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  • Engineering Skills Gaps: “Jobs without people” and “people without jobs”

    Room ENG 288, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3

    Friday March 31, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Farzad Rayegani, Associate Dean, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, will be presenting “Engineering Skills Gaps: ‘Jobs without people’ and ‘people without jobs'”. Day & Time: Friday, March 31st, 2017 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speaker: Farzad Rayegani, Ph.D., P.Eng., FEC. Associate Dean, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology Location: Room ENG 288 George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering, Ryerson University 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Magnetics, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University Biography: Farzad Rayegani is credited with developing an applied research program involving students, graduates and faculty mentors to address technological and educational needs of the Halton and Peel regions. Over the past 10 years, he has been simultaneously partnering with SME enterprises on product and process innovation projects while developing an applied research program involving students, graduates and faculty mentors to examine issues of product development / refinement, process automation, systems integration and manufacturing management. In the past year, this work has been bolstered by a range of successful, high-profile, federally funded projects with companies in both regions. Under his leadership, through the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT), Sheridan has been reaching out to a significant number of manufacturers in Brampton, Mississauga and Oakville, particularly small and medium enterprises, to support adoption and integration of efficient manufacturing practices and product innovation performance and improvements. CAMDT now supports over a dozen local and regional SMEs who are struggling with limited availability of technological, human, financial, and management resources. Under his leadership, Sheridan College recently become a member of the CDIO Initiative – a worldwide movement to restore the balance between teaching practice skills and the fundamentals of math and science to engineering students. What started as a partnership between MIT and a few Swedish universities in 2001 has gained significant international momentum, with 103 institutions adopting the model. Sheridan is the fifth Canadian institution and the first college in the world to be accepted. As a CDIO collaborator, Farzad is seeking to develop a new curriculum structure based on a new philosophy for engineering education. The framework educates students to Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate complex, value-added engineering products, processes and systems in a modern, team-based, global environment. He aims to develop a curriculum rich in project-based, hands-on learning, producing engineers who are “ready to engineer” when they graduate. Farzad is ASME chair on additive manufacturing. As the committee chair, he will be leading the launch of ASME’s inaugural additive manufacturing challenge designed to give mechanical and multi-disciplinary undergraduate students around the world an opportunity to re-engineer existing products or create new designs that minimize energy consumption and/or improve energy efficiency. As chair, he will also be collaborating with ME department heads to develop educational material on behalf of ASME to benefit the educators and students. Farzad was recently designated an Engineers Canada Fellow by Engineers Canada. This prestigious award is presented in recognition of exceptional contributions to the engineering profession in Canada. Farzad has been a full-time professor in Sheridan’s Faculty of Applied Science and Technology since 2004. Currently, he is the associate dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering & Technology and director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT).

  • Women in Robotics: Dr. Pooja Viswanathan, Co-founder and CEO, Braze Mobility

    263 McCaul Street, Room 120, Health Innovation Hub

    Dr. Pooja Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO of Braze Mobility Inc. Dr. Viswanathan has a PhD in Robotics and Assistive Technology, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and the AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence, and is an Ontario Brain Institute Entrepreneur. Dr. Viswanathan is a passionate and accomplished innovator and still makes time for mentorship and education of the next generation of young innovators. Click here for more information.

  • Regularization by Denoising (RED)

    University of Toronto, Bahen Center (Room BA 5281)

