 25-28\, 2017\, the national Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show 2017 offers a diverse mix of live technology on display\, with unrivaled keynotes\, panel discussions and technical sessions. CMTS includes several signature networking events where the industry comes together to connect\, share and celebrate manufacturing. \nDay & Time: September 25-28\, 2017\nSeptember 25: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nSeptember 26: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nSeptember 27: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.\nSeptember 28: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. \nLocation: The International Centre\nMississauga (Toronto)\, ON\, Canada \nRegister to Attend: http://cmts.ca/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/canadian-manufacturing-technology-show-2017-2/
LOCATION:The International Centre\, Mississauga (Toronto)\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Engineering Employment Events
DESCRIPTION:OSPE will be running Engineering Employment Events on September 14\, 2017 and September 30\, 2017. The September 14th E3 is in partnership with OACETT and will focus on recent grads\, associates and individuals with EIT\, P.Eng.\, C.E.T. and C.Tech. designations. The September 30th E3 is in partnership with Transport Canada and will focus on recent grads\, associates and individuals with EIT and P.Eng. designations. \nThursday September 14\, 2017 Session\nRegistration Link: https://www.ospe.on.ca/events#521/E3-EMP-0917\nTime: 11:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.\nLocation: Parkview Manor\, 55 Barber Greene Rd\, Toronto. \nSaturday September 30\, 2017 Session\nRegistration Link: https://www.ospe.on.ca/events#911/TCE3-JSK-0930\nTime: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.\nLocation: Corporate Event Centre at CHSI – 5110 Creekbank Road\, Mississauga\, Ontario
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/engineering-employment-events/
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SUMMARY:On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry
DESCRIPTION:Friday September 8\, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Professor Marco Di Renzo from Paris-Saclay University/CNRS\, will be presenting “On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry”. \nDay & Time: Friday September 8\, 2017\n10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. \nSpeaker: Professor Marco Di Renzo\nParis-Saclay University/CNRS\, France \nLocation: Room ENG288\nGeorge Vari Engineering Building (Intersection of Church & Gould)\nRyerson University\n245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Alireza Sadeghian\, Alex Dela Cruz \nOrganizers: Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter \nAbstract: This talk is aimed to provide a comprehensive crash course on the critical and essential importance of spatial models for an accurate system-level analysis and optimization of emerging 5G ultra-dense and heterogeneous cellular networks. Due to the increased heterogeneity and deployment density\, new flexible and scalable approaches for modeling\, simulating\, analyzing and optimizing cellular networks are needed. Recently\, a new approach has been proposed: it is based on the theory of point processes and it leverages tools from stochastic geometry for tractable system-level modeling\, performance evaluation and optimization. The potential of stochastic geometry for modeling and analyzing cellular networks will be investigated for application to several emerging case studies\, including massive MIMO\, mmWave communication\, and wireless power transfer. In addition\, the accuracy of this emerging abstraction for modeling cellular networks will be experimentally validated by using base station locations and building footprints from two publicly available databases in the United Kingdom (OFCOM and Ordnance Survey). This topic is highly relevant to graduate students and researchers from academia and industry\, who are highly interested in understanding the potential of a variety of candidate communication technologies for 5G networks. \nBiography: Marco Di Renzo received the “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of L’Aquila\, Italy\, in 2003 and 2007\, respectively. In October 2013\, he received the Doctor of Science degree from the University Paris-Sud\, France. Since 2010\, he has been a “Chargé de Recherche Titulaire” CNRS (CNRS Associate Professor) in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems of Paris-Saclay University – CNRS\, CentraleSupélec\, Univ Paris Sud\, France. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney\, Australia\, a Visiting Professor at the University of L’Aquila\, Italy\, and a co-founder of the university spin-off company WEST Aquila s.r.l.\, Italy. He serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS\, and as an Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Communications Society. He is a recipient of several awards\, and a frequent tutorial and invited speaker at IEEE conferences.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/on-system-level-analysis-design-of-cellular-networks-the-magic-of-stochastic-geometry/
LOCATION:Room ENG288\, George Vari Engineering Building\, 245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170825T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170825T150000
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SUMMARY:Response of voltage source HVDC systems to DC-side faults\, HVDC fault characterisation and DC protection options
DESCRIPTION:Friday August 25\, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Prof. Stephen Finney of University of Edinburgh School of Engineering\, will be presenting “Response of voltage source HVDC systems to DC-side faults\, HVDC fault characterisation and DC protection options”. \nDay & Time: Friday August 25\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Stephen Finney\nUniversity of Edinburgh School of Engineering \nLocation: Bahen Centre\, Room BA 7180\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Sanaz Kanani \nOrganizers: IAS & PELS Joint Chapter \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/45918 \nAgenda: 2:00 pm: Light Refreshment\n2:10-2:50 pm: Presentation (40min)\n2:50 pm – Q&A (20min) \nAbstract: The emergence of high performance\, high voltage\, voltage source converters (VSC) such as the modular multi-level converter (MMC ) has resulted in increased deployment of voltage source HVDC transmission both for interconnection of AC networks and integration of remote and offshore renewable energy resources. The improved functionality and suitability for networked operation make VSC-HVDC attractive for future power networks. However\, the low impedance of voltage source HVDC makes is highly susceptible dc faults\, resulting in rapid collapse of system voltage and extreme over currents. For the majority of converter topologies\, fault current cannot be controlled by the converter switching with the potential for high current flows in the anti-parallel diodes. Protection devices are\, therefore\, required to operate with sufficient speed to avoid device failure. In current point-point connections this may be achieved through shunt protection of converter diodes coupled with AC side fault clearance which must be activated at all VSC terminals. \nThere is growing interest in the exploitation of VSC-HVDC in multi-terminal configurations\, with a number of large scale pilot projects. (For example the Zhoushan 5 terminal scheme). \nConductor faults in such VSC-HVDC networks will result in rapid network-wide voltage collapse and over currents. In these cases the application of proven point-point protection with AC fault clearance\, whilst effective\, will result in the loss of power flows at all converter stations. This may be avoided by the use of DC circuit breakers (DCCB)\, however implementation of such circuit breakers presents challenging compromises in speed\, complexity and losses. \nBiography: Prof. Stephen Jon Finney graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Loughborough University in 1988. He worked for the (U.K) Electricity Council research Centre Laboratories before joining the Power Electronics research team at Heriot-Watt University in 1990\, obtaining his PhD in 1994. In 2005 he transferred to the University of Strathclyde where he contributed to the formation of the power electronics\, drives and energy conversion group. This research group now includes 4 academic staff\, five postdoctoral research fellows and 14 postgraduate researchers. The group’s research spans power semiconductor devices\, circuits and system level applications. His work in the area of power electronics has resulted in the supervision 15 PhD completions and publication of over 150 research papers with over 30 in IEEE Transactions. \nDuring his time at Strathclyde Professor Finney has been responsible for developing research into the application of power electronic systems energy systems. Work in this field includes HVDC transmission\, Multi-terminal HVDC\, Renewable generator interface and Energy collection architectures. The group recently completed work on the European Union funded ‘Twenties’ program\, a multi-partner project which investigated the use of HVDC for the integration of large scale wind generation. This work will be extended through a number of successor projects focusing on overcoming technical barriers to HVDC networks offshore wind integration. \nBesides HVDC Professor Finney’s team is involved in a broad range of Power Electronics research which include work on High Voltage IGBT Modules and advanced gate drives and U.K China Collaboration on Power Electronic Devices for the Network Integration of Electric Vehicles.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/response-of-voltage-source-hvdc-systems-to-dc-side-faults-hvdc-fault-characterisation-and-dc-protection-options/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre\, Room BA 7180\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications
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SUMMARY:Recent Advances In Direct Torque and Flux Control of IPMSM Drives
DESCRIPTION:Friday August 11\, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. IEEE Toronto’s Power & Energy Chapter is honoured to invite you to a seminar by professor M. Nasir Uddin\, Senior IEEE member and Professor at Lakehead University\, “Recent Advances In Direct Torque and Flux Control of IPMSM Drives”. \nDay & Time: Friday August 11\, 2017\n10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. \nSpeaker: M. Nasir Uddin\nSenior IEEE member\nProfessor at Lakehead University \nLocation: Conference Room\n147 Dalhousie St\, Toronto\, M5B 2R2 \nContact: Omid Alizadeh \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Power & Energy Chapter \nAbstract: With the advancements in magnetic materials and semiconductor technology\, interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) is becoming more and more popular in industrial applications due to its high energy density\, high power factor\, low noise and high efficiency as compared to conventional AC motors. Conventional field oriented vector control (VC) techniques have been widely used for high performance motor drives for many years. As an alternative to VC scheme recently direct torque and flux control (DTFC) technique is developed which is faster and simpler than that of the VC scheme as DTFC doesn’t need any coordinate transformation\, pulse width modulation and current regulators. The DTFC scheme utilizes hysteresis band comparators for both torque and flux controls. Both torque and flux are controlled simultaneously by the selection of appropriate voltage vectors from the inverter. However\, conventional six-sector based DTFC suffers from high torque ripples due to discrete nature of control system and limited voltage vector selection from the inverter. Control techniques have been developed for hysteresis controllers to minimize the torque ripples but the six sectors still limits that improvement. Furthermore\, in a conventional DTFC the reference air-gap flux is assumed constant at the rated value to make the control task easier. This produces erroneous results for high performance drives as the air-gap flux changes with the operating conditions and system disturbances. Moreover\, if the reference air-gap flux is maintained constant\, it is not possible to optimize the efficiency of the drive. \nTherefore\, this talk presents a novel eighteen-sector based