Candidate: Jalaledin Tayebpour
Date: November 11, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: EIT 3142
Supervisors: Mansour, Raafat
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!
This year, the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program is investing more than 198 million to support new and renewed Chairholders, with up to 311 million invested annually to attract and retain some of the world’s top research talent. Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professors Dr. Lan Wei and Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn have been named new Canada Research Chairs, bringing their cutting-edge work in nanoscale electronics and socially intelligent robotics to the forefront.
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!