    Thursday April 13, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Peyman Milanfar, Leader of Computational Imaging team in Google Research, will be presenting an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture, “Regularization by Denoising (RED)”. Day & Time: Thursday April 13, 2017 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Peyman Milanfar Leader of Computational Imaging team in Google Research Visiting Faculty at Electrical Engineering Department, UC Santa Cruz Location: University of Toronto, Bahen Center (Room BA 5281) 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 https://goo.gl/maps/7ick2cparLF2 Contact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi Organizers: IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Toronto Section Abstract: Image denoising is the most fundamental problem in image enhancement, and it is largely solved: It has reached impressive heights in performance and quality — almost as good as it can ever get. But interestingly, it turns out that we can solve many other problems using the image denoising “engine”. I will describe the Regularization by Denoising (RED) framework: using the denoising engine in defining the regularization of any inverse problem. The idea is to define an explicit image-adaptive regularization functional directly using a high performance denoiser. Surprisingly, the resulting regularizer is guaranteed to be convex, and the overall objective functional is explicit, clear and well-defined. With complete flexibility to choose the iterative optimization procedure for minimizing this functional, RED is capable of incorporating any image denoising algorithm as a regularizer, treat general inverse problems very effectively, and is guaranteed to converge to the globally optimal result. Biography: Peyman leads the Computational Imaging/ Image Processing team in Google Research. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz from 1999-2014, where he is now a visiting faculty. He was Associate Dean for Research at the School of Engineering from 2010-12. From 2012-2014 he was on leave at Google-x, where he helped develop the imaging pipeline for Google Glass. Peyman received his undergraduate education in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds 11 US patents, several of which are commercially licensed. He founded MotionDSP in 2005. He has been keynote speaker at numerous technical conferences including Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), SIAM Imaging Sciences, SPIE, and the International Conference on Multimedia (ICME). Along with his students, he has won several best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to inverse problems and super-resolution in imaging.”

  • SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Holistic Design in Optical Interconnects

    Room B024, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4

    Monday April 24, 2017 at 2:10 p.m. Dr. Azita Emami, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech, will be presenting a distinguished lecture, “Holistic Design in Optical Interconnects”. Day & Time: Monday, April 24th, 2017 2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Azita Emami Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator Deputy Chair of Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Caltech Location: Room B024, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 Contact: Dustin Dunwell Organizers: IEEE Toronto SSCS Cost: Free for everyone. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. Abstract: The scalability of CMOS technology has driven computation into a diverse range of applications across the power consumption, performance and size spectra. Today Data Center (DC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) performance is increasingly limited by interconnection bandwidth. Maintaining continued aggregate bandwidth growth without overwhelming the power budget for these large scale computing systems and data centers is paramount. The historic power efficiency gains via CMOS technology scaling for such interconnects have rolled off over the past decade, and new low-cost approaches are necessary. In this talk a number of promising solutions including Silicon-Photonic-based interconnects that can overcome these challenges will be discussed. In particular effective co-design of electronics and photonics as a holistic approach for reducing the total power consumption and enhancing the performance of the link will be presented. Biography: Azita Emami received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004 respectively. She received her B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1996. Professor Emami joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2004 as a research staff member in the Communication Technologies Department. From Fall 2006 to Summer 2007, she was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the city of New York. In 2007, she joined Caltech, where she is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering. She is a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, and serves as the deputy chair of division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Caltech. Her current research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems, high-speed on-chip and chip-to-chip interconnects, system and circuit design solutions for highly-scaled CMOS technologies, wearable and implantable devices for neural recording, stimulation, and efficient drug delivery.

  • Engineering the Internet of Things – Digital Twin Seminar

    George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering Room: ENG 288, 245 Church Street, Toronto

