Tuesday, June 13, 2017

sWall unveiled!

The digital wall, dubbed sWall, is now officially open! The digital wall with a touchscreen interface was created to commemorate both the 35th anniversary of the first graduates from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, and the 75th anniversary of the founding of Carleton University. Users can navigate a student-designed... More

Friday, June 9, 2017

Chengchao Liang Wins Senate Medal

Chengchao Liang (supervisor: Prof. Richard Yu) won a Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Doctoral Level.... More

Friday, June 2, 2017

Engineering PhD Student Wins Prestigious Vanier Award

This year, four Carleton University doctoral students won Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships making this the best ever showing for Carleton students. These scholarships are open to PhD students across Canada and are valued at $50,000 per year for three years during their doctoral studies. When Carleton grad student Mohamed Abdelazez received a... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Seminar: Fractal Analysis of Breast Masses in Mammograms

You are invited for an EMBS Ottawa Chapter Sponsored talk: Title: Fractal Analysis of Breast Masses in Mammograms Speaker: Dr. Raj Rangayyan, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary Date: May 19, 2017 Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Place: Mackenzie Building Room 4359, Carleton University Refreshments will be served.... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Forbes Magazine list of most lucrative master’s degrees

Forbes Magazine has created a list of The 25 Master's Degrees With The Highest Salary Potential In 2016 - 2017. While this is an American survey, the results should be broadly applicable in Canada. Many of those degrees are in subjects that we cover in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering here at... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Shermeen Nizami Wins Best Paper Award

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Shermeen Nizami was awarded the "2017 Best Women in Engineering Paper Award" for her paper entitled Comparing time and frequency domain estimation of neonatal respiratory rate using pressure-sensitive mats. This award was received at the 2017 IEEE MeMeA conference (Medical Measurements and... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

SCE Grad Students Ace HackingHealth Hackaton

Several SCE graduate students participated in the HackingHealth Ottawa 2017 Hackathon (see projects ideas here). Their teams took home multiple awards including the "Showcase Showdown" and "Best Solution for Healthcare Collaboration Award" for Amente Bekele's team, while Kevin Dick, Yasmina Souley Dosso, and Francois Charih's team won the "IBM IoT... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Chengchao Liang and effective wireless communications

Chengchao Liang's work with Prof. Richard Yu on making wireless communications more effective was featured in the graduate student news recently. As the article says: "Mathematical modeling, algorithms and protocols design, as well as computer simulation are the main parts of Liang’s research and it is part of Professor Richard Yu’s... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Sunint Khalsa, Wafa Hasanain, and SQUALL

SQUALL is the Software Quality Engineering Laboratory run by Prof. Yvan Labiche. Two PhD students working in the Lab (Sunint Khalsa and Wafa Hasanain) are featured in the most recent edition of the Graduate Student News in an article entitled Grad Research: More Effective... More

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Seminar: Contemporary WLAN/WiFi Technologies and New Trends

WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Friday, April 28, 2:30 pm Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building) -- map: http://www1.carleton.ca/campus CONTEMPORARY WLAN/WiFi TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW TRENDS Dr. Osama Aboul-Magd Huawei Canada Research Centre Chair, 802.11ax Task Group Osama Aboul-Magd is a Distinguished Engineer at Huawei Technologies, Canada... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Best Paper Award at International Conference on Traffic Engineering

Samy Mahmoud, Viktor Toth, and co-authors won the award for the best paper presented at the conference at the International Conference on Traffic Engineering (ICTE'17), part of the 2nd World Congress on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in Barcelona, Spain. The paper by Hussain Al-Harthei , Viktor Toth, Atef Garib, and Samy Mahmoud... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

New CU75 Systems and Computer Engineering Graduate Scholarship!

In celebration of Carleton's 75th anniversary, a generous new scholarship has been established for incoming graduate students in one of the research graduate programs (MASc, PhD) in Systems and Computer Engineering. Funding is composed of: $20,000 per year CU75 Systems and Computer Engineering Graduate Scholarship (2 years for MASc students,... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Andy Adler speaks to the New York Times about the risks of fingerprint sensors

Andy Adler was interviewed by the New York Times about the risks of fingerprint sensors on cell phones and other digital devices. It has recently been discovered that these can be fooled relatively easily. The New York Times sought out Prof. Adler because of his expertise in biometric security systems. See the full article... More

Friday, April 14, 2017

Seminar: Introduction to Big Data Analytics in Communications

Title: Introduction to Big Data Analytics in Communications Date and Time: Thursday, April 20, 2:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359  Mackenzie Building. Campus map. Speaker: Dr. André L. Brandão, Communications Research Centre Canada Bio: André L. Brandão has been working on telecommunications as an engineer since 1985 when he started... More

Monday, April 10, 2017

Abdou and Matrawy win Distinguished Paper Award

Prof. Ashraf Matrawy and former PhD student Adbelrahman Abdou, along with Computer Science professor Paul van Oorschot won a  Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security. You can see their paper, entitled  "Accurate Manipulation of Delay-based Internet Geolocation", here, and the conference list... More

Sunday, April 2, 2017

SCE Students stand out in Data Day poster competition

Two Systems and Computer Engineering students won prizes at the recent Data Day 4.0 poster competition: Gurinderbeer Singh: 2nd prize. Fast and Scalable Multiple Object Tracking. Nate Fung: 3rd prize. Driver Identification Using In-Car Sensor Data from Naturalistic Driving. Congratulations... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Seminar April 7: Managing and Predicting Mobile Network Traffic

Title: An Experimental Investigation of Mobile Network Traffic Data; Management and Prediction Accuracy Speaker: Prof. Samuel Ajila, Systems and Computer Engineering Date and Time: Friday April 7, 1:00-2:00 pm Location: Room 4359 MacKenzie Building Abstract:  The growth in the number of mobile subscriptions has led to a substantial increase in... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Google: Seminar April 5, Recruitment April 6-7

Seminar Title: Bottleneck Analysis of Networking Software Date and Time: Wednesday April 5, 10 – 11 AM. Location: Room 4359 MacKenzie Building Speakers: Hope Casey-Allen, Wenbo Zhu Bio: Wenbo Zhu is a PhD graduate of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, and is now working at Google. Abstract: The seminar will describe a... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Seminar April 6: Starting an IT Company

Title: Starting an IT Company Date and Time: Thursday, April 6, 1:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 2014 MC (Minto CASE Building) Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Adnani, CTO, ThinkRF Speaker Bio: Nikhil Adnani is currently the Chief Technology Officer of ThinkRF Corp. Prior to this he held engineering positions at Nortel and Communications Research Centre... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

SCE students host largest hackathon ever held in Ottawa!

CUHacking, held at Carleton University on the weekend of March 4th-5th, was the first Major League Hacking hackathon in Ottawa. Organized by IEEE Carleton Student Branch, it was the largest hackathon held in Ottawa with over 800 applicants. 250 students were accepted to attend the event which included students from Carleton University, University... More

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

4th Year Projects Poster Fair March 14

See what our 4th year students have been up to all year at the 4th year project poster fair on Tuesday March 14 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Unicentre 4th floor Galleria. Robotics, new software, medical devices, telecommunications innovations, cloud computing, machine learning, drones, and more. It's all part of the Engineering and Design... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Adrian Chan and Ian Marsland win Graduate Mentoring Awards

Adrian Chan and Ian Marsland are recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards for 2016. The award announcement contains numerous accolades from graduate students. Two examples: About Adrian Chan: "I personally have exceeded my own expectations when it comes to academia and research. It is 100% because of him." About Ian Marsland: "He has not only... More

Friday, February 10, 2017

Seminar: Optimal Radio Resource Management via Geometric Water-Filling

Date and time: Friday, February 17, 10:30-11:30 am Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Campus map. Title: OPTIMAL RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT VIA GEOMETRIC WATER-FILLING Speaker: Dr. Lian Zhao, Professor, Ryerson University Abstract: Water-filling (WF) algorithm is a well-known important tool for optimal radio resource... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