DTFC scheme to achieve high dynamic performance with reduced torque ripples as compared to the conventional 6-sector based DTFC. In addition\, a model based loss minimization algorithm is integrated with the proposed DTFC scheme in order to optimize the efficiency along with high dynamic performance. Eighteen sectors are developed to overcome the unbalanced voltage vector selection of conventional six-sector based system that minimizes the torque ripples. Further\, a nonlinear controller with virtual torque and flux controls is also developed for IPMSM drive to minimize the drive torque ripples. The complete IPMSM drives incorporating the developed control techniques are successfully implemented in real-time using digital signal processor (DSP) board-DS1104 for laboratory 5-hp motor. The effectiveness of the proposed control techniques are verified in both simulation and experiment at different operating conditions. It is found that the nonlinear controller based IPMSM drive provides the best performance in terms of torque ripples among all the DTFC schemes. The results show that the proposed nonlinear/18-sector based DTFC scheme would have the potentiality to apply for real-time industrial drives. \nBiography: M. Nasir Uddin received the B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees both in electrical & electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)\, Canada in 1993\, 1996\, and 2000\, respectively. \nHe has been serving as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering\, Lakehead University (LU)\, Thunder Bay\, ON\, Canada since August 2001. He also served as a visiting Prof. at Univ. of Malaya (2013\, 2012\, 2011)\, Tokyo University of Science (2010)\, Japan and North South University (2006)\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh. Previously\, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of South Alabama\, USA from January 2001 to May 2001\, an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 1997 and a lecturer from 1994 to 1996 at BUET. He possesses more than 21 years of teaching experience and has authored/coauthored over 200 papers in international journals (39 in IEEE Transactions) and conferences. \nProf. Uddin is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario\, Canada. Currently\, he is serving as an Executive Board Member of IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) and Chair of IEEE-IAS-Manufacturing Systems Development and Applications Department. He also served as one of the Technical Program Committee Chairs for IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) 2015 at Montreal\, Canada. He was the Technical Committee Chair for the IEEE-IAS [Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC)] Annual Meetings in 2011 (Orlando) and 2012 (Las Vegas). He served as Papers Review Chair (2009–2010 and 2013–2014) of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (IACC). Earlier he served IEEE IAS IACC for 9 years in different capacities. Due to his outstanding contributions IEEE IAS IACC recognized him with IEEE IAS Service Award 2015. He also received LU Distinguished Researcher Award 2010. He was the recipient of several Prize Paper Awards from IEEE IAS IACC and both 2004 Contributions to Research and Contributions to Teaching Awards from LU. His research interests include power electronics\, renewable energy\, motor drives\, and intelligent controller applications.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/recent-advances-in-direct-torque-and-flux-control-of-ipmsm-drives/
LOCATION:Conference Room\, 147 Dalhousie St\, Toronto\, M5B 2R2
CATEGORIES:Power & Energy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170808T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170808T170000
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SUMMARY:Design Considerations for Power Efficient Continuous-Time Delta Sigma ADCs
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 8\, 2017 at 4:10 p.m. Dr. Shanthi Pavan\, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology\, will be presenting “Design Considerations for Power Efficient Continuous-Time Delta Sigma ADCs”. \nRecording of the Event: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wB8uI08dYvbmtnQjJoclF0VW8/view?usp=sharing \nDay & Time: Tuesday August 8\, 2017\n4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Shanthi Pavan\nProfessor of Electrical Engineering\nIndian Institute of Technology\, Madras \nLocation: Bahen Centre\, room BA1230\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Dustin Dunwell \nOrganizers: Solid-State Circuits Society \nAbstract: Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Modulators (CTDSMs) are a compelling choice for the design of high resolution analog-to-digital converters. Many delta-sigma architectures have been published (and continue to be invented). This leaves the designer with a bewildering array of choices\, many of which seem to pull in opposite directions. Further\, it is often difficult to make a clear comparison of various architectures\, as they have been designed for dissimilar specifications\, by different design groups\, and in different technology nodes. This talk examines various design alternatives for the design of power efficient single-loop continuous-time delta sigma converters. \nBiography: Shanthi Pavan obtained the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras in 1995 and the Masters and Doctoral degrees from Columbia University\, New York in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He is now with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras\, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of high-speed analog circuit design and signal processing. Dr.Pavan is the recipient of many awards for teaching and research\, including the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (from the Government of India). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I – Regular Papers. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/design-considerations-for-power-efficient-continuous-time-delta-sigma-adcs/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre\, room BA1230
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170717T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170717T170000
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SUMMARY:A framework for general purpose digital pathology image analysis\, using machine learning methods to identify cancer subsets and immunotherapy biomarkers
DESCRIPTION:Monday July 17\, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Trevor McKee\, STTARR Innovation Research Centre for Cancer Research\, will be presenting “A framework for general purpose digital pathology image analysis\, using machine learning methods to identify cancer subsets and immunotherapy biomarkers”. \nDay & Time: Monday July 17\, 2017\n4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Trevor McKee\nSTTARR – Innovation Research Centre for Cancer Research\nToronto\, Ontario\, Canada \nLocation: Room ENG101\nGeorge Vari Engineering Building (intersection of Church & Gould)\nRyerson University\n245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Alireza Sadeghian\, Alex Dela Cruz \nOrganizers: Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter \nAbstract: Histological staining\, interpreted by a pathologist\, has remained the gold standard for cancer diagnosis and staging for over 100 years. There is a growing need for better – and more personalized – cancer treatments\, to provide oncologists with the tools they need to best treat their patients. The advent of “molecular medicine”\, or targeted therapeutic strategies that rely on knowledge of particular mutations in a cancer in order to tailor treatment\, has improved cancer therapy for many patients. This has led to the use of companion diagnostics\, in which tumor biopsies are stained for a specific marker or set of markers\, using immunohistochemical approaches. The information obtained from the degree of staining or spatial arrangement of stained cells within the tumor helps to identify tumor molecular subclasses that may benefit from such tailored therapeutic approaches. \nThe increase in the number of slides being stained for specific markers and used in diagnosis\, along with the increased need for quantitative assessment of the degree of staining\, number of cells\, or spatial arrangement of cells within the tumor\, has increased the volume and type of work that pathologists encounter in their diagnostic workflow. Our team works on the development of tools for quantitative digital pathology analysis that can benefit pathologists\, by building and validating semi-automated algorithms for cellular quantification and intensity scoring of stained slides. We use machine learning methods to learn features that distinguish different morphological regions from pathologist annotations. These are then fed into a tissue segmentation and classification framework to break the tissue down into its components\, either on the individual cell level\, or the glandular level. Staining intensity is quantified following colour deconvolution of the individual stain components\, and reporting metrics are designed\, in close collaboration with pathologists and biological scientists\, to identify the appropriate outputs for comparing between treatment groups or different cancer types. \nThe use of multiplexed digital pathology stains allows us to build a generalized analytical framework to perform “tissue cytometry”. This new technology can extract quantitative image-derived features in a reproducible and robust fashion\, providing clinicians and biological scientists with tools to measure previously inaccessible phenomena\, like measuring the hypoxic gradient directly within tumor sections\, or comparing glucose uptake to lactic acid production in the same tumor sample. This approach establish the foundation for a bridge between traditional morphometric assessment of tumor biopsies\, and the detailed spatially resolved chemical and molecular content maps of each tumor\, providing an invaluable toolkit for the discovery of cancer molecular subtypes\, and development of therapeutic interventions. \nBiography: Dr. Trevor McKee received his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005\, in the laboratory of Dr. Rakesh Jain of Harvard Medical School. During his graduate work\, he pioneered the application of new imaging and analysis technologies to studying drug transport within tumors\, and on developing methods to improve drug delivery. He also holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering with a Biotechnology minor from the University at Buffalo. He moved to Toronto to continue postdoctoral work at the Ontario Cancer Institute\, applying multi-modality imaging and quantitative image analysis methods to study preclinical cancer models. He has a successful track record of high-impact publications with a number of clinical and basic science collaborators\, and has also collaborated with pharmaceutical companies on imaging-based preclinical testing of new compounds. He is currently Image Analysis Core Manager of the STTARR Innovation Centre\, and manages a team of analysts to develop new algorithms for machine-learning powered image segmentation and quantification across a number of disease sites. His research interests lie in studying the tumor microenvironment\, drug and oxygen delivery\, and the development of tools for “tissue cytometry” – deriving complex biological and spatial relationships from tissue sections via computational image analysis methods.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/a-framework-for-general-purpose-digital-pathology-image-analysis-using-machine-learning-methods-to-identify-cancer-subsets-and-immunotherapy-biomarkers/
LOCATION:Room ENG101\, 245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:Factory Tour of Northern Transformer In Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Friday June 30\, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. IEEE Toronto is proud to present a facility tour of Northern Transformer in Vaughan. \nThe IEEE Toronto Industry Relations Committee and Power & Energy Chapter would like to thank Northern Transformer for hosting this very successful tour and their amazing hospitality. \nDay & Time: Friday June 30\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Northern Transformer\n245 McNaughton Rd. E.\nMaple\, Ontario\nCanada L6A 4P5 \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45343 \nContact: Hugo Sanchez \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Industry Relations Committee\, Power & Energy Chapter\nCo-sponsored by Hugo Sanchez \nAbstract: Northern Transformer\, founded in Concord\, Ontario in 1981\, is a North American manufacturer of liquid filled transformers of the highest quality and reliability serving the North American market. Northern Transformer’s primary focus is the design and manufacture of liquid filled Power Transformers\, Grounding Transformers and Specialty Transformers ranging from 500kVA to 115MVA with a maximum primary voltage of 160kV (650 BIL). \nAttendees are encouraged to bring their own safety shoes and glasses to provide themselves with an additional layer of safety. However\, the safety shoes and glasses are not mandatory to attend this tour. \nPictures from Event:
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/factory-tour-of-northern-transformer-in-vaughan/
LOCATION:Northern Transformer Corporation\, 245 McNaughton Rd E\, Maple\, ON L6A 4P5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Power & Energy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170628T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170628T180000
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SUMMARY:Large-Scale Analytics and Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Types
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday June 28\, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. Dr. Shiva Amiri\, CEO of BioSymetrics Inc\, will be presenting “Large-Scale Analytics and Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Types”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday June 28\, 2017\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Shiva Amiri\nCEO of BioSymetrics Inc\nToronto\, Ontario\, Canada \nLocation: Room ENG288\nDepartment of Computer Science\nRyerson University\n245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Alireza Sadeghian\, Alex Dela Cruz \nOrganizers: Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter\, WIE \nAbstract: The scale of data being generated in medicine and research can easily overwhelm typical analytic capabilities. This is particularly true with MRI/fMRI scanning\, genomics data\, streaming/wearables data in addition to other clinical data types\, especially if in combination. \nChallenges include 1) large file sizes often in heterogeneous formats 2) currently no standard Protocol exists for extraction of standardized characteristics\, and 3) traditional methods for group-wise comparison can often result in spurious findings. \nThe talk will address these challenges by discussing customized processing pipelines built for multiple data types in biomedicine\, which enable effective machine learning and other types of analytics on these datasets. This approach leverages the rapid model building capabilities of our real-time machine learning software to iterate through normalization parameters for each data type and disease class. In addition\, this platform allows easy integration between the various medical data types (genome sequence\, phenotypic\, and metabolic data) allowing generation of more comprehensive disease classification models. \nThe ability to standardize and pre-process multiple types of biomedical data for machine learning\, no matter the source and type\, and effectively combine it with other data types is a powerful capability and holds promise for the future of diagnostics and precision medicine. \nBiography: Shiva Amiri is the CEO of BioSymetrics Inc. where they are developing a unique real-time machine learning technology for the analysis of massive data in biomedicine. BioSymetrics specializes in providing optimized pipelines for complex data types and effective methods in the analytics of integrated data. Prior to BioSymetrics she was the Chief Product Officer at Real Time Data Solutions Inc.\, she has led the Informatics and Analytics team at the Ontario Brain Institute\, where they developed Brain-CODE\, a large-scale neuroinformatics platform across the province of Ontario. She was previously the head of the British High Commission’s Science and Innovation team in Canada. Shiva completed her Ph.D. in Computational Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Human Biology at the University of Toronto. Shiva is involved with several organisations including Let’s Talk Science and Shabeh Jomeh International.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/large-scale-analytics-and-machine-learning-for-biomedical-data-types/
LOCATION:Room ENG288\, 245 Church St\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170613T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170613T160000
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SUMMARY:IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Topology Preserving Maps: A Localization-Free Approach for 2-D and 3-D IoT Subnets
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday June 13\, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Prof. Anura Jayasumana\, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture “Topology Preserving Maps: A Localization-Free Approach for 2-D and 3-D IoT Subnets”. Note refreshments begin at 2:00 p.m. \nDay & Time: Tuesday June 13\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Refreshments\n3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Lecture \nSpeaker: Prof. Anura Jayasumana\nDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nColorado State University\, Ft. Collins\, CO 80523 USA \nLocation: Room BA 2135\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45777 \nAbstract: Driven by higher potency and lower cost/size of devices capable of sensing\, actuating\, processing and communicating\, the Internet of Things and of Everything promises to dramatically increase our ability to embed intelligence in the surroundings. Subnets of simple devices such as RFIDs and tiny sensors/actuators deployed in massive numbers in 2D and complex 3D spaces will be a key aspect of this emerging infrastructure. Most techniques for self-organization\, routing and tracking in such networks rely on distances and localization in the physical domain. While geographic coordinates fit well with our intuitions into physical spaces\, their use is not feasible in complex environments. Protocols based on geographical coordinates do not scale well to 3D either. We present a novel localization-free coordinate system\, the Topology Coordinates (TC). Interestingly\, geographic features such as voids and shapes are preserved in the resulting Topology-Preserving Maps (TPMs) of 2-D and 3-D networks. Ability to specify virtual cardinal directions and angles in networks is a radical change from the traditional approaches. A novel self-learning algorithm is presented to provide network awareness to individual nodes\, a step toward large-scale evolving sensor networks. Application of TCs to social networking will be illustrated. \nBiography: Anura Jayasumana is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University\, where he also holds a joint appointment in Computer Science. He is the Associate Director of Information Sciences & Technology Center at Colorado State. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research interests span high-speed networking to wireless sensor networking\, and anomaly detection to DDoS defense. He has served extensively as a consultant to industry ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Moratuwa\, Sri Lanka and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Michigan State University. Prof. Jayasumana has supervised 20+ Ph.D. and 50+ M.S. students\, holds two patents\, and is the co-author over 250 papers. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Mountain States Council of the American Electronics Association.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-comsoc-distinguished-lecture-topology-preserving-maps-a-localization-free-approach-for-2-d-and-3-d-iot-subnets/
LOCATION:Room BA 2135\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170609T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170609T153000
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SUMMARY:RF Integrated Harmonic Oscillators in Silicon Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Friday June 9\, 2017 at 2:10 p.m. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Professor at Lund University Pietro Andreani will be presenting “RF Integrated Harmonic Oscillators in Silicon Technologies”. \nEvent Media:\nEvent Slides \nRecording of the Event \nDay & Time: Friday June 9\, 2017\n2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Pietro Andreani\nProfessor\, Lund University\nIEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Professor \nLocation: University of Toronto\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, Ontario Canada\, M5S 2E4\nBahen Center of Information Technology\nRoom Number: B024 \nFree for everyone. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. \nContact: Dustin Dunwell \nOrganizers: Solid State Circuits Society \nAbstract: As one of the truly fundamental analog functions in any wireless/wireline application\, the voltage-controlled oscillator keeps attracting a great deal of well-deserved attention. In this presentation\, we will investigate the mechanisms of phase noise generation in harmonic oscillators\, including some recently published general results\, after which we will analyze both classical and emergent oscillator architectures\, describing pros and cons for each. Various techniques to achieve a very wide oscillator tuning range will be illustrated as well. \nBiography: Pietro Adreani received the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pisa\, Italy\, in 1988\, and the Ph.D. degree from Lund University\, Sweden\, in 1999. Between 2001 and 2007 he was chair professor at the Center for Physical Electronics\, Technical University of Denmark. From 2005 to 2014 he had a 20% position as analog/RF designer at Ericsson AB in Lund\, Sweden. Since 2007\, he has been associate professor at the department of Electrical and Information Technology (EIT)\, Lund University\, working analog/mixed-mode/RF IC design. He is also the head of the VINNOVA Center for System Design on Silicon\, hosted by EIT. He has been a TPC member of ISSCC (2007-2012)\, is a TPC member of ESSCIRC (chair of the Frequency Generation subcommittee since 2012\, TPC chair in 2014) and RFIC\, and Associate Editor of JSSC. He has been an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer since 2017. He has authored numerous papers on harmonic oscillators and phase noise.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/rf-integrated-harmonic-oscillators-in-silicon-technologies/
LOCATION:Bahen Center of Information Technology\, Room Number: B024
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170607T140000
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SUMMARY:Robust Beamforming Design: A New Approach
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday June 7\, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Mostafa Medra\, PhD. Candidate\, will be presenting “Robust Beamforming Design: A New Approach”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday June 7\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Mostafa Medra\, PhD. Candidate\nDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nMcMaster University \nLocation: Room BA 2145\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45778 \nAbstract: Due to the increasing demand for higher data rates\, spatial multiplexing received a lot of attention. The ability of a base station to do beamforming so that it can serve multiple users at the same time slot and frequency can provide significantly higher rates. When the channel state information is assumed to be perfectly known at the transmitter\, designs as the zeroforcing\, regularized zero-forcing and maximum ratio transmission can be applied. Those conventional methods are typically of low complexity. In reality the channel state information is estimated and estimation errors are inevitable. Many beamforming designs tried to incorporate the channel uncertainty model into the design problem. While those robust designs normally work better than the conventional designs\, their computational complexity is usually much higher. Today we will provide a new approach to dealing with robust beamforming design that is of low- complexity and performs significantly better than both conventional and current robust methods. \nBiography: Mostafa Medra (S’06-M’16) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees\, both in Electrical Engineering\, from Alexandria University\, Alexandria\, Egypt in 2009 and 2013\, respectively. Since the fall of 2013\, he has been working towards his Ph.D. degree at McMaster University\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, Canada. He held a research position with the Spirtonic research team in 2012-2013\, working on digital signal processing for non-destructive testing using ultrasonic waves. His current research interests include MIMO communications\, optimization\, wireless communications and signal processing.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/robust-beamforming-design-a-new-approach/
