IEEE Toronto Section

Iris Matching and De-Duplication of Voter Registration Lists
2018-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Room BA-4287, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto, M5S 2E4
Friday, April 13th at 10:00 a.m., Schubmehl-Prein Professor Kevin W. Bowyer, will be presenting an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture “Iris Matching and De-Duplication of Voter Registration Lists”.
Day & Time: Friday, April 13, 2018
10:00 a.m. ‐ 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Schubmehl-Prein Professor Kevin W. Bowyer
Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Notre Dame, IN, US
Location: Room BA-4287, University of Toronto
http://map.utoronto.ca/building/080
Contact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi, Yashodhan Athavale
Organizer: IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Toronto Section
Abstract: Fingerprint, face and iris are widely used as biometrics to verify a person’s identity. One important application of biometrics is to ensure that each person is enrolled only once on a list of eligible voters. Keeping someone from voting multiple times under different identitiesis referred to as “de-duplicating” the voting register. This talk will present results of a de-duplication trial performed for the country of Somaliland. The talk will cover how iris recognition works, what level of matching accuracy can be expected, what the matching accuracy suggests in terms of expected number of false matches and false non-matches, and some “special case” example images. (You should not need any prior experience with iris recognition tounderstand this talk.)
Biography: Kevin Bowyer is the Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and also serves as Director of International Summer Engineering Programs. Professor Bowyer’s research interests range broadly over computer vision and pattern recognition, including biometrics and data mining. Professor Bowyer received a 2014 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society, with the citation “For pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics”. Professor Bowyer is a Fellow of the IEEE, “for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images”; a Fellow of the IAPR, “for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics”; and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society. Professor Bowyer is serving as General Chair of the 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision; has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium; and is currently serving on the editorial board of IEEE Access. Professor Bowyer’s most recent book is the Handbook of Iris Recognition, edited with Dr. Mark Burge.

The Future of Power and Energy Infrastructure
2018-04-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Room BA4287, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Tuesday, April 17th at 11:00 a.m., Dr. Martin Ordonez, Canada Research Chair in Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems, will be presenting “The Future of Power and Energy Infrastructure”.
Day & Time: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Martin Ordonez
Canada Research Chair in Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems
Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia
Location: Room BA4287, Bahen Center of Information Technology
40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: hoda.youssef@ieee.org
Organizer: IEEE Toronto IAS & PELS Joint Chapter
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/171254
Abstract: The incorporation of distributed renewable energy generation, smart control systems, and electric/hybrid vehicles into the existing grid infrastructure are challenging but necessary steps towards a more sustainable future. This presentation will describe key technologies and techniques that are necessary to modernize electrical generation, distribution and consumption. The work that is currently ongoing at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) campus will be used to illustrate some modern and future implementations. Techniques such as load shedding, peak shifting, active power factor correction, and backup will be discussed. The technical challenges and solutions associated with implementing these sustainable solutions will be addressed.
Biography: Dr. Martin Ordonez is the Canada Research Chair in Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems and Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also the holder of the Fred Kaiser Professorship on Power Conversion and Sustainability at UBC. He was an Adjunct Professor with Simon Fraser University and Memorial University of Newfoundland. His industrial experience in power conversion includes research and development at Xantrex Technology Inc./Elgar Electronics Corp. (now AMETEK Programmable Power), where he developed high-density power converters and advanced controllers.
He is the principal investigator of several power conversion grants and has developed partnerships with various companies in the sector. With the support of industrial funds and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), he contributed more than 140 publications and R&D reports in the power area. Dr. Ordonez is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, a Guest Editor for IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS, an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY serves on several IEEE committees, and reviews widely for IEEE/IET journals and international conferences. He was awarded the David Dunsiger Award for Excellence in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (2009) and the Chancellors Graduate Award/Birks Graduate Medal (2006), and became a Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University.

Achieving Balance Between Convergence and Diversity in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
2018-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | UOIT (2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa L1H7K4 ON) Room: UA2130
Monday, April 23rd at 10:00 a.m., Dr. Kwong Tak Wu Sam, Professor, City University of Hong Kong, will be presenting “Achieving Balance Between Convergence and Diversity in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization”.
Day & Time: Monday, April 23rd, 2018
10:00 a.m. ‐ 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Kwong Tak Wu Sam, Professor
City University of Hong Kong
Location: UOIT (2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa L1H7K4 ON)
Room: UA2130
Contact: hossam.gabbar@ieee.org
Abstract: Nowadays, many real world problems are multi-objective in nature in the sense that multiple conflicting criteria need to be optimized simultaneously. As a consequence, instead of a global optimal solution in the case of single-objective optimization, usually, the optimum of multi-objective optimization corresponds to a set of so called Pareto optimal solutions for which no solutions can win in all objectives, due to the conflict between objectives. Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO) algorithms have been widely used in practice for solving these multi-objective optimization problems for several reasons. At first, EMO approaches can tackle problems with nonlinear, non-differentiable, or noisy objective functions. Secondly, the population based search manner opens new opportunities in dealing with multi-objective optimization problems by searching for multiple alternatives simultaneously. Therefore, EMO has become one of the most active research areas in evolutionary computation. In this talk, I will first give an in–depth introduction to the EMO field and subsequently presented ourrecent developments which are 1) Adaptive Operator Selection (AOS)aims to provide the on-line autonomous control of the operator that should be applied at each instant of the search.This work proposes a bandit based AOS method, Fitness-Rate-Rank-based Multi-Armed Bandit (FRRMAB) to track the dynamics of the search process, it uses a sliding window to record the recent fitness improvement rates achieved by the operators, while employing a decaying mechanism to increase the selection probability of the best operator. Our experimental results demonstrate that FRRMAB is robust and its operator selection is reasonable,and 2) Asimple and effective stable matching (STM) model to coordinate the selection processinMultiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm based on DecompositionMOEA/D. In this model, subproblem agents can express their preferences over the solution agents, and vice versa. The stable outcome produced by the STM model matches each subproblem with onesingle solution, and it tradeoffs convergence and diversity of the evolutionary search. In addition, a two-level stable matching-based selection is proposed to further guarantee the diversity of the population. More specifically, the first level of stable matching only matches a solution to one of its most preferred subproblems and the second level of stable matching is responsible for matching the solutions to the remaining subproblems. Experimental studies demonstrate that the proposed selection scheme is effective and competitive comparing to other state-of-the-art selection schemes for MOEA/D.In both works, the techniques for achieving balance between convergence and diversity in evolutionary multiobjective optimizationare presented.
Biography: Sam Kwong received the B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, in 1983, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree from the Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany, in 1996. From 1985 to 1987, he was a Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada, where he designed the diagnostic software to detect the manufacture faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He later joined the Bell Northern Research Canada as a Member of Scientific Staff, where he worked on both the DMS-100 voice network and the DPN-100 data network project. In 1990, he joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering. He iscurrently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He was responsible of the software design of the first handheld GSM mobile phone consultancy project in which it was one of the largest consultancy projects at the City University of Hong Kong in 1996. He coauthored three research books on genetic algorithms, eight book chapters, and over 200 technical papers. He has been a consultant to several companies in telecommunications. Prof. Kwong was awarded the Best Paper Award for his paperentitled “Multiobjective Optimization of Radio-to-Fiber Repeater Placement Using a Jumping Gene Algorithm” at the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT’05), Hong Kong, in 2005. In addition, he received the Best Paper Award at the 1999 BioInformatics Workshop, Tokyo, for the paper entitled “A Compression Algorithm for DNA Sequences and Its Application in Genome Comparison” in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the conference. Currently, he is the Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL electronics, IEEE transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the Journal of Information Science. Currently, he is the Head and Professor of the department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Kwong was elevated to IEEE fellow for his contributions on Optimization Techniques for Cybernetics and Video coding in 2014.

