Current students

Candidate: Hediyeh Safari

Date: November 10, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM

Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.

Supervisor: Canizares, Claudio – Dusseault, Maurice

Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Laith Alkhawaldeh, was awarded Best Student Paper at the IEEE PES ISGT-Asia 2025 conference, held in Guangzhou, China from October 31 to November 2, 2025.

Alkhawaldeh’s paper titled “Adaptive ADMM for Distributed Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading,” presents a distributed optimization framework for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading among residential prosumers.

Candidate: Nasrin Einabadi

Date: January 13, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM

Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.

Supervisor: Kazerani, Mehrdad

Candidate: Rushabh Solanki

Date: November 24, 2025

Time: 1:00pm

Location: E5-5047

Supervisor: Elliot Creager

All are welcome!

Candidate: Farheen Nasir

Date: November 5, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM

Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.

Supervisors: Dr. Guo-Xing Miao and Dr. Bo Cui (Adjunct)

Candidate: Ali Kholgh Khiz

Date: November 3, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM

Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.

Supervisor: Dr. Shesha Jayaram

Candidate: Michael Pintur

Date: October 31, 2025

Time: 1:00pm

Location: EIT 3145 and online

Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister

All are welcome!

Candidate: Justin Tung

Date: October 27, 2025

Time: 2:00pm

Location: EIT 3142

Supervisor: Dr. Slim Boumaiza

All are welcome!

Candidate: Farheen Nasir

Date: October 21, 2025

Time: 11:00am

Location: Online

Supervisor: Dr. Guo-Xing Miao

All are welcome!

Monday, October 20, 2025 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar Notice: Control and Stability of Grid-Forming Inverters

Candidate: Marzie Sadat Mirmohammad Meiguni

Date: October 20, 2025

Time: 12:30pm

Location: Online

Supervisor: Dr. Sahar Pirooz Azad

All are welcome!

Current students

PhD Seminar Notice: Disaggregating Distributed HP Load and PV Power From Aggregate Measurements in Transmission Systems

Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Laith Alkhawaldeh wins Best Student Paper at IEEE PES ISGT-Asia 2025

PhD Seminar Notice: A Residential Hybrid Nanogrid Based on Solid State Transformer Technology

MASc Seminar Notice: Crowding Out The Noise: Algorithmic Collective Action Under Differential Privacy

PhD Defence Notice: Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Atomic Force Microscope Tips Using Silicon and Diamond

PhD Defence Notice: A Study on Hairpin Motor Insulation under the Operation of Wide-Bandgap Power Converters in Electric Vehicles

MASc Seminar Notice: Mitigating Hardware Trojan Risks in the Global IC Supply Chain: Pre- and Post-Silicon Detection Approaches

MASc Seminar Notice: Systematic Methodology for Enhanced Performance Prediction in Designing Large Active Phased Array Antennas for Satellite Communication

PhD Seminar Notice: Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio AFM Tip Using Silicon And Diamond

PhD Seminar Notice: Control and Stability of Grid-Forming Inverters

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