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Thursday, November 27, 2014 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Augusto Oliveira
Title
Measuring and Predicting Computer Software Performance: Tools and Approaches
Supervisor
Sebastian Fischmeister
Thursday, November 27, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jordan Francis Morris
Title
Design and Testing of a Bidirectional Smart Charger Prototype
Supervisors
Mehrdad Kazerani and Claudio Canizares
Thursday, November 27, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Zhongming Zheng
Title
Resource Management in Green Wireless Communication Networks
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Thursday, November 27, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Mohammad Hadi Zibaeenejad
Title
Weak Invariant Simulation and Analysis of Parameterized Networks
Supervisor
John Thistle
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 — 6:00 PM EST
Candidate
Ali-Akbar Samadani
Title
Automatic Recognition and Generation of Affective Movements
Supervisors
Robert Gorbet and Dana Kulic
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Candidate
Aidin Taeb
Title
A New Silicon-Based Dielectric Waveguide Technology for Millimeter-Wave/Terahertz Devices and Integrated Systems
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Mohamed Basha (Systems Design)
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Hamed Holisaz
Topic
Optimizing RF circuit topologies and integration techniques for low-cost scalable sub-THz array transmitter
Supervisor
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
Background subjects
- Radio Frequency (RF) circuits
- Microwave devices, circuits and systems
- Antennas and phased array systems
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Due to an unforseen circumstance, this seminar has been cancelled.
Speaker
Professor Ramavarapu "RS" Sreenivas,
Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Topic
On Supervisory Policies for Livelock Avoidance in Petri Net Models of Discrete State Systems
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jonathan Feng-Shun Lin
Topic
Motion Segmentation using Segment Point and Primitive Modelling for Rehabilitation Exercises
Supervisor
Dana Kulic
Background subjects
- Time-series data analysis
- Classifiers
- Dimensionality reduction
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Zhongming Zheng
Title
Resource Management in Green Wireless Communication Networks
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Candidate
Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh
Title
Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding for Energy Harvesting Communication Systems
Supervisor
Patrick Mitra
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Candidate
Majid Lafi Altamimi
Title
A Task Offloading Framework for Energy Saving on Mobile Devices using Cloud Computing
Supervisor
Kshirasagar Naik
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Qiang Ye
Topic
Cognitive Medium Access Control for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Supervisor
Weihua Zhuang
Background subjects
- Medium access control
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning
- Node mobility management
Monday, November 24, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Nan Cheng
Topic
Exploring Opportunistic Spectrum for Vehicular Communication Networks
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Background subjects
- Vehicular Communications network
- Recourse Allocation
- Traffic load balancing
- Modeling and Performance analysis
Friday, November 21, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Fei Huo
Title
Active Eavesdropping in FHSS RFID Systems
Supervisor
Guang Gong
Thursday, November 20, 2014 — 3:00 PM EST
Candidate
Mitra Nasresfahani
Title
Design and Fabrication of Centre Frequency and Bandwidth Tunable Cavity Filters
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Thursday, November 20, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Ali Hooshyar
Title
Protection of Renewable Energy Systems
Supervisor
Ehab El-Saadany
Thursday, November 20, 2014 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Alfredo Vaccaro
Topic
Affine Arithmetic for Optimal Power Flow Analysis in the presence of Data Uncertainty
Supervisor
Claudio Canizares
Background subjects
- Power system analysis
- Power system operation
- Uncertainty analysis
Thursday, November 20, 2014 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Zijian Yan
Topic
The Advanced Side Channel Analysis of Cryptographic Devices
Supervisor
Catherine Gebotys
Background subjects
- Side channel analysis
- Digital signal tranforms
- Cryptography
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Speaker (4:00 - 4:30)
Yun-Qian Miao
Topic
Discriminative Density Ratio for Classification Domain Adaptation
Friday, November 14, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Christopher Charles Scott
Topic
High spatial resolution direct conversion digital x-ray imaging using hybrid selenium-CMOS detectors
Supervisor
Karim Karim
Background subjects
- X-ray physics
- Semiconductors
- Applied linear systems theory
- Physical optics
Monday, November 10, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Candidate
Humayra Naosaba
Title
Negative Material Inspired Microwave Water Heating System
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Monday, November 10, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Alireza Mortezaei
Title
Exploring the Tight Asymptotic Bounds of the Trade-off Between Query Anonymity & Communication Cost in Wireless Sensor Network
Supervisors
Mahesh Tripunitara and Gordon Agnew
Thursday, November 6, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Alireza Khosropour
Topic
Thin Film Silicon Based Near Infrared Photodetectors
Supervisor
Andrei Sazonov
Background subjects
- Semiconductor Devices
- Microfabrication
- Optoelectronics
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 — 2:00 PM EST
Speaker
Rushdi Shams, Ph.D. Researcher, Computational Linguistics Lab, Western University
Topic
Identification of Informativeness in Text using Natural Language Stylometry