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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
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
Candidate
Jinqiu Yang
Topic
Automated Patch Generation: Learning from History
Supervisor
Lin Tan
Background subjects
- Automated Program Repair
- Static Program Analysis
- Software Reliability
Monday, November 3, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Speaker
Dr. Joshua K. H. Wong
Manager, Antenna Design Team
BlackBerry
Topic
Characteristics Mode Based MIMO Antenna System Design
Friday, October 31, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Steven Petten
Title
Theoretical and Experimental Study to Improve Antenna Performance Using a Resonant Choke Structure
Supervisor
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
Friday, October 31, 2014 — 10:15 AM EDT
Candidate
Daniel Saari
Title
Op Amp Design in Nanoscale Processes Using Fixed-Length Devices
Supervisor
David Nairn
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 — 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
What motivates student learning? Can instructors influence the motivation levels of their students?
Some theorists believe that motivation for learning is impacted by two factors:
1. Student beliefs about their ability to succeed in the learning task (expectancy)
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Mark Stephen Dittmer
Title
The UNIX Process Identity Crisis: A Standards-Driven Approach to Setuid
Supervisor
Mahesh Tripunitara
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Uyxing Vongsaysy
Title
Studies on processing additives introduced for increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells: their selections and their mechanistic effects
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Friday, October 17, 2014 — 11:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Adam John Neale
Title
Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Topic
Obscuring code – Unveiling and Veiling Information in Programs
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Saeedeh Ghaffari
Title
Characterization of Optically Sensitive Amorphous Selenium Photodetector for Indirect X-Ray Imaging
Supervisor
Karim Karim
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Tianchi Ma
Supervisor
Christopher Backhouse
Title
An Automated Hand-held RFLP-CE Diagnosis Device for point-of-care Applications
Abstract
Micro-Total-Analysis-System (uTAS) for genetic diagnosis has a great potential to revolutionize the future of health care. However the lack of uTAS, which is fully integrated, mass-producible and application oriented, has delayed uTAS development in real life point-of-care applications.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Jagadish Ghimire
Title
Revisiting Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks When the Backhaul is Limited
Supervisor
Catherine Rosenberg
Friday, October 10, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Adam John Neale
Title
Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Yasir Ali
Title
Energy Performance Testing of Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices
Supervisor
Naik, Kshirasagar
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Ashish Khisti
Topic
Coding for Real-Time Streaming Communication
Abstract
A growing number of multimedia applications require transmission of a stream of source packets under strict delay constraints. It is well known that classical models in information theory do not provide useful guidelines for such systems. In this talk I will show how certain deterministic approximations to statistical channel models can lead to new insights into real-time streaming communications.
Friday, October 3, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Pierce I-Jen Chuang
Title
High-Performance, Energy-Efficient CMOS Arithmetic Circuits
Supervisors
Manoj Sachdev and Vincent Gaudet
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