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  • Nelson J. G. Fonseca, Dec. 08, 12 pm

    Toronto, Ontario Canada

    The U of T Student Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) (https://edu.ieee.org/ca-uotaps/) invites you to the following talk of our 2020-2021 seminar series: “Quasi-Optical Antennas for Space Applications”, presented by the European Space Agency antenna engineer, Nelson J. G. Fonseca, on Tuesday, Dec. 08, 12 PM ET. Day & Time: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Speaker: Nelson J. G. Fonseca Organizer: U of T Student Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Location: Online (link will be provided to registrants) Contact: Parinaz Naseri Abstract: This presentation provides an overview of recent multiple beam lens antenna developments supported by the European Space Agency, for applications ranging from satcom payloads, to imaging systems and microwave instruments. There are also on-going transfer of technology activities for 5G terrestrial communication systems. The presentation will cover related developments on polarizers, providing polarization conversion as well as polarization selectivity for advanced antenna systems. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/250057 to register. Biography: Nelson J. G. Fonseca (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Eng. degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, Electronique, Informatique, Hydraulique et Telecommunications (ENSEEIHT), Toulouse, France, in 2003, the M.Sc. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada, also in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – Université de Toulouse, France, in 2010, all in electrical engineering. Since 2009, he works in the Antenna and Sub-Millimetre Waves Section, European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands. His current research interests include multiple beam antennas for space missions, beamformer theory and design, ground terminal antennas and novel manufacturing techniques. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He contributed to 25 technical innovations, protected by over 40 patents issued or pending.

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

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

  • Current and Future Trends in 5G/B5G/6G

    Montreal, Quebec Canada

    IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Groups of the Montreal Section, Ottawa Section, Toronto Section, Turkey Section, and the IEEE Vancouver Joint Communications Chapter bring bright minds from the flagship research groups across the globe to give the community technical lectures on cutting-edge areas in wireless communications. This event will cover broad arrays of topics along with fundamental research results targeting a variety of applications in 5G/B5G/6G. Day & Time: Monday, December 14, 2020 11:45 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Speakers: Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Wei Yu, Vincent Wong Organizers: IEEE Montreal Section YP, Vancouver Jt Chpt VT06/COM19/PHO36/BT02/IT12/ITS38, Ottawa Section YP, Turkey Section YP, Toronto Section YP Location: Virtual Contact & Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/241334 for contact information and to register. Agenda: 11:45 PM – 12:00 PM Opening and Welcome Mansour Naslcheraghi, Chair of IEEE YP Montreal 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Talk Walid Saad 12:30 PM – 12:35 PM Q&A Walid Saad 12:35 PM – 01:05 PM Talk Halim Yanikomeroglu 01:05 PM – 01:10 PM Q&A Halim Yanikomeroglu 01:10 PM – 01:40 PM Talk Vincent Wong 01:40 PM – 01:45 PM Q&A Vincent Wong 01:45 PM – 02:15 PM Talk Mehdi Bennis 02:15 PM – 02:20 PM Q&A Mehdi Bennis 02:20 PM – 02:50 PM Talk Wei Yu 02:50 PM – 02:55 PM Q&A Wei Yu 02:55 PM – 3:10 PM Q&A All speakers Topics and Abstracts: Walid Saad, ECE Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Professor, Fellow of IEEE Title: Can Terahertz Communications Provide High-Rate Highly Reliable Low Latency Communications in 6G Networks? Abstract: Communication at high-frequency terahertz (THz) bands is seen as a staple of the sixth generation (6G) of wireless cellular networks, due to the large amount of available bandwidth. However, 6G systems will have to support, not only high data rates, but also highly reliable communication links for emerging applications such as advanced wireless virtual reality (VR) systems. In particular, advanced wireless VR applications will impose new visual and haptic requirements that are directly linked to the quality-of-experience (QoE) of VR users. These QoE requirements can only be met by wireless 6G connectivity that offers high-rate and high-reliability low latency communications (HRLLC), unlike the low rates usually considered in vanilla 5G ultra-reliable low latency communication scenarios.  Guaranteeing HRLLC in THz-enabled 6G systems requires dealing with the uncertainty that is specific to the THz channel. Therefore, in this talk, after a brief overview on our vision of 6G systems, we will explore the potential of THz for meeting HRLLC requirements. In this regard, we first quantify the risk for an unreliable VR performance through a novel and rigorous characterization of the tail of the end-to-end (E2E) delay. Then, we perform a thorough analysis of the tail-value-at-risk (TVaR)  to concretely characterize the behavior of extreme wireless events crucial to the real-time VR experience. We use this analysis to derive system reliability for scenarios with guaranteed line-of-sight (LoS)  as a function of THz network parameters. We then present simulation results that show how abundant bandwidth and low molecular absorption are necessary to improve the reliability, although their effect remains secondary compared to the availability of LoS, which significantly affects the THz HRLLC performance. We conclude our talk with an overview on other key open problems in the realms of THz communications and 6G systems. Halim Yanikomeroglu, ECE Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Professor, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada Title: Wireless Access Architecture: The Next 20+ Years Abstract: Communication at high-frequency terahertz (THz) bands is seen as a staple of the sixth generation (6G) of wireless cellular networks, due to the large amount of available bandwidth. However, 6G systems will have to support, not only high data rates, but also highly reliable communication links for emerging applications such as advanced wireless virtual reality (VR) systems. In particular, advanced wireless VR applications will impose new visual and haptic requirements that are directly linked to the quality-of-experience (QoE) of VR users. These QoE requirements can only be met by wireless 6G connectivity that offers high-rate and high-reliability low latency communications (HRLLC), unlike the low rates usually considered in vanilla 5G ultra-reliable low latency communication scenarios.  Guaranteeing HRLLC in THz-enabled 6G systems requires dealing with the uncertainty that is specific to the THz channel. Therefore, in this talk, after a brief overview on our vision of 6G systems, we will explore the potential of THz for meeting HRLLC requirements. In this regard, we first quantify the risk for an unreliable VR performance through a novel and rigorous characterization of the tail of the end-to-end (E2E) delay. Then, we perform a thorough analysis of the tail-value-at-risk (TVaR)  to concretely characterize the behavior of extreme wireless events crucial to the real-time VR experience. We use this analysis to derive system reliability for scenarios with guaranteed line-of-sight (LoS)  as a function of THz network parameters. We then present simulation results that show how abundant bandwidth and low molecular absorption are necessary to improve the reliability, although their effect remains secondary compared to the availability of LoS, which significantly affects the THz HRLLC performance. We conclude our talk with an overview on other key open problems in the realms of THz communications and 6G systems. Vincent Wong, ECE Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Professor, Fellow of IEEE Title: Throughput Optimization for Grant-Free Multiple Access with Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning Abstract: Grant-free multiple access (GFMA) is a promising paradigm to efficiently support uplink access of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this talk, we present a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based pilot sequence selection scheme for GFMA systems to mitigate potential pilot sequence collisions. We formulate a pilot sequence selection problem for aggregate throughput maximization in GFMA systems with specific throughput constraints as a Markov decision process (MDP). By exploiting multiagent DRL, we train deep neural networks (DNNs) to learn near-optimal pilot sequence selection policies from the transition history of the underlying MDP without requiring information exchange between the users. While the training process takes advantage of global information, we leverage the technique of factorization to ensure that the policies learned by the DNNs can be executed in a distributed manner. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve an average aggregate throughput that is close to the optimum, and has a better performance than several heuristic algorithms. Mehdi Bennis, ECE Department, University of Oulu, Finland Professor, IEEE Fellow Abstract: This talk will break down the vision of wireless network edge intelligence at scale in terms of theoretical and algorithmic principles in addition to a number of applications in beyond 5G/6G. Wei Yu, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering Title: Data-Driven Approaches to Wireless Communication System Design Abstract: In this talk, I will illustrate how machine learning can significantly improve the design of wireless communication systems. I will draw examples from scheduling and power control problems for wireless cellular networks to show that a data-driven approach can circumvent the need for accurate channel estimation and provide near optimal solutions to system-level optimization problems in wireless system design. I will also show how deep neural network (DNN) can be used for efficient and distributed channel estimation, quantization, feedback, and multiuser precoding for massive MIMO systems, thereby providing an efficient solution to a distributed source coding problem. I will conclude by showing the benefit of data-driven design in term of robustness. Biographies: Walid Saad of Virginia Tech Walid Saad received his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Network sciEnce, Wireless, and Security (NEWS) laboratory. His research interests include wireless networks, machine learning, game theory, security, unmanned aerial vehicles, cyber-physical systems, and network science. Dr. Saad is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013, the AFOSR summer faculty fellowship in 2014, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 2015. He was the author/co-author of nine conference best paper awards at WiOpt in 2009, ICIMP in 2010, IEEE WCNC in 2012, IEEE PIMRC in 2015, IEEE SmartGridComm in 2015, EuCNC in 2017, IEEE GLOBECOM in 2018, IFIP NTMS in 2019, and IEEE ICC in 2020. He is the recipient of the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, of the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional in Academia award, of the 2018 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award, and of the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Communication Theory Technical Committee. He was also a co-author of the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper. From 2015-2017, Dr. Saad was named the Stephen O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech and, in 2017, he was named College of Engineering Faculty Fellow. He received the Dean’s award for Research Excellence from Virginia Tech in 2019. He currently serves as an editor for major IEEE Transactions. Halim Yanikomeroglu Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Canada. His extensive collaboration with industry on 4G & 5G wireless technologies resulted in 37 granted patents. During 2012-2016, he led one of the largest academic-industrial collaborative research programs on pre-standards 5G wireless. In Summer 2019, he started a new large-scale project on the 6G wireless network architecture. He supervised 26 PhD students (all completed with theses). He is a Fellow of IEEE, EIC (Engineering Institute of Canada), and CAE (Canadian Academy of Engineering), and a Distinguished Speaker for both IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several major IEEE conferences; he also served in the Editorial Boards of several IEEE periodicals. He served as the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications, and he is currently chairing the Steering Committee of IEEE’s flagship Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Dr. Yanikomeroglu received several awards for his research, teaching, and service, including the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2018 and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award in 2020. Vincent Wong Vincent Wong is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His research areas include protocol design, optimization, and resource management of communication networks, with applications to the Internet, wireless networks, smart grid, fog computing, and Internet of Things. Currently, he is an executive editorial committee member of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Dr. Wong is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2019 – 2020). Mehdi Bennis Dr Mehdi Bennis is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, Academy of Finland Research Fellow and head of the intelligent connectivity and networks/systems group (ICON). His main research interests are in radio resource management, heterogeneous networks, game theory and distributed machine learning in 5G networks and beyond. He has published more than 200 research papers in international conferences, journals and book chapters. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2016 Best Tutorial Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2017 EURASIP Best paper Award for the Journal of Wireless Communications and Networks, the all-University of Oulu award for research and the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award. Dr Bennis is an editor of IEEE TCOM and Specialty Chief Editor for Data Science for Communications in the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. Wei Yu Wei Yu received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he is now Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. Prof. Wei Yu is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Prof. Wei Yu was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2015-16. He received the Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2015, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2019, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2019, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2017 and 2008, the Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award in 2017, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015. Professor Wei Yu currently serves as Vice President of the IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) and is the President-elect of the ITSoc for 2021.

