The Department of Systems Design Engineering is delighted to announce that we will be holding our 2024 Graduate Symposium! The symposium will take place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in the E7 Ideas Clinic (E7-2409). Session descriptions are available in the Symposium e-book (PDF).
Symposium Schedule
| Time | Presenter | Session Title | |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Coffee | ||
| 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Machine Learning and Intelligence, and Optimization and Decision Making | ||
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9:30 a.m. |
Sajjad Kazemi |
Proximal Policy Optimization for Satellite Collision Avoidance Maneuver Planning in Low Earth Orbit |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
Thomas Fortin |
Scaling Laws for Compute Optimal Biosignal Transformers |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Ali Asl |
Preference and Performance-Based Adaptive Task Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break | ||
| 10:45 - 12:00 p.m. | Human Factors and Ergonomics | ||
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10:45 a.m. |
Khatereh Shariatmadari |
Comparing 2-level and 3-level Graded Collision Warning Systems Under Distracted Driving Condition |
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11:30 a.m. |
Sheida Marashi |
Design and Evaluation of an App for Workplace Task Management for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment/Dementia |
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11:45 a.m. |
Wachirawit Umpaipant |
Dynamic Alert Design Based on Driver’s Cognitive State for Take-over Request in Automated Vehicles |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. | Pizza Lunch | ||
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, and Societal and Environmental Systems | ||
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12:30 p.m. |
Chun Cheng Feng |
Eliminating the Need for Ground Truth Information in Photometric Calibration |
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12:45 p.m. |
Ryan Schmalenberg |
Camera Calibration from Out-of-Focus Images |
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1:00 p.m. |
Diana Shakhova |
EV Charging Demand Optimization in Ontario |
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1:15 p.m. |
Kirsten Wright |
From Owners to Tenants: Financialization in an Agent Based Urban Model with Agglomeration Effects |
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1:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
Break |
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| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. | Dr. Mahdi Alavi - Guest Speaker | Advanced Systems Design for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in Engineering and Medical Applications | |
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Biomedical Engineering. Modelling, Simulation and Systems Theory, and Mechatronic and Physical Systems | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Jenna Veugen | Photon Absorption Remote Sensing Probe for High Resolution Label-Free in Vivo Imaging | |
| 2:45 p.m. | Pouyan Keshavarz Motamed | Developing a Validated Numerical Tool to Predict Cancer Cell Occlusion Location in a Circulatory System | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Nahid Rahmati | Computational Study of Cancer Cell Adhesion in Curved Vessels due to Wall Shear Stress Variations | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Vidyasagar Rajendran | Towards Humanoids Using Personal Transporters Designed for Humans | |
For any questions, please reach out to Anna Cunningham, Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Studies.