Events by month

Since the last fundraiser was so successful, EWB has partnered again with Krispy Kreme to have another fundraiser to raise money for social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa to help reduce poverty.

$10 for a dozen or $1 per donut

Candidate: Jakub Kuderski

Title: Scalable Context-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for LLVM

Date: July 4, 2019

Time: 11:00am

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Gurfinkel, Arie

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Candidate: Qiu Shi Jiang

Title: Creating Usage Models to Identify Misbehaving Applications on Mobile Devices

Date: July 5, 2019

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: DC 1304

Supervisor(s): Ward, Paul A.

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Candidate: Ahmet Camlica

Title: Device Architectures for an Improved Temporal Response with Amorphous Selenium Radiation Detectors

Date: July 8, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Karim, Karim S. - Lee, Denny (Adjunct)

Please note that this is a CLOSED seminar and as such, those in attendance must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Candidate: Rhiannon Lee Lohr

Title: Phase Retrieval Methods for Polychromatic Propagation-Based Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging

Date: July 9, 2019

Time: 3:00pm

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Karim, Karim S.

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Candidate: Engy Adel Mohamed Mohamed Hassan

Title: Impact of Second-Life Batteries on Enhancing the Integration of Renewable Energy Resources

Date: July 11, 2019

Time: 2:30  PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Salama, Magdy A. - Ahmed, Mohamed H. (Adjunct)

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The Problem Lab invites you to watch the Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch Competition.

Teams have each chosen an important industry problem, and will now pitch their research to a panel of judges for a chance to win up to $30k in grant funding. The 5-minute pitches will demonstrate each competitor’s knowledge of their problem’s history, scope, and impact.

Candidate: Omniyah Gul M Khan

Topic: Cyber security of congestion management methods in the distribution network

Date: July 12, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: EIT 3141

Supervisor(s): El-Saadany, Ehab - Salama, Magdy A.

All are welcome to attend.

Celebrate Waterloo Engineering!

Come show your spirit and get your purple on! 

The tradition continues on July 12, 2019 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm to celebrate Engineering Day with our incredible community of students, alumni, professors and staff. This year's activities will include a colour throw (wear a white t-shirt!), BBQ featuring the famous 'Boggan Burgers, free treats and refreshments including purple Koolaid as well as soft-serve ice cream and popcorn, a photo booth, The Tool and The Tool Bearers, and so much more!

Elora Quarry is a swimming spot only half an hour from Waterloo! Buy a ticket for a day of fun on the beach and in the water. Your ticket includes transportation from the University of Waterloo to Elora Quarry and back, as well as admission to the park! All proceeds from this event go towards the It Takes a Village campaign, which supports social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Candidate: Kais El-murtadi Suleiman

Title: Popular Content Distribution in Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Date: July 15, 2019

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Basir, Otman

Please note that this is a CLOSED seminar and as such, those in attendance must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Candidate: Demin Yin

Title: Theoretical Investigation of Contact Effects on the Performance of 2D-Material Nanotransistors

Date: July 16, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Yoon, Young Ki

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Candidate: Ahmet Camlica

Title: Device Architectures for Improved Temporal Response with Amorphous Selenium Radiation Detectors

Date: July 16, 2019

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Karim, Karim S. - Lee, Denny (Adjunct)

Please note that this is a CLOSED examination and as such, those in attendance must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Candidate: Zhengfang Duanmu

Topic: Adaptive Streaming: From Bitrate Maximization to Rate-Distortion Optimization

Date: July 17, 2019

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Wang, Zhou

All are welcome to attend.

Candidate: Nitin Padmanabhan

Title: Demand Response and Battery Energy Storage Systems in Electricity Markets: Frameworks & Models

Date: July 17, 2019

Time: 2:30 PM

Place: EIT 3141

Supervisor(s): Bhattacharya, Kankar - Ahmed, Mohamed H. (Adjunct)

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Candidate: Tejinder Singh

Title: Miniaturized Phase Change Material Based Switches and Switch Matrices for Millimeter Wave Applications

Date: July 17, 2019

Time: 4:30 PM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Mansour, Raafat R.

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Candidate: Chung Wai Sandbo Chang

Title: Two-photon and Three-photon Parametric Interactions in Superconducting Microwave Circuits

Date: July 18, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Wilson, Christopher C.M.

