Friday, September 21, 2018

Seminar: Semantic Data Warehouse for Systems Engineering

When: Monday Sept. 24th at 17h30 Where: ME4463 Title: CAESAR: Semantic Data Warehouse for Systems Engineering Speaker: Dr. Maged Elaasar Abstract Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is a methodology of systems engineering that focuses on creating and exploiting models rather than documents as the primary means of information capture and... More

Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Passing of A Founder

It is with deep sorrow that the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering announces the passing of one of its core founders: Professor Emeritus Dr. David Coll. There will be a memorial service for Professor Coll on Saturday September 29 at Kelly Funeral Home, 2313 Carling Avenue. Friends are invited to visit at 1:00... More

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Seminar: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF INFORMATION-THEORETIC SECRECY

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Friday, September 7, 2:30 pm Carleton University, 4359 ME PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF INFORMATION-THEORETIC SECRECY Jean-Yves Chouinard Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Laval University Topic Overview: Wireless channels and networks are particularly vulnerable to attacks and threats. This... More

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

AGE-WELL Covered in the News!

The work by Dr. Rafik Goubran, Dr. Frank Knoefel and Dr. Bruce Wallace as part of the AGE-WELL SAM3 hub has been covered in a story within the YouAreUNLTD Magazine. The article can be found... More

Friday, August 24, 2018

AGE-WELL and CMA Health Summit

Dr. Bruce Wallace (Executive Director AGE-WELL NIH SAM3 ) attended the CMA Health Summit in Winnipeg on Aug 21-22 as part of a showcase collaboration with IHA Canada, TELUS Health, and Reacts engaging with almost 1000 healthcare practitioners from across the country. Canada’s aging population is placing increasing demands on caregivers and... More

Friday, August 24, 2018

An Edge Computing-Based Complex Event Processing Technique for Sensor-Based Systems

Amarjit Singh Dhillon who is working as a research assistant at Carleton University, Canada, greatly contributed in a research project focused on devising new techniques for edge computing-based Complex Event Processing (CEP) for sensor-based systems. His research led to the development of a Mobile Complex Event Processing (MCEP) system that uses... More

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Fighting Fires with Modelling and Simulation

By Matt Gergyek In 2017, British Columbia experienced its worst wildfire season on record. An estimated 12,000 square kilometres of land was destroyed, forcing 65,000 people from their homes and keeping the province in a state of emergency for 10 weeks. Scientists are hard at work analyzing the thousands of variables that influence the... More

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Seminar: GOLDEN INTENSITY CODES FOR FREE SPACE OPTICAL MIMO COMMUNICATIONS

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date: Thursday, July 5 Time: 1:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), map Speaker: Dr. Lina Mroueh, Associate Professor, Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris (ISEP), Visiting Professor, Carleton University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we address the space time code construction... More

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Best Student Oral Presentation Award

Jinny Lee, an MASc student in Biomedical Engineering, won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award in the Cheemun Lum Research Day at The Ottawa hospital for her oral presentation entitled ``Development of a Method for Registering Surface of Left Atrium determined by Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) to... More

Monday, June 18, 2018

Senate Medals Awarded to Two SCE Students

Two students received Senate Medals: Daniel Melean obtained the FIRST medal for M.Eng. students, and Cristina Ruiz-Martín obtained the Senate Medal for her PhD thesis. Both students conducted their research at the Advanced Real-Time Simulation Lab under the supervision of Prof. Gabriel... More

Friday, June 8, 2018

Student Paper Competition: Jinu Kurian receives 2nd Place

Jinu Kurian is an MASc Biomedical Engineering, co-supervised by Prof. Adrian Chan and Prof. Eranga Ukwatta. Her paper entitled ``Image Processing and Analysis of Histopathological Images Relating to Hirschsprung’s Disease" received 2nd place in the student paper competition at the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (CMBEC41),... More

Thursday, June 7, 2018

French Delegation Visit on June 6, 2018

On June 6, 2018, a high profile French Delegation visited the Department. The purpose of the visit was to be familiarized with some of the research activities that take place at Carleton. The delegation included Jacques Samarut, co-president of the France-Canada Research Fund for Research, Khaled Bouabdallah, president of the University of Lyon,... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