John Chinneck given Greenberg Award

John Chinneck was given the Harvey J. Greenberg Award for service to the INFORMS Computing Society at the biennial ICS Conference in January. He has served in numerous roles for the Society, including Chair, been Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, served on various committees, and initiated a number of projects over the... More

Monday, January 23, 2017

Data Day 4.0 on March 9, 2017

The Carleton University Institute for Data Science is proud to announce the fourth annual Data Day set to take place on March 29. Hot on the heels of Data Day 3.0, Data Day 4.0 promises to be bigger and better than last year! This year's event program will include exciting guest speakers, advanced panel... More

Monday, January 23, 2017

Mohamed Abdelazez is a multiple winner!

Mohamed Abdelazez's M.A.Sc. thesis entitled Electrocardiogram Signal Quality Analysis to Reduce False Positives in Myocardial Ischemia Monitoring received a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Adrian Chan was a co-supervisor. Mohamed aslo received the IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Service Award at the IEEE Ottawa AGM (Oct 14,... More

Monday, January 23, 2017

Envision Technologies exhibit installed

Adrian Chan and Sreeraman Rajan are part of the Carleton University Disability Research Group. The group has just installed an exhibit at the Carleton Library entitled Envisioning Technologies. Interested in adaptive technologies? Check it... More

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Seminar: The Problem of User – Base Station Association in Dense Heterogeneous Small-Cell Networks

Date/Time: Thursday, December 22, 2:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building) -- http://www1.carleton.ca/campus TItle: THE PROBLEM OF USER - BASE STATION ASSOCIATION IN DENSE HETEROGENEOUS SMALL-CELL NETWORKS Speaker: Dr. Wessam Ajib, Professor, Département d'informatique, Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Speaker... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Seminar Dec. 8: Embedded Systems for Wireless Communications: The Way Forward

Title: Embedded Systems for Wireless Communications: The Way Forward Speaker: Ramy Gohary Date and Time: December 8, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. Location: Room 4359, Mackenzie Building Abstract: Embedded systems enable building an entire communication stack on a single chip. Such a stack contains not only physical layer, but also medium access, network,... More

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Halim Yanikomeroglu elevated to IEEE Fellow

Halim Yanikomeroglu has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to wireless access architectures in cellular networks. You can see the complete list of newly elevated IEEE Fellows here, and the list of Systems and Computer Engineering Fellows and Senior Members in various organizations here. Congratulations... More

Monday, October 24, 2016

Mohamed Zidan wins Libyan Student Excellence Award

Congratulations to Mohamed Zidan, a student in the B.Eng. program in Communications Engineering, who has won a 2016 Libyan Student Excellence Award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education. The three other winners are at the University of Waterloo, the University of Missouri, and the University of New Mexico, and are all MDs or PhD... More

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Bruce Wallace features in Carleton’s 75th Anniversary Campaign

Contract instructor, PhD student, and alumnus Bruce Wallace is being featured in Carleton's CU75 campaign celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the institution. See info about Bruce and the other illustrious folks selected for the campaign... More

Monday, October 3, 2016

Rawan Alkurd wins Vanier Award

PhD student Rawan Alkurd has been awarded one of the two prestigious Vanier Awards won by graduate students at Carleton University this year. The award is worth $50,000 per year for up to three years.  Rawan is working on millimetre wave communications with Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu. See the Carleton announcement about the... More

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Lynn Marshall is in the swim of things!

Long-time contract instructor Lynn Marshall is the Head Coach of the Carleton Masters Swim Team and the Manager of the Carleton Varsity Swim Team. In addition, she competes in Masters Swimming competitions and was inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame in 2011. Lynn moved up to the 55 to 59 age... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

SCE students win prizes at the ‘CENGN-TELUS-Juniper Throwdown’ Competition

Congratulations to several SCE students who were awarded prizes in the CENGN-TELUS-Juniper Throwdown Competition! The prize winners were: Sameer Sultan (on first place team), Karpakam Muthukumar and Sankarsha Sakkarepattana (on second place team), Zhe Zhang, Decheng Zhang, and Jirao Wang (on third place team) Students were tasked... More

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