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SUMMARY:Semi-automated Genome Annotation and an Expanded Epigenetic Alphabet
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 11th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Michael Hoffman\, Principal Investigator at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics\, University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Semi-automated genome annotation and an expanded epigenetic alphabet”. \nSpeaker: Michael Hoffman\nPrincipal Investigator at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre\nAssistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics\, University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Thursday\, February 11\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4\nPlease check before the seminar \nContact: llivi@scs.ryerson.ca \nAbstract: First\, we will discuss Segway\, an integrative method to identify patterns from multiple functional genomics experiments\, discovering joint patterns across different assay types. We apply Segway to ENCODE ChIP-seq andDNase-seq data and identify patterns associated with transcription start sites\, gene ends\, enhancers\, CTCF elements\, and repressed regions. Segway yields a model which elucidates the relationship between assay observations and functional elements in the genome. \nSecond\, we will discuss a new method to discover transcription factor motifs and identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA with covalent modifications such as methylation. Just as transcription factors distinguish one standard nucleobase from another\, they also distinguish unmodified and modified bases. To represent the modified bases in a sequence\, we replace cytosine (C) with symbols for 5-methylcytosine (5mC)\, 5-hydroxylmethylcytosine (5hmC)\, 5-formylcytosine (5fC). Similarly\, we adapted the well-established position weight matrix model of transcription factor binding affinity to an expanded alphabet. We created an expanded-alphabet genome sequence using genome-wide maps of 5mC\, 5hmC\, and 5fC in mouse embryonic stem cells. Using this sequence and expanded-alphabet position weight matrixes\, we reproduced various known methylation binding preferences\, including the preference of ZFP57 and C/EBPβ for methylated motifs and the preference of c-Myc for unmethylated motifs. Using these known binding preferences to tune model parameters enables discovery of novel modified motifs. \nBiography: Michael Hoffman is a principal investigator at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science\, University of Toronto. He researches the application of machine learning techniques to epigenomic data. He previously led the National Institutes of Health ENCODE Project’s large-scale integration task group while at the University of Washington. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge\, where he conducted computational genomics studies at the European Bioinformatics Institute. He also has a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin. He was named a Genome Technology Young Investigator and has received several awards for his academic work\, including a NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/semi-automated-genome-annotation-and-an-expanded-epigenetic-alphabet/
LOCATION:Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\, Ryerson University\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Signals & Computational Intelligence
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SUMMARY:Agile Methodologies in the Enterprise
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 4th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Salah Sharieh\, Senior Technical Innovator\, will be presenting “Agile Methodologies in the Enterprise”. \nSpeaker: Salah Sharieh\nSenior Technical Innovator\nDoctor of Philosophy\, McMaster University \nDay & Time: Thursday\, February 4\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: The only constant is change and technology is changing very fast. To build an enterprise software is inherently complex and lengthy with a need for flexibility to adjust to the changing needs of customers and market conditions. Agile methodologies are often presented as the solution for these problems. \nAdopting a new concept often proves harder than it seems at first but having the right people with the right tools to support the change can make it easier. Introducing Agile into large organization has advantages and disadvantages such as accelerating delivery and shortening the feedback cycle. On the other hand\, these types of methodologies have higher dependency on people skills rather than processes which makes it harder to achieve the desired value. \nAfter further analysis\, it appears that only some parts of agile methodologies work well. In this topic\, we will talk about the challenges that CIOs face with adapting agile methods and what can be done to increase the likely hood of useful adoption and implementation in large organizations. In addition\, we will talk about vendors’ role in agile projects and how they might contribute to the failure or the success of a project. Finally\, we will compare and contrast Agile with iterative approaches. \nBiography: Dr. Salah Sharieh is a Senior Technical Innovator with extensive experience in business and technology. He has developed his business savvy through working with Fortune 500 companies. Salah also holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from McMaster University. He has more than twenty peer reviewed publications and has contributed to several books. He also is a technical reviewer for several journals and conferences and is a member of the CIO association of Canada. Recently Salah led the National Occupation Standards for Cyber Security.\nIn the last 20 years\, Salah Sharieh founded several companies\, some of which were later acquired by larger organizations. He has delivered high profile solutions and provided vision and leadership to several industries including financial\, telecommunication\, manufacturing\, and the public sector. Under Salah’s leadership\, start-up companies evolved from concept to companies providing products and solutions for businesses across Canada\, the United States\, and Europe.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/agile-methodologies-in-the-enterprise/
LOCATION:Room LG04\, Ryerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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SUMMARY:IBM Internet of Things Point of View and Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 28\, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. Jim Caldwell\, Director of IBM Internet of Things\, Continuous Engineering Solutions Development\, will be presenting “IBM Internet of Things Point of View and Strategy”. \nSpeaker: Jim Caldwell\nDirector\, IBM Internet of Things\, Continuous Engineering Solutions Development \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 28\, 2016\n6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room VIC608\nVictoria Building\, Ryerson University\n285 Victoria Street\, Toronto\nMap: http://www.ryerson.ca/maps \nContact: d.cecic@ieee.org \nAbstract: The Internet of Things is predicted to have an economic impact of more than $11 Trillion per year by 2025. It has become a focus of discussion by technologists\, the business press and the general public. Clearly something is happening but what? And what should businesses and institutions do about it? This presentation will survey the topic from IBM’s perspective. We will discuss what the Internet of Things is. We will also discuss IBM’s point of view and strategy\, some examples of offerings and client engagements. Finally\, we will conclude with some key questions and research challenges. \nBiography: As Director\, IBM Internet of Things\, Continuous Engineering Solutions Development\, Mr. Caldwell is responsible for the development of a set of software tools and solutions used in the design and development of “things”. This includes motor vehicles\, aircraft and electronic devices. He is also a member of the leadership team for IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management toolset used in the design and development of large software systems industry wide. \nPreviously\, as Director of Software Group (SWG) Technical Strategy\, Mr. Caldwell was responsible for working across SWG to continually update and communicate the SWG technical strategy. This included working with SWG divisional leaders (technical and business) on key elements of strategy and cross IBM initiatives. It also included selection\, development and delivery of incubator programs and joint programs with IBM research. \nPrior to that\, Mr. Caldwell served as Director of WebSphere Application Infrastructure Product Management where he was responsible for business management of the infrastructure portion of IBM’s WebSphere portfolio of e-business products. This included WebSphere Application Server\, WebSphere Commerce Server\, WebSphere Voice Server and Embedded ViaVoice. He drove business decisions across all disciplines within these groups including development\, services\, business development\, and marketing. \nIn his more than 25 years at IBM\, Mr. Caldwell has held technical\, managerial and executive roles in IBM’s software businesses including Director\, WebSphere Commerce Development in which he helped grow IBM’s Commerce offering from an incubator activity to the market leader. Mr. Caldwell is a Mathematics graduate from the University of Waterloo and is currently based in IBM’s Toronto Software Laboratory.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ibm-internet-of-things-point-of-view-and-strategy/
LOCATION:Room VIC608\, Victoria Building\, Ryerson University\, 285 Victoria Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Computer
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SUMMARY:Imaging Tissue and Treating Cancer with Microwaves
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 28\, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. Professor Susan Hagness\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, will be presenting “Imaging Tissue and Treating Cancer with Microwaves”. \nSpeaker: Professor Susan Hagness\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 28\, 2016\n3:00 p.m. \nLocation: Sandford Fleming Building\, 10 King’s College Rd\nRoom SF1105 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter \nContact: Costas D. Sarris \nAbstract: The endogenous (and possibly exogenously influenced) dielectric properties of tissue at microwave frequencies vary across different tissue types and physiological states. These properties may be exploited to differentiate tissues via low-power microwave imaging and to selectively heat diseased tissue at higher power levels. This presentation will highlight recent theoretical and experimental advances in low-cost microwave theranostics – that is\, diagnostic and therapeutic microwave-based technologies – with an emphasis on breast imaging and targeted cancer treatment. On the diagnostic side\, 3-D quantitative microwave imaging technology has the potential to address several important clinical needs in breast imaging\, including evaluating breast density as part of a patient’s individualized risk assessment\, screening women who are at higher risk for cancer\, and monitoring changes in breast tissue in response to prevention and treatment protocols. On the therapeutic side\, minimally invasive microwave ablation using miniaturized antennas as interstitial heating probes is emerging as a less invasive alternative to surgical resection and more effective and versatile alternative to conventional thermoablative techniques for the treatment of primary tumors. \nBiography: Susan C. Hagness received the B.S. degree with highest honors and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1993 and 1998\, respectively. Since 1998\, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where she currently holds the title of Philip D. Reed Professor and serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Hagness was the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) presented by the U.S. White House in 2000. In 2002\, she was named one of the 100 top young innovators in science and engineering in the world by the MIT Technology Review magazine. She is also the recipient of the UW-Madison Emil Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award (2003)\, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award (2004)\, the URSI Isaac Koga Gold Medal (2005)\, the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Paper Award (2007)\, the IEEE Education Society Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award (2007)\, the UW System Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award (2009)\, the Physics in Medicine and Biology Citations Prize (2011)\, the UW-Madison Kellett Mid- Career Award (2011)\, and the UW-Madison College of Engineering Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching Engineers (2014). She was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2009. She has held numerous leadership positions within the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and the United States National Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). She was the Technical Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Chicago\, IL\, and most recently completed a term as Chair of the IEEE AP-S Fellows Evaluation Committee.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/imaging-tissue-and-treating-cancer-with-microwaves/