  • Recent Developments in the Design of Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles

    Toronto, Canada

    Dr. Mohamed Z. Youssef Ph.D, Associate Professor University of Ontario, UOIT, will present and discuss application of bidirectional power distribution and charging system for electric type vehicles. Day & Time: Friday, December 18, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Mohamed Z. Youssef of University of Ontario Institute of Technology Organizer: IEEE Toronto Section IES Location: Virtual – Google Meet Contact: Mohamed Youssef Topic: Rail Technology Forum: Electric Vehicle Infra Structure Technology Synopsis: Electric vehicles are a rapidly growing segment of transportation industry owning much of this progress to the improved technologies, public inclination towards minimizing carbon footprint, and government policy initiatives. Currently this industry is undergoing a technological transformation by investing heavily in charging stations infrastructure to improve the vehicle travel range. The charging station market is segmented on the basis of type, end user, and geography. This presentation discusses an integrated fast charging system that connects electric vehicles (VE), power grid, off-grid energy storage and renewable energy sources into one distributed system through a smart management of power and available energy, to enable clean, sustainable operation at high levels of performance. The experimental results of a lab prototype for electric vehicles (buses) are presented. A design case of electric bus deployed for the city of Mississauga is developed and demonstrated with excellent trial run results. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/250263 to register.

  • Career Night Series: Writing Attention Grabbing Resumes

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

  • JOINT EPS/CAS WEBINAR: FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS 2.0

    On Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 9:00 p.m., the IEEE Toronto Circuits & Devices Chapter invites you to attend a Distinguished Lecture webinar co-sponsored by the IEEE OREGON JOINT EPS/CAS CHAPTER. Day & Time: Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Speaker: Subramanian Iyer of UCLA Organizer(s): IEEE Toronto Circuits & Devices Chapter, IEEE Oregon Joint EPS/CAS Chapter Location: Virtual (Webex) Connect info sent to registered attendees Contact: Mengqi Wang, James Morris Abstract: In the last few years, electronics packaging has rightfully emerged from the shadows of CMOS scaling to make a significant impact in high performance and mobile appliance computing. The area of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) has also developed and is making a significant impact in the area of medical and wellness electronics. The first generation of these devices have, for most part, adapted Printed Circuit Board (PCB) technology by using thinner PCBs and assembling either thinned or thin packaged “older” generation of chips on to these platforms, typically with coarse printed wiring to connect a small number of such chips. This approach, while immensely useful to get the field going, needs to adapt and borrow from the both silicon and advanced packaging technology trends, so that we can advance this trend to the next level. The key paradigm challenges ahead are: scaling the FHE in general – this includes the adoption of dielet (chiplet) technology in more advanced CMOS nodes including edge-AI, higher performance interconnects, flexible high-density energy storage, wireless communication and advanced ergonomics and all of these at lower cost and higher reliability. In this talk we will address these challenges and outline a possible technology roadmap to achieve these goals in the next few years. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/256124 to register. Biography: Subramanian S. Iyer (Subu) is Distinguished Professor and holds the Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in the Electrical Engineering Department and a joint appointment in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is Director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (CHIPS). Prior to that he was an IBM Fellow. His key technical contributions have been the development of the world’s first SiGe base HBT, Salicide, electrical fuses, embedded DRAM and 45nm technology node used to make the first generation of truly low power portable devices as well as the first commercial interposer and 3D integrated products. He also was among the first to commercialize bonded SOI for CMOS applications through a start-up called SiBond LLC. More recently, he has been exploring new packaging paradigms and device innovations that they may enable wafer-scale architectures, in-memory analog compute and medical engineering applications. He has published over 300 papers and holds over 75 patents. He has received several outstanding technical achievements and corporate awards at IBM. He is an IEEE Fellow, an APS Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EDS and EPS and a member of the Board of Governors of IEEE EPS. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and iMAPS. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay and received the IEEE Daniel Noble Medal for emerging technologies in 2012 and the 2020 iMAPS Daniel C. Hughes Jr Memorial award. List of publications/patents: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xXV4oIMAAAAJ&hl=en Email: S.S.Iyer@ucla.edu