ComSoc Seminar: Beef Up the Edge, How to Build a More Powerful IOT System
2018-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Room Number: ENG460, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Friday, May 4th at 11:00 a.m., Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida and fellow of the IEEE, will be presenting a communications seminar: “Beef Up the Edge, How to Build a More Powerful IOT System”.
Day & Time: Friday, May 4, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
Fellow of the IEEE
Location: Room Number: ENG460
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church Street., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Contact: Eman Hammad
Organizer: Communications Society, Ryerson University
Abstract: Connected things in various cyber-physical systems (CPSs), namely IoTs, enable us to sense physical environments, extract intelligent information, and better regulate physical systems we heavily depend on in our daily life. Unfortunately, how to design effective and efficient systems to meet specific applications with diverse quality of service requirements is of paramount importance but highly challenging due to the spatial and temporal variations of user traffic, network spectrum resource, computing capability, storage, and device types. One holistic design approach from the end-to-end perspective seems to be in dire need.
In this talk, the speaker will discuss various related problems and challenges in a connected world and then present a novel collaborative network architecture to enabling connected things to effectively harvest in-network capability (spectrum, energy, storage, and computing power) in a cognitive fashion and intelligently manage the spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency, and yes, security! By pushing in-network capability in communications, computing, and storage to the edge, this network architecture provides an effective and robust approach to IoT.
Biography: Dr. Yuguang “Michael” Fang received MS degree from Qufu Normal University, Shandong, China in 1987, PhD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1994 and PhD degree from Boston University in 1997. He was an assistant professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in 2000 and has been a full professor since 2005. He held a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship (2006-2009, 2017-2020), a University of Florida Term Professorship (2017-2019) and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China (is currently affiliated with Dalian Maritime University).
Dr. Fang received the US National Science Foundation Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002, 2015 IEEE Communications Society CISTC Technical Recognition Award, 2014 IEEE Communications Society WTC Recognition Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards from IEEE Globecom (2015, 2011 and 2002) and IEEE ICNP (2006). He has also received 2010-2011 UF Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award, and the 2009 UF College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2013-2017), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications (2009-2012), and serves/served on several editorial boards of journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2003-2008, 2011-2016), IEEE Transactions on Communications (2000-2011), and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2002-2009). He has been actively participating in conference organizations such as serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2014 and the Technical Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005. He is a fellow of the IEEE (2008) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015).

ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Advances and Challenges in 5G Wireless Security
2018-05-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Room Number: ENG LG02, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Friday, May 4th at 1:00 p.m., Prof. Yi Qian, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln will be presenting a distinguished lecture: “Advances and Challenges in 5G Wireless Security”.
Day & Time: Friday, May 4, 2018
1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. Yi Qian
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, USA
Location: Room Number: ENG LG02
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church Street., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Contact: Eman Hammad
Organizer: Communications Society, Ryerson University
Abstract: Wireless communication technologies are ubiquitous nowadays. Most of the smart devices have Cellular, Wi‐Fi, Bluetooth connections. These technologies have been developed for many years; nonetheless, they are still being enhanced. More development can be expected in the next 5 years, such as faster transmission data rate, more efficient spectrum usage, lower power consumption, etc. Similarly, cellular networks have been evolved for several generations. For example, GSM as part of 2G family, UMTS as part of the 3G family, and LTE as part of 4G family. In the next few years, 5G cellular network systems will continue the evolution to keep up with the fast‐growing needs of customers. Secure wireless communications will certainly be part of other advances in the industry such as multimedia streaming, data storage and sharing in clouds, mobile cloud computing services, etc. This talk covers the topics on security for next generation mobile wireless networks, with focusing on 5G mobile wireless network systems, followed by a discussion on the challenges and open research issues in the area.
Biography: Dr. Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and the government. Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks, a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several start‐up companies, an assistant professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research interests include information assurance and network security, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks, wireless ad‐hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid communication networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks, high‐speed networks and the Internet. He has a successful track record to lead research teams and to publish research results in leading scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE. He is serving on the editorial board for several international journals and magazines, including serving as the Associate Editor‐in‐Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Communications Society. He is serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018.

ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Machine Learning in Digital Medicine
2018-05-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Room BA1210, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Monday, May 7th at 3:00 p.m., Dr. Giorgio Quer, Sr. Research Scientist at the Scripps Research Institute and Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps Translational Science Institute will be presenting a distinguished lecture: “Machine Learning in Digital Medicine”.
Day & Time: Monday, May 7, 2018
3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Giorgio Quer
Sr. Research Scientist, Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California
Director of Artificial Intelligence, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Senior Member of the IEEE, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society
Location: Room BA1210
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: Eman Hammad
Organizer: Communications Society
Abstract: Digitalize human beings using biosensors to track our complex physiologic system, process the large amount of data generated with artificial intelligence (AI) and change clinical practice towards individualized medicine: these are the goals of digital medicine. At Scripps, we promote a strong collaboration between computer scientist, engineers, and clinical researchers, as well as a direct partnership with health industry leaders. We propose new solutions to analyze large longitudinal data using statistical learning and deep convolutional neural networks to address different cardiovascular health issues. Among them, one of the greatest contributors to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide is hypertension. It is known that lowering blood pressure (BP) by just a few mmHg can bring substantial clinical benefits, but the assessment of the “true” BP for an individual is non-trivial, as the individual BP can fluctuate significantly. We analyze a large dataset of more than 16 million BP measurements taken at home with commercial BP monitoring devices, in order to unveil the BP patterns and provide insights on the clinical relevance of these changes. Another prevalent health issue we investigated is atrial fibrillation (AFib), one of the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, which is associated with stroke, hospitalization, heart failure and coronary artery disease. AFib detection from single-lead electrocardiography (ECG) recordings is still an open problem, as AFib events may be episodic and the signal noisy. We conduct a thoughtful analysis of recent deep network architectures developed in the computer vision field, redesigned to be suitable for a one-dimensional signal, and we evaluate their performance for the AFib detection problem using 200 thousand seconds of ECG recording, highlighting the potential of this technology. Looking to the future, we are investigating new applications of existing wearable devices, requiring advanced processing and clinical validation, and we are participating to the All of Us research program, an unprecedented research effort to gather data from one million people in the USA to accelerate the advent of precision medicine.
Biography: Dr. Giorgio Quer is a Sr. Research Scientist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, and he is the Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps Translational Science Institute.
He received the B.Sc. degree, the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (2011) in Information Engineering from University of Padova, Italy. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communication at the University of Oulu, Finland. During his Ph.D., he proposed a solution for the distributed compression of wireless sensor networks signals, based on the joint exploitation of Compressive Sensing and Principal Component Analysis. From 2010 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and then a postdoc at the Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego (UCSD), working on cognitive networks protocols and implementation.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the American Heart Association (AHA), and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, network optimization, compressive sensing, probabilistic models, deep convolutional networks, wearable sensors, physiological signal processing, and digital medicine.

S&C Electric Factory Tour
2018-05-14 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | 90 Belfield Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1G4
Monday, May 14th at 2:00 p.m., IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Toronto together with PES chapter has arranged a facility tour of S&C Electric in Etobikoe.
Day & Time: Monday, May 14, 2018
2:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m.
Location: 90 Belfield Rd
Etobicoke, ON M9W 1G4
Contact: Ali Naderian
Organizer: IEEE Toronto DEIS Chapter, PES Chapter
Register: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/170929
Abstract: IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Toronto together with PES chapter has arranged a facility tour of S&C Electric in Etobicoke.
Attendees are couraged to bring their own safety shoes and glasses.
S&C specializes in the switching, protection, and control of electric power systems. This started with a single product in 1909, the Liquid Power Fuse, which was the first reliable power fuse able to protect against the high currents in distribution substations. Its invention helped pioneer the widespread adoption and spread of electricity. S&C has invented many innovative products and pioneered new applications in the power industry. SMD® Power Fuses, Loadbuster®, Circuit Switcher, Pad-Mounted Gear, VISTA® SF6 insulated switchgear, Fault Fiter® Electronic Power Fuses, and Scada-Mate Switching systems are just a few of the S&C products that have significantly changed power system design and operating practices.

Shielded Enclosure Metrics
2018-05-15 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Room BA2185, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Tuesday, May 15th at 4:00 p.m., Prof. Andy Marvin, IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, will be presenting “Shielded Enclosure Metrics”.
Day & Time: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. Andy Marvin
IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electronic Engineering,
University of York, York, UK.
Location: Room BA2185, Bahen Center of Information Technology
40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: gelefth@ece.utoronto.ca
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter
Abstract: The lecture describes the author’s research over the past decade investigating better ways of defining and assessing the shielding performance of equipment enclosures. The definition of enclosure Shielding Effectiveness and its limitations are reviewed.
Then recent research on the use of surrogate contents to replicate real electronic enclosure contents is described leading to alternative definitions of enclosure shielding performance. Latterly, the work has concentrated on shielding of equipment enclosures in the microwave frequency range. Measurement techniques exploiting the reverberant nature of the enclosures are described.
The work has contributed to the recently released IEEE Std 299.1 on the measurement of equipment enclosure shielding. The HUAWEI Corporation has sponsored the research since 2014.
Biography: Andy Marvin is Professor Emeritus in the University of York’s Department of Electronic Engineering. He received his BEng, MEng and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield between 1972 and 1979. From 1977 to 1979 he was with the British Aircraft Corporation at Filton, Bristol, UK working on antenna design and EMC.
He was appointed to a Lectureship in Electronics at the University of York in the UK in 1979 and promoted to Professor of Applied Electromagnetics in 1995. He retired in December 2017 and was appointed as Professor Emeritus in February 2018.
He was appointed as Technical Director of York EMC Services at its founding in 1995. He resigned his directorship when the company was acquired by Eurofins in June 2017.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an IEEE Life Fellow.
He was Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Std-299 Working Group on Shielding Effectiveness Measurement, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the IEEE EMC Society Standards Advisory and Co-ordination Committee. From 1994 to 2015 he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on EMC.
He was a member of the UK National Measurement System Advisory Panels on Innovation Research and Development and Materials and Modelling from 2008 to 2015. He has contributed lectures on Antennas and on Shielding to the IEEE EMCS Global University and Chaired its Faculty in 2010.
His main research interests are EMC measurement and modelling techniques, EMC antennas and electromagnetic shielding measurement and modelling. To date, starting in 1976, he is author over 300 papers. In 1992, he and Dr Stuart Porter invented the Bilog EMC measurement antenna.
He is a founder member of the International Steering Committee of EMC Europe conferences, Conference Chair of EMC Europe 2011 (York) and Chair of the EMC Europe International Steering Committee for 2015 – 2018. He was President of the York Society of Engineers (2014/16) and is Chief Flying Instructor at the York Gliding Centre.

Practical Power Flow Controller Brings Benefits of Power Electronics to the Grid
2018-05-18 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Room BA4287, 40 St George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4
Friday, May 18th at 3:00 p.m., Kalyan Sen, Fulbright Scholar and Chief Technology Officer of Sen Engineering Solutions Inc., will be presenting “Practical Power Flow Controller Brings Benefits of Power Electronics to the Grid”.
Day & Time: Friday, May 18, 2018
3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kalyan Sen
Chief Technology Officer of Sen Engineering Solutions Inc.
Fulbright Scholar
Senior Member of IEEE
Location: Room BA4287, Bahen Center of Information Technology University of Toronto
40 St George St., Toronto
Ontario M5S 2E4
Contact: Sanaz Kanani
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Industry Applications & Power Electronics Society Join Chapter
RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169041
Abstract: Power flow control techniques have been practiced, from using inductors, capacitors, transformers and load tap changers in the earlier days of electrical engineering to power electronics-based solutions in recent years. Even though the costs and complexities of the available solutions vary widely, the basic underlying theory of power flow control is still the same as it always has been. The question is which solution one should employ. The answer depends on knowing what the true need is. The power industry’s pressing need for the most economical ways to transfer bulk power along a desired path may be met by building new transmission lines, which is a long and costly process. Alternately, it may be quicker and cheaper to utilize the existing transmission lines more efficiently. The key is to identify the underutilized transmission lines and harness their dormant capacity to increase the power flows to the lines’ thermal limits.
Since the commissioning of the first commercial power electronics-based Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) controller two decades ago, a great deal has been learned about the true needs of a utility for its everyday use and they are high reliability, high efficiency, low installation and operating costs, component non-obsolescence, fast enough response for utility applications, high power density, interoperability, and easy relocation to adapt to changing power system’s needs while providing the optimal power flow control capability. This was the motivation to develop a SMART Power Flow Controller (SPFC) that enhances the controllability in an electric power transmission system by using functional requirements and cost-effective solutions.
The presentation is designed to provide the basic principles of power flow control theory, an overview of the most commonly used power flow controllers, and future trends. The presentation will be of particular interest to all utility power engineering professionals. The required background is an equivalent of an Electrical Engineering degree 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 since its inception in the 1990s.
Biography: Kalyan Sen, a newly selected Fulbright Scholar, is the Chief Technology Officer of Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc. that specializes in developing SMART power flow controllers—a functional requirements-based and cost-effective solution. He spent 30 years in academia and industry and became a Westinghouse Fellow Engineer. He was a key member of the Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) development team at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center in Pittsburgh. He contributed in all aspects (conception, simulation, design, and commissioning) of FACTS projects at Westinghouse. He conceived some of the basic concepts in FACTS technology. He has authored or coauthored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, 8 issued patents, a book and 4 book chapters in the areas of FACTS and power electronics. He is the coauthor of the book titled, Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications, IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009, which is also published in Chinese and Indian paperback editions. He is the co-inventor of Sen Transformer. He received BEE, MSEE, and PhD degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University, India, Tuskegee University, USA, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, respectively. He also received an MBA from Robert Morris University, USA. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a Distinguished Toastmaster who led District 13 of Toastmasters International as its Governor to be the 10th-ranking District in the world in 2007-8.
Kalyan, a Senior Member of IEEE, has served the organization in many positions. Under his leadership, IEEE Pittsburgh Section and its three chapters (PES, IAS and PELS) received Best Section and Chapter Awards. His other past positions included Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2002 – 2007), Technical Program Chair of the 2008 PES General Meeting in Pittsburgh, Chapters and Sections Activities Track Chair of the 2008 IEEE Sections Congress in Quebec City, Canada, PES R2 Representative (2010 and 2011) and Member of the IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence (CLE) Committee (2013, 2014). He has been serving as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer since 2002. In that capacity, he has given presentations on power flow control technology more than 100 times in 15 countries. He is an inaugural class (2013) graduate of the IEEE CLE Volunteer Leadership Training (VOLT) program. Kalyan is the recepient of the IEEE Pittsburgh Section PES Outstanding Engineer Award (2004) and Outstanding Volunteer Service Award for reviving the local Chapters of PES and IAS from inactivity to world-class performance (2004). He has been serving as the Special Events Coordinator of the IEEE Pittsburgh Section for the last decade. He is the Region 1-3 & 7 Coordinator of Power Electronics Society.

Introduction To Robotics and Automation
2018-05-28
Welcome to IEEE Introduction to Robotics and Automation. This course develops students’ skills and self-confidence in common automation practices. The student will learn the parts of a robot, how they work together and the theory and code used to control them.
Date & Time: Monday May 28th, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
For information, please contact: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org

RF in Medicine: Current Status and Challenges of Antennas and Wireless Power
2018-05-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Room Number: BA 1180 Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Thursday, May 31st at 4:00 p.m., Dr Yongxin Guo, National University of Singapore, Singapore, will be presenting a distinguished lecture: “RF in Medicine: Current Status and Challenges of Antennas and Wireless Power”.
Day & Time: Thursday, May 31, 2018
4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Yongxin Guo
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Location: Room Number: BA 1180
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: George V. Eleftheriades
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter
Abstract: Wireless power and data telemetry technologies for biomedical and healthcare applications have received a lot of attention recently. Numerous applications in medical diagnostics and therapeutics ranging from cardiac pacemakers to emerging devices in visual prosthesis, brain computer interfaces and body area networks have spurred electronic engineers to propose new wireless medical devices. In the meantime, the ageing population poses many challenges to healthcare systems, especially on chronic illness management. In this talk, I would mainly cover our recent research progress on wearable/implantable antennas and wireless power for biomedical applications. A few related ongoing biomedical projects for on-body and in-body applications will be addressed. In addition, I would also briefly introduce my other related research activities.
Biography: Yong-Xin Guo received his Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2001. From September 2001 to January 2009, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, as a Research Scientist. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), as an Assistant Professor in February 2009 and was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in Jan 2013. He has authored or co-authored 206 international journal papers and ~200 international conference papers. Thus far, his publications have been cited more than 6200 times and the H-index is 44 (source: Google Scholar). He holds 8 granted/filed Patents in U.S. or China. His current research interests include antennas for wireless communications and biomedical applications, wireless power for biomedical and IoTs, and MMIC modelling and design. He has graduated 12 PhD students at NUS.
Dr Guo was the General Chair/Co-Chair for AWPT 2017, ACES-China 2017, IEEE IMWS-AMP 2015 and IEEE IMWS-Bio 2013. He served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for IEEE IMWS-AMP 2017 and RFIT2009. He is serving as Associate Editors for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, and Electronics Letters. He was a recipient of the Young Investigator Award 2009, National University of Singapore. He received 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Grant Senior Researcher Award. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Big Data Based Recommendation Approaches for Healthcare
2018-05-31 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Room GB405, University of Toronto (Galbraith Building), 35 St George St., Toronto Ontario M5S 1A4
Thursday, May 31st at 6:00 p.m., Samee U. Khan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the North Dakota State University, will be presenting “Big Data Based Recommendation Approaches for Healthcare”.
Day & Time: Thursday, May 31, 2018
6:00 p.m. ‐ 9:00 p.m.
Speaker: Samee U. Khan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Dakota State University
Location: Room GB405, University of Toronto (Galbraith Building)
35 St George St., Toronto
Ontario M5S 1A4
Contact: Dennis Cecic
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Computer Society
RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/162924
Fees: IEEE Members: Free
Non-Member (Professional): $10 + 13% HST
Abstract: Recommender systems have attained widespread acceptance and have attracted the increased attention by the masses for over a decade. Recommender systems alleviate the complexities of products and services selection tasks and are meant to overcome the issuesof information overload. Just like the recommender systems’ prospects in e-commerce and several other business domains,recommender systems have also been developed to offer recommendations about healthcare services and products. Considering the high volumes and dimensionality of healthcare data, utilization of efficient techniques to manage the big data is inevitable.
In this talk, we describe the need and rationale for using the big data enabled techniques for healthcare data. As case studies, we will detail our work on developing recommendation systems for: (a) health insurance products recommendation, (b) health expert recommendation from social media, (c) identification of influential doctors from Twitter, and (d) disease risk assessment services. During the discussion on the cases studies, we will discuss the following issues that are particular to the recommender systems: (a) cold start, (b) long-tail problem, and (c) scalability.
Biography: Samee U. Khan received a BS degree in 1999 from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan, and a PhD in 2007 from the University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA. Prof. Khan’s research interests include optimization, robustness, and security of systems. His work hasappeared in over 300 publications. He is on the editorial boards of leading journals, such as IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and IEEE IT Pro. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, formerly IEE), and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS).

