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Friday, September 26, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Asmaa Abdallah
Topic
Security and Privacy in Smart Grid
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Background subjects
- Wireless network
- Information security
- Power grid
- Performance analysis
Friday, September 26, 2014 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Akramul Azim
Title
Scheduling of Overload-Tolerant Computation and Multi-Mode Communication in Real-Time Systems
Supervisor
Sebastian Fischmeister
Thursday, September 25, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Pierce I-Jen Chuang
Title
High-Performance, Energy-Efficient CMOS Arithmetic Circuits
Supervisors
Manoj Sachdev and Vincent Gaudet
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Eugene King-Ho Li
Title
Stabilization of Polytopes for Fully Actuated Euler-Lagrange Systems
Supervisor
Christopher Nielsen
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Sheran Christopher Lalith Wiratunga
Title
Training Gaussian Process Regression models using optimized trajectories
Supervisor
Dana Kulic
Monday, September 22, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Yao Chen
Title
More Than Error Correction: Cryptography from Codes
Supervisor
Guang Gong
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 — 3:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Qi Wang
Title
Exciton-Induced Degradation of Interfaces in Organic Light-Emitting Devices
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Ayman Bahgat Abdelazim Ibrahim Eltantawy
Title
Online Assessment of Distributed Generation Connection for Smart Grid
Supervisor
Magdy Salama
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Behnam Tamimi
Topic
Hybrid Power Flow Controller Modelling
Supervisor
Claudio Canizares
Background subjects
- Power Flow
- OFP
- FACT
- Power system stability
- Transient stability modeling
Monday, September 15, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Mohammed AlShareef
Title
Electrically Small Particles for Energy Harvesting in the Infrared and Microwave Regimes
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Friday, September 12, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Sara Sharifian Attar
Title
Superconducting RF MEMS Devices
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Friday, September 12, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Nusa Zidaric
Title
Hardware Implementations of the WG-16 Stream Cipher with Composite Field Arithmetic
Supervisors
Guang Gong and Mark Aagaard
Friday, September 12, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Samir Ahmed Awad
Title
Application of Energy Storage Systems in Smart Grids
Supervisors
Magdy Salama and Tarek El-Fouly (Adjunct)
Friday, September 12, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jiazheng Li
Title
Optimal Control of a Heterogeneous Two Server System with Consideration for Power and Performance
Supervisors
Shreyas Sundaram and Siddharth Garg
Thursday, September 11, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Sara Sharifian Attar
Title
Low Temperature Superconducting RF MEMS Devices
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Thursday, September 11, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Michael Naiem Abdelmassih Ibrahim
Title
Using Wireless Communications to Enable Decentralized Analysis and Control of Smart Distribution Systems
Supervisor
Magdy Salama
Abstract
The smart grid is a multidisciplinary approach that aims to revolutionize the whole electricity supply chain including generation, transmission and distribution systems in order to overcome the multiple challenges currently facing the electric power grid.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Zheng Fang
Title
Test Clone Detection via Assertion Fingerprints
Supervisor
Patrick Lam
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Ayman Bahgat Abdelazim Ibrahim Eltantawy
Title
Online Assessment of Distributed Generation Connection for Smart Grid
Supervisor
Magdy Salama
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Wenbin Ji
Title
Cost and Benefit of Embedded Feature Annotation: A Case Study
Supervisor
Krzysztof Czarnecki
Monday, September 8, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Mauricio Restrepo
Topic
Smart Charging And Discharging Of Electric Vehicles In Distribution Grids
Supervisors
Claudio Canizares and Mehrdad Kazerani
Background subjects
- Power System Analysis and Control
- Power Electronics
- Distribution Systems
- Optimization
Monday, September 8, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi
PhD Candidate
Department of Electronics, Information Technology and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Topic
Novel inter-operator Interference mitigation through cooperation in upstream for Next Generation DSL (NGDSL)
Monday, September 8, 2014 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Sepideh Seifzadeh
Title
A Source-Reliability-Adaptive Distributed Soft-Data-Constrained Multi-Model Particle Filter
Supervisor
Fakhreddine Karray
Monday, September 8, 2014 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Farouk Mkadem
Title
Behavioral Modeling and Digital Predistortion of Wide- and Multi-Band Transmitter Systems
Supervisor
Slim Boumaiza
Friday, September 5, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Sepideh Seifzadeh
Title
A Source-Reliability-Adaptive Distributed Soft-Data-Constrained Multi-Model Particle Filter
Supervisor
Fakhreddine Karray
Friday, September 5, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Vincent Bonnet, Japanese Society for Promotion of Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Topic
Toward the Minimum Measured-input Models for the Evaluation of Human Motor Ability
Abstract
The problematic of evaluating and understanding the physical functional limitations of patients suffering from postural pathologies and establishing the relationship between individual disability and biomechanics will be addressed in this talk.