    Friday April 28, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. IEEE Toronto and SimuTech Group will be hosting the seminar “Engineering the Internet of Things – Digital Twin”. Day & Time: Friday April 28, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: Ryerson University George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering Room: ENG 288 245 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Cost: Free including lunch Register: http://go.simutechgroup.com/ieee-iot-digital-twin-toronto Contact: SimuTech Group – Mohsen Tayefeh IEEE Toronto – Dr. Maryam Davoudpour Organizers: IEEE Toronto (WIE, Signals & Computational Intelligence, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics, Magnetics chapters), Computer Science Department of Ryerson University, SimuTech Group (ANSYS Elite Channel partner) Abstract: High-tech–industry product development teams routinely use coupled multiphysics software to analyze the trade-offs among speed, bandwidth, signal integrity, power integrity, thermal performance and EMI/EMC. The Internet of Things is a network of smart products, or “things”, that use embedded sensors, software, and electronics to communicate with each other over a network. The communication data can be analyzed by cloud based software to derive actionable information, leading to predictive and prescriptive outcomes. In this seminar, the following topics will be discussed: – Engineering the Internet of Things – 5 Engineering Challenges for Smart Product Development – Case Study: Search and Rescue Drone-Satellite System – Signal Integrity/EMI/EMC, Human body, Federal Regulations – User experience – Wearable devices (Multiphysics Simulation) – Digital Twin – GE and ANSYS collaboration – Case Study: prescriptive maintenance case study – Lunch – RF Antenna placement – Step by step workshop – Antenna analysis – PCB design – Power Integrity – Thermal management (CFD) – Networking, Door prize/draw (Drone)

  • Damped AC Partial Discharge Testing for Medium Voltage Underground Cables

    Megger Limited -Canada, 550 Alden Rd, Markham, ON L3R 3L5, Canada

    Friday April 28, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Philipp Legler will be presenting “Damped AC Partial Discharge Testing for Medium Voltage Underground Cables”. Day & Time: Friday April 28, 2017 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker: Philipp Legler Location: Megger, 550 Alden Rd Markham, ON L3R 3L5, Canada Contact: Ali Naderian Organizers: IEEE DEIS Toronto Chapter Event Abstract: Partial discharge (PD) measurements are increasingly used as a reliable and non-destructive diagnostic method for detecting weak spots in the insulation of underground cables. Partial discharge measurements are also routinely used in laboratories for testing cable reels prior to commissioning and in the field to verify installation quality. The most important factor to consider when choosing a test frequency is that the partial discharge characteristics at the new frequency must be like those at 50/60 Hz, otherwise the results cannot be reliably interpreted. This is especially true when measuring partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV), the voltage at which partial discharge first occurs. Over the past 10 years, the damped alternating current (DAC) technique has been established as a very effective method for partial discharge testing. This method is one of the voltage shapes listed for PD testing in IEEE 400.3: “Guide for Partial Discharge Testing of Shielded Power Cable Systems in a Field Environment”. In this presentation, the concept of DAC PD test will be discussed and some practical examples will be presented.

  • IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop

    Room GB202, 35 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A4

    Thursday May 4, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Gayathri Srinivasan, IBM Business Development Executive, will be presenting “IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop”. Day & Time: Thursday May 4, 2017 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speaker: Gayathri Srinivasan Business Development Executive IBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative Location: Galbraith Building, Room Number: GB202 University of Toronto, 35 St George St Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 Contact: Eman Hammad Organizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc Register: Register for free at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44896 Abstract: The IEEE Toronto Section and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers, technologists and students to our FIRST hands-on workshop: Watson IoT Platform hands-on. Workshop agenda: 1. Presentation: IoT Overview 2. IBM Bluemix overview 3. IoT Starter app using Watson IoT boilerplate on Bluemix 4. Work with simulated devices/sensors 5. Learn the basics of Node-Red application development environment 6. Learn to create dashboards 7. Real-time-insights: Use sensor value thresholds to determine actions and text alerts 8. Use Watson APIs (Watson text to speech & Language Translation) capabilities for the alert 9. Explore weather insights 10. Learn to add additional nodes to the node-red environment including dashboard 11. General Q&A Biography: Gaya Magie is a Business Development Executive leading the IBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative. Gaya collaborates with educational institutions world wide to help faculty and students build IoT skills leveraging IBM resources and platforms available for academia. Gaya has been with IBM since 2001 and has over 18 years of industry experience across various aspects of the business, including development, support, project management, product management, partner relations and sales. In 1996, Gaya received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India. Gaya pursued her higher education in the US and in 1998, received a Master’s degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. As an IBM employee and continuing to pursue her higher education, Gaya received her Master’s in Business Administration in Global Management.