Introduction To Robotics Class 2: Practical Introduction to Robot Subsystems
2018-06-04 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber College North Campus, J Building
Students will learn the basic robot building blocks through hands on examples. By the end of the lesson students will precisely control a motor through Arduino code. The flow of information and signals will be examined. Students should read online tutorials on:
1. How to control a servo motor via Arduino
2. How a rotary encoder sensor works and how to use them via Arduino.
Date & Time: Monday June 4th, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
For information, please contact: Dr Maryam Davoudpour

29th Biennial Symposium on Communications – BSC 2018 (Toronto)
2018-06-06 - 2018-06-07 | Toronto, ON, Canada
BSC 2018 will take place in Toronto, Ontario from June 6 to 7, 2018. Find out more information at http://infotheory.ca/bsc2018/

Dr. Prabha Kundur’s Seminar on Sustainable Electric Power Systems in the 21st Century
2018-06-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Room 1105, Sanford Fleming building, 10 King’s College Rd, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8
Wednesday, June 6th at 6:00 p.m., Dr. Prabha Kundur, President of Kundur Power Systems Solutions Inc., will be presenting a seminar on “Sustainable Electric Power Systems in the 21st Century”.
Day & Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018
6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Prabha Kundur
President of Kundur Power Systems Solutions Inc.
Location: 10 King’s College Rd
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 3G8
Building: Sanford Fleming building
Room Number: Room 1105
Contact: Omid Alizadeh
Organizer: Power & Energy Chapter, University of Toronto Student Branch
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/172987
Abstract: IEEE Toronto is honoured to have Dr. Prabha S. Kundur give a presentation on Sustainable Electric Power Systems in the 21st Century: Requirements, Challenges and the Role of Intelligent Systems Technologies, on Wednesday, June 6th, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm, Room 1105 at Sanford Fleming building, University of Toronto.
Sustainability of electric power systems requires balancing the business across three areas: economic, social and environmental. This will have a profound impact on how power systems are planned, built and operated in the future. In the evolving electricity supply industry environment, the challenges are to produce, transmit, and use energy in an environmentally friendly manner, to reduce costs by improving operating efficiency and business practices, and enhance the reliability and quality of power supply. In particular, there will be increased focus on improving the security and reliability of power systems while addressing environmental concerns, such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming issues. There will also be greater emphasis on “smart” use of energy. Research, development and application of intelligent systems technologies will play a major role in shaping the future directions of power systems in this regard.
This presentation will describe these changes affecting the electric power industry and highlight new technologies that will influence the changes.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Biography: Prabha Kundur holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and has over 40 years of experience in the electric power industry. He is currently the President of Kundur Power system Solutions Inc., Toronto, Ontario. He served as the President and CEO of Powertech Labs Inc., the research and technology subsidiary of BC Hydro, from 1994 to 2006. Prior to joining Powertech, he worked at Ontario Hydro for nearly 25 years and held senior positions involving power system planning and design.
He has also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto from 1979 to 2017 and at the University of British Columbia from1994 to 2006. He is the author of the book Power System Stability and Control (McGraw-Hill, 1994), which is a standard modern reference for the subject. He has performed extensive international consulting related to power system planning and design, and has delivered advanced level technical courses for utilities, manufacturers and universities around the world.
Dr. Kundur has a long record of service and leadership in the IEEE. He has chaired numerous committees and working groups of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1985. He served as the Chair of the IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee from 2001 to 2003. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a member of the IEEE PES Executive Committee and as the PES Vice-President for Education. He is the recipient of several IEEE awards, including the 1997 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award, 2005 IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award, and the 2010 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering.
Dr. Kundur was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2003 and as a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
He has been awarded two honorary degrees: Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania in 2003, and Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa by the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2004.

Introduction to Robotics Class 3: Introduction to Encoders and Feedback
2018-06-11 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber North Campus, J Building
Students will learn the basic robot building blocks through hands on examples. By the end of the lesson students will precisely control a motor through Arduino code. The flow of information and signals will be examined. Students should read online tutorials on:
1. How to control a servo motor via Arduino
2. How a rotary encoder sensor works and how to use them via Arduino.
Date & Time: Monday June 11th, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Introduction to Microcontrollers
2018-06-13 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber North Campus, J Building
The workshop is to introduce students to Ardunio microcontroller programming, a way to get the knowledge about microcontrollers. This involves hardware component and software components.
Date & Time: Wednesday June 13th, 2018
2:30 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Advanced Sensor Concepts, Exploitation, Signal Processing and Systems Engineering
2018-06-14 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | BA 1200 (Bahen Center), University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 2E4
Thursday, June 14th at 11:00 a.m., IEEE AESS and SC Distinguished Lecturer Michael C. Wicks, Ph.D., will be presenting “Advanced Sensor Concepts, Exploitation, Signal Processing and Systems Engineering”.
Day & Time: Thursday, June 14, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael C. Wicks, Ph.D.
DIEEE AESS and SC Distinguished Lecturer
Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Dayton, Dayton OH 45469 USA
Host: Dr. Raviraj Adve
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Location: BA 1200 (Bahen Center)
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street, Toronto
Canada M5S 2E4
Contact: Dr. Mehrdad Tirandazian
Organizer: Aerospace and Systems, Man and Cybernetics IEEE Toronto Section
Abstract: In this talk, a number of concepts and technologies forming the foundation for the exploitation of sensors from a Big Data perspective are presented. A signal processing and systems engineering approach is discussed, and heuristic techniques are presented as being critical to leap ahead advances in sensor exploitation. While radar centric in nature, the foundation for a more general sensors approach to Big Data exploitation is discussed. Archival data is considered to be essential to the optimal exploitation of sensor phenomena, as humans are unable to fully observe or even comprehend the volumes of rapidly changing data available today. Topics as diverse as radio frequency tomography for below ground imaging, millimeter wave sensing for exquisite feature extraction, target resonance and dynamic imaging of targets obscured by clutter and cover, as well as space-time adaptive processing are presented. The integrating theme of Big Data exploitation in the Internet of Radar is discussed within the context of these enabling sensor technologies as is the “Velocity of Sensor Data.”
Biography: Dr. Wicks is a leading research scientist in remote sensing, signal processing and systems engineering, with a current focus on distributed sensing and radio frequency technology. He has pursued a variety of research interests in his career, including: cognitive radar, radio frequency tomographic radar, counter explosive sensor technology, cognitive radar and radio, space object sensing, missile defense, deep earth probing radar, multi-dimensional adaptive processing for airborne and space based radar, ultra-wideband radio and radar, passive and active multi-static systems, and concealed weapons / contraband detection and carrier identification. He pioneered the concept of knowledge-based signal processing and waveform diversity, and has led national and international research teams on the design, development and fielding of novel algorithms, architectures and systems for remote sensing from space, air and surface platforms.
Sponsored research is currently focused on advanced algorithms for the detection and track processing of airborne targets obscured by wind farm clutter, as is research on spatially and spectrally diverse sensing for the automatic detection, identification, and feature exploitation of objects under cover, e.g. below ground, inside structures, or under foliage. Space object identification is also a topic of current research. The design and analysis of distributed radar for exoatmospheric surveillance is complimented by analysis and experiments for side-looking imaging and surface moving target indication radar. Recent research has resulted in the development of a mobile waveform diverse distributed MIMO radar system and a radio frequency tomography test bed at the University of Dayton. Research on integrated close-in sensing and long range wide area surveillance radar is addressing feature extraction, in addition to detection processing and track formation. Algorithms and architectures for the numerical and symbolic (heuristic) processing of sensor data is a primary focus of this research.

Introduction to Robotics Class 4
2018-06-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber North Campus, J Building
Students will learn the basic robot building blocks through hands on examples. By the end of the lesson students will precisely control a motor through Arduino code. The flow of information and signals will be examined. Students should read online tutorials on:
1. How to control a servo motor via Arduino
2. How a rotary encoder sensor works and how to use them via Arduino.
Date & Time: Monday June 18th, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Introduction to Robotics Class 5
2018-06-25 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber North Campus, J Building
Students will learn the basic robot building blocks through hands on examples. By the end of the lesson students will precisely control a motor through Arduino code. The flow of information and signals will be examined. Students should read online tutorials on:
1. How to control a servo motor via Arduino
2. How a rotary encoder sensor works and how to use them via Arduino.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Date & Time: Monday June 25th, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Motor Control with Arduino
2018-07-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Prototype Lab (J232 Humber College North Campus)
-Introduction
-Basic information about DC motor, stepper motor and servo motor
-How to make them run (ON/OFF)
-How to control speed
* Basic information about PID control (I will not make the whole calculation but still I want to mention about the idea to show where it comes from)
-How to control direction
– How and where can we use them
Speaker: Seda Erturk
Date & Time: Tuesday July 10th, 2018
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Robotics Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Prototype Lab (J232 Humber College North Campus)
For information, please contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Arduino Microcontroller Programming
2018-07-16 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Humber College North Campus, J Building
The workshop is to continue learning Ardunio microcontroller programming, a way to get the knowledge about microcontrollers. This involves learning
hardware component and software component.
In this workshop, we are going to introduce Pulse with Modulation concept and program Arduino to see it. Introducing 7 segment LED ( common cathode and anode) and going through wiring and programming.
Date & Time: Monday July 16th, 2018
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Instrumentation Measurement – Robotics Automation Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Zahraa Khalil

EMC and Frequency Selective Surfaces for 5G Communications
2018-07-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, BA1240, 40 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E4
Tuesday, July 17th at 3:00 p.m., Professor Erping Li, Zhejiang University, China, will be presenting “EMC and Frequency Selective Surfaces for 5G Communications”.
Day & Time: Tuesday, July 17, 2018
3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Erping Li, Zhejiang University, China
Location: 40 St George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2E4
Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
Room Number: BA1240
Contact: Costas Sarris
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter
Abstract: The spectrum in the range of 28 GHz is sued for adoption of 5G wireless communication. The novel wideband frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) are explored for the extensive applications in 5G communication such as antenna reflectors, radomes to system level electromagnetic structures. This presentation will touch on a novel broadband bandpass frequency selective surface (FSS) designed for fifth generation (5G) communication. The new structure design employs the vertical vias in the two-dimensional (2-D) periodic arrays, which demonstrates that such a single 2.5-dimensional (2.5-D) periodic layer of via_based structure produces a highly stable angular response up to 75 degrees for both the TE and TM incident angles. The proposed FSS is a good candidate for 5G communication applications.
Biography: Erping Li holds the appointment of Changjiang-Qianren Distinguished Professor in Zhejiang University, China, Dean for Zhejiang University-UIUC Institute. Prior that he worked for Singapore A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing as a Principal Scientist, Director of Photonic Department, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore and adjunct Professor at Singapore Nanyang Technological University. Dr Li’s research interests include advanced computational electromagnetics, electromagnetics in micro-nanoelectronics, electromagnetics in 5G communication, nano-plasmonics for microwave and mmwave. He authored or co-authored over 400 papers published in the referred international journals and conferences, authored two books published at John-Wiley Press(2012) and Cambridge University Press(2014). Dr Li is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of MITElectromagnetics Academy, USA. He received numerous international awards including the IEEE EMC Richard Stoddard Award in 2015, IEEE EMC Technical Achievement Award, and Changjiang Chair Professorship Award from the Ministry of Education in China. He has served as General Chair and Technical Program Chair for more than 10 prestigious international conferences and delivered over 80 invited talks and plenary speeches at various international conferences and forums.

Integration of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids
2018-07-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada
Friday, July 20th at 11:00 a.m., The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested to the distinguished lecture titled: “Integration of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids”.
Day & Time: Friday, July 20, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. Ying-Jun Angela Zhang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: 40 St George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2E4
Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
Room Number: BA4164
Contact: Eman Hammad
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Communication Society
Abstract: The recent surge in electric vehicle adoption worldwide brings both challenges and opportunities to the electricity power grid. In this talk, we will first introduce our recent work on coordinated electric vehicle charging when the knowledge of future events is unknown. We will then show how the battery systems in electric vehicles can contribute to stabilizing the grid frequency.
Biography: Ying-Jun Angela Zhang (S’00-M’05-SM’10) received her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong in 2004. Since 2005, she has been with Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include mainly wireless communications systems and smart power systems, in particular optimization techniques for such systems. She serves as the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Previously, she served many years as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Security and Communications Networks (Wiley), and a Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine. She has served on the organizing committee of major IEEE conferences including ICC, GLOBECOM, SmartgridComm, VTC, CCNC, ICCC, MASS, etc.. She is now the Chair of IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technical Committee on Smart Grid. She was a Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and the IEEE Communication Society GOLD Coordinator. She was the co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and the 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. She was the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. As the only winner from engineering science, she has won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institution of Science. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc.