  • A 26.5625Gbps to 106.25Gbps XSR SerDes with 1.55pJ/bit efficiency in 7nm CMOS

    On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 4:10 p.m., Ravi Shivnaraine will present give a talk, “A 26.5625Gbps to 106.25Gbps XSR SerDes with 1.55pJ/bit efficiency in 7nm CMOS”. Day & Time: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Speaker(s): Ravi Shivnaraine of Rambus Organizer(s): IEEE Toronto Solid-State Circuits Society Location: Virtual – Zoom Contact: Saba Zargham Abstract: In this talk, Rambus will review their recent 26.5625Gbps to 106.25Gbps XSR SerDes macro in 7nm CMOS. The talk will go over the system architecture, self-test features, and measurement results. A 1.55pJ/b power efficiency and beachfront density of 722Gbps/mm have been achieved. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/257895 to register and to view the Zoom link. Biography: Mr. Shivnaraine obtained his Bachelors and Masters from the University of Toronto in 2010 and 2012 respectively. Ravi has experience working on SerDes receivers at Snowbush, Huawei, and Rambus at 28Gbps, 56Gbps, and 112Gbps. Currently, he is at AnalogX working on next-generation SerDes in deep sub-micron nodes. His research interests are low power SerDes interfaces and digitally assisted analog techniques.

  • IndustrioTech© Seminars – Smart Maintenance

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

  • Project-based Python Workshop 3

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

  • Glide symmetries: a new degree of freedom for the design of periodic structures

    Toronto, Ontario Canada

    On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 11:00 a.m., IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is hosting “Glide Symmetries: A New Degree of Freedom for the Design of Periodic Structures”. Day & Time: Monday, February 8, 2021 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Speaker: Oscar Quevedo-Teruel of KTH Royal Institute of Technology Organizer(s): IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Location: Virtual – Zoom Contact: George Eleftheriades Abstract: Glide symmetries were employed for electromagnetic purposes during the 60s and 70s. Those works were focused on one-dimensional structures with potential application in low-dispersive leaky wave antennas. However, the development of planar/printed technologies in the 80s and 90s associated to their low-cost for low-frequency applications, the studies of glide symmetries stopped. In the beginning of the 21st century, with arrival of metamaterials, there was a significant development of the understanding of periodic structures, and new methods of analysis were introduced. This theoretical development, together with the interest of industry in mm-waves, particularly for communications systems such as 5G, created an opportunity to explore the possibilities of glide symmetries, especially in two-dimensional configurations. Glide-symmetric structures has recently attracted the attention of researchers due to their attractive properties for practical applications. Among their interesting properties are low-dispersive responses in fully metallic structures such as parallel plate or co-planar waveguides (CPW), bandgaps associated to the symmetries and large electromagnetic bandgaps (EBGs). In this talk, Dr. Quevedo-Teruel will describe the most significant works in glide symmetries, including their application for the design of gap-waveguide technology and planar lens antennas with steerable angles of radiation. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/256420 to register. Biography: Oscar Quevedo-Teruel is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain in 2005, part of which was done at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He obtained his Ph.D. from Carlos III University of Madrid in 2010 and was then invited as a postdoctoral researcher to the University of Delft (The Netherlands). From 2010-2011, Dr. Quevedo-Teruel joined the Department of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid as a research fellow and went on to continue his postdoctoral research at Queen Mary University of London from 2011-2013. In 2014, he joined the Division for Electromagnetic Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden where he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master Programme in Electromagnetics Fusion and Space Engineering. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation since 2018 and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the EurAAP journal Reviews of Electromagnetics. He was the EurAAP delegate for Sweden, Norway, and Iceland from 2018-2020 and he is now a member of the EurAAP Board of Directors. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the period of 2019-2022, and Chair of the IEEE APS Educational Initiatives Programme since 2020. He has made scientific contributions to higher symmetries, transformation optics, lens antennas, metasurfaces, leaky wave antennas, and high impedance surfaces. He is the co-author of 95 journal papers and 150 at international conferences.