  • 7th Annual E3 Symposium

    Centennial College: Progress Campus Library Building Auditorium 941 Progress Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

    Friday May 12, 2017 the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science and the Centennial Energy Institute invite you to our 2017 E3 Symposium: The Future is Smart: The Transformation of Canadian Manufacturing. This event will bring together advanced manufacturing innovators from across a number of sectors in the economy. The event will feature industry titans sharing best practices. Day & Time: Friday May 12, 2017 8:00 am to 8:45 am – Registration and Breakfast. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm – Speakers & Sessions. Location: Centennial College: Progress Campus Library Building Auditorium 941 Progress Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Event Page: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/programs-courses/schools/school-of-engineering-technology-and-applied-science/e3-symposium/ Contact: Maryam Davoudpour

  • Trends of the Smart Grid Development

    Room: BA 7180, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 2E4

    Friday May 12, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. IEEE Fellow and Professor Wei-Jen Lee, Electrical Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington, will be presenting “Trends of the Smart Grid Development”. Day & Time: Friday May 12, 2017 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Speaker: Professor Wei-Jen Lee Electrical Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Director of the Energy Systems Research Center IEEE Fellow Location: Bahen Center of Information Technology, Room: BA 7180 University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 2E4 Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/44907 Contact: Hoda Youssef Organizers: IEEE Toronto IAS & PELS Joint Chapter Abstract: The electrical power system in the US has been named as “the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century” by the National Academy of Sciences. While the power system is a technological marvel, it is also reaching the limit of its ability to meet the nation’s electricity needs. In addition, our nation is moving into the digital information age that demands higher reliability from the nation’s aging electrical delivery system. The modernization of the electricity infrastructure leads to the concept of “smart grid”. A comprehensive smart grid design should cover both top-down and bottom-up approaches. For the current centralized generation and transmission system, upgrading the power delivery infrastructure, enforcing the system security requirement, and increasing interoperability are well known techniques to improve the reliability and the controllability of the power system. For the bottom-up approach, one of the most important features is its ability to support a more diverse and complex network of energy technologies. Specifically, it will be able to seamlessly integrate an array of locally installed, distributed power sources with smaller CO2 footprint, such as fuel cells, photovoltaic, and wind generation, into the power system. This presentation discusses the opportunities and challenges for the development of Smart Grid, highlights the smart grid related researches that I have been involved recently, and explores the possibility for future collaborations. The presentation concludes with the listing of issues needed to be addressed to ensure successful integration procedures that will eventually create new structures of efficient, modular and environmentally responsive electricity infrastructure that will have an impact nationally as well as globally. Biography: Professor Wei-Jen Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, Arlington, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. In 1986, he joined the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is currently a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the Energy Systems Research Center. He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, 1584, and dot 3000 series development. He is the Vice President of the IEEE Industry Application Society. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IAS Magazine, editorial board member of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) and CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He has been inducted as a member of Academy of Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2012. He is the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena Research Project. Prof. Lee has been involved in research on utility deregulation, renewable energy, smart grid, microgrid, energy internet and virtual power plants (VPP), arc flash hazards and electrical safety, load and wind capacity forecasting, power quality, distribution automation and demand side management, power systems analysis, online real-time equipment diagnostic and prognostic system, and microcomputer based instrument for power systems monitoring, measurement, control, and protection. He has served as the primary investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred funded research projects with the total amount exceed US$12 million dollars. He has published more than one hundred and thirty journal papers and two hundred forty conference proceedings. He has provided on-site training courses for power engineers in Panama, China, Taiwan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Singapore. He has refereed numerous technical papers for IEEE, IET, and other professional organizations.