LOCATION:Room BA 2145. 40 St. George Street. Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170531T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170531T210000
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SUMMARY:Women in Robotics: Building Smart Robots with AI
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 31\, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. hear about the work of Dr. Sanja Fidler\, Assistant Professor in Machine Learning and Computer Vision\, University of Toronto and Dr. Inmar Givoni\, Director of Machine Learning at Kindred Systems Inc.\, as part of “Women in Robotics: Building Smart Robots with AI”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday May 31\, 2017\n6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. \nSpeakers: Dr. Sanja Fidler\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Computer Science\, University of Toronto\nDr. Inmar Givoni\, Director\, Machine Learning\, Kindred Systems Inc. \nLocation: To be Announced \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EBMS)\, IEEE Women in Engineering\, Society of Women Engineers Toronto \nRVSP: https://www.meetup.com/Get-Your-Bot-On-Robotics-Hackathon/events/240003715/ \nAgenda:\n6:00 pm – Networking\n6:30 pm – Welcome\n6:40 pm – Speakers\n7:30 pm – Panel Discussion – Women in Robotics\n8:00 pm – Networking\n9:00 pm – Close \nGet Your Bot On!\, its partners Society of Women Engineers Toronto\, IEEE Toronto Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EBMS) and IEEE Women in Engineering are pleased to bring you the ‘Women in Robotics Speaker Series’. This series celebrates the work of women in the field of robotics and provides a forum for them to share their work and career with the community. We invite all community members to come and learn\, participate in the discussion\, and celebrate the contribution of women to this field. \nBiography:\nDr. Sanja Fidler\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Computer Science\, University of Toronto \nDr. Sanja Fidler is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science\, University of Toronto. She is the recipient of the Amazon Academic Research Award (2017) and the NVIDIA Pioneer of AI Award (2016). Previously she was a Research Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago a philanthropically endowed academic institute located in the campus of the University of Chicago. She completed her PhD in computer science at University of Ljubljana in 2010\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto during 2011-2012. \nIn 2010 she visited UC Berkeley. She has served as a Program Chair of the 3DV conference\, and as an Area Chair of CVPR\, EMNLP\, ICCV\, ICLR\, and NIPS. Together with Rich Zemel and Raquel Urtasun\, she received the NVIDIA Pioneer of AI award. \nHer main research interests are object detection\, 3D scene understanding\, and the intersection of language and vision. \nYou can find Dr. Fidler on the web at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fidler/ \nDr. Inmar Givoni\, Director\, Machine Learning\, Kindred Systems Inc. \nDr. Inmar Givoni is the Director of Machine Learning at Kindred\, where her team develops algorithms for machine intelligence\, at the intersection of robotics and AI. Prior to that\, she was the VP of Big Data at Kobo\, where she led her team in applying machine learning and big data techniques to drive e-commerce\, customer satisfaction\, CRM\, and personalization in the e-pubs and e-readers business. She first joined Kobo in 2013 as a senior research scientist working on content analysis\, website optimization\, and reading modelling among other things. Prior to that\, Inmar was a member of technical staff at Altera (now Intel) where she worked on optimization algorithms for cutting-edge programmable logic devices. \nInmar received her PhD (Computer Science) in 2011 from the University of Toronto\, specializing in machine learning\, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. During her graduate studies\, she worked at Microsoft Research\, applying machine learning approaches for e-commerce optimization for Bing\, and for pose-estimation in the Kinect gaming system. She holds a BSc in computer science and computational biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is an inventor of several patents and has authored numerous top-tier academic publications in the areas of machine learning\, computer vision\, and computational biology. She is a regular speaker at big data\, analytics\, and machine learning events\, and is particularly interested in outreach activities for young women\, encouraging them to choose technical career paths. \nYou can find Dr. Givoni on the web at http://www.inmarg.net/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-robotics-building-smart-robots-with-ai/
LOCATION:To be Announced
CATEGORIES:Engineering in Medicine and Biology,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170531T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170531T150000
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SUMMARY:InAs Quantum Dot Micro-disk Lasers Grown on Exact (001) Si Emitting at Communication Wavelengths
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 31\, 2017 at 2:10 p.m. Kei May Lau\, Fang Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will be presenting “InAs Quantum Dot Micro-disk Lasers Grown on Exact (001) Si Emitting at Communication Wavelengths”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday May 31\, 2017\n2:10 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Kei May Lau\nFang Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor\nDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering\nHong Kong University of Science and Technology \nLocation: Room BA 1220\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Junho Jeong \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Photonics Society \nAbstract: To support an energy-efficient optical interconnect technology enabled by silicon photonics\, development of low-energy-consumption active devices and the corresponding integration technology is needed. Most communication wavelength lasers with excellent device performance have been grown on III-V substrates and bonded to silicon. For integration\, there are considerable advantages in a technology that allow growth and fabrication of such lasers on III-V/ Si compliant substrates. Quantum dot (QD) active layers grown on lattice-matched substrates have already shown their capability for lasers with low-threshold densities and temperature-independent operation. In addition\, the reduced sensitivity of QD to defects and their unique capability of filtering dislocations make them an ideal candidate as the gain medium of hetero-integrated III-V on Si optical sources. In this talk\, I will discuss the growth of multi-stack QDs on compliant substrates by MOCVD. Fabrication and laser characteristics of whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) micro-disk lasers using the grown epitaxial structures will also be discussed. Initial demonstration was achieved using simple a colloidal lithography process in combination with dry and wet-etching. The micro-disk lasers were one to four microns in diameter\, with single mode lasing at either 1.3 or 1.55 μm\, depending on the barrier/cladding system. With smooth sidewalls and sufficient undercut by wet etching of the pedestal\, the air-cladded MDs exhibit ultra-low thresholds of a few mW by optical pumping. Preliminary results of electrically-pumped micro-lasers will also be presented. These energy-efficient microlasers are excellent candidates for on-chip integration with silicon photonics. \nBiography: Professor Kei May Lau is Fang Professor of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Minnesota\, Minneapolis\, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University\, Houston\, Texas. She was on the ECE faculty at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and initiated MOCVD\, compound semiconductor materials and devices programs. Since the fall of 2000\, she has been with the ECE Department at HKUST. She established the Photonics Technology Center for R&D effort in III-V materials\, optoelectronic\, high power\, and high-speed devices. Professor Lau is a Fellow of the IEEE\, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Awards for Women (FAW) Scientists and Engineers (1991) and Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2008). She is an Editor of the IEEE EDL and Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/inas-quantum-dot-micro-disk-lasers-grown-on-exact-001-si-emitting-at-communication-wavelengths/
LOCATION:Room BA 1220 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Circuits & Devices
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170526T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170526T153000
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SUMMARY:Designing a Gamification Course for an Higher Education Audience
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 26\, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Sergio A. A. Freitas\, Associate Professor in the Gama Engineering College (FGA) and Director of the Distance Education Center at the University of Brasilia (UnB)\, Brazil\, will be presenting “Designing a Gamification Course for an Higher Education Audience”. \nDay & Time: Friday May 26\, 2017\n1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m \nSpeaker: Dr. Sergio A. A. Freitas\nAssociate Professor in the Gama Engineering College (FGA)\nDirector of the Distance Education Center\nUniversity of Brasilia (UnB)\, Brazil \nLocation: Ryerson University\nGeorge Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRoom: ENG 288\n245 Church Street\nToronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto (WIE\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Magnetics chapters)\, Computer Science Department of Ryerson University \nAbstract: The gamification of activities in classrooms has become of great interest in higher education. Today’s students have a lot of experience in virtual environments and games\, and researchers who have tested/used gamification in their classrooms have reported an increase in student engagement and retention. \nThis course presents a four step process to create a gamified course: Identifying the students’ profile (step 1) and the gamification object (step 2)\, creating the gamification project (step 3)\, and finally\, implementing the gamification project (step 4). \nAt the end of the workshop it is expected that the participant will be able to design a basic gamified course. \nBiography: Dr. Sergio A. A. Freitas is currently an Associate Professor in the Gama Engineering College (FGA) and Director of the Distance Education Center at the University of Brasilia (UnB)\, Brazil. He is also the coordinator of research in the FGA Software Factory Laboratory. His current research projects focus on interdisciplinary studies and applications of learning methodologies on engineering undergraduate courses\, and software engineering methodologies. Prof. Freitas areas of expertise include gamification\, PBL\, virtual learning environments in education and training\, and software engineering methodologies. Dr. Freitas has coauthored journal publications\, conference articles and book chapters in the aforementioned topics\, and has coordinated and participated on many projects from various funding agencies CNPq\, FAP-ES\, FAP-DF\, Cebraspe\, and Brazilian Federal Ministries.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/designing-a-gamification-course-for-an-higher-education-audience/
LOCATION:George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, Room: ENG 288
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170524T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170524T170000