  • Design And Analysis Of Chiplet Interfaces For Heterogeneous Systems

    On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 2:50 p.m., Wendem Tsegaye Beyene will present the talk “Design And Analysis Of Chiplet Interfaces For Heterogeneous Systems”. Day & Time: Thursday, February 11, 2021 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Speaker: Wendem Tsegaye Beyene Organizer(s): IEEE Silicon Valley/SF Bay Area Electronics Packaging Chapter Location: Virtual – Directions for connecting with the WebEx stream will be sent via email to all registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. Contact: Durand Jarrett-Amor, Annette Teng Abstract: The chiplet interface allows multiple silicon dies of various technologies and complexities to communicate efficiently using larger parallel interconnects in a single package. The second layer of interconnect on the package (silicon or organic interposer) provides dense channels as well as low impedance power delivery paths between multiple independent power domains. Although the channels are very short and the I/O power can be reduced by an order of magnitude, the huge increase in the transient current in multiple dies and the unique clocking architecture makes the supply noise and timing jitter the limiting factors in designing high-performance multi-die systems. This talk discusses the unique signal and power integrity challenges of chiplet interfaces. Register: Please visit https://eps2102.eventbrite.com to register for this event. Biography: Wendem Beyene received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the past, he was employed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies and Rambus Inc. He also worked as a principal Engineer with Intel Corp. managing a team working on modeling and analysis of power-delivery and signaling systems of digital-core and mixed-signal I/O subsystems of FPGA chips. He is an elected Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, and has been selected as a Distinguished Llecturer for IEEE EPS as well as for IEEE EMCS Society.

  • Derivative Data Security using Artificial Intelligence

    Recorded Material: Please click here to view the recorded technical talk. On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m., IEEE Computer Chapter is hosting the technical talk “Derivative Data Security using Artificial Intelligence”. Day & Time: Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Speaker: Zia Babar Organizer: IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter Location: Since this will be a virtual event we will relay the connectivity information later to individual registrants on their email addresses. Contact: Younas Abbas Abstract: Data security the most dynamic and ever evolving trade becomes even significant while dealing with large volumes of unstructured data. To comply with regulation and standards like GDPR it is important to understand, equip and keep abreast of new tools and techniques in data security. Enterprises are increasingly storing large volumes of unstructured data. However, irrespective of the data format or type, unstructured data is difficult to secure and control its transfer. This is a major problem due to evolving compliance policies and the need to adhere to standards such as GDPR. Through derivative data security practices, enterprises can utilize machine learning and deep learning techniques to determine and trace clones and derivatives of unstructured data across the enterprise. In this talk, Zia Babar will provide a background on data security approaches, and provide a demonstration on machine learning and deep learning techniques can be used for providing derivative data security. Register: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/252704 to register. Biography: Zia Babar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zbabar/) has 20 years of professional industry experience, He has deep expertise in the design, development and deployment of enterprise applications, data engineering platforms and distributed systems, with a particular focus on incorporating machine learning practices and cognitive services into software applications. Zia obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto where his research studies focused on the analysis and design of cognitive systems for enabling enterprise transformation. He is presently the Director of Research and Development at WinMagic. Previously, he worked in companies like Teradata where he developed Teradata’s first ML framework, NCR where he was responsible for designing and developing large-scale data processing systems, and Luminous Networks (acquired by Cisco) where he designed and built distributed systems. He is also presently engaged in a multi-year research engagement with IBM Research Labs and is a startup technical mentor at WeWork Labs. Further, he is the organizer of multiple technology meetup groups in both Toronto and Waterloo, and a frequent speaker at technical events and conferences.