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Thursday, September 29, 2016 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Gangqiang Yang
Title
Hardware implementations and optimizations of the Warbler pseudorandom number generator
Supervisors
Guang Gong and Mark Aagaard
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Alireza Khosropour
Title
Fabrication and Characterization of Microcrystalline Silicon Near Infrared Photodiode Detector Pixel on Glass Substrate for Large Area Electronics
Supervisor
Andrei Sazonov
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Mahmoud Salem
Topic
Anomaly Detection for Real-Time Embedded Systems
Supervisor
Fischmeister, Sebastian
Background subjects
- Supervised Learning
- Operating Systems Principles
- Real-time Embedded Systems
- Network Calculus
Friday, September 23, 2016 — 1:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Topic
Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Friday, September 23, 2016 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Walied Alharbi
Topic
Demand Side Flexibility Provisions in Smart Energy Hubs for Sustainable Future Energy Systems
Supervisor
Kankar Bhattacharya
Background subjects
- Power system operation
- Power system planning
- Smart grid
Thursday, September 22, 2016 — 5:30 PM PDT
You're invited to indulge in a slice of Canada in Seattle! Held at Microsoft, the evening features reminiscing about Canada and Waterloo, Canadian-inspired food and Canadiana prizes! This event is open to all engineering alumni and current engineering students living/working in the Seattle area.
Thursday, September 22, 2016 — 5:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Lajos Hanzo, School of ECS, University of Southampton
Topic
Harnessing Quantum-Computing and Signal Processing in Wireless Communications
Please see the poster for Lajos Hanzo's seminar for the details.
Monday, September 19, 2016 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Seyed-Rambod Hosseini-Salekdeh
Title
A Comparative Analysis of 6T and 10T SRAM Cells for Sub-threshold Operation in 65 nm CMOS Technology
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev
Friday, September 16, 2016 — 9:30 AM EDT
Chamath Palihapitiya (BASc ’99, Elect) and Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, Comp), founders of Social Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are returning to campus to talk to Engineering students about two amazing opportunities that could change students' lives.
Fireside Chat: Chamath and Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering, will have a lively 40 minute Fireside Chat where they will discuss some of the amazing opportunities for Engineering undergraduate and graduate students.
Thursday, September 15, 2016 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Topic
Mining Contexts of Passive Entities from Radio Frequency Sources
Thursday, September 15, 2016 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Pingzhi Fan, Institute of Mobile Communications, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Topic
Broadband Mobile Communications for High Speed Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday, September 15, 2016 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Nei Kato, Tohoku University, Japan
Topic
VANET and Relay-by-Smartphone
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Alireza Khosropour
Title
Fabrication and Characterization of Microcrystalline Silicon Near Infrared Photodiode Detector Pixel on Glass Substrate for Large Area Electronics
Supervisor
Andrei Sazonov
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Abdul Muqtadir Abbasi
Title
Categorization and Detection of Energy Bugs and Application Tail Energy Bugs in Smartphones
Supervisor
Kshirasagar Naik
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Yi Shan
Title
Fast Intra-frame Coding Algorithm for HEVC Based on TCM and Machine Learning
Supervisor
En-Hui Yang
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Sudhakar Rao, University of Central Florida, USA
Title
Advanced Antenna Systems for 21st Century Satellite Communication Payloads
Friday, September 9, 2016 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Elahe Talaie Pashiri
Title
Manganese and Iron-Based Layered Oxide Positive Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Supervisors
Linda Nazar (Chemistry) and Hany Aziz
Friday, September 9, 2016 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Sally Daif
Title
Condition Assessment of Power Transformer Winding Insulation Based on Partial Discharge Detection
Supervisor
Magdy Salama
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Topic
Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Wentao Liu
Topic
No Reference Quality Assessment for Images and Videos
Supervisor
Zhou Wang
Background subjects
- No Reference Image Quality Assessment
- H.264 Video
- Learning to Rank
Friday, September 2, 2016 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Maarten Aloys Jonkman
Title
Modified Differential Cascode Voltage Scale Logic Optimized for Sub-threshold Voltage Operation
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev