Candidate: Mahmoud Abouamer
Date: September 20, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: EIT 3145
Supervisor(s): Mitran, Patrick
Members of the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab, here in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2024 for their work entitled "Transmission Protocol Customization for On-demand Tile-based 360° VR Video Streaming." Congratulations are extended to the authors of this work: Yannan Wei (PhD student), Drs. Qiang Ye and Kaige Qu (former ECE PhD students), and electrical and computer engineering professors, Drs. Weihua Zhuang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen.
Miswar Syed, a MASc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2024 Young Leaders Award from the non-profit organization Walking Softer.
The Young Leaders Award is a prestigious recognition that includes a cash prize of up to $75,000 and a year-long program designed to support visionary young leaders who are making significant contributions to the conservation and regeneration of the planet.
Candidate: Adel Alganidi
Topic: Developing a Robust Distributed Model Predictive Control Framework for Interconnected Energy Systems
Date: September 13, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: EIT 3142
Supervisor(s): El Shatshat, Ramadan
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Samir Elhedhli of the Management Science and Engineering Department.
Candidate: Zhuanhao Wu
Date: September 13, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: EIT 3145
Supervisor(s): Patel, Hiren
Candidate: Huanyi Chen
Date: September 12, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: E5 4047
Supervisor(s): Ward, Paul
Candidate: Abdelrahman Elbadrawy
Date: August 23, 2024
Time: 9:30am
Location: Teams Meeting Link
Supervisors: George Shaker and Omar Ramahi
All are welcome!
Candidate: Miswar Syed
Date: September 4, 2024
Time: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Online - Teams
Supervisor: Mehrdad Kazerani
All are welcome!
Last week electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Anshul Goyal, and his supervisor, electrical and computer engineering professor, Kankar Bhattacharya, won the Best Poster Award in the Power Engineering Track for a poster Goyal presented for their accepted paper entitled “Impact of Multi-Colored Hydrogen System Participation in Electricity Markets,” at the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2024 (CCECE).
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Omid Bagheri for winning a Best Student Paper Award (third place) for his work entitled “Radar Antennas Employing a Modified Dielectric GRIN Luneburg Lens” at the 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO).