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SUMMARY:IEEE Day
DESCRIPTION:IEEE Toronto Section is inviting you to our VIRTUAL celebration of IEEE Day on Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020! \n\nDay & Time: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020\n10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeakers: Dr. Rasheed Hussain\, Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci\, Dr. Sahar Rahmani\, Dr. Sarath Chandar\, Dr. Haniyeh Yousefpour \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Section\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Dustin Dunwell\, Maryam Davoudpour \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/239738 for the Zoom link and to register. \nAgenda: \n\n\n\n\n10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.\nPanel\nModerator: Dr. Fatima Hussain\nDr. Melike Erol-Kantarci\nDr. Sahar Rahmani\n\n\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.\nKeynote\nDr. Rasheed Hussain\n\n\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.\nBreak\n\n\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.\nTech Talk\nDr. Sarath Chandat\, MILA\n\n\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nTech Talk\nDr. Haniyeh Yousefpour\n\n\n\n\n  \nBiographies: \nRasheed Hussain\, PhD\, SMIEEE\nTopic: The Role of APIs in Connected and Autonomous Cars: A Case for Critical Applications \n\n\n\nRasheed Hussain is working as an Associate Professor and the Director of Institute of Information Security and Cyber-Physical Systems at Innopolis University\, Innopolis\, Russia. He is also the head of Networks and Blockchain Lab at Innopolis University and serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. \nHe is a senior member of IEEE\, member ACM\, and serves as an editorial board member for various journals including IEEE Access\, IEEE Internet Initiative\, Internet Technology Letters\, Wiley\, Cluster Computing\, Springer\, and serves as a reviewer for most of the IEEE transactions\, Springer and Elsevier Journals. He also serves as technical program committee member and chair of various conferences such as IEEE VTC\, IEEE VNC\, IEEE Globecom\, IEEE ICCVE\, IEEE ICC\, ICCCN\, and so on. He is a certified trainer for Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) and a recipient of Netherland’s University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs\, BKO). His research interests include Information Security and Privacy and particularly security and privacy issues in Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs)\, vehicular clouds\, and vehicular social networking\, applied cryptography\, Internet of Things\, Content-Centric Networking (CCN)\, cloud computing\, API security\, and blockchain. Currently he is working on the machine and deep learning for IoT security and API security. \n\nMelike Erol-Kantarci\, PhD.\, P.Eng.\, SMIEEE\nTopic: AI-enabled wireless networks: Opportunities and Challenges Towards 6G \n\n\n\nMelike Erol-Kantarci is Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in AI-enabled Next-Generation Wireless Networks and associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. She is the founding director of the Networked Systems and Communications Research (NETCORE) laboratory. She has over 140 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 5000 times and she has an h-index of 37. She is selected to the 2019 list of “N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications”. She has received the IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and the Best Editor Award of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee in 2017\, in addition to several other best paper awards. She is the co-editor of three books on smart grids and smart cities. She has delivered 40+ tutorials\, plenary talks and seminars around the globe. She has acted as the general chair or technical program chair for many international IEEE conferences and workshops. Most recently\, she is the TPC co-chair for IEEE CAMAD 2020\, a symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom 2020\, and a track co-chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2020. She is a senior member of the IEEE. Her main research interests are AI-enabled wireless networks\, 5G and 6G wireless communications\, smart grid\, electric vehicles\, Internet of things and wireless sensor networks. \n\nSahar Rahmani\, PhD\nWork Domain: Data scientist on digital/cyber crime detection \n\n\n\nDr. Sahar Rahmani is the Director of the Data Science team at the Global Cyber Security team at RBC. Her role involves leading a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers to provide AI solutions for detecting the ever-changing landscape of cyber/digital crime. She is responsible for implementing scalable real-time machine learning solutions for our stakeholders’ security related problems. Her team\, also brings insight and analytics to RBC’s controls\, and risks to help executives make data-driven strategic decisions. Her continuous encouragement and emphasizing on innovations in the application of AI/ML in digital risk\, resulted in solving business problems in effective ways\, creating multiple patents\, and presenting multiple conference talks. She has a PhD in Astrophysics from the Western University\, where she applied big data analysis and data science models on astronomical data.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-day/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:PES Webinar: Developing the Utility Workforce of the Future - Managing Continuity and Change in Complex Times