CBC Interview: Dr. Frank Knoefel discusses the Wandering Detection and Diversion project

Story: Wandering Detection and Diversion project is a collaboration of the AGEWELL SAM3 NIH, with Bruyère Research Institute, Carleton University, IMPACTT Center at the Champlain LHIN and Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County. The project is a unique application of Smart Home technology and sensor integration to provide support to persons... More

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Patent Granted to Halim Yanikomeroglu

US 9,980,218 – System and Method for User Terminal-Aware Cell Switch-Off Granted on 22 May 2018 Inventors: Ibrahim Aydin, Ngoc Dung Dao, Nimal Gamini Senarath, Halim Yanikomeroglu As the wireless networks get denser and denser with more and more base stations deployed to enable a typical user's close proximity to a base station most... More

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Machine Learning Seminar: Learning from Observations

IEEE Young Professionals Ottawa Section Date: Friday, June 08 Time: 6:00-8:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 103 Stacie Building (Mackenzie Building), map Title: Learning from Observations Speaker: Professor Babak Esfandiari, Department of Systems and Computer, Carleton University Abstract: Programming robots, and autonomous agents in general,... More

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Poster Awards at Life Sciences Research

The first place in Day 2 of the poster competition held by Life Sciences Research Day was awarded to postdoc Shermeen Nizami and a team of graduate and undergraduate students supervised by Professor James Green for their work entitled "Patient Monitoring in the NICU using Pressure Sensitive Mats and Video Analysis". The second place... More

Monday, May 28, 2018

Seminar: Resource allocation in vehicular communications

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date: Monday, June 11 Time: 10:00 am Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), map Title: Resource allocation in vehicular communications Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract: This talk will address resource... More

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Outstanding TA Awards for Vameghestahbanati and Gharib

Graduate student Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati has been given one of only five 2017-2018 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards bestowed at Carleton University. In addition, Anastassia Gharib received one of five honourable mentions. This award celebrates the contributions and support Teaching Assistants give to the undergraduate programs in... More

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Seminar: Energy Harvesting for Machine-to-Machine Communications in LTE-advanced Networks

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date: Thursday, May 10, Time: 1:30-2:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), map Title: Energy Harvesting for Machine-to-Machine Communications in LTE-advanced Networks Speaker: Dr. Sina Khoshabi-Nobar, Postdoctoral Fellow (supervisors: Professors Samy Mahmoud and Mohamed H. Ahmed),... More

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Seminar: Motivating Research in Wireless Communications

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date: Wednesday, May 2 Time: 2:30-3:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), map Title: MOTIVATING RESEARCH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Speaker: Salama Ikki, Assistant Professor, Lakehead University, Canada Abstract: Wireless channels have impairments that limit the quality and the... More

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Double Awards for Paper

Twice honoured: Ala'a Al-Habashna, Stenio Fernandes, and  Gabriel Wainer received the Best Paper Award at CNS'18, and the Overall Runner-Up Best Paper Award at the SpringSim Conference, for their paper Analyzing the effect of LTE-A Transmission Parameters on Video Streaming Quality of Experience. Congratulations to the... More

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

ACM Award for Gabriel Wainer

Gabriel Wainer has been honoured with a Recognition of Service Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in appreciation of his work as the Program Chair of the 50th edition of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), sponsored by ACM (and co-sponsored by IEEE, ISEE, INFORMS, ASA, ASIM, SCS, and NIST). Prof. Wainer has been... More

Monday, April 9, 2018

Jim Green and Sreeraman Rajan win Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards

Jim Green and Sreeraman Rajan have both won 2018 Faculty Mentoring Awards! You can see all of the quotes from the nominators here, but here are a couple to give you the flavour: About Jim Green: Green is an outstanding teacher and communicator who cares deeply and sincerely about the success of his graduate students and... More

Monday, April 9, 2018

SCE student group takes 2nd place at Eastern Ontario Paper Competition

A group of 4th year project students from Systems and Computer Engineering, supervised by Eran Ukwatta, took 2nd place at the Eastern Ontario Paper Competition, after first winning the IEEE Carleton Student Paper Competition. The regional competition was against the best teams from universities from Ottawa to Kingston for a prize of $600 - $650,... More

