BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d2521f9c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260505T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260505T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-beyond-lab-integrated-biosensing SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Beyond the Lab: Integrated Biosensing Platforms \nfor Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Continuous Monitoring in Blood\,\nSkin \, and Brain CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Fatemeh Keyvani\n\nDate: May 5\, 2026\n\nTime: 1:00 PM\n\nLocation: Online - contact the candidate for more information.\n\ nSupervisors: Poudineh\, Mahla DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d252485c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260504T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260504T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-reconfigurable-radio-frequency-devices LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Reconfigurable Radio Frequency Devices Based on \nMonolithic Integration of Phase Change Material Switches and\nFerroelect ric Variable Capacitors CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Mehran Golcheshmeh\n\nDate: May 4\, 2026\n\nTime: 9: 30 AM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Mansour\, Raafat DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d2526000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/ieee-invite d-talk-recent-trends-multifunctional-filtering LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3151 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:IEEE Invited Talk: Recent Trends in Multifunctional Filtering Anten nas CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Jawad Y. Siddiqui\n\nDate: Monday\, April 27\, 202 6\n\nTime: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT\n\nLocation: Hybrid — Join in person in EIT 3151 or on Microsoft Teams\n\nHosted by: IEEE KW AP-S & MTT-S Stude nt Branch Chapters\, IEEE Waterloo\nEMC Chapter\, and IEEE Waterloo Young Professionals DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d2526e11 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260501T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260501T160000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-compreh ensive-proposal-examination-notice-ensuring-code LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West EIT 3151-53 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Comprehensive Proposal Examination Notice: Ensuring Code Qualit y\nin GenAI: A Digital Twin-Guided Framework CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Mingyang Xu\n\nDate: May 1\, 2026\n\nTime: 2:00 PM\n \nLocation: EIT 3151-53\n\nSupervisor: Tahvildari\, Ladan DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d2527b76 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260501T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260501T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-advanced-circuit-and-system-techniques LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Advanced Circuit and System Techniques for\nHig h-Performance Beamforming Front-end CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Mehran Hazer Sahlabadi\n\nDate: May 1\, 2026\n\nTime : 11:00 AM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Boumaiza\, Slim DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d25288fb DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260429T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260429T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-tunable-band-pass-filters-wide-tuning LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Tunable Band-Pass Filters with a Wide Tuning Ra nge\nand Minimum Number of Tuning Elements CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Seyyed Mojtaba Pourjaafari\n\nDate: April 29\, 2026\ n\nTime: 1:00 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Mansour\, Raafat DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d25296de DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-compreh ensive-proposal-examination-notice-morphological LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Comprehensive Proposal Examination Notice: Morphological Contro l\nand Architectural Engineering of Inkjet-Printed Small-Molecule\nTransis tors CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Shaka Pourdahrany\n\nDate: April 27\, 2026\n\nTime: 12:00 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisor: Wong\, William DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d252a531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260427T110000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-compreh ensive-proposal-examination-notice-fabrication SUMMARY:PhD Comprehensive Proposal Examination Notice: Fabrication of Sub-5 µm\nHigh-bandwidth GaN Blue MicroLEDs for High-speed Optical Communicatio n CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Zihao Wang\n\nDate: April 27\, 2026\n\nTime: 9:00 AM \n\nLocation: Online - contact the candidate for more information.\n\nS upervisor: Cui\, Bo – Miao\, Guo-Xing DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d252b1d4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-compreh ensive-proposal-examination-notice-plasmonic SUMMARY:PhD Comprehensive Proposal Examination Notice: Plasmonic-Enhanced\n GaN-Based MicroLEDs for High-Bandwidth Visible Light Communication CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Zheng Yan\n\nDate: April 21\, 2026\n\nTime: 9:30 AM\ n\nLocation: Online - contact the candidate for more information.\n\nSu pervisor: Cui\, Bo – Miao\, Guo-Xing DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f95d252bc76 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260430T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260430T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/ieee-solid- state-circuits-society-k-w-section-and-uwaterloo-0 LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society K-W Section and UWaterloo Student \nBranch Chapter Distinguished Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:LECTURE 1: RETHINKING CHIP DESIGN IN THE AGE OF AI\n\nSpeaker:  Professor Mehdi Saligane\, ECE Department\, Brown University\,\nRhode Is land\n\nDate: April 30\, 2026\n\nTime: 1:00pm to 2:00pm\n\nLocation: EIT 3 142\n\nLECTURE 2: RESEARCH AND OPEN-SOURCE EDA TOOLS\n\nSpeaker: Tim Edwar ds\, Open Circuit Design\n\nDate: April 30\, 2026\n\nTime: 2:00pm to 3:00p m\n\nLocation: EIT 3142 DTSTAMP:20260505T025949Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR