Friday, November 20, 2020

Location, Location, Location Ensuring Driverless Cars Know Exactly Where They Are

Mohamed Atia commutes to work and runs errands in a Toyota Yaris, but when he duct tapes a set of sensors to the vehicle, attaches an antenna to the roof and connects the equipment to a small custom-built computer on the front passenger seat, the nondescript silver hatchback is transformed into a window to... More

Monday, November 16, 2020

Grad Research: Detecting COVID-19 by the Sound of One’s Cough

What would you do if you could identify if someone near you has COVID-19 just by the sound of their cough? Madison Cohen-McFarlane, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering is researching the application of audio-based health sensing for smart-home remote... More

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Fall Graduation 2020: From Gadgets to Patents —a Lifelong Fascination with Machines

As a child growing up in the United Arab Emirates, Rawan Alkurd’s preferred birthday gift was always the latest gadget rather than the latest toy. “I was not only fascinated with gadgets, but I wanted to learn how to build them,” explains Alkurd. “I wanted to know how to communicate with machines and how... More

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Halim Yanikomeroglu was appointed an the CCA Expert Panel on High-Throughput Networks for Rural and Remote Communities

The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) has formed an Expert Panel to examine the legal, ethical, social, and policy (LESP) issues associated with deploying and adopting reliable high-speed internet in rural and remote communities, including Indigenous communities, in Canada. Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu is appointed as a member of the Expert... More

Friday, November 6, 2020

Timely Processing of Big Data: Challenges and Answers

Speaker: Shikharesh Majumdar. Abstract: The availability of information rich data from various sources that include enterprise systems as well as sensor-based smart facilities is fueling research on effectively harnessing the power of Big Data. Data analytics that concerns the extraction of knowledge from such large volumes of raw data is of... More

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Modelling the spread of COVID-19 in indoor environments to help pinpoint transmission risk

Through an NSERC Alliance Grant, Gabriel Wainer is working with Canada’s Department of National Defense to model whether a virus hotspot could move through a building, and put its occupants at risk. The mathematical models use both viral particle modelling, and carbon dioxide as a proxy for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, and... More

Monday, November 2, 2020

University Medals

  Congratulations to Carleton University Systems and Computer Engineering students Rawan Alkurd (PhD, supervised by Halim Yanikomeroglu and Ibrahim Abualhaol) and Daniel Kyrollos (MSc, supervised by Jim Green and Robert Langlois) for being awarded an Outstanding Academic Achievement medal, and to Danilo Vucetic for receiving the University... More

Saturday, October 31, 2020

2019 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award

  Dario Luzuriaga, Chung-Horng Lung and Margaret Funmilayo, were awarded the 2019 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award, for the video associated with the research paper: Dario Luzuriaga, Chung-Horng Lung and Margaret Funmilayo, “Software-Based Video-Audio Production Mixer via an IP Network”, IEEE ACCESS, Jan 2020, pp. 11456 – 11468. The... More

Saturday, October 31, 2020

The Department is now on Social Media!

We’re on Social Media! Follow the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering for news, events, community posts and more. You can also tag the Department in your social media posts @carletonsce, or use hashtag #carletonsce so we can like and share your content. #carletonsce Please see the channel links below:... More

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Students of ARSLab won the Best Hack for Humans award

Students of the ARSLab at Carleton University led by Vinu Rajus won the Best Hack for Humans award, at the AEC Hackathon. They combined Autodesk forge BIM and a spatial model of COVID19 outbreak in a GUANGZHOU restaurant More info at... More

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Best Paper Award at IEEE ISNCC

Danish Sattar (PhD SCE, 2020) and Professor Ashraf Matrawy received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISNCC this morning (http://www.isncc-conf.org/). The award was granted to the paper "Proactive and Dynamic Slice Allocation in Sliced 5G Core Networks" which allows for dynamic allocation of 5G network slices and helps mitigate co-residency attacks... More

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Ingenious Talks Online: Detecting COVID-19 Through Cough Sounds