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SUMMARY:Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 24\, 2017 at 9:15 a.m. IEEE Signal Processing Chapter\, Toronto Section\, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, Toronto Chapter\, and Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Lab\, Ryerson University will be presenting a series of sessions “Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis Workshop”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday May 24\, 2017\nMorning Session: 9:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m\nAfternoon Session: 1:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan\, ranga@ucalgary.ca\nDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Calgary\, AB\, Canada \nDr. Sridhar Krishnan\, krishnan@ryerson.ca\nDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nRyerson University\, ON\, Canada \nDr. April Khademi\, akhademi@ryerson.ca\nDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nRyerson University\, ON\, Canada \nDr. Karthy Umapathy\, karthi@ee.ryerson.ca\nDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nRyerson University\, ON\, Canada \nDr. Naimul Khan\, n77khan@ryerson.ca\nDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nRyerson University\, ON\, Canada \nDr. Teodiano Bastos\, teodiano@gmail.com\nDepartamento de Engenharia Elétrica\nUniversidade Federal do Espírito Santo\, Vitoria\, Brasil \nLocation: ENG 102\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\n245 Church Street\nToronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nRyerson University\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/2qLpvJKgkYw \nContact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi\nYashodhan Athavale \nOrganizers: Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Lab\, Ryerson University\nIEEE Signal Processing Chapter\, Toronto Section\nIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, Toronto Chapter \nMorning Session: \n9:15am Welcome remarks\n9:30am Talk M1: Color Image Processing with Biomedical Applications – Dr. Raj Rangayyan\, U of Calgary \n10:45am – 11:00am break \n11:00am Talk M2: Medical Image Analysis Techniques for Radiology and Pathology Images – Dr. April Khademi\, Ryerson Univ.\n11:45am Talk M3: Biomedical Signal Processing for Cardiac Arrhythmias – Dr. Karthi Umapathy\, Ryerson Univ. \nAfternoon Session: \n1:15pm Talk A1: Wearables\, IoT and Analytics for Connected Healthcare – Dr. Sri Krishnan\, Ryerson Univ.\n2:00pm Talk A2: Assistive Technologies and BCI for Rehab Applications – Dr. Teodiano Bastos\, UFES\, Brazil \n2:45pm – 3:00pm break \n3:00pm Talk A3: Interactive Machine Learning for Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis – Dr. Naimul Khan\, Ryerson Univ.\n3:45pm – 4:30pm Open think-tank discussions on challenges and opportunities facing this field in the era of big data\, AI\, and translational research – moderated by S. Krishnan \nBiographies: \nRangaraj M. Rangayyan is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering (ECE) at the University of Calgary. Dr. Rangayyan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in 1980. He has over 35 years as a professor at the University of Calgary and at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include digital signal and image processing\, biomedical signal and image analysis\, and computer-aided diagnosis. Dr. Rangayyan is the author of two well cited textbooks: “Biomedical Signal Analysis” (IEEE/ Wiley\, 2002\, 2015) and “Biomedical Image Analysis” (CRC\, 2005). He has published over 430 papers in journals and conferences\, and coauthored several books. He has supervised and co-supervised 17 Doctoral theses\, 27 Master theses\, and more than 50 researchers at various levels. He has been recognized with the 2013 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Medal\, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)\, and elected as Fellow\, IEEE (2001); Fellow\, Engineering Institute of Canada (2002); Fellow\, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2003); Fellow\, SPIE (2003); Fellow\, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (2007); Fellow\, Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (2007); Fellow\, Canadian Academy of Engineering (2009); and Fellow\, Royal Society of Canada. He has lectured in more than 20 countries and has held the Visiting Professorships with more than 15 universities world-wide. He has been invited as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE EMBS in Toronto and as an invited lecture at the IEEE International Summer School in France. \nSridhar (Sri) Krishnan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer (ECE) Engineering and the Associate Dean of Research\, Development and External Partnerships for the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (FEAS) at Ryerson University. He is also a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Signal Analysis. Dr. Krishnan received his Ph. D. in ECE from the University of Calgary in 1999. Dr. Krishnan’s research interests include adaptive signal representations and analysis and their applications in biomedicine\, multimedia (audio)\, and biometrics. He has published over 280 papers in refereed journals and conferences\, filed 8 invention disclosures\, and has been granted one US patent. He has received over 20 awards and certificates of appreciation for his contributions in research and innovation. Dr. Krishnan has been invited to present in more than 30 international conferences and workshops. He has supervised and trained 10 Post-doc fellows\, 9 Doctoral theses\, 29 Master theses\, 9 Master projects\, 39 Research Assistants (RA)\, and 17 Visiting RAs. Dr. Krishnan is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Krishnan is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering\, Science and Technology (iBEST) and an Affiliate Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre in St. Michael’s Hospital\, Toronto. \nKarthi Umapathy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Ryerson University. Dr. Umapathy received his Ph. D. in ECE from the University of Western Ontario in 2006. During his graduate studies he held the prestigious NSERC CGS and PGS awards. He was an inaugural Ryerson postdoctoral fellow and was also the recipient of the Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence research fellowship award. Dr. Umapathy’s research interests include biomedical signal and image analysis\, time-frequency analysis\, digital signal processing\, cardiac electrophysiology\, and magnetic resonance imaging. One of his recent projects involves studying the electrical activity on the surface of the human heart during ventricular fibrillation to reduce sudden cardiac death in North America. Dr. Umapathy brings with him a vast knowledge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) from his works in Philips Medical Systems India. As the Area Manager and Country Specialist for Philips\, he led many successful MRI projects in India and Japan. \nApril Khademi recently jointed Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor in in the Department of Electrical and Computer (ECE). Dr. Khademi received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Dr. Khademi’s research interests include medical image analysis techniques for radiology and pathology images\, generalized grayscale and colour image processing methodologies\, biomedical signal processing\, machine learning\, personalized medicine\, computer-aided diagnosis\, Big Data analytics\, Magnetic Resonance Imaging\, and digital pathology. Dr. Khademi was an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University of Guelph. She was the Senior Scientist and Innovation Specialist at PathCore Inc. Dr. Khademi also brings with her the industry and healthcare experience from her works at GE Healthcare\, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute\, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Khademi is the recipient of more than 10 awards including Governor General’s Gold Medal for her Masters thesis and the prestigious NSERC-CGSD3. She has over 40 publications\, and has been invited to speaker in more than 25 conferences\, seminars and workshops. \nNaimul Khan recently jointed Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Dr. Khan received his Ph. D. in ECE from Ryerson University in 2014. Dr. Khan’s research interests include designing interactive methods for visual computing that can bridge the gap between end-users and systems. He has contributed to the fields of machine learning\, computer vision\, and medical imaging. Dr. Khan was previously a research engineer at Sunnybrook Research institute\, and an R&D Manager at AWE Company Ltd. At AWE\, he led the Fort York Time Tablet project in partnership with the City of Toronto to create an augmented reality exhibit of the history of the Fort. The project has garnered significant media and public attention. Dr. Khan was the recipient of several awards including the OCE TalentEdge Postdoctoral Fellowship\, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship\, and Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology. \nTeodiano Bastos is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo and a Level 1 Researcher at CNPq. Dr. Bastos received his Ph. D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, Spain\, in 1994. Dr. Bastos’ research interests are in Electronic Measurement and Control Systems\, including sensors\, control\, mobile robots\, industrial robotics\, rehabilitation robotics\, assistive technology\, and biological signal processing. Dr. Bastos has over 500 publications in journals\, conferences\, and books
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/biomedical-signal-and-image-analysis-workshop/
LOCATION:ENG 102\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Engineering in Medicine and Biology,Signal Processing
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170524
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SUMMARY:Printable Flexible Wearable Electronics Symposium (CPES 2017)
DESCRIPTION:IEEE Canada is a Supporting Partner of CPES2017\, Canada’s premier conference and trade show exhibition for printable\, flexible and wearable electronics (PE). In recognition of this partnership support\, the CPES organizing committee is extending a special offer to IEEE members. \nDate: May 24-26\, 2017 \nLocation: Centennial College\, Toronto \nUsing the coupon code cpeia-partner2017b IEEE members can register for CPES at 15 per cent off the regular non-CPEIA member rate of $795 + HST. This represents a value of $119. The deadline to use this code and secure the discount is April 28\, 2017. \nThis is a great opportunity to engage with the technology developers and integrators that are accelerating the growth and adoption of PE in various market verticals that are relevant to Canadian industry and technology clusters across the country. \nPlease note that this offer cannot be combined with the CPES2017 early bird registration rate or the student rate. It only applies to Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference. If you wish to attend the Master Classes or Mentoring & Financing Sessions on Day 3\, you must pay the regular fee for those activities. \nTo register and take advantage of this discount\, please visit\nhttps://cpes2017.ca/registration/ \nWhat is CPES2017? \nCPES2017 is the place for technology developers\, industrial companies and end-users to meet and discuss how they can work together to commercialize new products and applications for printable\, flexible and wearable electronics. Academic researchers can discover how they can link their research to market needs and opportunities. The conference focuses on markets such as Intelligent Packaging\, Intelligent Buildings\, Aerospace and Defense\, Automotive and Industrial Applications\, Health and Wellness\, Intelligent Documents\, and Consumer Electronics and Wearables. \nCome to learn\, network and develop partnerships for collaboration and business development. You can learn more at www.CPES2017.ca \nMay 24-26\, 2017\, Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA) will be bringing together Canadian PE industry for their annual symposium at Centennial College\, Toronto. \nWith 30+ speakers and over 200 participants from 120 organizations in attendance\, CPES2017 is Canada’s premier meeting ground for technology developers\, industrial companies and end-users to discuss how they can work together to manufacture and commercialize new products and applications. Academic researchers can showcase their research and discover how they can link it to market needs and opportunities. Day 1 of the program features Key Applications\, while Day 2 is dedicated to Manufacturing. The optional Day 3 offers master classes\, a financing session and mentoring. \nContact: Hugo Sanchez-Reategui at hugosanreategui@ieee.org \nOrganizers: CPEIA \nRegister: https://cpes2017.ca/registration/ \nNote: Using the coupon code cpeia-partner2017b IEEE members can register for CPES at 15 per cent off the regular non-CPEIA member rate of $795 + HST. This represents a value of $119. The deadline to use this code and secure the discount is April 28\, 2017. The coupon code cannot be combined with the Student rate $295 + HST. If you wish to attend the Master Classes or Mentoring & Financing Sessions on Day 3\, you must pay the regular fee for those activities. \nAbstract: CPES2017 is the place for technology developers\, industrial companies and end-users to meet and discuss how they can work together to commercialize new products and applications for printable\, flexible and wearable electronics. Academic researchers can discover how they can link their research to market needs and opportunities. The conference focuses on markets such as Intelligent Packaging\, Intelligent Buildings\, Aerospace and Defense\, Automotive and Industrial Applications\, Health and Wellness\, Intelligent Documents\, and Consumer Electronics and Wearables. \nCome to learn\, network and develop partnerships for collaboration and business development. You can learn more at www.CPES2017.ca