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.\, Brad Cawn of Quanta Technology will present “PES Webinar: Developing the Utility Workforce of the Future – Managing Continuity and Change in Complex Times”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Brad Cawn of Quanta Technology \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto PES Chapter \nLocation: Virtual \nContact: Omid Alizadeh \nAbstract: Building the utility of the future requires developing a workforce of the future\, one that is responsive and agile in the face of continuous technological\, operational\, and cultural change. \nJoin us as we discuss how both the coronavirus and ongoing paradigmatic shifts are quickening the industry’s transformation process and how a multi-prong workforce development strategy can help your team and/organization keep pace with the speed of change. \nIn this webinar\, Brad Cawn\, a Senior Advisor with Quanta Technology\, will make a presentation on: \n\nthe current state of the utility industry technical workforce\, including the impact of recent and ongoing internal and external change factors.\npotential directions for the industry’s workforce and workforce development\ninitial key activities and comprehensive actions to develop and sustain utility workforces of the future\n\nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/240561 to register. \nBiography: Brad Cawn of Quanta Technology \nOversees Quanta Technology’s workforce development services\, including training and curriculum development\, workforce transformation\, retention and recruitment initiatives\, and other supports. \nAuthor of multiple books/manuscripts on teaching and learning\, including Ambitious Instruction (2020) and Ambitious Leadership (2016). \nTeaches creativity and innovation coursework at DePaul University in Chicago.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/pes-webinar-developing-the-utility-workforce-of-the-future-managing-continuity-and-change-in-complex-times/
CATEGORIES:Power & Energy
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SUMMARY:Career Night Series: Writing an Effective CV
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE and IM/RA will host “Career Night Series: Writing an Effective CV”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, IM/RA\, Ryerson Computer Science \nLocation: Virtual \nContact: Wincy Li \nDescription: Not sure what the difference is between a resume and a CV? Unclear about how to structure your CV or what content to include? Join us for this webinar to learn how to construct an effective CV! \nIf you require any accessibility needs\, please contact Camara Chambers at c.chambers@ryerson.ca. \nRegister: Please visit https://lnkd.in/gBaMf9y to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/career-night-series-writing-an-effective-cv/
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:GPT-3 for Vision
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 7\, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.\, Dr. Ehsan Kamalinejad will present “GPT-3 for Vision”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, October 7\, 2020\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Ehsan Kamalinejad\, PhD\nCo-Founder & CTO at Visual One\nAssociate Professor at Cal State East Bay University\nFormer Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Apple\nSan Francisco\, USA \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Signal Processing Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Click here for the Google Meets link. \nContact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi \nAbstract: Deep learning in computer vision (CV) has proved to be very effective in solving many problems in real world. However\, while the raw number of researches done in standard CV problems (such as ImageNet\nobject classification/detection) has exploded\, the measurable progress in these fields has slowed down. Additionally\, there are many real-world problems in vision that are simply not compatible with the current approaches. This demands a new wave of problem statements in CV (and a new set of benchmarks). This talk focuses on one important set of such problem statements. We propose that many real-world problems in vision are “event recognition” problems. We introduce a concrete definition for the event recognition problem. We will see that this definition of event detection prohibits large sample sets. Hence\, these events need to be recognize based on very few samples. We start by reviewing the current literature and we propose some promising directions for approaching this problem. At the end we show some demos from our recent effort on wrestling with this very challenging problem. Our solution can be best described by the “vision counterpart of GPT-3 few shot learner”. \nRegister: Please check back soon for the registration link. \nBiography: Ehsan Kamalinejad (EK) is a senior machine learning engineer. He is currently working on Visual One which is a YCombinator backed startup he co-founded. Before that he was working for several years at\nApple and Amazon as a staff machine learning engineer. Ehsan holds a faculty position as an associate professor at Cal State East Bay University. He got his PhD from University of Toronto. He has more than 7 years of experience delivering machine learning products in computer vision and natural language processing. His current project\, Visual One\, is about bringing next level intelligence to surveillance cameras.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/gpt-3-for-vision/
CATEGORIES:Signal Processing
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SUMMARY:Microwaving a Biological Cell Alive ‒ Broadband Label-free Noninvasive Electrical Characterization of a Live Cell