LOCATION:Sandford Fleming Building\, 10 King’s College Rd Room\, SF1105
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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SUMMARY:The Art of Successful Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 28th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Alex. Ferworn\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director at Ryerson University\, will be presenting “The Art of Successful Presentation”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alex Ferworn\nAssociate Chair and Graduate Programs Director\, Ryerson University\nDirector\, Program in Disaster and Emergency Management \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 28\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: The fear of needles (trypanophobia) is the 20th most prevalent phobia. The fear of public speaking (glossophobia) is ranked at 13th. Does this mean that some people would rather be stuck with needles than make a public presentation? Based on the experience of Prof. Ferworn\, this may be true. Some fear of making a presentation can be mitigated by knowing what to do. In this presentation\, Prof. Ferworn will discuss how to make a successful presentation by providing simple guidelines so that no one must stick themselves with needles in order to feel better about talking publicly. \nBiography: Prof. Ferworn received his PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo\, his MSc in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph and his B.Tech in Applied Computer Science from Ryerson University\, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director. He is also Director of a number of Certificate programs including the Program in Disaster and Emergency Management. Ferworn is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Computing and Software\, Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. Prof. Ferworn has been collaborating with the USAR and CBRNe Response Team (UCRT) of the Ontario Provincial Police since 2005. He has worked extensively with USAR teams in Canada and the United States on a broad range of technology issues related to Computational Public Safety. He does not own a dog.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/the-art-of-successful-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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SUMMARY:Linearization Techniques for Push-Pull Amplifiers
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 28\, 2016 at 11:10 a.m. Dr. Rinaldo Castello\, IEEE Fellow\, will be presenting “Linearization Techniques for Push-Pull Amplifiers”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Rinaldo Castello\nIEEE Fellow\nUniversity of Pavia\, Italy \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 28\, 2016\n11:10 a.m. \nLocation: University of Toronto\, Bahen Centre\, Room BA1230 \nOrganizer: Solid-State Circuits Society \nContact: Dustin Dunwell \nAbstract: Amplifiers that need to drive heavy loads (low resistances and/or large capacitances) or to handle high current signals with good efficiency generally use a push-pull output stage. This intrinsically creates large open-loop distortion components that need to be compressed through feedback to insure high closed-loop linearity. Minimizing close loop residual distortion involves three steps that will be discussed. First\, eliminate all open-loop source of distortion not intrinsic to the proper operation of the push pull structure. Second\, choose the amplifier topology that gives the maximum close loop compression of the open-loop distortion components for a given bandwidth. Third\, maximize the open-loop gain in the signal band and/or the unity gain bandwidth of the amplifier for a given topology while insuring stability in the presence of variable loads. \nBiography: Rinaldo Castello (S’78–M’78–SM’92–F’99) graduated from the University of Genova (summa cum laude) in 1977 and received the M.S. and the Ph. D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, in ‘81 and ‘84. From ‘83 to ‘85 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley. In 1987 he joined the University of Pavia where he is now a Full Professor. He consulted for ST-Microelectronics\, Milan\, Italy up to 2005 in ‘98 he started a joint research centre between the University of Pavia and ST and was its Scientific Director up to ‘05. He promoted the establishing of several design centre from multinational IC companies in the Pavia area among them Marvell for which he has been consulting from 2005. Rinaldo Castello has been a member of the TPC of the European Solid State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC) since 1987 and of the International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) from ‘92 to ‘04. He was Technical Chairman of ESSCIRC ’91 and General Chairman of ESSCIRC ‘02\, Associate Editor for Europe of the IEEE J. of Solid-State Circ. from ’94 to ’96 and Guest Editor of the July ’92 special issue. From 2000 to 2007 he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society. Prof Castello was named one of the outstanding contributors for the first 50 and 60 years of ISSCC and a co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2005 Symposium on VLSI of the Best Invited Paper Award at the 2011 CICC and of the Best Evening Panel Award at ISSCC 2012. He was one of the two European representatives at the Plenary Distinguished Panel of ISSCC 2013 and the Summer 2014 Issue of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Magazine was devoted to him. Rinaldo Castello is a Fellow of the IEEE.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/linearization-techniques-for-push-pull-amplifiers/
LOCATION:University of Toronto\, Bahen Centre\, Room BA1230
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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SUMMARY:The Wonderful World of Nonlinearity: Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Circuits
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 18\, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Jose C. Pedro\, Professor at the University of Aveiro\, will be presenting a Distinguished Microwave Lecture\, on “The Wonderful World of Nonlinearity: Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Circuits”. \nSpeaker: Jose C. Pedro\nUniversity of Aveiro \nDay & Time: Monday\, January 18\, 2016\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room GB405\, Galbraith Building\n35 St. George Street\, Toronto\, M5S 1A4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter \nContact: George V. Eleftheriades \nAbstract: Despite the many studies that have been undertaken to understand the wonderful world of nonlinearity\, most undergraduate electrical engineering programs are still confined to linear analysis and design tools. As a result\, the vast majority of microwave designers still cannot profit from the significant technological advancements that have been made in nonlinear circuit simulation\, active device modeling and new instrumentation for performance verification. So\, they tend to conduct their designs relying on experience\, empirical concepts\, and many trial and error iterations in the lab.\nThis talk will reveal the ubiquitous presence of nonlinearity in all RF and microwave circuits and the recent efforts made to understand\, model\, predict\, and measure its diverse manifestations. We aim to bring microwave engineers’ attention to newly available techniques\, and attract researchers to pursue further studies on this scientifically exciting topic.\nStarting with some elementary properties of nonlinear circuits (like nonlinear signal distortion\, harmonic generation\, frequency conversion and spectral regrowth)\, we will show that nonlinearity is present in all wireless circuits\, either to perform a desired signal operation or as unintentional distortion. In this way\, we will show how oscillators\, modulators or mixers could not exist without nonlinearity\, while power-amplifier designers struggle to get rid of its distortion effects.\nAfter this theoretical overview\, we will introduce some recent advancements in nonlinear microwave circuit analysis tools and illustrate different types of models that are currently being used to represent and predict device\, circuit\, and system performance. Finally\, we will focus the talk on the key metrics that are used to characterize nonlinear behavior\, as well as newly developed lab instruments and their ability to assess device performance. \nBiography: José C. Pedro received the diploma\, doctoral and habilitation degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering\, from University of Aveiro\, Portugal\, in 1985\, 1993 and 2002\, respectively.\nFrom 1985 to 1993 he was an Assistant Lecturer at University of Aveiro\, and a Professor since 1993. Currently he is a Full Professor at the same University\, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Telecommunications.\nHis main scientific interests include active device modeling and the analysis and design of various nonlinear microwave circuits\, in particular\, the design of highly linear multi-carrier power amplifiers and mixers. He is the leading author of Intermodulation Distortion in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House\, 2003)\, has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in international journals and symposia\, and served the IEEE in the Portuguese MTT/AP/ED Joint Chapter\, the MTT-11 Technical Committee and as a reviewer and Associate Editor for the MTT Transactions and reviewer for the MTT-IMS and the EuMC.\nProf. Pedro has served his university department as the Coordinator of the Scientific Council and as the Department Head.\nProf. Pedro received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1993 and the 2000 Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Measurement Prize. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the nonlinear distortion analysis of microwave devices and circuits. Currently\, he is an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/the-wonderful-world-of-nonlinearity-modeling-and-characterization-of-rf-and-microwave-circuits/
LOCATION:Room GB405\, Galbraith Building\, 35 St. George Street\, Toronto\, M5S 1A4
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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SUMMARY:Applications of Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces in Designing Microwave Lenses\, Reflectarrays\, and Polarization Converters
DESCRIPTION:Friday December 11\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Prof. Nader Behdad of University of Wisconsin – Madison\, will be presenting “Applications of Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces in Designing Microwave Lenses\, Reflectarrays\, and Polarization Converters”. \nSpeaker: Prof. Nader Behdad\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \nDay & Time: Friday\, December 11\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA1210\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter \nContact: Sean Victor Hum \nAbstract: Over the past several years\, we have conducted research on a class of frequency selective surfaces with building blocks that consist of cascaded arrays of non-resonant\, sub-wavelength periodic structures. Due to the small lateral dimensions and thicknesses of their unit cells\, these structures are referred to as miniaturized-element frequency selective surfaces (MEFSSs). As spatial filters\, MEFSSs can be designed to provide a wide range of response types with arbitrary levels of selectivity. MEFSSs capable of operating at extremely high incident power levels have also been developed and experimentally demonstrated for operation as spatial filters in HPM systems. Finally\, MEFSSs having suppressed harmonics over extremely broad bandwidths have been developed for reduction of radar signatures of antennas and other objects. \nIn addition to acting as spatial filters\, the building blocks of MEFSSs can be used to serve other purposes as well. For example\, by using the unit cells of a band-pass or a low-pass MEFSS as a spatial phase shifter or a spatial time-delay unit (TDU)\, wideband\, true-time-delay lenses and reflectarrays may be designed. By using anisotropic versions of these spatial TDUs\, wideband linear-to-circular polarization converters or polarization selective surfaces can be designed. In this presentation\, I will first briefly discuss the principles of operation of MEFSSs and present examples of spatial filters developed for different applications. Subsequently\, I will discuss three specific applications where the unit cells of MEFSSs are used as transmissive or reflective time-delay units. These include the development of wideband true-time-delay microwave lenses and reflectarrays as well as broadband linear-to-circular polarization converters designed using anisotropic time delay units. \nBiography: Nader Behdad received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran\, Iran) in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor\, MI\, U.S.A.) in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Central Florida\, Orlando\, FL\, USA\, from 2006 to 2008\, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Wisconsin–Madison\, Madison\, WI\, USA\, from 2009 to 2013\, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research expertise is in the area of applied electromagnetics with emphasis on electrically-small antennas\, antenna arrays\, antennas for biomedical applications\, biomedical applications of RF/microwaves\, periodic structures\, frequency selective surfaces\, passive high-power microwave devices\, metamaterials\, and biomimetics and biologically inspired systems in electromagnetics. \nProf. Behdad was a recipient of the IEEE R. W. P. King Prize Paper Award in 2014\, the IEEE Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award in 2012\, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2011\, the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2011\, and the Young Investigator Award from the United States Office of Naval Research in 2011. He received the Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellowship in 2009\, the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2008\, the Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 2005-2006\, the best paper awards in the Antenna Applications Symposium in Sep. 2003\, and the second prize in the paper competition of the USNC/ URSI National Radio Science Meeting\, Boulder\, CO\, in January 2004. His graduate students were the recipients of the ten different awards/recognitions at the IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science in 2013\, IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in 2010\, 2012\, 2013\, and 2014\, and the Antenna Applications Symposium in 2008\, 2010\, and 2011. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and served as the co-chair of the technical program committee of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/applications-of-miniaturized-element-frequency-selective-surfaces-in-designing-microwave-lenses-reflectarrays-and-polarization-converters/
LOCATION:Room BA1210\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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SUMMARY:Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Cluster Assessment in Square and Rectangular Relational Data
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 7\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Professor Emeritus James Bezdek will be presenting “Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Cluster Assessment in Square and Rectangular Relational Data”. \nSpeaker: Emeritus James Bezdek\nPast President of NAFIPS\, IFSA and the IEEE CIS \nDay & Time: Monday\, December 7\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room 1180\nBahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter\nDistinguished Lecturer Program \nContact: Lorenzo Livi\, Email:llivi@scs.ryerson.ca \nAbstract: The VAT/iVAT\, algorithms are the parents of a large family of visual assessment models. \nPart 1. Definitions of the three canonical problems of cluster analysis: tendency assessment\, clustering\, and cluster validity. History of Visual Clustering. Applications: role-based compliance assessment\, eldercare time series data\, and anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks. \nPart 2. Extension to siVAT\, scalable iVAT for big data. This is the basis of clusiVAT and clusiVAT+ for clustering in big data (Topic 4 below). Application: image segmentation. Extension to coiVAT for assessment of co-clustering tendency in the four clustering problems associated with rectangular relational data. Application: response of 18 Fetal Bovine Serum Treatments to the treatment of fibroblasts in gene expression data. \nBiography: Jim received the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1973. Jim is past president of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society)\, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) and the IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society): founding editor the Int’l. Jo. Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Life fellow of the IEEE and IFSA; and a recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium\, IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer\, and IEEE technical field award Rosenblatt medals. Jim’s interests: woodworking\, optimization\, motorcycles\, pattern recognition\, cigars\, clustering in very large data\, fishing\, co-clustering\, blues music\, wireless sensor networks\, poker and visual clustering. And of course\, clustering in big data. Jim retired in 2007\, and will be coming to a university near you soon.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/every-picture-tells-a-story-visual-cluster-assessment-in-square-and-rectangular-relational-data/
LOCATION:Room 1180\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T092414
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SUMMARY:Connected Cars for Smart Cities
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 7\, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. Shahrokh Valaee\, Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Connected Cars for Smart Cities”. \nSpeaker: Shahrokh Valaee\nProfessor\, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies\nEdward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Toronto \nDay & Time: Monday\, December 7\, 2015\n12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\nGeorge Vari Center for Engineering & Computing\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: Recently we are witnessing the emergence of situation-aware vehicles\, equipped with plurality of sensors that can help driver with vehicle control and maneuvering. Cars that can park themselves\, provide lane-departure warning\, and monitor the driver alertness are marketed with affordable prices. The sensing and processing power of cars are increasing\, enabling various safety-enhancing features\, such as blind-spot warning\, adaptive headlights\, adaptive cruise control\, and so on. In this talk\, we will discuss the next steps for autonomous vehicles. In particular\, we will project the path forward by transitioning from autonomous cars to cognitive and intelligent vehicles. Future cars will be enabled with car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication capabilities. We will review such enhancement and will focus on two recent research directives that will make future cars intelligent. The two enablers are compressive sensing and network coding. We will show that cooperative compressive sensing can reduce the wireless channel congestion\, which is the main challenge in dense vehicular networks. To discuss the communications aspects of vehicular networks\, we will introduce a repetition-based medium access control method using positive orthogonal codes\, and then propose an opportunistic network-coding scheme to enhance the reliability of communication. We will finally discuss some open research issues. \nBiography: Shahrokh Valaee is with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, where he is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He is the Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee recently served as the TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015. He was the Track Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014\, the TPC Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011\, and the Co-Chair for Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006. From December 2010 to December 2012\, he was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Currently\, he serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Since Feb 2015 he has been an Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Science. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/connected-cars-for-smart-cities/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T092414
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SUMMARY:A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.! POVAR and other examples of the Internet of Truth and Integrity for Consumer Electronics: See the invisible waves that see you!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday December 2\, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Steve Mann\, University of Toronto Professor and Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman’s School of Management\, will be presenting “A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.! POVAR and other examples of the Internet of Truth and Integrity for Consumer Electronics: See the invisible waves that see you!”. \nSpeaker: Steve Mann\nProfessor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments\nUniversity of Toronto\nChief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab\nRotman’s School of Management \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, December 2\, 2015\n6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room WI1017\, Wilson Hall – New College\n40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S\nBuilding Map Link \nRegistration: Please register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-is-a-half-truth-without-hi-povar-and-other-examples-of-the-internet-of-truth-and-integrity-for-tickets-19671375614 \nContact: nabavi@ieee.org \nTo read the full presentation abstract see: http://wearcam.org/ConsumerElectronicsDec02.htm \nFor more details on the guest speaker see: http://wearcam.org/bio.htm \nAbstract: Today’s technological advancements in Artifical Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things That Think (IoT and TTT) are rapidly changing the way consumers interact with technology. Gone are the days of open source and open box consumer electronics and in their place we are left with proprietary devices that are difficult to understand and copy. Steve suggests there are two major problems with this new technological way: (1) discouragement of the scientific method and (2) increased personal risk. These problems have led to a world where humans don’t realize the risks they face as they are unable to understand the fundamentals of their technology. Join us as Steve introduces a number of new concepts that will shed light on the technology we use in daily life. \nBiography: Steve Mann is widely regarded for his work on computation photography\, particularly for wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. As an inventor and visionary\, his work established Toronto as the world’s epicenter of wearable technologies in the 1980s and led him to found MIT Media Lab’s Wearable Computing project. Steve received his PhD from MIT in 1997 and then returned to Toronto in 1998 where he is now a tenured full professor at the University of Toronto in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. During his early years at University of Toronto\, he created the world’s first Mobile Apps Lab (1999) as a part of his wearable computing and AR course. He is also the Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman’s School of Management. Mann holds multiple patents\, and has contributed to the founding of numerous companies including InteraXON\, makers of Muse.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/a-i-is-a-half-truth-without-h-i-povar-and-other-examples-of-the-internet-of-truth-and-integrity-for-consumer-electronics-see-the-invisible-waves-that-see-you/
LOCATION:Room WI1017\, Wilson Hall – New College (40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto)
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151125T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151125T140000