  • High Power Density Power Electronics in Aerospace Applications

    Bahen Center of Information Technology, Room Number: BA 7180, 40 St. George Street

    Friday May 19, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. IAS & PELS Joint Chapter are inviting you to the technical event “High Power Density Power Electronics in Aerospace Applications”, presented by Dr. Chushan Li, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ryerson University. Day & Time: Friday May 19, 2017 3:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Chushan Li Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ryerson University Location: University of Toronto 40 St.George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 2E4 Bahen Center of Information Technology Room Number: BA 7180 All IEEE members and non-members are welcome to participate with no admission charge. Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/45053 Contact: Sanaz Kanani Organizers: IAS & PELS Joint Chapter, Toronto Section Abstract: In aerospace industry, the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) architecture is emerging, which employs the concept of electrical power for driving aircraft subsystems currently powered by hydraulic or pneumatic means including utility and flight control actuation, environmental control system, lubrication and fuel pumps, and numerous other utility functions. In this seminar, Dr. Chushan Li presents an overview of More Electric Aircraft, and highlights the researches on developing high power density power electronics converters for aerospace applications. These researches enable the MEA applications and significantly reduce the weight, size, and life-cycle-cost of the overall system, improve reliability and result in ease of manufacturing and maintenance. The results are also applicable to wide applications in general industry. Finally, discussions related challenges and potential opportunities are given to show the research potentials in this area. Biography: Dr. Chushan Li received the B.E.E. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada. From April to September in 2008, he was an internship student with the Power Application Design Center in National Semiconductor (Hong Kong) Co.Ltd. From December 2010 to October 2011, he was a visiting scholar with the Freedom Center in North Carolina State University. From December 2013 to June 2014, he was a research assistant in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interest includes high power density power converter design and AC-DC power conversion. He has published 31 technical papers and held 7 patents. In 2013, he has received First-Class National Scholarship for Graduate Student in China.

  • Printable Flexible Wearable Electronics Symposium (CPES 2017)

    Centennial College

    IEEE Canada is a Supporting Partner of CPES2017, Canada’s premier conference and trade show exhibition for printable, flexible and wearable electronics (PE). In recognition of this partnership support, the CPES organizing committee is extending a special offer to IEEE members. Date: May 24-26, 2017 Location: Centennial College, Toronto Using the coupon code cpeia-partner2017b IEEE members can register for CPES at 15 per cent off the regular non-CPEIA member rate of $795 + HST. This represents a value of $119. The deadline to use this code and secure the discount is April 28, 2017. This is a great opportunity to engage with the technology developers and integrators that are accelerating the growth and adoption of PE in various market verticals that are relevant to Canadian industry and technology clusters across the country. Please note that this offer cannot be combined with the CPES2017 early bird registration rate or the student rate. It only applies to Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference. If you wish to attend the Master Classes or Mentoring & Financing Sessions on Day 3, you must pay the regular fee for those activities. To register and take advantage of this discount, please visit https://cpes2017.ca/registration/ What is CPES2017? CPES2017 is the place for technology developers, industrial companies and end-users to meet and discuss how they can work together to commercialize new products and applications for printable, flexible and wearable electronics. Academic researchers can discover how they can link their research to market needs and opportunities. The conference focuses on markets such as Intelligent Packaging, Intelligent Buildings, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Industrial Applications, Health and Wellness, Intelligent Documents, and Consumer Electronics and Wearables. Come to learn, network and develop partnerships for collaboration and business development. You can learn more at www.CPES2017.ca May 24-26, 2017, Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA) will be bringing together Canadian PE industry for their annual symposium at Centennial College, Toronto. With 30+ speakers and over 200 participants from 120 organizations in attendance, CPES2017 is Canada’s premier meeting ground for technology developers, industrial companies and end-users to discuss how they can work together to manufacture and commercialize new products and applications. Academic researchers can showcase their research and discover how they can link it to market needs and opportunities. Day 1 of the program features Key Applications, while Day 2 is dedicated to Manufacturing. The optional Day 3 offers master classes, a financing session and mentoring. Contact: Hugo Sanchez-Reategui at hugosanreategui@ieee.org Organizers: CPEIA Register: https://cpes2017.ca/registration/ Note: Using the coupon code cpeia-partner2017b IEEE members can register for CPES at 15 per cent off the regular non-CPEIA member rate of $795 + HST. This represents a value of $119. The deadline to use this code and secure the discount is April 28, 2017. The coupon code cannot be combined with the Student rate $295 + HST. If you wish to attend the Master Classes or Mentoring & Financing Sessions on Day 3, you must pay the regular fee for those activities. Abstract: CPES2017 is the place for technology developers, industrial companies and end-users to meet and discuss how they can work together to commercialize new products and applications for printable, flexible and wearable electronics. Academic researchers can discover how they can link their research to market needs and opportunities. The conference focuses on markets such as Intelligent Packaging, Intelligent Buildings, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Industrial Applications, Health and Wellness, Intelligent Documents, and Consumer Electronics and Wearables. Come to learn, network and develop partnerships for collaboration and business development. You can learn more at www.CPES2017.ca

  • Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis Workshop

    ENG 102, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto

    Wednesday May 24, 2017 at 9:15 a.m. IEEE Signal Processing Chapter, Toronto Section, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Toronto Chapter, and Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Lab, Ryerson University will be presenting a series of sessions “Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis Workshop”. Day & Time: Wednesday May 24, 2017 Morning Session: 9:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m Afternoon Session: 1:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Speakers: Dr. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, ranga@ucalgary.ca Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Calgary, AB, Canada Dr. Sridhar Krishnan, krishnan@ryerson.ca Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Ryerson University, ON, Canada Dr. April Khademi, akhademi@ryerson.ca Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Ryerson University, ON, Canada Dr. Karthy Umapathy, karthi@ee.ryerson.ca Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Ryerson University, ON, Canada Dr. Naimul Khan, n77khan@ryerson.ca Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Ryerson University, ON, Canada Dr. Teodiano Bastos, teodiano@gmail.com Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brasil Location: ENG 102, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Ryerson University https://goo.gl/maps/2qLpvJKgkYw Contact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi Yashodhan Athavale Organizers: Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Lab, Ryerson University IEEE Signal Processing Chapter, Toronto Section IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Toronto Chapter Morning Session: 9:15am Welcome remarks 9:30am Talk M1: Color Image Processing with Biomedical Applications – Dr. Raj Rangayyan, U of Calgary 10:45am – 11:00am break 11:00am Talk M2: Medical Image Analysis Techniques for Radiology and Pathology Images – Dr. April Khademi, Ryerson Univ. 11:45am Talk M3: Biomedical Signal Processing for Cardiac Arrhythmias – Dr. Karthi Umapathy, Ryerson Univ. Afternoon Session: 1:15pm Talk A1: Wearables, IoT and Analytics for Connected Healthcare – Dr. Sri Krishnan, Ryerson Univ. 2:00pm Talk A2: Assistive Technologies and BCI for Rehab Applications – Dr. Teodiano Bastos, UFES, Brazil 2:45pm – 3:00pm break 3:00pm Talk A3: Interactive Machine Learning for Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis – Dr. Naimul Khan, Ryerson Univ. 3:45pm – 4:30pm Open think-tank discussions on challenges and opportunities facing this field in the era of big data, AI, and translational research – moderated by S. Krishnan Biographies: Rangaraj M. Rangayyan is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering (ECE) at the University of Calgary. Dr. Rangayyan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in 1980. He has over 35 years as a professor at the University of Calgary and at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include digital signal and image processing, biomedical signal and image analysis, and computer-aided diagnosis. Dr. Rangayyan is the author of two well cited textbooks: “Biomedical Signal Analysis” (IEEE/ Wiley, 2002, 2015) and “Biomedical Image Analysis” (CRC, 2005). He has published over 430 papers in journals and conferences, and coauthored several books. He has supervised and co-supervised 17 Doctoral theses, 27 Master theses, and more than 50 researchers at various levels. He has been recognized with the 2013 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), and elected as Fellow, IEEE (2001); Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada (2002); Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2003); Fellow, SPIE (2003); Fellow, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (2007); Fellow, Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (2007); Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (2009); and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. He has lectured in more than 20 countries and has held the Visiting Professorships with more than 15 universities world-wide. He has been invited as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE EMBS in Toronto and as an invited lecture at the IEEE International Summer School in France. Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer (ECE) Engineering and the Associate Dean of Research, Development and External Partnerships for the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (FEAS) at Ryerson University. He is also a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Signal Analysis. Dr. Krishnan received his Ph. D. in ECE from the University of Calgary in 1999. Dr. Krishnan’s research interests include adaptive signal representations and analysis and their applications in biomedicine, multimedia (audio), and biometrics. He has published over 280 papers in refereed journals and conferences, filed 8 invention disclosures, and has been granted one US patent. He has received over 20 awards and certificates of appreciation for his contributions in research and innovation. Dr. Krishnan has been invited to present in more than 30 international conferences and workshops. He has supervised and trained 10 Post-doc fellows, 9 Doctoral theses, 29 Master theses, 9 Master projects, 39 Research Assistants (RA), and 17 Visiting RAs. Dr. Krishnan is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Krishnan is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST) and an Affiliate Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre in St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. Karthi Umapathy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Ryerson University. Dr. Umapathy received his Ph. D. in ECE from the University of Western Ontario in 2006. During his graduate studies he held the prestigious NSERC CGS and PGS awards. He was an inaugural Ryerson postdoctoral fellow and was also the recipient of the Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence research fellowship award. Dr. Umapathy’s research interests include biomedical signal and image analysis, time-frequency analysis, digital signal processing, cardiac electrophysiology, and magnetic resonance imaging. One of his recent projects involves studying the electrical activity on the surface of the human heart during ventricular fibrillation to reduce sudden cardiac death in North America. Dr. Umapathy brings with him a vast knowledge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) from his works in Philips Medical Systems India. As the Area Manager and Country Specialist for Philips, he led many successful MRI projects in India and Japan. April Khademi recently jointed Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor in in the Department of Electrical and Computer (ECE). Dr. Khademi received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Dr. Khademi’s research interests include medical image analysis techniques for radiology and pathology images, generalized grayscale and colour image processing methodologies, biomedical signal processing, machine learning, personalized medicine, computer-aided diagnosis, Big Data analytics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and digital pathology. Dr. Khademi was an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University of Guelph. She was the Senior Scientist and Innovation Specialist at PathCore Inc. Dr. Khademi also brings with her the industry and healthcare experience from her works at GE Healthcare, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Khademi is the recipient of more than 10 awards including Governor General’s Gold Medal for her Masters thesis and the prestigious NSERC-CGSD3. She has over 40 publications, and has been invited to speaker in more than 25 conferences, seminars and workshops. Naimul Khan recently jointed Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Dr. Khan received his Ph. D. in ECE from Ryerson University in 2014. Dr. Khan’s research interests include designing interactive methods for visual computing that can bridge the gap between end-users and systems. He has contributed to the fields of machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging. Dr. Khan was previously a research engineer at Sunnybrook Research institute, and an R&D Manager at AWE Company Ltd. At AWE, he led the Fort York Time Tablet project in partnership with the City of Toronto to create an augmented reality exhibit of the history of the Fort. The project has garnered significant media and public attention. Dr. Khan was the recipient of several awards including the OCE TalentEdge Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology. Teodiano Bastos is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo and a Level 1 Researcher at CNPq. Dr. Bastos received his Ph. D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1994. Dr. Bastos’ research interests are in Electronic Measurement and Control Systems, including sensors, control, mobile robots, industrial robotics, rehabilitation robotics, assistive technology, and biological signal processing. Dr. Bastos has over 500 publications in journals, conferences, and books