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/printable-flexible-wearable-electronics-symposium-cpes-2017/
LOCATION:Centennial College
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170519T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
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SUMMARY:High Power Density Power Electronics in Aerospace Applications
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 19\, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. IAS & PELS Joint Chapter are inviting you to the technical event “High Power Density Power Electronics in Aerospace Applications”\, presented by Dr. Chushan Li\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ryerson University. \nDay & Time: Friday May 19\, 2017\n3:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Chushan Li\nPostdoctoral Research Fellow in Ryerson University \nLocation: University of Toronto\n40 St.George Street\nToronto\, Ontario Canada\, M5S 2E4\nBahen Center of Information Technology\nRoom Number: BA 7180 \nAll IEEE members and non-members are welcome to participate with no admission charge. \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/45053 \nContact: Sanaz Kanani \nOrganizers: IAS & PELS Joint Chapter\, Toronto Section \nAbstract: In aerospace industry\, the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) architecture is emerging\, which employs the concept of electrical power for driving aircraft subsystems currently powered by hydraulic or pneumatic means including utility and flight control actuation\, environmental control system\, lubrication and fuel pumps\, and numerous other utility functions. \nIn this seminar\, Dr. Chushan Li presents an overview of More Electric Aircraft\, and highlights the researches on developing high power density power electronics converters for aerospace applications. These researches enable the MEA applications and significantly reduce the weight\, size\, and life-cycle-cost of the overall system\, improve reliability and result in ease of manufacturing and maintenance. The results are also applicable to wide applications in general industry. Finally\, discussions related challenges and potential opportunities are given to show the research potentials in this area. \nBiography: Dr. Chushan Li received the B.E.E. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering\, Zhejiang University\, Hangzhou\, China\, in 2008 and 2014\, respectively. Currently\, he is a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Ryerson University\, Canada. \nFrom April to September in 2008\, he was an internship student with the Power Application Design Center in National Semiconductor (Hong Kong) Co.Ltd. From December 2010 to October 2011\, he was a visiting scholar with the Freedom Center in North Carolina State University. From December 2013 to June 2014\, he was a research assistant in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. \nHis research interest includes high power density power converter design and AC-DC power conversion. He has published 31 technical papers and held 7 patents. In 2013\, he has received First-Class National Scholarship for Graduate Student in China.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/high-power-density-power-electronics-in-aerospace-applications/
LOCATION:Bahen Center of Information Technology\, Room Number: BA 7180\, 40 St. George Street
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170512T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
CREATED:20210430T012915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T211302Z
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SUMMARY:Trends of the Smart Grid Development
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 12\, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. IEEE Fellow and Professor Wei-Jen Lee\, Electrical Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington\, will be presenting “Trends of the Smart Grid Development”. \nDay & Time: Friday May 12\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Professor Wei-Jen Lee\nElectrical Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington\nDirector of the Energy Systems Research Center\nIEEE Fellow \nLocation: Bahen Center of Information Technology\, Room: BA 7180\nUniversity of Toronto\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, Ontario\nCanada M5S 2E4 \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/44907 \nContact: Hoda Youssef \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto IAS & PELS Joint Chapter \nAbstract: The electrical power system in the US has been named as “the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century” by the National Academy of Sciences. While the power system is a technological marvel\, it is also reaching the limit of its ability to meet the nation’s electricity needs. In addition\, our nation is moving into the digital information age that demands higher reliability from the nation’s aging electrical delivery system. \nThe modernization of the electricity infrastructure leads to the concept of “smart grid”. A comprehensive smart grid design should cover both top-down and bottom-up approaches. For the current centralized generation and transmission system\, upgrading the power delivery infrastructure\, enforcing the system security requirement\, and increasing interoperability are well known techniques to improve the reliability and the controllability of the power system. For the bottom-up approach\, one of the most important features is its ability to support a more diverse and complex network of energy technologies. Specifically\, it will be able to seamlessly integrate an array of locally installed\, distributed power sources with smaller CO2 footprint\, such as fuel cells\, photovoltaic\, and wind generation\, into the power system. \nThis presentation discusses the opportunities and challenges for the development of Smart Grid\, highlights the smart grid related researches that I have been involved recently\, and explores the possibility for future collaborations. The presentation concludes with the listing of issues needed to be addressed to ensure successful integration procedures that will eventually create new structures of efficient\, modular and environmentally responsive electricity infrastructure that will have an impact nationally as well as globally. \nBiography: Professor Wei-Jen Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University\, Taipei\, Taiwan\, R.O.C.\, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas\, Arlington\, in 1978\, 1980\, and 1985\, respectively\, all in Electrical Engineering. \nIn 1986\, he joined the University of Texas at Arlington\, where he is currently a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the Energy Systems Research Center.\nHe has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141\, 339\, 551\, 739\, 1584\, and dot 3000 series development. He is the Vice President of the IEEE Industry Application Society. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IAS Magazine\, editorial board member of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) and CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems\, and guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He has been inducted as a member of Academy of Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2012. He is the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena Research Project. \nProf. Lee has been involved in research on utility deregulation\, renewable energy\, smart grid\, microgrid\, energy internet and virtual power plants (VPP)\, arc flash hazards and electrical safety\, load and wind capacity forecasting\, power quality\, distribution automation and demand side management\, power systems analysis\, online real-time equipment diagnostic and prognostic system\, and microcomputer based instrument for power systems monitoring\, measurement\, control\, and protection. He has served as the primary investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred funded research projects with the total amount exceed US$12 million dollars. He has published more than one hundred and thirty journal papers and two hundred forty conference proceedings. He has provided on-site training courses for power engineers in Panama\, China\, Taiwan\, Korea\, Saudi Arabia\, Thailand\, and Singapore. He has refereed numerous technical papers for IEEE\, IET\, and other professional organizations.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/trends-of-the-smart-grid-development/
LOCATION:Room: BA 7180\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario Canada M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170512T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170512T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
CREATED:20210430T012915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T211225Z
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SUMMARY:7th Annual E3 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 12\, 2017 the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science and the Centennial Energy Institute invite you to our 2017 E3 Symposium: The Future is Smart: The Transformation of Canadian Manufacturing. This event will bring together advanced manufacturing innovators from across a number of sectors in the economy. The event will feature industry titans sharing best practices. \nDay & Time: Friday May 12\, 2017\n8:00 am to 8:45 am – Registration and Breakfast.\n9:00 am to 4:00 pm – Speakers & Sessions. \nLocation: Centennial College: Progress Campus\nLibrary Building Auditorium\n941 Progress Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario \nEvent Page: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/programs-courses/schools/school-of-engineering-technology-and-applied-science/e3-symposium/ \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/7th-annual-e3-symposium/
LOCATION:Centennial College: Progress Campus Library Building Auditorium 941 Progress Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170504T153000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