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SUMMARY:Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 25\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Srikanth will be presenting “Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Srikanth\nCKO\, Nanocell Networks\nAU-KBC Research Centre\, MIT Campus\, Chennai\, India\nRyerson Communications Lab \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, November 25\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 460\n245 Church St.\, Ryerson University\, Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: The use of unlicensed bands by operators has been looming for quite some time with no clear approaches prevalent across the globe. Wi-Fi technologies have been thought of as the only way for operators to use unlicensed band due to its popularity in devices. Recently\, many companies have evinced interested in standardizing LTE-technologies in the unlicensed bands as this can solve the teething problems with respect to using Wi-Fi based technologies. The reaction from the Wi-Fi camp has been a challenge as it views LTE-unlicensed solutions as disruption to their business. The carrier community prefers LTE-unlicensed solutions as it gives them better control over operations in unlicensed band apart from better performance. In this course\, we shall introduce the various unlicensed options available to carriers and others. Topics to be covered: \n• Why unlicensed bands for service providers\n• Wi-Fi\, its evolution and its role including Wi-Fi calling\n• LTE in unlicensed bands – motivation\n• LTE-U; key points\n• 3GPP LAA; key approaches and status\n• 3GPP LWA; LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation\n• Qualcomm MuLTEfire \nBiography: Srikanth obtained his B.E.\, degree from College of Engineering\, Anna University\, Chennai\, and MASc and PhD degrees from University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, Canada. \nHe worked as a scientist at the KBC Research Foundation/AU-KBC Research Centre\, in Chennai\, India and most of his work is focused on OFDM based technologies. From 2004-2007 he was awarded a Young Scientist Fellowship by the Government of India to work on technologies related to upgrades on 802.11 and 802.16 standards. He has closely monitored the progress of the 802.11 and 802.16 standards and is familiar with the various proposals which were submitted for consideration for the 802.11n extension. He is currently the chief knowledge officer of nanocell networks and is also a consultant to Airtight Networks while being a visiting faculty at MIT\, Chennai. He is a co-investigator of a research project funded by Govt. of India with faculty from IIT\, Chennai and IIT\, Mumbai \nSrikanth began his career as a research associate at the University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, \nCanada working in the area of DSL and CDMA Systems. After this Ph. D.\, he joined Harris Corporation and worked on baseband algorithms for various wireless standards including IS-136 and 1S-95 systems. He has consulted on various areas of OFDM systems and has also been involved in the setting up of a test lab for 802.11. He has 3 US patents issued in the area of \nWLANs\, OFDM\, and OFDMA systems. Srikanth trains global teams of corporates on the latest WLAN\, cellular standards\, and IOT. He has also been involved in the IEEE WCET course book preparation.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/free-spectrum-unlicensed-options/
LOCATION:Room ENG 460\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151123T150000
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Medical Devices for Affordable Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 23\, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Professor Dinesh Kumar\, RMIT University of Melbourne\, Australia will be presenting “Intelligent Medical Devices for Affordable Healthcare”. \nSpeaker: Professor Dinesh Kumar\nRMIT University\nMelbourne\, Australia \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 23\, 2015\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church Street\nToronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Signal Processing Chapter \nContact: Sri Kirshnan\, Email:krishnan@ryerson.ca \nAbstract: Technology is giving us longer and healthier lives. However\, this comes at the cost\, both\, in terms of the research\, infrastructure\, and the cost of running the devices. Often\, this makes many of these technologies only suitable for the wealthy societies.\nProf Kumar will share his vision for devices and technologies for affordable healthcare. He will count the real cost of the devices\, and suggest methods for making these more affordable without compromising the efficacy in improving the health outcomes. While automatic devices are often considered the demand of the wealthy\, Kumar will show that these intelligent devices are the necessity for remote communities. \nBiography: Dr. Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia. Dr. Kumar did his B.E (Hons) and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)\, Chennai and Delhi and has been researching in the field of developing affordable medical devices for 20 years. Dr. Kumar has been working towards developing intelligent devices and techniques that facilitate the user for early detection of disease\, perform risk assessment of disease and provide assistive technologies for people who are frail or disabled. He has published over 350 refereed publications and his work has been cited over 5000 times.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/intelligent-medical-devices-for-affordable-healthcare/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Signal Processing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T140000
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SUMMARY:Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 19\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Mohammad Norouzi\, PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search”. \nSpeaker: Mohammad Norouzi\nPhD Candidate \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 19\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church Street\nToronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour\, Email:maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Scalable similarity search on images\, documents\, and user activities benefits generic search\, data visualization\, and recommendation systems. This talk concerns the design of algorithms and machine learning tools for faster and more accurate similarity search. The proposed techniques advocate the use of discrete codes for representing the similarity structure of data in a compact way. In particular\, I will discuss how one can learn to map high-dimensional data onto binary codes with a metric learning approach. Then\, I will describe a simple algorithm for fast exact nearest neighbour search in Hamming distance\, which exhibits sub-linear query time performance. Going beyond binary codes\, I will highlight a compositional generalization of k-means clustering which maps data points onto integer codes with storage and search costs that grow sub-linearly in the number of cluster centers. This representation improves upon binary codes\, and provides an even more precise approximation of Euclidean distance. Experimental results are reported on multiple datasets including a dataset of SIFT descriptors with 1B entries. \nBiography: Mohammad Norouzi is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and computer vision. He is a recipient of a Google US/Canada PhD fellowship in machine learning. He is going to join Google as a research scientist in January 2016.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/compact-discrete-representations-for-scalable-similarity-search/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151117T170000
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SUMMARY:Novel Single-Source Integral Equation for Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering Problems on Penetrable Objects
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday November 17\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Vladimir Okhmatovski\, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba\, will be presenting “Novel Single-Source Integral Equation for Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering Problems on Penetrable Objects”. \nSpeaker: Vladimir Okhmatovski\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, November 17\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA1210\nBahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\nM5S2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter \nContact: Costas D. Sarris\, Email:costas.sarris@utoronto.ca \nAbstract: A new Surface–Volume–Surface Electric Field Integral Equation (SVS-EFIE) is discussed. The SVS-EFIE is derived from the volume integral equation by representing the electric field inside the scatterer as a superposition of the waves emanating from its cross section’s boundary. The SVS-EFIE has several advantages. While being rigorous in nature\, it features half of the degrees of freedom compared to the traditional surface integral equation formulations such as PMCHWT and it requires only electric-field-type of Green’s function instead ofboth electric and magnetic field types. The latter property brings significant simplifications to solution of the scattering problems on the objects situated in multilayered media. \nBoth scalar and vector formulations of the SVS-EFIE equation has been developed for solution of 2D scattering problems on penetrable cylinders under TM and TE polarizations. The SVS-EFIE has been also been applied to the solution of the quasi-magneetostatic problems of current flow in complex interconnects in both homogeneous and multilayered media. Detailed description of the method of moment discretization and resultant matrices is discussed. Due to the presence of a product of surface-to-volume and volume-to-surface integral operators\, the discretization of the novel SVS-EFIE requires both surface and volume meshes. In order to validate the presented technique\, the numericalresults are compared with the reference solutions. \nBiography: Vladimir Okhmatovski received Ph.D. degree in antennas and microwave circuits from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute\, Moscow\, Russia in 1997. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the National Technical University of Athens from 1998 to 1999 and with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 to 2004\, he was with the Department of Custom Integrated Circuits at Cadence Design Systems in Tempe\, Arizona. In 2004\, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Manitoba\, where is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests are the fast algorithms of electromagnetics\, high-performance computing\, modeling of interconnects\, and inverse problems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/novel-single-source-integral-equation-for-solution-of-electromagnetic-scattering-problems-on-penetrable-objects/
LOCATION:Room BA1210\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151116T193000
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SUMMARY:Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 16\, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Marco Breiling\, IEEE BTS distinguished lecturer\, will be presenting “Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation”. \nSpeaker: Marco Breiling\nIEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer\nChief Scientist of the Broadband & Broadcast (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS)\, Germany Erlangen) \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 16\, 2015\n5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA7180\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: While the broadcast world is reinforcing its armoury by introducing new and highly advanced standards like DVB-T2/-NGH and ATSC 3.0\, the pressure by the mobile communications business is ever increasing. As users consume more unicast content or switch over to satellite TV or IPTV\, the user base for terrestrial TV is shrinking\, whereas the data rates requested by the users in mobile communications networks explode. \nMoreover\, the mobile communications armoury now includes LTE-eMBMS as a broadcast mode\, which can handle cases\, where many users want to consume the same content. Consequently\, the mobile network operators ask for a reallocation of the UHF broadcast bands to standards such as LTE (digital dividend II and more). If we assume that there is a future for broadcast over terrestrial transmission\, this talk will shed some light about the question what technical (not commercial!) advantages conventional terrestrial broadcast standards like DVB have over eMBMS and vice versa. This leads to the question\, whether the best aspects of both can be combined by having both networks cooperate. A final aspect discussed is the idea of distributing eMBMS content by satellite using\, e.g.\, DVB-S2. \nBiography: After conducting studies at the Universität Karlsruhe/Germany (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT)\, the Norges Tekniske Høgskole (NTH) in Trondheim/Norway\, the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the University of Southampton/England\, Marco Breiling graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree from KIT in 1997. He earned his PhD degree (with highest honor) for a thesis about turbo codes from Universität Erlangen/Germany in 2002. \nSince 2001\, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen in the field of satellite and terrestrial communications. He currently holds the position of the broadband & broadcast department’s chief scientist.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/terrestrial-broadcast-vs-lte-embms-competition-and-cooperation/
LOCATION:Room BA7180\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T183000
