Events

Candidate: Nils Wilde

Title: Improving User Specifications for Robot Behaviour through Active Preference Learning: Framework and Evaluation

Date: April 16, 2019

Time: 10:30 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Kulic, Dana - Smith, Stephen L.

Abstract:

In the first symposium of the Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society series, Martin Ford explores the ways in which AI and automation (aka, “robots”) are outpacing humans in a range of sectors, from education to law, agriculture to healthcare, management and beyond. He offers a realistic view of what the future of work—and your place in it—will look like.

Candidate: Laura McCrackin

Title: Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Deep Learning

Date: April 17, 2019

Time: 11:30 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Crowley, Mark - Kulic, Dana

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Candidate: Brandon James DeHart

Title: Dynamic Balance and Gait Metrics for Robotic Bipeds

Date: April 18, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3151-3153

Supervisor(s): Kulic, Dana - Gorbet, Robert B. (Knowledge Integration)

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Candidate: Ahmad Bilal Asghar

Title: Path Planning for Persistent Monitoring in Possibly Adversarial Environments

Date: April 18, 2019

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: EIT 3151-3153

Supervisor(s): Smith, Stephen L.

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Candidate: Sepehr Eghbali

Title: Towards a Search Engine for Big Data using Compact Codes

Date: April 24, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: EIT 3151-3153

Supervisor(s): Tahvildari, Ladan

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Candidate: Husam Suleiman

Title: Service-Level-Driven Load Scheduling and Balancing in Multi-Tier Cloud Computing

Date: May 24, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Basir, Otman

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Candidate: Ahmed Abdalrahman Ahmed

Title: PEV Charging Infrastructure Integration into Smart Grid

Date: May 28, 2019

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Zhuang, Weihua

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Candidate: Yigit Ozcan

Title: How Useful is Full Duplex in Cellular Networks? The Impact of Interference and Traffic Asymmetry in a Multi-Cell OFDMA Network

Date: June 13, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3142

Supervisor(s): Rosenberg, Catherine

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Candidate: Mohsen Khalaf

Title: Cyber Physical Security of Wide-Area Under-Frequency Load Shedding Protection Schemes

Date: June 14, 2019

Time: 2:30 PM

Place: EIT 3145

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

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