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 7\, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.\, Prof. James Hwang of Cornell University will present “Microwaving a Biological Cell Alive ‒ Broadband Label-free Noninvasive Electrical Characterization of a Live Cell”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, October 7\, 2020\n4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. James Hwang of Cornell University \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: George Eleftheriades \nAbstract: Microwave is not just for cooking\, smart cars\, or mobile phones. We can take advantage of the wide electromagnetic spectrum to do wonderful things that are more vital to our lives. For example\, microwave ablation of cancer tumor is already in wide use\, and microwave remote monitoring of vital signs is becoming more important as the population ages. \nThis talk will focus on a biomedical use of microwave at the single-cell level. At low power\, microwave can readily penetrate a cell membrane to interrogate what is inside a cell\, without cooking it or otherwise hurting it. It is currently the fastest\, most compact\, and least costly way to tell whether a cell is alive or dead. On the other hand\, at higher power but lower frequency\, the electromagnetic signal can interact strongly with the cell membrane to drill temporary holes of nanometer size. The nanopores allow drugs to diffuse into the cell and\, based on the reaction of the cell\, individualized medicine can be developed and drug development can be sped up in general. Conversely\, the nanopores allow strands of DNA molecules to be pulled out of the cell without killing it\, which can speed up genetic engineering. Lastly\, by changing both the power and frequency of the signal\, we can have either positive or negative dielectrophoresis effects\, which we have used to coerce a live cell to the examination table of Dr. Microwave\, then usher it out after examination. These interesting uses of microwave and the resulted fundamental knowledge about biological cells will be explored in the talk. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/239462 to register. \nBiography: James Hwang is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. He graduated from the same department with a Ph.D. degree. After years of industrial experience at IBM\, Bell Labs\, GE\, and GAIN\, he spent most of his academic career at Lehigh University. He cofounded GAIN and QED; the latter became the public company IQE. Between 2011 and 2013\, he was the Program Officer for GHz-THz Electronics at the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University in the US\, Marche Polytechnic University in Italy\, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore\, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, East China Normal University\, and University of Science and Technology in China. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. He is also a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He has published more than 350 refereed technical papers and been granted eight U.S. patents. He has researched for decades on the design\, modeling and characterization of optical\, electronic\, and micro- electromechanical devices and circuits. His current research interest focuses on electromagnetic sensors for individual biological cells\, scanning microwave microscopy\, and two-dimensional atomic-layered materials and devices.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/microwaving-a-biological-cell-alive-%e2%80%92-broadband-label-free-noninvasive-electrical-characterization-of-a-live-cell/
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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SUMMARY:Electronic commerce and business\, the benefits and opportunities for online users and providers
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 28\, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.\, Edmund Baumann will present “Electronic commerce and business\, the benefits and opportunities for online users and providers”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, October 28\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Edmund Baumann \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Section \nLocation: Virtual \nContact: Satish Saini \nAbstract: E-commerce is very much top of mind in our current environment as organizations have put great effort in providing products and services with substantial online supply chains. This market is driven by customers who desire a minimum of physical contact between suppliers and themselves. \nThe presentation will cover the foundations of e-commerce from the technology and business points of view. The market impact of e-commerce continues to grow and the business creativity of entrepreneurs continues to deliver products and services that the market demands after their value proposition is understood by buyers. Current business statistics are provided. Examples of successful online business are highlighted. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/240871 to register. \nBiography: Edmund Baumann (SMIEEE) holds a B.ScEE (1969) from Drexel University and an MBA (1984) from York University. He has 44 years of experience with various companies such as Rockwell\, Atomic Energy of Canada\, Tellabs\, Motorola\, Sprint\, Humber College\, University of Guelph-Humber. He teaches degree courses on Current Issues in Digital Business Management\, New Product Management\, E-Commerce\, Digital Marketing\, Business Information Systems\, Consumer Behaviour\, Marketing at Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/electronic-commerce-and-business-the-benefits-and-opportunities-for-online-users-and-providers/
CATEGORIES:Life Members
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