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SUMMARY:IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 4\, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Gayathri Srinivasan\, IBM Business Development Executive\, will be presenting “IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop”. \nDay & Time: Thursday May 4\, 2017\n1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Gayathri Srinivasan\nBusiness Development Executive\nIBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative \nLocation: Galbraith Building\, Room Number: GB202\nUniversity of Toronto\, 35 St George St\nToronto\, ON M5S 1A4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc \nRegister: Register for free at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44896 \nAbstract: The IEEE Toronto Section and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers\, technologists and students to our FIRST hands-on workshop: Watson IoT Platform hands-on. \nWorkshop agenda:\n1. Presentation: IoT Overview\n2. IBM Bluemix overview\n3. IoT Starter app using Watson IoT boilerplate on Bluemix\n4. Work with simulated devices/sensors\n5. Learn the basics of Node-Red application development environment\n6. Learn to create dashboards\n7. Real-time-insights: Use sensor value thresholds to determine actions and text alerts\n8. Use Watson APIs (Watson text to speech & Language Translation) capabilities for the alert\n9. Explore weather insights\n10. Learn to add additional nodes to the node-red environment including dashboard\n11. General Q&A \nBiography: Gaya Magie is a Business Development Executive leading the IBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative. Gaya collaborates with educational institutions world wide to help faculty and students build IoT skills leveraging IBM resources and platforms available for academia. Gaya has been with IBM since 2001 and has over 18 years of industry experience across various aspects of the business\, including development\, support\, project management\, product management\, partner relations and sales. In 1996\, Gaya received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India. Gaya pursued her higher education in the US and in 1998\, received a Master’s degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. As an IBM employee and continuing to pursue her higher education\, Gaya received her Master’s in Business Administration in Global Management.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-toronto-comsoc-watson-iot-platform-hands-on-workshop/
LOCATION:Room GB202\, 35 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170428T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170428T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
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SUMMARY:Damped AC Partial Discharge Testing for Medium Voltage Underground Cables
DESCRIPTION:Friday April 28\, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Philipp Legler will be presenting “Damped AC Partial Discharge Testing for Medium Voltage Underground Cables”. \nDay & Time: Friday April 28\, 2017\n10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Philipp Legler \nLocation: Megger\, 550 Alden Rd\nMarkham\, ON L3R 3L5\, Canada \nContact: Ali Naderian \nOrganizers: IEEE DEIS Toronto Chapter Event \nAbstract: Partial discharge (PD) measurements are increasingly used as a reliable and non-destructive diagnostic method for detecting weak spots in the insulation of underground cables. Partial discharge measurements are also routinely used in laboratories for testing cable reels prior to commissioning and in the field to verify installation quality. \nThe most important factor to consider when choosing a test frequency is that the partial discharge characteristics at the new frequency must be like those at 50/60 Hz\, otherwise the results cannot be reliably interpreted. This is especially true when measuring partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV)\, the voltage at which partial discharge first occurs. \nOver the past 10 years\, the damped alternating current (DAC) technique has been established as a very effective method for partial discharge testing. This method is one of the voltage shapes listed for PD testing in IEEE 400.3: “Guide for Partial Discharge Testing of Shielded Power Cable Systems in a Field Environment”. In this presentation\, the concept of DAC PD test will be discussed and some practical examples will be presented.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/damped-ac-partial-discharge-testing-for-medium-voltage-underground-cables/
LOCATION:Megger Limited -Canada\, 550 Alden Rd\, Markham\, ON L3R 3L5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170428T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170428T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
CREATED:20210430T012914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T211027Z
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SUMMARY:Engineering the Internet of Things – Digital Twin Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Friday April 28\, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. IEEE Toronto and SimuTech Group will be hosting the seminar “Engineering the Internet of Things – Digital Twin”. \nDay & Time: Friday April 28\, 2017\n9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Ryerson University\nGeorge Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRoom: ENG 288\n245 Church Street\nToronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3 \nCost: Free including lunch \nRegister: http://go.simutechgroup.com/ieee-iot-digital-twin-toronto \nContact: SimuTech Group – Mohsen Tayefeh\nIEEE Toronto – Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto (WIE\, Signals & Computational Intelligence\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Magnetics chapters)\, Computer Science Department of Ryerson University\, SimuTech Group (ANSYS Elite Channel partner) \nAbstract: High-tech–industry product development teams routinely use coupled multiphysics software to analyze the trade-offs among speed\, bandwidth\, signal integrity\, power integrity\, thermal performance and EMI/EMC. \nThe Internet of Things is a network of smart products\, or “things”\, that use embedded sensors\, software\, and electronics to communicate with each other over a network. The communication data can be analyzed by cloud based software to derive actionable information\, leading to predictive and prescriptive outcomes. \nIn this seminar\, the following topics will be discussed: \n– Engineering the Internet of Things\n– 5 Engineering Challenges for Smart Product Development\n– Case Study: Search and Rescue Drone-Satellite System\n– Signal Integrity/EMI/EMC\, Human body\, Federal Regulations\n– User experience – Wearable devices (Multiphysics Simulation)\n– Digital Twin – GE and ANSYS collaboration\n– Case Study: prescriptive maintenance case study\n– Lunch\n– RF Antenna placement\n– Step by step workshop – Antenna analysis\n– PCB design – Power Integrity\n– Thermal management (CFD)\n– Networking\, Door prize/draw (Drone)
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/engineering-the-internet-of-things-digital-twin-seminar/
LOCATION:George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering Room: ENG 288\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170424T153000
DTSTAMP:20260417T125527
CREATED:20210430T012914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T210922Z
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SUMMARY:SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Holistic Design in Optical Interconnects
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 24\, 2017 at 2:10 p.m. Dr. Azita Emami\, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture\, “Holistic Design in Optical Interconnects”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, April 24th\, 2017\n2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Azita Emami\nProfessor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering\nHeritage Medical Research Institute Investigator\nDeputy Chair of Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences\nCaltech \nLocation: Room B024\, Bahen Centre\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Dustin Dunwell \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto SSCS \nCost: Free for everyone. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. \nAbstract: The scalability of CMOS technology has driven computation into a diverse range of applications across the power consumption\, performance and size spectra. Today Data Center (DC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) performance is increasingly limited by interconnection bandwidth. Maintaining continued aggregate bandwidth growth without overwhelming the power budget for these large scale computing systems and data centers is paramount. The historic power efficiency gains via CMOS technology scaling for such interconnects have rolled off over the past decade\, and new low-cost approaches are necessary. In this talk a number of promising solutions including Silicon-Photonic-based interconnects that can overcome these challenges will be discussed. In particular effective co-design of electronics and photonics as a holistic approach for reducing the total power consumption and enhancing the performance of the link will be presented. \nBiography: Azita Emami received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She received her B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1996. Professor Emami joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2004 as a research staff member in the Communication Technologies Department. From Fall 2006 to Summer 2007\, she was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the city of New York. In 2007\, she joined Caltech\, where she is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering. She is a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator\, and serves as the deputy chair of division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Caltech. Her current research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems\, high-speed on-chip and chip-to-chip interconnects\, system and circuit design solutions for highly-scaled CMOS technologies\, wearable and implantable devices for neural recording\, stimulation\, and efficient drug delivery.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/sscs-distinguished-lecture-holistic-design-in-optical-interconnects/
LOCATION:Room B024\, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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SUMMARY:Regularization by Denoising (RED)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 13\, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Peyman Milanfar\, Leader of Computational Imaging team in Google Research\, will be presenting an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture\, “Regularization by Denoising (RED)”. \nDay & Time: Thursday April 13\, 2017\n10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Peyman Milanfar\nLeader of Computational Imaging team in Google Research\nVisiting Faculty at Electrical Engineering Department\, UC Santa Cruz \nLocation: University of Toronto\, Bahen Center (Room BA 5281)\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/7ick2cparLF2 \nContact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi \nOrganizers: IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Toronto Section \nAbstract: Image denoising is the most fundamental problem in image enhancement\, and it is largely solved: It has reached impressive heights in performance and quality — almost as good as it can ever get. But interestingly\, it turns out that we can solve many other problems using the image denoising “engine”. I will describe the Regularization by Denoising (RED) framework: using the denoising engine in defining the regularization of any inverse problem. The idea is to define an explicit image-adaptive regularization functional directly using a high performance denoiser. Surprisingly\, the resulting regularizer is guaranteed to be convex\, and the overall objective functional is explicit\, clear and well-defined. With complete flexibility to choose the iterative optimization procedure for minimizing this functional\, RED is capable of incorporating any image denoising algorithm as a regularizer\, treat general inverse problems very effectively\, and is guaranteed to converge to the globally optimal result. \nBiography: Peyman leads the Computational Imaging/ Image Processing team in Google Research. Prior to this\, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz from 1999-2014\, where he is now a visiting faculty. He was Associate Dean for Research at the School of Engineering from 2010-12. From 2012-2014 he was on leave at Google-x\, where he helped develop the imaging pipeline for Google Glass. Peyman received his undergraduate education in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds 11 US patents\, several of which are commercially licensed. He founded MotionDSP in 2005. He has been keynote speaker at numerous technical conferences including Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)\, SIAM Imaging Sciences\, SPIE\, and the International Conference on Multimedia (ICME). Along with his students\, he has won several best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to inverse problems and super-resolution in imaging.”