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Candidate: Zongxian Yang

Title: Leveraging RRAM to Design Efficient Digital Circuits and Systems for Beyond Von Neumann in-Memory Computing

Date: July 18, 2019

Time: 10:00am

Place: E5 4106

Supervisor(s): Wei, Lan

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Candidate: Kais El-murtadi Suleiman

Title: Popular Content Distribution in Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Date: July 18, 2019

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Basir, Otman

Please note that this is a CLOSED examination and as such, those in attendance must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Candidate: Shaeera Rabbanee Shuvra

Topic: Linear CMOS 6-Vpp swing differential Mach-Zehnder modulator driver circuit for 400-Gb/s optical communication

Date: July 19, 2019

Time: 11:30 AM

Place: E5 4106

Supervisor(s): Long, John R.

All are welcome to attend.

Candidate: Mohammad Soltani

Topic: Miniaturization of pH sensor for anastomotic leak detection after the surgery

Date: July 22, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Cui, Bo

Please note that this is a CLOSED examination and as such, those in attendance must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Candidate: Wen Wu

Title: Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks

Date: July 22, 2019

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Shen, Sherman X.

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Candidate: Joshua Stephen Reid

Title: Expanding the Microfluidic Design Automation Capabilities of Manifold: Electrophoretic Cross and Time-Domain Simulation

Date: July 23, 2019

Time: 3:00PM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Rayside, Derek - Backhouse, Christopher

Abstract:

Lab-on-a-chip devices are finding applications in several different fields, from point-of-care diagnostics to genome sequencing.

Candidate: Nan Chen

Title: Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid

Date: July 23, 2019

Time: 4:00 PM

Place: EIT 3141

Supervisor(s): Shen, Sherman X.

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After our successful workshop on power system protection, we have decided to organize a tour of EATON's manufacturing plant.

Candidate: Hari Govind Vediramana Krishnan

Title: Strong Induction in Hardware Model Checking 

Date: July 24, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Ganesh, Vijay - Gurfinkel, Arie

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Candidate: Mahitab Eladwy

Topic: Frequency-Multiplier-Based Phased-Arrays for High-Frequency Vector Modulated Sources

Date: July 24, 2019

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: E5 4128

Supervisor(s): Boumaiza, Slim

All are welcome to attend.

Candidate: Lin Li

Title: Topological insulator-Superconductor heterostructures and devices

Date: July 25, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: E5 4106

Supervisor(s): Miao, Guo-Xing - Cui, Bo

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Candidate: Wen Wu

Title: Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks

Date: July 26, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Shen, Sherman X.

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Candidate: Nan Chen

Title: Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid

Date: July 26, 2019

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Shen, Sherman X.

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Candidate: Shefali Sharma

Title: Considering Safety and Security in AV Functions

Date: July 29, 2019

Time: 11:00AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Fischmeister, Sebastian

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Candidate: William Mendieta

Title: Thermostatically Controllable Loads for Primary Frequency Control in Isolated Mircrogrids

Date: July 29, 2019

Time: 11:00am

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Canizares, Claudio A.

Abstract:

There is an increasing trend in the electric utilities to perform real-time simulation of power systems to test their protection and control hardware. The real-time simulation can become prohibitively expensive for large power systems. A solution to this is to divide the system into an internal system where all details are important and an external system (the rest of the system) where some details are not important.

Candidate: Jean-Luc Francois-Xavier Orgiazzi

Title: Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Flux Qubits

Date: July 30, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Lupascu, Adrian A. - Bajcsy, Michal

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Candidate: Melad Marzouq Olaimat

Topic: Electromagnetic energy harvesting for renewable energy applications

Date: July 30, 2019

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: EIT 3141

Supervisor(s): Ramahi, Omar M.

All are welcome to attend.

Candidate: Nitin Padmanabhan

Title: Demand Response and Battery Energy Storage Systems in Electricity Markets: Frameworks & Models

Date: July 30, 2019

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Bhattacharya, Kankar - Ahmed, Mohamed H. (Adjunct)

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Candidate: Simon Daley

Title: Electro-optic rotating half-waveplate for aquantum dot fine-structure eraser

Date: July 31, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: RAC 1101

Supervisor(s): Reimer, Michael M.E.

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