Arduino Microcontroller Programming
2018-07-23 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Humber North Campus, J Building
The workshop is to continue learning Ardunio microcontroller programming.
In this workshop, continue the discussion about 7 segment LED , learning about Shift register and the application with Arduino board and keypad integration. The workshop involves hardware and software.
Date & Time: Monday July 23rd, 2018
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, IEEE Toronto Instrumentation Measurement – Robotics Automation Chapter, IEEE Humber Student Affinity Group
Location: Humber North Campus, J Building
For information, please contact: Zahraa Khalil

Engineering Gateways: Communicating for Success as Women in Engineering
2018-07-24 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto
Tuesday, July 24th at 1:00 p.m., come join IEEE Canada Women in Engineering (WIE) and IEEE Toronto WIE Group for “Engineering Gateways: Communicating for Success as Women in Engineering” Panel at the IEEE Professional Communication 2018 (ProComm’18). Diverse perspectives will be brought to this panel on topics such as communications, self-promotion, professional branding, and strategies for intervention.
Day & Time: Tuesday, July 24, 2018
1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:15 p.m.
Speakers: Namir Anani
President and CEO of Information and Communications Technology Council
Christine Laperriere
Lead Coach and Executive Director of the Women of Influence Advancement Centre
Teresa Sing
VP Business Development, Refine Recruitment
Jennifer van Amerom
Founder and CEO, Refine Recruitment
Deborah-Tihanyi
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Director, and Communication Coordinator
University of Toronto
Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street, Toronto
Canada M5S 2E4
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/173431
Contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour
Organizer: IEEE Canada Women in Engineering (WIE) and IEEE Toronto WIE Group

More/All Electric Aircraft
2018-07-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Mechanical Engineering Building, RM 331, 5 King’s College Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G8
Thursday, July 26th at 2:00 p.m., Dr. Hassan Kojori, PhD, Senior Principal Engineer with Honeywell, will be presenting “More/All Electric Aircraft”.
Day & Time: Thursday, July 26, 2018
2:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Hassan Kojori, PhD
Senior Principal Engineer with Honeywell
Location: 5 King’s College Rd.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 3G8
Building: Mechanical Engineering Building
Room Number: RM 331
Contact: Kyarash Shahriari, Omid Alizadeh
Organizer: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), Power & Energy Chapter
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/174543
Abstract: The More Electric Aircraft (MEA) is based on the concept of utilizing electrical power for driving aircraft subsystems currently powered by hydraulic, pneumatic or mechanical means including utility and flight control actuation, environmental control system, lubrication and fuel pumps, and numerous other utility functions. In this seminar, Dr. Kojori begins with an overview of the More Electric Aircraft and will discuss how various technologies developed over the past three decades have helped reduce the size, weight and life-cycle-cost of the overall system, significantly improve reliability and ease manufacturing and maintenance. Next he will cover emerging advanced technologies for All Electric Aircraft for urban transportation and discuss some of the main opportunities and challenges.
Biography: Dr. Hassan Kojori holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and is an IEEE Fellow and licensed Professional Engineer. He has over 30 years of experience in power electronics, Li-ion batteries, energy optimization and systems control for aerospace, automotive and utility industries. His original work on many technology firsts has resulted in 48 patent disclosures (27 granted), several trade secrets and more than 50 technical papers and proprietary reports. Currently, as a Senior Principal Engineer with Honeywell, he is the Conversion Portfolio Leader in the Aero Advanced Tech and Responsible for R&D for More Electric Aircraft and tactical vehicles. He has been actively engaged in collaborative research with leading local and international universities. He was adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University (2000-2012) and an industry professor in the Institute for Automotive Research and Technology at McMaster University (2012-2017). Currently, he is Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, a board member of the Advisory Council for ECE department at Ryerson University and University of Toronto Institute for Multidisciplinary Design & Innovation and represents Honeywell at The Downsview Aerospace Innovation and Research Consortium.

Convergence between Broadcast and Mobile Broadband
2018-08-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada
Thursday, August 9th at 11:00 a.m., the IEEE Toronto Section, Consumer Electronics Chapter invites you to the IEEE CESoc Distinguished Lecture on: “Convergence between Broadcast and Mobile Broadband” by Dr. Ulrich Reimers, IEEE CESoc Renowned Distinguished Speaker, and Professor Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany.
Day & Time: Thursday, August 9, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Reimers
IEEE CESoc Renowned Distinguished Speaker
Professor Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Location: 40 St George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2E4
Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
Room Number: BA7180
Contact: Mahdieh Taghizadeh
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Section, Consumer Electronics Chapter
RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/174204
Abstract: The mobile industry has been testing the feasibility of evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS), an LTE embedded broadcast approach to support a growing mobile video/TV consumption and the delivery of other highly popular data services. But, eMBMS has so far only been used in small scale scenarios with local coverage. When it comes to large scale service areas with regional or even national coverage, the cellular nature of eMBMS has not proven to be attractive for cost efficient LTE broadcast content distribution. Adapting LTE broadcast to traditional High Tower High Power (HTHP) broadcasting towers and introducing this as a third service layer, i.e. as an extension of LTE unicast and eMBMS can resolve this issue as it reduces network load, energy consumption and network costs for such popular services. Additionally, it creates the possibility of cooperation between the cellular and broadcasting networks enabling a cooperative spectrum usage.
The term “Tower Overlay over LTE-Advanced+ (TOoL+)” describes the transmission of an extension of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) offering broadcast services, especially live video, from a traditional High Tower High Power (HTHP) broadcast infrastructure, rather than in a cellular LTE-A network. TOoL+ was invented and developed by IfN. Since LTE-A is optimized for the Low Tower Low Power (LTLP) environment of cellular networks, the use of a HTHP environment requires some modifications of the LTE-A standard, e.g. the definition of a dedicated broadcast carrier and of additional OFDM parameters with longer cyclic prefixes. These modifications are represented by the term LTE-A+. In one of the modes, TOoL+ even supports a cooperative spectrum use by DVB-T2 (or ATSC 3.0 in the future) and LTE-A+ if this is attractive to market players. IfN developed a Software Defined Radio (SDR) based TOoL+ implementation to demonstrate the technological feasibility of this approach. An extended version of this demo has been used during two field trials conducted in Paris, France and in the Aosta Valley, Italy to evaluate the proposed modifications and the cooperative spectrum use in a real environment. The analysis shows that LTE-A+ is a suitable technology for HTHP broadcast to mobile devices as its coverage area is similar to that of DVB-T2.
In line with the ideas underlying TOoL+, 3GPP has recently specified FeMBMS (Further evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) in Release 14. FeMBMS supports a long cyclic prefix and thus makes larger network cells feasible. At IfN we have already implemented FeMBMS and by the time of the lectures in Canada will have carried out a field trial in at least one European country.
Biography: Prof. Ulrich H. Reimers studied communication engineering at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany. Following research at the university’s Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN – Institute for Communications Technology) he joined BTS Broadcast Television Systems in Darmstadt. Between 1989 and 1993 he was Technical Director of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg – one of the major public broadcasters in Germany. Since 1993 he has been a Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig and Managing Director of the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications Technology). Prof. Reimers was chairman of the Technical Module within the DVB Project from 1993 to 2012. Since 2012 he is Vice President Strategic Development and Technology Transfer of Technische Universitaet Braunschweig. He is the author of more than 120 publications, among others of various text books on DVB. Prof. Reimers received a significant number of international and national awards. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and the recipient of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. Recently Prof. Reimers and the research teams at IfN invented innovative solutions for the co-existence of broadcast and wireless broadband such as “Dynamic Broadcast”, “Tower Overlay over LTE-A+ (TOoL+)”, or “Redundancy on Demand”.
Prof. Reimers is a Renowned Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CESoc).

IEEE SSCS/CAS Distinguished Lecture Series – Dr. Gabor Temes
2018-08-10 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada
Friday, August 10th 2018, the IEEE Toronto SSCS/CAS invites you to the IEEE SSCS/CAS Distinguished Lecture Series on: “A 13b ENOB Noise-Shaping SAR ADC with a Two-Capacitor DAC” by Lukang Shi and Gabor C. Temes, and “Noise Filtering and Linearization of Single-Ended Circuits” by Gabor C. Temes et al., School of EECS, Oregon State University.
Date: Friday August 10th, 2018
Organizers: IEEE Toronto SSCS/CAS
Location: Bahen Centre Room BA1210
Lecture 1 (10:10am – 11:00am): A 13b ENOB Noise-Shaping SAR ADC with a Two-Capacitor DAC
Speakers: Lukang Shi and Gabor C. Temes
School of EECS, Oregon State University
Abstract: An active noise-shaping successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter is described. Instead of binary-weighted capacitors, it uses two equal-valued capacitors as the embedded digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Thus, the capacitance spread in the DAC is much smaller than that of the conventional binary-weighted capacitor array, and the mismatch error can be greatly reduced. The circuit provides first-order noise shaping, which can improve the ADC’s linearity even for a small oversampling ratio. Also, the proposed architecture uses a monotonic approximation procedure, which requires fewer conversion steps than for a conventional SAR ADCs. The ADC was fabricated in 0.18 um CMOS technology. For a 2 kHz signal bandwidth, it achieved a 78.8 dB SNDR. It consumes 74.2 mW power from a 1.5 V power supply. The performance can be drastically improved by introducing noise mitigation schemes and higher-order noise shaping. These topics will also be discussed.
Lecture 2 (11:10am – 12:00pm): Noise Filtering and Linearization of Single-Ended Circuits
Speakers: Gabor C. Temes et al.
School of EECS, Oregon State University
Abstract: The performance of analog integrated circuits is often limited by the noise generated in its components. Several circuit techniques exist for suppressing the effects of the low-frequency noise. In this paper, existing techniques are described for noise mitigation. Also, a novel approach is proposed, which can suppress low-frequency noise. In addition, the new process will also reduce even-order distortion, another major limitation of analog circuits. Finally, it may allow the use of single-ended circuits in applications where usually differential structures are needed.
Biography: Gabor C. Temes received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1961, and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, in 1991. He held academic positions at the Technical University of Budapest, Stanford University and the University of California at Los Angeles. He worked in industry at Northern Electric R&D Laboratories and at Ampex Corp. He is now a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University.
Dr. Temes received the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award in 1998, and the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. He was the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, and the 2009 IEEE CAS Mac Valkenburg Award. He received the 2017 Semiconductor Industry Association-SRC University Researcher Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Transportation, Energy, Information and Humanity
2018-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Center of Information Technology
Friday, August 17th 2018, the IEEE Toronto Section, Power Electronics and Consumer Electronics joint Chapter invites you to the Lecture on: “Transportation, Energy, Information and Humanity” by Prof. C.C. Chan, Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Day & Time: Friday August 17th, 2018
11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. C.C. Chan, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Founding President, World Electric Vehicle Association, Past President, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
Organizers: IEEE Toronto Section, Power Electronics and Consumer Electronics joint Chapter
Location: University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2E4
Bahen Center of Information Technology
Room Number: Room BA1210
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/175871
Abstract: To cope with the current complex economical, societal and technical challenges in the new era, it is vital to be open-minded. Namely, to integrate the Chinese ancient civilization and the western modern civilization, to uphold the spirit of renaissance. This keynote speech will discuss the challenges and key issues related to the commercialization of electric vehicles, the integration of intelligent transport, intelligent energy, intelligent information and intelligent humanities. Proposed energy internet based on the correlation between energy and information and nano energy structure.
Biography: Prof. C. C. Chan holds BSc, MSc, PhD, HonDSc, HonDTech degrees. Honorary Professor and Former Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor of MIT, University of Cambridge, etc; Founding President of the World Electric Vehicle Association; Senior Consultant to governments, Strategic Adviser or Independent Director of public companies and industries; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Chinese Academy of Engineering, IEEE, IET and HKIE. Recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering Prince Philip Medal; Chinese Academy of Engineering Guang-Hua Prize, World Federation of Engineering (WFEO) Medal of Engineering Excellence; Gold Medal of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; IEEE Transportation Technologies Award; IEE International Lecture Medal; “Asia’s Best Technology Pioneers” by Asiaweek; “Father of Asian Electric Vehicles” by Magazine Global View; “Pitamaha (Grandfather) of Electric Vehicle Technology” in India; “Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award” by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE); His major research includes advanced electric drives and energy systems, intelligent electric vehicles and correlation between energy and information. He has published 11 books, over 300 technical papers and holds 9 patents.