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SUMMARY:IEEE 5G Toronto Summit
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, IEEE Communication Society has developed a strategic framework based on the principles that embrace Industry’s interests and priorities while integrating IEEE and ComSoc’s objectives. In order to engage industry members with high value and innovative technologies\, IEEE Communication Society plans to hold a series of high impact one day Summits in emerging technology areas (e.g.\, SDN/NFV\, 5G\, IoT\, Big Data\, and Cybersecurity). The first summit was held at Princeton Univertity in May 2015 (see photos\, slides\, and videos).The upcoming IEEE Toronto 5G Summit is the second one in the series\, and will be held at University of Toronto on Saturday\, November 14\, 2015. This one day summit will provide a platform for the industry leaders\, innovators\, and researchers from the industry and academic community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that may help in driving the standards and rapid deployment. \nThe Summit is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Chapter. \nKeynote Speakers: \nDr. Ivo Maljevic\nTelus \nJavan Erfanian\nBell Canada \nDr. Xavier Costa\nNEC Lab Europe \nDr. Peiying Zhu\nHuawei \nDay & Time: Saturday\, November 14\, 2015\n8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. \nLocation: Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BCIT)\, Auditorium BA1160 (1st floor) \n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 Building \nhttp://map.utoronto.ca/marker/bahen-centre \nOfficial Website & Registration: http://www.5gsummit.org/toronto/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-5g-toronto-summit/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy
DESCRIPTION:November 12\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\, will be presenting “Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy”. \nSpeaker: Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\nPostdoctoral at University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 12\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Discovering the 3D structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which attempts to reconstruct 3D structures from 2D images. This talk reviews the computational problems in Cryo-EM which are closely related to classical vision problems such as object detection\, multiview reconstruction and computed tomography. Finally\, a framework is introduced for reconstruction of 3D molecular structure which exploits modern methods for stochastic optimization and importance sampling. The result is a method which is efficient\, robust to initialization and flexible. \nBiography: Marcus Brubaker received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2011. After that he worked with Raquel Urtasun as a postdoctoral researcher at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and is currently a postdoc at University of Toronto\, Scarborough. He also consults with Cadre Research Labs on machine learning and computer vision related projects and teaches at the University of Toronto. He was won a number of fellowships and awards\, including OGS and NSERC graduate fellowships as well as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. \nHis most recent work on autonomous vehicle localization (“Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization\,” CVPR 2013) and the estimation of the 3D structure of proteins and viruses (“Building Proteins in a Day\,” CVPR 2015) have won awards and attention in the lay press. His interests span computer vision\, machine learning and statistics and he works on a range of problems including video-based human motion estimation\, physical models of human motion\, Bayesian inference\, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods\, ballistic forensics\, electron cryo-microscopy and autonomous vehicle localization.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/efficient-3d-molecular-structure-estimation-with-electron-cryomicroscopy/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151026T110000
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SUMMARY:SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Cognitive Radio Transceiver Chips
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 26\, 2015 at 10:10 a.m. Eric Klumperink\, Ph.D. and IEEE Respected Lecturer\, will be presenting “Cognitive Radio Transceiver Chips”. \nPowerpoint from the Presentation:   \nSpeaker: Eric Klumperink\, Ph.D. \nIEEE Respected Lecturer\nTechnical Proram Committee Member of ISSCC and RFIC\nAssociate Professor\, Twente University\, Enschede \nDay & Time: Monday\, October 26\, 2015\n10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. \nLocation: Room RS 211\, Rosebrugh Building\, University of Toronto\n164 College Street\, Toronto\, ON \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto SSCS \nContact: Dustin Dunwell: dustin.dunwell@gmail.com \nRefreshments will be served. All are welcome. \nAbstract: A Cognitive Radio transceiver senses its radio environment and adaptively utilizes free parts of the radio spectrum. CMOS IC-technology is the mainstream technology to implement smart signal processing and for reasons of cost and size it is attractive to also integrate the radio frequency (RF) hardware in CMOS. This lecture discusses radio transceiver ICs designed for cognitive radio applications\, with focus on analog RF. Cognitive radio asks for new functionality\, e.g. spectrum sensing and more agility in the radio transmitter and flexibility in the receiver. Moreover\, the technical requirements on the building blocks are more challenging than for traditional single standard applications\, e.g. in bandwidth\, programmability\, sensing sensitivity\, blocker tolerance\, linearity and spurious emissions. Circuit ideas that address these challenges will be discussed\, and examples of chips and their achieved performance will be given. \nBiography: Eric Klumperink received his PhD from Twente University in Enschede\, The Netherlands\, in 1997. He is currently an Associate Professor at the same university where he teaches Analog and RF CMOS IC Design and guides research projects focussing on Cognitive Radio\, Software Defined Radio and Beamforming. Eric served as Associate Editor for TCAS-I and II\, and for the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is a technical program committee member of ISSCC and RFIC and is Respected Lecturer for IEEE. He holds several patents\, authored and co-authored more than 150 international refereed journal and conference papers\, and is a co-recipient of the ISSCC 2002 and the ISSCC 2009 “Van Vessem Outstanding Paper Award”.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/sscs-distinguished-lecture-cognitive-radio-transceiver-chips/
LOCATION:Room RS 211\, Rosebrugh Building\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151026T170000
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SUMMARY:EPEC2015: Electrical Power and Energy Conference
DESCRIPTION:October 26th\, 2015 – EPEC2015 is an opportunity for electric power and energy systems experts from industry\, academia\, and other interested organizations to discuss the latest developments in the field: academic and industrial research\, industrial/business trends and challenges. This may include debate on the potential impact of these developments including discussions on regulatory and policy aspects. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation of peer-reviewed power and energy research and development. \nWhere: London\, Ontario Convention Center \nWhen: October 26th\, 2015 \nEarly Registration Fees Apply until Oct 1st\nRegister in tutorials now: http://epec2015.ieee.ca/tutorials/\nView Conference Fees: http://epec2015.ieee.ca/registration/ \nElectrical Power and Energy Conference Technical Tutorials now open for Registration: \n1. Power Flow Controllers\nKalyan K. Sen\, Chief Technology Officer\, Sen Engineering Solutions\nSession features a high-level overview of various power flow controllers and their features including voltage regulating transformers\, phase angle regulators\, shunt inductor/capacitor\, and series inductor/capacitor\, and Voltage-Sourced Converters (VSC). \nThe presentation will be of particular interest to all utility power engineering professionals with familiarity in power engineering terminology. The audience will hear from an expert who actually designed and commissioned a number of power electronics-based FACTS controllers. \n2. Developments in HVDC and FACTS for Power Transmission Grids\nErvin Spahic\, Head of Future Technologies\, Siemens\nJörg Dorn\, Head of R&D\, Technology and Innovation\, Siemens\nThis tutorial will reveal trends in Europe related to nuclear generator phase out and Integration of renewables. Technology\, theory and applications related to high voltage DC transmission and experience from actual projects in Canada and USA. \nThis session is for transmission system operators\, grid developers\, consulting companies\, universities and others interested in related new technologies. \n3. Microgrids Operation and Control – Theory and Practice\nAmir Hajimiragha\, GE Digital Energy\, Grid Automation\nThis session will cover microgrid challenges and potential opportunities including: DC vs. AC\, CERTS microgrid concept\, concepts and interactions among distribution management systems (DMS)\, energy management systems\, microgrid controllers and microgrid control\, communications systems and related standards. Included is a real-world microgrid example covering: conventional system configuration\, control and monitoring solutions\, challenges\, achievements and lessons learned. \nThe target audience for this session is engineers from utilities and local distribution companies\, managers and policy analysts\, and university graduate students. \n4. Grid Security\nDoug Houseman\, Vice President of Innovation and Technology\, EnerNex\nFrom NERC CIP to Privacy Regulation\, security is becoming a mandated item on the grid. For more than 100 years most people respected the electric grid and left it alone\, feeling that it was a shared public resource that needed to be provided. Now with the advent of Cyber warfare\, home grown terrorists\, black mail hackers\, and others the grid needs protection. Not just cyber security but physical security as well. \nThe target audience for this session is engineers from utilities and local distribution companies\, managers and policy analysts\, and university graduate students \n5. Smart Fault Monitoring and Protection\nAmir Mojtahed\, Managing Director\, Bender Canada Ltd.\nThis session is a comprehensive introduction to the electrical power considerations in Electrical Safety. It covers grounding\, fault current\, ground fault monitoring and protection systems\, smart protection in grounded system (HRG and solidly) and power quality applications and solutions. \nAt the end of the presentation\, people will have better understanding of ground faults in AC/DC systems and how to deal with these issues. \n6. Smart Grid Lab\nPratap Revuru\, Smart Grid Solution Architect\, Schneider Electric\nBala Venkatesh\, Professor and Director\, Centre for Urban Energy\, Ryerson University\nThis tutorial examines aspects of the smart distribution network and focuses on illustrating benefits of advanced distribution management system (ADMS) that provides intelligence\, a layer above the conventional SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition). The tutorial also illustrates a smart grid laboratory facility built at Ryerson as a path for process that enables smart grid technologies and its use in distribution systems. \nThis session is designed for academic professors\, researchers and students\, utility engineers and administrators as well as facility managers and architects. \n7. Introduction to Smart Grid and Distributed Energy Resources Standards (IEEE SCC21)\nTom Basso IEEE SCC21 and IEEE P1547 Committee Chair\nMark Siira IEEE 2030.2 Working Group Chair and IEEE P1547 Committee Vice Chair Charlie Vartanian IEEE 2030.2 Working Group Secretary and IEEE P1547 Committee Secretary and Treasurer\nThis session covers the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 21: SCC21 – “Fuel Cells\, Photovoltaics\, Dispersed Generation\, and Energy Storage” including an Overview of standards development by SCC21\, DER and Smart Grid interconnection and interoperability. A listing of IEEE 1547™ Distributed energy resources (DER) interconnection series. IEEE Std 2030™ Smart Grid Interoperability\, and IEEE P2030.2.1™ Design\, and operation and maintenance of Battery Energy Storage Systems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/epec2015-electrical-power-and-energy-conference/
LOCATION:London\, Ontario Convention Center
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151022T130000
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SUMMARY:Modeling Semantics of Content on Twitter (What did you mean when you said Yoyo!)
DESCRIPTION:October 22\, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri\, Associate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University\, will be presenting “Modeling Semantics of Content on Twitter (What did you mean when you said Yoyo!)”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri\nAssociate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 22\, 2015\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Kerr Hall West\n379 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\nRyerson University\nRoom: KHW057\nMap – http://www.ryerson.ca/maps – Look for KHW \nOrganizer: IEEE Systems Chapter – Toronto Section \nContact: E-mail: Alexei Botchkarev \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via this link: http://tinyurl.com/systems-Oct-22 \nAbstract: The microblogging service\, Twitter\, has gained wide popularity with over 300M active users and over 500M tweets per day. The unique characteristic of Twitter\, only allowing short length messages to be communicated\, has brought about interesting changes to how information is expressed and communicated by the users\, i.e.\, the semantics of information when expressed on Twitter differ from when expressed on other medium. For instance\, the word ‘metal’ when observed on Twitter carries a different semantic meaning\, most likely referring to heavy metal music\, as opposed to when used in other contexts where its predominant sense is the metal material. In this talk\, I will discuss how the meaning and senses of words can be captured and modeled on Twitter to enable better and more efficient search\, retrieval and recommendation of content. \nBiography: Ebrahim Bagheri is an Associate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University\, and has been active in the areas of the Semantic Web and Software Engineering. He was one of the research theme leaders of the national project on Radiation Emission Monitoring at the National Research Council Canada and was responsible for leading the development of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering components of that project. In 2011\, he co-chaired the Canadian Semantic Web Conference in Vancouver\, BC (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-774/). His work on Semantic-Driven Information Extraction has resulted in two provisionally patented technologies namely Denote and Derive. Denote is a semantic annotation platform based on Linked Open Data and Derive is an extensible architecture for unsupervised knowledge extraction and object (concept and property-value pair) population from the Web. He has been involved in projects that encompass the use of Semantic Web technologies in the areas of e-commerce and business process modeling funded by NSERC\, AIF and IBM. Over the past 5 years\, he has led projects worth over $5M CAD including various NSERC research and development projects with over 12 industrial partners. He is a senior member of IEEE\, an IBM Faculty Fellow and a member of PEO.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/modeling-semantics-of-content-on-twitter-what-did-you-mean-when-you-said-yoyo/
LOCATION:Room: KHW057\, Kerr Hall West\, Ryerson University\, 379 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario
CATEGORIES:Systems
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151017T220000
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SUMMARY:IEEE Toronto Section Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, October 17\, 2015 from 6:30 to 10 pm \nWhere: 21 Old Mill Road\nToronto\, Ontario\nCanada\, M8X 1G5 \nThe Annual General Meting (AGM) of the IEEE Toronto Section is an occasion to celebrate our achievements\, made possible by its dedicated volunteers and members. This year\, the AGM will also include the elections for a new set of Section officers\, to serve in 2016-2017. \nProgram:\n6:30 PM: Reception and Cash bar\n7:00 PM: Sitting and Introductions\n7:30 PM: Dinner and Keynote Presentation on the Canadarm\, by Craig Thornton\, MDA\n8:30 PM: Section Report by Emanuel Istrate\n9:00 PM: IEEE Toronto Section Awards\n9:40 PM: IEEE Toronto Section Elections\n10:00 PM: Closing Remarks \nPlease notice the following:\n• Dress code is Elegant Casual.\n• Section members (and one guest) can purchase tickets by contacting olivier@ieee.org. The cost is CAD$50\,00 (Life Members) and CAD$70\,00 (Other Members).\n• Seats are limited; RSVP is mandatory. \nTo attend the AGM\, please register here: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/36247\nRegistration closes on October 9. \nBio for Craig Thornton:\nCraig Thornton is Vice President and General Manager of the Robotics and Automation Division within MDA’s Information Systems Group. Craig’s team was/is responsible for key Canadian signature programs such as the iconic Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (i.e.\, Canadarm) for the now retired Shuttle Fleet and the Canadarm2 & Dextre robotic systems for the International Space Station. The Robotics and Automation Division has also achieved many successes in the application of its space robotics heritage to “terrestrial” applications. These include the NeuroArm (now known by the trade name SymbisTM) neurosurgical robot\, inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2014\, as well as robotics and automation systems for other medical\, nuclear\, mining and security applications. Craig worked at Spar Aerospace for 10 years before its acquisition in 1999 by MDA\, where he held a variety of both technical and management positions\, including Director of Engineering and Manufacturing. In 1999\, he left MDA to grow and develop a small business (CIMTEK Inc.) in the field of automated\, electronic\, functional test equipment and services. During the next 9 years\, Craig and his partners built the business through several acquisitions in the UK and the US and the establishment of Greenfield operations in Monterrey\, Mexico and Suzhou\, China. After building CIMTEK to an attractive size\, Craig and his partners sold the business in early 2008. Following the sale\, he was involved in several small technology start-ups as an angel investor and senior manager until his return to MDA in 2010. Born and educated in Ontario\, Canada\, Craig holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Biology/Biomechanics from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Applied Science in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. Craig has been happily married to Jane for 32 years. He has two sons\, Michael and Jason. Michael is a 4th year B. Comm. student at Ryerson University and Jason is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering Student at McMaster University. Craig is an avid soccer player and coach\, mountain biker\, skier and wind surfer. He has also been known to race Porsche’s from time-to-time. When he’s not doing any of these things he is likely sitting on the dock at his cottage with his family\, friends and a cold beverage.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-toronto-section-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Old Mill Inn. Exact location to be announced.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151006T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151006T120000
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SUMMARY:Learning in Non-stationary Environments
DESCRIPTION:October 6\, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Cesare Alippi\, IEEE Fellow & Professor of Information Processing Systems with the Politecnico di Milano\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture\, “Learning in Non-stationary Environments” at Ryerson University. \nSpeaker: Cesare Alippi\nIEEE Fellow\nProfessor of Information Processing Systems with the Politecnico di Milano \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2015\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRyerson University\nRoom: ENG287\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: IEEE Signals & Computational Intelligence Toronto Chapter \nContact: E-mail: Lorenzo Livi \nAbstract: Most of machine learning applications assume the stationarity hypothesis for the process generating the data. This amenable assumption is so widely –and implicitly- accepted that sometimes we even forget that it does not generally hold in the practice due to concept drift (i.e.\, a structural change in the process generating the acquired datastreams). The ability to detect concept drift and react accordingly is hence a major achievement for intelligent learning machines and constitutes one of the hottest research topics for embedded systems. This ability allows the machine for actively tuning the application to maintain high performance\, changing online the operational strategy\, detecting and isolating possible occurring faults to name a few relevant tasks. The talk will focus on “Learning in a non-stationary environments”\, by introducing both passive and active approaches. The active approach will be deepened by presenting triggering mechanisms based on Change point methods and Change detection tests. Finally\, the just-in-time detect&react mechanism is introduced where\, following a detected change\, the system immediately reacts with a strategy depending on the available information. \nBiography: Cesare Alippi received the degree in electronic engineering cum laude in 1990 and the PhD in 1995 from Politecnico di Milano\, Italy. Currently\, he is a Full Professor of information processing systems with the Politecnico di Milano. He has been a visiting researcher at UCL (UK)\, MIT (USA)\, ESPCI (F)\, CASIA (RC)\, A*STAR (SIN).\nAlippi is an IEEE Fellow\, Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE CIS\, Member of the Board of Governors of INNS\, Vice-President education of IEEE CIS\, Associate editor (AE) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine\, past AE of the IEEE-Trans. Instrumentation and Measurements\, IEEE-Trans. Neural Networks\, and member and chair of other IEEE committees.\nIn 2004 he received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Young Engineer Award; in 2013 he received the IBM Faculty Award. He was awarded the 2016 IEEE TNNLS outstanding paper award.\nAmong the others\, Alippi was General chair of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in 2012\, Program chair in 2014\, Co-Chair in 2011. He was General chair of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2014.\nCurrent research activity addresses adaptation and learning in non-stationary environments and Intelligence for embedded systems. \nAlippi holds 5 patents\, has published in 2014 a monograph with Springer on “Intelligence for embedded systems” and (co)-authored more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.\nHome Page: http://home.dei.polimi.it/alippi/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/learning-in-non-stationary-environments/
LOCATION:Ryerson University\, Room: ENG287
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151001T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151001T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T092414
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SUMMARY:Occupational Health Exergames Applications
DESCRIPTION:October 1\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\, Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, will be presenting “Occupational Health Exergames Applications”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\nMechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\nMasters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas\nPostdoctoral Fellow at the Games Institute \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 1\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Occupational health care issues affect more than 1.7 billion around the world and counting. Health care focuses on preventive\, corrective and maintainable physical activities that are subjectively monitored and poorly assessed without supervision\, as the patient may not perform the activities as expected. Among many reasons\, pain\, lack of interest\, cultural issues and even incomprehensive guides affect doing the physical activity. Didactic approaches to address such difficulties have resulted in interactive guides\, videos and physical trainers doing their best. However\, occupational health exercises are characterized to be very short\, repetitive and mandatory\, which causes demotivation and disinterred from workers. With the massif availability of affordable devices as a result of videogame evolution such as Wiimote\, Kinect\, etc.\, and open electronics and 3D printing\, with 3D tools such as Blender or Unity. Tailor exergames to specific scenarios can impact both physicians and workers with engaging and competitive activities with clear goals and monitoring to quantify the physical activity. In this talk I will address the development of motion capture occupational healthcare exergames for lower and upper limb\, and eye tracking\, challenges\, future work and trends. \nBiography: Dr. Alvaro is Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, with a Masters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas. His main fields of work are in virtual reality towards the development of applications that take advantage of immersion and interaction using game elements in training and learning scenarios. Currently Dr. Alvaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Games Institute working with the University of Waterloo and UOIT.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/occupational-health-exergames-applications/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\, 350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150929T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150929T143000
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SUMMARY:Geographic Partitioning Techniques for the Anonymization of Health Care Data (Big data and advanced analytics methods to ensure privacy).
DESCRIPTION:September 29\, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Wei Shi\, Assistant professor at the faculty of Business and I.T. in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University\, will be presenting “Geographic Partitioning Techniques for the Anonymization of Health Care Data (Big data and advanced analytics methods to ensure privacy)”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Wei Shi\nAssistant professor at the faculty of Business and I.T. in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, September 29\, 2015\n1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nLocation: Eric Palin Hall\nRyerson University\nRoom: EPH207\n87 Gerrard Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\nClick here to see the Map – Look for EPH \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter \nContact: E-mail: Alexei Botchkarev \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via this link: http://tinyurl.com/systemsEvent \nAbstract: Hospitals and health care organizations collect large amounts of detailed health care data that is in high demand by researchers. Thus\, the possessors of such data are in need of methods that allow for this data to be released without compromising the confidentiality of the individuals to whom it pertains. As the geographic aspect of this data is becoming increasingly relevant for research being conducted\, it is important for an anonymization process to pay due attention to the geographic attributes of such data. In this talk\, a novel system for health care data anonymization is presented. At the core of the system is the aggregation of an initial regionalization guided by the use of a Voronoi diagram. We conduct a comparison with another geographic-based system of anonymization\, GeoLeader. We show that our system is capable of producing results of a comparable quality with a much faster running time. \nBiography: Dr. Wei Shi is an assistant professor at the faculty of Business and I.T. in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. Dr. Shi received her BEng. in Computer Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in China and MSC and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada. Her research interests include big data analytics\, algorithm design and analysis for distributed environments such as the cloud\, wireless sensor network\, mobile network as well as vehicular network. She has published over 40 technical papers in top conferences and journals. Her research work is supported by IBM and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/geographic-partitioning-techniques-for-the-anonymization-of-health-care-data-big-data-and-advanced-analytics-methods-to-ensure-privacy/
LOCATION:Eric Palin Hall\, Ryerson University\, Room: EPH207\, 87 Gerrard Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario
CATEGORIES:Systems
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150923T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150923T200000
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SUMMARY:Engineering Workplace Seminar at Ryerson University
DESCRIPTION:September 23\, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. IEEE Young Professionals Toronto in collaboration with IEEE Ryerson Student Branch will be hosting an Engineering Workplace Seminar with distinguished speakers from the Power and Energy Sector. \nSpeaker: Paul N. Acchione\, M.Eng.\, P.Eng.\nDavid Curtis\, P.Eng. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, September 23\, 2015\n5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. \nLocation: Sears Atrium – 3rd Floor\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3 \nOrganizer: IEEE Young Professionals Toronto\nIEEE Ryerson Student Branch \nContact: event@ieeeypto.com \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/engineering-workplace-seminar-ryerson-university-tickets-18426667659 (Free!) \nAbstract: The following topics will be covered in this seminar: \n\nCompetitive engineering market and essential engineering skills.\nWhat university cannot teach you; the minimum level of knowledge and skills you require to perform engineering work independently\, including academic knowledge\, sector specific technical knowledge\, business specific knowledge\, emerging technologies\, supervisory and management skills\, etc.\nPossible misalignments between the recruitment processes of employers and the job search practices of engineers.\nWhy life long learning is critical for your career and life success.\nHow to increase your replacement value and consequently your financial security and status.\nHow to effectively communicate with your manager.\n\nThis event will also include short talks by bright young professionals who are involved in an engineering field\, and will be a great opportunity for you to get to know other professionals in the field in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.\nAnyone who is interested to learn more about the field or to expand their professional network is welcome to attend free of charge. Please see below for the event schedule\, biographies of our featured speakers\, and an invitation for young professionals to participate in the seminar. \nEvent Schedule:\n5:30pm – 6:00pm: Welcome and Introductions\n6:00pm – 6:45pm: Featured Speakers Talks\n6:45pm – 7:30pm: Young Professionals Talks and Q&A\n7:30pm – 8:00pm: Meet and Mingle – Networking \nBiography:\nPaul N. Acchione\, M.Eng.\, P.Eng.\nPaul has a B.A.Sc. and M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Paul is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario and is a member of ASME\, ANS\, IEEE and ISA and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Paul has over 44 years of engineering and management experience in the power generation industry. He worked for 31 years with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and its predecessor companies. He is now a Management Consultant at Market Intelligence and Data Analysis Corporation and was the 2013-14 President and Chair of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE). Paul is currently a member of OSPE’s Energy Task Force and CSA Group’s Advisory Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). \nDavid Curtis\, P.Eng.\nDavid has been working in the electric utility industry in Ontario for over thirty seven years and has recently retired from Hydro One. David began his career working for a small solar energy company in the vanguard of the application of solar energy systems. He then joined Ontario Hydro working in the Nuclear Generating Division. David then transitioned to the Power System Operations area where he was responsible for the short term and later long term integrated resource planning. With the deregulation of the electricity sector\, the Ontario Hydro Services Company was created\, which subsequently became Hydro One. David’s first role in the new company was in Regulatory Affairs. Then David led business transformation projects in asset management\, data management and Research and Development. David next led development of policies and procedures for Asset Management and then provided leadership in Asset Strategy and Engineering Knowledge Management. He has been a Canadian Energy Council Board member\, an Electric Power Research Institute Transmission Executive Committee Member and a member of the Institute’s Power Deliver Unit council.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/engineering-workplace-seminar-at-ryerson-university/
LOCATION:Sears Atrium – 3rd Floor\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Young Professionals
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SUMMARY:Advanced Technologies in Power System and Power Electronics
DESCRIPTION:September 18\, 2015 at 9:00 a.m (EDT) Toronto IEEE IAS&PELS joint Chapter and Power System Chapter along with Ryerson’s Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science invite you to join us for seminar discussions related to Power Electronics and Power System. For registration please contact Marjan at alavi@ieee.org. \nSpeakers: Many – See Below \nDay & Time: Friday\, September 18th\, 2015\n9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT) \nLocation: 50 Carlton St.\, Toronto\, ON\nRyerson University\nClick here for a Map \nMeeting URL: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35766 \nOrganizers: IEEE IAS&PELS Joint Chapter\, Power System Chapter\, Ryerson Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science \nRegistration: For registration please contact Marjan at alavi@ieee.org. \nSeminar Agenda:\nThe seminar agenda is as follows:\n1) 8:30AM Registration\n2) 9:00AM Welcome\n3) 9:20AM Presentation I – by Dr. Bin Wu\n4) 10:00AM Presentation II – by Dr. Yunwei Li\n5) 10:40AM Coffee time and Break\n6) 11:20AM Presentation III – by Dr. Samir Kouro\n7) 12:00PM Light lunch\n8) 12:30PM Presentation IV – by Dr. You Zhou\n9) 1:20PM Presentation V – by Dr. Wuhua Li\n10) 2:00PM Lab tours – LEDAR and CUE labs \nPresentation I by Dr. Bin Wu\nPower Engineering Research at Ryerson University\nAbstract:\nThe Power Engineering (PE) Group at Ryerson University is one of the leading research groups in a Canadian university in the field of high-power converters\, medium voltage (MV) drives\, renewable energy systems\, and power systems. The Ryerson PE Group has a long-term successful research collaborations with Canadian industry\, including Rockwell Automation Canada\, Honeywell Aerospace Canada\, Toronto Hydro Corporation\, and Hydro One Incorporated. \nIn this talk\, our research facilities will be introduced\, which include the Laboratory for Electric Drive Applications and Research (LEDAR) and research laboratories in Centre for Urban Energy (CUE). A variety of industrial research projects will be discussed\, including high-power (megawatt) converters for MV drives\, wind and PV energy conversion systems\, electric vehicle fast chargers and charging stations\, and battery energy management systems. The talk ends with the research trends and directions in the area of MV drives. \nBiography:\nBin Wu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto\, Canada in 1993. He joined Ryerson University in 1993\, where he is currently a Professor and Senior NSERC/Rockwell Automation Industrial Research Chair in Power Electronics and Electric Drives. Dr. Wu has published more than 300 technical papers\, authored/coauthored two Wiley-IEEE Press books\, and holds more than 25 granted/pending US/European patents in the area of power conversion\, medium voltage drives\, and renewable energy systems.\nDr. Wu received the Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada in 1993\, Premier’s Research Excellence Award in 2001\, NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation in 2002\, Ryerson Distinguished Scholar Award in 2003\, YSGS Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Award\, and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Excellence Medal in 2014. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)\, Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)\, and Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE).\nContact:\nDr. Bin Wu\nProfessor\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Ryerson University\, Canada\nEmail: bwu@ee.ryerson.ca\nWeb: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~bwu/ \nPresentation II by Dr. Yunwei Li\nVirtual Impedance based Grid Interfacing Converter Control for Active Distribution System Power Quality Improvement\nAbstract:\nWith today’s increasing concerns on energy costs\, energy security and greenhouse gas emissions\, more and more renewable energy sources is being integrated into the power distribution system through distributed generation (DG). For example\, photovoltaic (PV) power production has been doubling every two years\, increasing by an average of 48% each year since 2002. At the same time\, the increased penetration of nonlinear loads may introduce power quality issues to the distribution power system. Such a system with the presence of many power electronics interfaced DG and loads can be considered as an active distribution system\, where the power electronics interfaces can actively participated in the system operation and control with improved efficiency\, reliability and power quality. This talk focuses on the distribution system harmonic control through the DG-grid interfacing converters. The compensation strategies are developed using the virtual impedance control concept. \nBiography:\nDr. Yunwei (Ryan) Li is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Alberta\, Canada. Dr. Li received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. In 2005\, Dr. Li was a Visiting Scholar with the Aalborg University\, Denmark. From 2006 to 2007\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ryerson University\, Canada. In 2007\, he also worked at Rockwell Automation Canada. His research interests include control and PWM for power converters in distributed generation\, microgrid\, renewable energy\, electric motor drives\, and custom power devices. Dr. Li has published over 120 papers in these areas.\nDr. Li is a senior member of IEEE\, a Professional Engineer with Alberta Canada. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics\, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. Dr. Li received the 2013 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from IEEE Power Electronics Society.\nContact:\nDr. Yunwei (Ryan) Li\nProfessor\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Alberta\, Canada\nEmail: yunwei.li@ualberta.ca\nWeb: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~yunwei1/ \nPresentation III by Dr. Samir Kouro\nResearch on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Systems at UTFSM\nAbstract:\nThe north of Chile has the world’s most favorable resources for solar energy conversion. Nevertheless\, particular conditions of the dessert such as high altitude\, high temperature fluctuations\, lack of water and dust are challenges for the development of the solar industry. Two research centers of excellence: the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) and the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) are addressing these challenges. The Power Electronics Research Group of the Technical University Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM) leads these efforts in both centers\, from the power electronics perspective. In this presentation some of the recent research and development projects on photovoltaic energy conversion systems will be introduced\, including: soiling effects on energy yield\, sub-module PV converters\, photovoltaic energy in mining applications\, multilevel converters for grid connected PV systems and predictive control of PV inverters. \nBiography:\nDr. Samir Kouro received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM)\, Valparaíso\, Chile\, in 2004 and 2008\, respectively. From 2009 to 2011 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Ryerson University\, Toronto\, Canada. Since 2011 he has been with UTFSM where he currently is associate professor. Dr. Kouro has directed 6 Chilean National Fund projects (Fondecyt)\, is founding member and Principal Investigator of the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile) one of the national priority areas centers of excellence of Chile\, and founding member and Titular Researcher of the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E)\, one of the technology transfers centers of excellence in Chile. He has coauthored one book\, four book chapters and over 100 refereed journal and conference papers. He has served as Guest Editor of a Special Section in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2013-2014) and one in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2014-2015). Dr. Kouro received the IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award in 2012\, the IEEE Industry Applications Magazine 1st prize paper award of 2012\, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Best Paper Award of 2011\, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine Best Paper Award of 2008. \nContact:\nDr. Samir Kouro\nProfessor\, Department of Electronic Engineering\, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María\, Chile\nEmail: samir.kouro@ieee.org\nWeb: http://www2.elo.utfsm.cl/~skr/Samir_Home_Page/Home.html \nPresentation IV by Dr. You (George) Zhou\nPower Electronics for Future Energy Internet\nAbstract:\nIn this presentation\, future de-centralized energy/power system is defined under the concept of energy internet with zero or low carbon emission feature. The role of power electronics within this context is reviewed and fundamental stability issue within multiple-converter based power system is discussed. Distributed energy storage is found to be the general solution to decouple the in-stability caused from constant power device connection. Based on this concept\, an Energy Memory & Energy computer concept is proposed for future energy internet. The related energy control & management platform is then introduced as an Energy-Operating-System (EOS). Overall\, power electronics is proven to be the fundamental and key technology for digitized energy system with defined development road map in energy internet. \nBiography:\nDr. You(George) Zhou earned his bachelor and master degree from Tsinghua University\, China and his PhD degree in Toronto\, Canada\, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2000 – 2013\, he was with Honeywell Aerospace\, responsible for power/energy system design for various aircraft platforms including Boeing 7E7/787\, Lockheed Martin F35\, Airbus A380/A350. He pioneered digital power system design concept for Honeywell Aerospace and has won many awards in Honeywell including Honeywell Outstanding Engineer Award & Honeywell Technical Achievement Award. He has over thirty patents and related publications. In 2013\, He joined National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Energy (NICE) in Beijing\, China\, as a member of National “Thousand Talents Program”. He is now the technical leader for distributed energy system group of NICE\, the core R&D section of its parental company Shenhua Group\, ranked 165th of Fortune 500 in 2014 and supplies 12% energy of China. His research includes energy internet based system design and integration for multiple source based energy system including energy generation\, energy conversion and energy storage from zero or low carbon emission perspective. \nContact:\nDr. You (George) Zhou\nNational Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon Energy\, Shenhua Group\nEmail: zhouyou@nicenergy.com\nWeb: http://www.nicenergy.com/cn/ \nPresentation V by Dr. Wuhua Li\nRecent Research and Achievements in High Power Conversion System at SEEEDS\nAbstract:\nThe efficiency\, flexibility and reliability of high power conversion system have gained great popularity in power electronics community. Based on the classic definition of Dr. Newell on Power Electronics\, the laboratory of SEEEDS (Sustainable & Efficient Electric Energy Delivery System) is dedicated to innovating advanced technology to improve the conversion efficiency\, operation flexibility and system reliability in high power conversion system. At the semiconductor device level\, the dynamic switching performance test principle and online-junction temperature extraction for high power IGBT modules will be introduced. At the power converter level\, a Module Multilevel-clamped Composited Multilevel Converter (M-MC2) will be investigated. At the system control level\, an accurate behavior model and common-mode voltage injection based nearest level modulation for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) will be highlighted. \nBiography:\nDr. Wuhua Li (M’09) received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Applied Power Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University\, Hangzhou\, China\, in 2002 and 2008\, respectively.\nFrom 2007 to 2008\, he was a Research Assistant in General Electric (GE) Global Research Center. From 2008 to 2010\, he joined the College of Electrical Engineering\, Zhejiang University as a Lecturer. In December 2010\, he was promoted as an Associate Professor. Since December 2013\, he has been a Full Professor at Zhejiang University. From 2010 to 2011\, he was a Ryerson University Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Ryerson University\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada. His research interests include high efficiency power converters and renewable energy power conversion system. Dr. Li has published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers and holds over 30 issued/pending patents. \nContact:\nDr. Wuhua Li\nProfessor\, School of Electrical Engineering\, Zhejiang University\nEmail: woohualee@zju.edu.cn\nWeb: http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/en/woohualee
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/advanced-technologies-in-power-system-and-power-electronics/
LOCATION:50 Carlton St.\, Toronto\, ON Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications,Power & Energy
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SUMMARY:Exploring Power Network Signatures for Information Forensics
DESCRIPTION:September 17\, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Min Wu\, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland\, College Park will be presenting “Exploring Power Network Signatures for Information Forensics”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Min Wu\nIEEE Fellow\nProfessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Maryland\, College Park \nDay & Time: Thursday\, September 17\, 2015\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG105\, Ryerson University\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: IEEE Signal Processing Society\nElectrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program\nCASPAL Ryerson \nContact: Prof. Xiao-Ping Zhang\nCASPAL (Communications and Signal Processing Applications Lab.)\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering\,\nRyerson University \nAbstract: Osama bin Laden’s video propaganda prompted numerous information forensic questions: given a video under question\, when and where was it shot? Was the sound track captured together at the same time/location as the visual\, or superimposed later? Similar questions about the time\, location\, and integrity of multimedia and other sensor recordings are important to provide evidence and trust in crime solving\, journalism\, infrastructure monitoring\, smart grid management\, and other informational operations. \nAn emerging line of research toward addressing these questions exploits novel signatures induced by the power network. An example is the small random-like fluctuations of the electricity frequency known as the Electric Network Frequency (ENF)\, owing to the dynamic control process to match the electricity supplies with the demands in the grid. These environmental signatures reflect the attributes and conditions of the power grid and become naturally “embedded” into various types of sensing signals. They carry time and location information and may facilitate integrity verification of the primary sensing data. This talk will provide an overview of recent information forensics research on ENF carried out by our Media and Security Team (MAST) at University of Maryland\, and discuss some on-going and open research issues in and beyond security applications. \nBiography:Min Wu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland\, College Park. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2001. At UMD\, she leads the Media and Security Team (MAST)\, with main research interests on information security and forensics and multimedia signal processing. Her research and education have been recognized by a NSF CAREER award\, a TR100 Young Innovator Award from the MIT Technology Review Magazine\, an ONR Young Investigator Award\, a Computer World “40 Under 40” IT Innovator Award\, a University of Maryland Invention of the Year Award\, an IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Early Career Teaching Award\, and several paper awards from IEEE SPS\, ACM\, and EURASIP. She was elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to multimedia security and forensics. Dr. Wu chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security (2012-2013)\, and has served as Vice President – Finance of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012) and Founding Chief Editor of the IEEE SigPort initiative (2013-2014). Currently\, she is serving as Editor-in-Chief (2015-2017) of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/exploring-power-network-signatures-for-information-forensics/
LOCATION:245 Church St\, Toronto\, ON M5B 1Z4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Signal Processing
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SUMMARY:Error Control Coding for Low-Latency Multicast Streaming
DESCRIPTION:September 16\, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Ashish Khisti\, Associate Professor & Canada Research Tier II\, will be presenting “Error Control Coding for Low-Latency Multicast Streaming” at Ryerson University. \nSpeaker: Dr. Ashish Khisti\nAssociate Professor & Canada Research Tier II \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, September 16\, 2015\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG288\, Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto – Computer Chapter & DABNEL \nContact: Prof. Isaac Woungang\nDirector of DABNEL Lab\nDepartment of Computer Science\nRyerson University\nChair\, Computer Chapter\, IEEE Toronto\nE-mail: Isaac Woungang \nAbstract: An increasing number of applications require simultaneous transmission of multimedia streams to diverse users with vastly different computing and communication capabilities. While a straightforward approach is to establish an independent unicast session with each user\, it can be highly inefficient when (i) the number of users is large or (ii) the content size is large. In such applications broadcast/multicast techniques can lead to significant gains. This talk will focus on error correction coding techniques over packet erasure channels under low-latency constraints. \nThe talk will be aimed for a broad audience and will not assume prior knowledge on Error Control Coding. \nBiography: Ashish Khisti is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and holds a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Networks. He obtained his BASc degree from the Engineering Sciences program at the same university\, and his SM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include Network Information Theory\, Physical Layer Security and Error Control Coding for Multimedia Applications. He is a recipient of the HP-IRP award\, an Ontario Early Researcher Award and the Morris Joseph Levin Masterworks award from MIT. He presently serves as a Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. \nAll are welcome – No registration needed.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/error-control-coding-for-low-latency-multicast-streaming/
LOCATION:ENG288\, Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Computer
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SUMMARY:2015 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Architectures\, Systems\, and Processors (ASAP)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society\, the conference covers the theory and practice of application-specific systems\, architectures and processors\, building upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic\, cryptography\, compression\, signal and image processing\, network processing\, reconfigurable computing\, and all types of hardware accelerators. See http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asap2015/ for more details!
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/2015-ieee-international-conference-on-application-specific-architectures-systems-and-processors-asap/
LOCATION:Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference
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