Sunday, March 25, 2018

3 Minute Thesis Prize for Mohamed Abdelazez

Phd Mohamed Abdelazez (supervised by Adrian Chan and Sreeraman Rajan) placed third in the recent 2018 Three Minute Thesis competition. His research is on using the heart's electric signature as a password. Mohamed described his research this way: “In the future you’ll protect your privacy with your heart. The biometrics most commonly used are... More

Sunday, March 18, 2018

CORS Queueing Prize for Jalal Khamse-Ashari

The winner of the Sixth Canadian Operational Research Society Queueing SIG Annual Student Paper Prize (that will be announced at the 60th Annual CORS Conference in Halifax, June 4-6, 2018) is Systems and Computer Engineering graduate student Jalal Khamse-Ashari, co-supervised by Ioannis Lambadaris and Yiqiang Q. Zhao, with the winning paper... More

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

SCE at the Paralympics

Systems and Computer Engineering PhD student Alicia Gal describes how she became involved in researching the biomechanics of para hockey, a key sport for Canada at the PyeongChang Paralympics, which are on right now in Korea. The Canadian Team has won all of their games thus far, by decisive margins. That takes hard work... More

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Patent Granted to Halim Yanikomeroglu

The following patent was granted last week: 9,911,106 B2 – System and Method for Charging Services Using Effective Quanta Units Granted on 06 March 2018 Inventors: Rainer Schoenen, Halim Yanikomeroglu Patent applications in China, EU, and PCT are pending for this invention as well. The first inventor, Dr. Rainer Schoenen, was a Research... More

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Achievement Awards for Jim Green and Halim Yanikomeroglu

The 2018 Research Achievement Awards and Teaching Achievement Awards have just been officially announced. Systems and Computer Engineering has been blessed with three awards this year. Halim Yanikomeroglu has received a Research Achievement Award, and Jim Green has received both awards. The projects associate with these awards are: Jim Green,... More

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The GREAT-DR Project

The GREAT-DR project a smart grid technologies trial project that aims to give participants the tools to reduce their electricity usage and demand while benefiting from increased control over how they produce and manage energy. This is important for renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic electricity generated at households, coupled... More

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Seminar: Digital Transformation and the Dark Side of the Force

CARLETON WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES co-sponsored by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society - Ottawa Chapter Date and Time: Thursday, February 8, 1:00-2:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), campus map Title: Digital Transformation and the Dark Side of the Force Speaker: Dr. Rainer Schoenen, Professor, HAW-Hamburg, Germany... More

Friday, January 26, 2018

Seminar: RF Wireless Energy Harvesting in Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks

WIRELESS SEMINAR Date and Time: Wednesday, Jan 31, 1:00-2:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4356 ME (Mackenzie Building) Title: RF WIRELESS ENERGY HARVESTING IN COGNITIVE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS Speaker: Arif Obaid, PhD student and entrepreneur, Ryerson University (Supervisor: Professor Xavier Fernando) ABSTRACT: Cognitive Wireless Sensor... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Public seminar: Security and Privacy in a Connected World

Jason Jaskolka will present a public talk in the Ingenious Talks series on the topic Security and Privacy in a Connected World, something that should concern everyone these days. Date: Wednesday February 7, 2018 Time: 6:30-7:30 pm Location: Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street Everyone is welcome! Details can be found... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Engineering a Data-Driven Health-Care Revolution

Graduate students studying Biomedical Engineering in the department are engineering a date-driven health-care revolution, according to a news release: Kevin Dick is exploring protein interactions using machine learning, seeking to identify problematic bindings that lead to illness and ultimately forge a path to therapeutic treatments to prevent... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Gabriel Wainer to receive Canada 150 Medal: join us on Jan 18

Gabriel Wainer was nominated last year for a "Canada 150" Medal by his students. He will be presented with the medal on Thursday January 18, here at Carleton, by Chandra Arya, the MP for Nepean. Join us for the presentation of the medal. Details: Date: Thursday January 18, 2018 Time: 1:00 pm Location: Maker... More

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