Join us on Tuesday, October 20! Cough is an early recognizable symptom of COVID-19, which presents a set of challenges for diagnosis because coughs are common symptoms of other medical conditions. The creation of unobtrusive remote monitoring tools for medical professionals that may aid in COVID-19 diagnosis, monitoring and contact tracing could... More

Monday, October 5, 2020

Carleton University – Systems and Computer Engineering Online Wireless Seminars

Thursday, 08 October 2020, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm EDT (Ottawa time) https://zoom.us/j/95536198550 Big Data-Driven AI-based Wireless Networks Personalization Dr. Rawan Alkurd Data Scientist, Larus Technologies, Ottawa, Canada PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carleton University There is a consensus that trends in emerging wireless... More

Friday, October 2, 2020

Discover TechNATA

There’s never been a more exciting time to work in Canada’s largest tech park! Join us (virtually) Oct. 6-7 to learn about available opportunities in cybersecurity, IoT, connected autonomous vehicles, 5G, software, SaaS. Register now: https://bit.ly/33k7oNz... More

Thursday, August 20, 2020

SCE PhD Graduate’s Medical Imaging Research Wins Prestigious Medal

Recent Carleton University doctoral graduate Fatemeh Zabihollahy has been awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the PhD level. Over the last three years, Zabihollahy has spent countless hours developing a computer-aided detection method to identify abnormalities in the body, such as cancer. “I was really happy, because... More

Monday, August 10, 2020

Systems Capstone Project Won the W.E. Cowie Innovation Award

  The fourth year capstone project Light Emitting Access Point (LEAP) has won the 2020 W.E. Cowie Innovation Award, valued at $27,000. The team was incepted with project founder and systems engineer Christian Sargusingh, QA and front-end developer Steven Zhou and embedded high-speed digital engineer Aaron Huang. The team has since extended to... More

Monday, August 10, 2020

Carleton University Rapid Response Research Grants: E-Health, Technology, AI and Autonomous Systems

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges and emphasized the urgency of grappling with social issues like inequality. The complexity of this crisis demands the mobilization of experts in many disciplines, and the academic community has answered the call. In April 2020, Carleton launched the Rapid Response Research Grants program to help... More

Monday, August 10, 2020

Engineering Hands-on Experience in a Time of Remote Learning

Following the unexpected shift to online learning this spring, multiple academic units within Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design began developing enhanced strategies for remote education to ensure “hands-on” experiential learning remains a key element of studying online. During Carleton’s 2020 summer term, both the... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers

John Bryant, lecturer at Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University, has been awarded the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers for his volunteer work on the railway collections of the Bytown Railway Society and the Canada Science and Technology Museum over the past three decades. CONGRATULATIONS. More information available... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Ingenious Talks Online: Modeling COVID-19 Using Spatial Modeling and Simulation

When: Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 Time: 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm Location: Online via Zoom Audience: Anyone Contact: FacultyofEngineeringandDesign@carleton.ca   Dr. Gabriel Wainer, the Director of Carleton University’s Advanced Real-Time Simulation Laboratory and the professor with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, will be... More

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Undergrads Win Adrian Chan Award for Volunteer & Community Service

For just the second time since being established, this year’s Adrian D.C. Chan Award for Volunteer and Community Service has been presented to two engineering undergraduates, Johan Prent and Teodora Blidaru, to acknowledge their innovative commitment to the community during their time at Carleton. Originally founded in 2012 by Dr. Adrian Chan,... More

Thursday, July 23, 2020

New Funding Supports Carleton Research Aimed at Protecting the Most Vulnerable Patients

Carleton University researcher Robert Langlois from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, in partnership with Adrian Chan and James Green from Systems and Computer Engineering, and neonatologist Dr. Stephanie Redpath from the University of Ottawa, will receive more than $522,000 over three years as part of the Collaborative... More

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

2020–2021 Carleton 6G Workshops #1 Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling

Monday, 27 July 2020, 1:00-4:30 pm EDT (Ottawa time) https://zoom.us/j/94439096686 (300 links) Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling is a promising physical layer technique that has the potential to improve the spectral efficiency (bits/sec/Hz) substantially in communications systems. It refers to the transmission of information-bearing pulses at... More