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/regularization-by-denoising-red/
LOCATION:University of Toronto\, Bahen Center (Room BA 5281)
CATEGORIES:Signal Processing
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170410T210000
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SUMMARY:Women in Robotics: Dr. Pooja Viswanathan\, Co-founder and CEO\, Braze Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Pooja Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO of Braze Mobility Inc. Dr. Viswanathan has a PhD in Robotics and Assistive Technology\, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and the AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence\, and is an Ontario Brain Institute Entrepreneur. Dr. Viswanathan is a passionate and accomplished innovator and still makes time for mentorship and education of the next generation of young innovators. \nClick here for more information.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-robotics-dr-pooja-viswanathan-co-founder-and-ceo-braze-mobility/
LOCATION:263 McCaul Street\, Room 120\, Health Innovation Hub
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170331T153000
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SUMMARY:Engineering Skills Gaps: “Jobs without people” and “people without jobs”
DESCRIPTION:Friday March 31\, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Farzad Rayegani\, Associate Dean\, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology\, will be presenting “Engineering Skills Gaps: ‘Jobs without people’ and ‘people without jobs’”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, March 31st\, 2017\n2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Farzad Rayegani\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng.\, FEC.\nAssociate Dean\, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology \nLocation: Room ENG 288\nGeorge Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, Ryerson University\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University \nBiography: Farzad Rayegani is credited with developing an applied research program involving students\, graduates and faculty mentors to address technological and educational needs of the Halton and Peel regions. Over the past 10 years\, he has been simultaneously partnering with SME enterprises on product and process innovation projects while developing an applied research program involving students\, graduates and faculty mentors to examine issues of product development / refinement\, process automation\, systems integration and manufacturing management. In the past year\, this work has been bolstered by a range of successful\, high-profile\, federally funded projects with companies in both regions. \nUnder his leadership\, through the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT)\, Sheridan has been reaching out to a significant number of manufacturers in Brampton\, Mississauga and Oakville\, particularly small and medium enterprises\, to support adoption and integration of efficient manufacturing practices and product innovation performance and improvements. CAMDT now supports over a dozen local and regional SMEs who are struggling with limited availability of technological\, human\, financial\, and management resources. \nUnder his leadership\, Sheridan College recently become a member of the CDIO Initiative – a worldwide movement to restore the balance between teaching practice skills and the fundamentals of math and science to engineering students. What started as a partnership between MIT and a few Swedish universities in 2001 has gained significant international momentum\, with 103 institutions adopting the model. Sheridan is the fifth Canadian institution and the first college in the world to be accepted. \nAs a CDIO collaborator\, Farzad is seeking to develop a new curriculum structure based on a new philosophy for engineering education. The framework educates students to Conceive\, Design\, Implement and Operate complex\, value-added engineering products\, processes and systems in a modern\, team-based\, global environment. He aims to develop a curriculum rich in project-based\, hands-on learning\, producing engineers who are “ready to engineer” when they graduate. \nFarzad is ASME chair on additive manufacturing. As the committee chair\, he will be leading the launch of ASME’s inaugural additive manufacturing challenge designed to give mechanical and multi-disciplinary undergraduate students around the world an opportunity to re-engineer existing products or create new designs that minimize energy consumption and/or improve energy efficiency. As chair\, he will also be collaborating with ME department heads to develop educational material on behalf of ASME to benefit the educators and students. \nFarzad was recently designated an Engineers Canada Fellow by Engineers Canada. This prestigious award is presented in recognition of exceptional contributions to the engineering profession in Canada. \nFarzad has been a full-time professor in Sheridan’s Faculty of Applied Science and Technology since 2004. Currently\, he is the associate dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering & Technology and director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT).
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/engineering-skills-gaps-jobs-without-people-and-people-without-jobs/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170328T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170328T143000
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SUMMARY:Navigation Sensors and Systems in GNSS Degraded and Denied Environments (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About GPS)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 28\, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. George T. Schmidt\, IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer & Board of Governors\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture\, “Navigation Sensors and Systems in GNSS Degraded and Denied Environments (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About GPS)”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, March 28th\, 2017\n1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. \nSpeaker: George T. Schmidt\nEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer & Board of Governors\nIEEE Life Fellow\, AIAA Fellow \nLocation: Room EPH 207\, Eric Palin Hall\, Ryerson University\n87 Gerrard Street East\, Toronto \nContact: Kyarash Shahriari \nOrganizers: AESS Toronto Chapter \nRegister: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/44109 \nAbstract: Position\, velocity\, and timing (PVT) signals from various Global Navigation Systems (GNSS) are used throughout the World. However\, the availability and reliability of these signals in all environments has become a subject of concern for both civilian and military applications. Most of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors for the US economy\, security\, and health are dependent on GPS signals. More than 90% of the US military guided weapons use GPS. Accuracy and other planned improvements for GPS are explained as well as technology approaches for increasing system robustness. International news reports about a successful GPS spoofing attack on a civilian UAV in the USA have only increased concerns over the planned use of UAVs in the national airspace and safety of flight in general. Other examples of the effects of GPS interference and jamming are illustrated in this presentation. This is a particularly difficult problem that requires new and innovative ideas to fill the PVT gap when the data are degraded or unavailable. One solution is to use inertial and/or other sensors to bridge the gap in navigation information and maintain world-wide navigation capability. This presentation summarizes with examples four different methods for combining GPS and other systems to achieve mission success when GPS becomes unavailable. \nBiography: George T. Schmidt is an IEEE Life Fellow. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS). He is also a Distinguished Lecturer for that society. \nHe was the Director of several recent NATO Research and Technology Organization Lecture Series related to Navigation Sensors and Systems in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Degraded and Denied Environments. \nIn 2013 he completed 17 years of service as Editor-in-Chief of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal of Guidance\, Control\, and Dynamics. He was responsible for managing the peer review of more than 6500 submitted papers. He is an AIAA Fellow. \nFrom 1961 through 2007\, he was at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Draper Laboratory\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts. His final position was as the Draper Director of Education. Prior to that position he was the Leader of the Guidance and Navigation Division and Director of the Draper Guidance Technology Center. \nFor many years he was a Lecturer in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT\, retiring in 2010. \nHe has received several awards including the AIAA International Cooperation Award in 2001 and the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s highest technical award\, the von Kármán Medal in 2005. \nHe is author or contributing author of more than 100 technical papers\, reports\, encyclopedia articles\, and books. He received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and his Sc.D. in Instrumentation from MIT.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/navigation-sensors-and-systems-in-gnss-degraded-and-denied-environments-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-gps/
LOCATION:Room EPH 207\, Eric Palin Hall\, Ryerson University 87 Gerrard Street East\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Aerospace & Electronic Systems
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