Saturday, July 18, 2020

International Ranking of Telecommunications Engineering

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 (source: Shanghai Ranking), Carleton University ranks #27 in the world in Telecommunications Engineering. Source:... More

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Faculty New Appointments and Promotions

Systems and Computer Engineering is excited to welcome Christina Ruiz Martin as an Instructor I in the area of software engineering, starting July 1st . Prof Marzieh Amini as a new Assistant Prof in SIT with a cross-appointment to SCE. The Department would also like to congratulate Sreeraman Rajan for renewing his CRC-II. Yvan Labiche... More

Friday, July 10, 2020

Interested in becoming a Teaching Assistant?

Often the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering has Outside Priority TA opportunities available for highly qualified Undergraduate students. Hours available vary depending on the department course needs. Duties vary by course/instructor and may include conducting labs or study groups, marking assignments and tests, proctoring exams and... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Two International Simulation Awards for SCE Faculty members

Prof. Gabriel Wainer has been awarded "Outstanding Service Award" and Dr. Ruiz-Martin has received the "Young Simulation Scientist" award by SCS, the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. The "Outstanding Service Award" recognizes outstanding service to the Society by a member. Prof. Wainer has been the Chair of major SCS conferences... More

Thursday, July 2, 2020

IEEE CU@EMBS Student Chapter wins “Overall Student Chapter Award” worldwide for the 2nd year of the past three!

Congratulations to co-chairs Yasmina Souley Dosso and Mohamed Abdelaziz, and to the Chapter Executive, which is comprised entirely of SCE graduate students. According to Souley Dosso: "The Carleton University Engineering in Medicine and Biology Student Club is honored to be recognized with the North America Regional Award and the Overall Student... More

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Mr. David Luong receives the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to Mr. David Luong on getting the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. David, who received his MSc from the University of Waterloo, joined the SCE department in Fall 2019 for his PhD degree under the primary supervision of Prof. Sreeraman Rajan. He will be performing his research on quantum radar signal processing.    ... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

IEEE WIE Ottawa recognized globally

  From left to right - first row: Ragunath Anbarasu – Web Master, Fadwa Darwaish – Treasurer, Anastassia Gharib – Chair, Dana Haj Hussein – Secretary, Manar Helal – Vice Chair; From left to right - second row: Chowdhury Saleha Ferdowsy – Social Media Assistant, Astha Tiwari – Publications Director, Hilda Azimi – Social... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Fatemeh Zabihollahy, won the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work

Fatemeh Zabihollahy, won the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Doctoral Level for her doctoral research entitled “Deep Learning Methods for Abnormality Detection and Segmentation in Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Images”. Fatemeh was supervised by Dr. Eranga Ukwatta and Dr. James Green was her co-supervisor. During... More

Monday, June 22, 2020

Carleton Engineering PhD Student Wins 2020 Vanier Award

Carleton PhD student David Luong was part of the team that published the world's first laboratory results on microwave quantum radar. The team found that the potential gains could be massive. Luong explains that radars are typically designed using classical physics, which works very well in everyday life but does not describe the full... More

Monday, June 15, 2020

Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu Receives the IEEE Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award

Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering received the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award. Professor Yanikomeroglu has been nominated by Professor Elvino Sousa of the University of Toronto, Canada, for his outstanding and visionary research on wireless access network... More

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Online Wireless Seminars

Carleton University – Systems and Computer Engineering Online Wireless Seminars Time: Thursday, June 18, 2020, 11:30 am EDT (Ottawa time) [Zoom capacity: 100 attendees] Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87467314446?pwd=blpsajVjQzdwSC9aM2dWQzZDS3J0UT09 Topic: Using Mobility for Agility: Enhancing Wireless Networks with Aerial Access Nodes and User... More

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

PEO Engineering Medal Award (Young Engineer Category)

Rachel Zhang who is an M.Eng. Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Clinical Engineering, co-supervised by Adrian Chan (Professor, Department Systems & Computer Engineering) and Kim Greenwood (Director, Clinical Engineering, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - CHEO) received the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA)... More

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