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

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Alicia Gal and Olympic Sledge Hockey

Carleton biomedical engineering PhD student Alicia Gal (supervised by Prof. Adrian Chan) is working with Hockey Canada on a study of how sledge hockey's seated style of skating actually works. The goal is to help Hockey Canada develop elite players, but also to grow the sport at the grassroots level everywhere. “There are some key things... More

Friday, December 22, 2017

Double Honours for Jim Green: RAA and TAA

Jim Green has been awarded both a Research Achievement Award and a Teaching Achievement Award for his work on developing methods to monitor neonates during emergency patient air or ground transport to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. His team will develop sensors and data analytics to measure vibrations, accelerations, audible noise,... More

Friday, December 22, 2017

Faculty Research Awards for Eran Ukwatta and Yvan Labiche

Eran Ukwatta and Yvan Labiche have both received $10,000 Faculty Research Awards fro 2018-2019 in recognition of the quality of their research and their research agendas. Congratulations to... More

Friday, December 22, 2017

Research Achievement Award for Halim Yanikomeroglu

Halim Yanikomeroglu has received a 2018-2019 Research Achievement Award, one of only 10 such awards at Carleton University, for his project entitled CAN-UAVs 2030 - Connected, Autonomous, and Networked UAVs towards 2030s. Congratulations... More

Monday, December 18, 2017

Congratulations to Graduate Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to the following winners of graduate scholarships and bursaries! Sima Naseri – David & Rachel Epstein Scholarship Wafa Hasanain – Board of Governors Patrick Gavigan – CUASA Scholarship Jinu Kurian – Marie Carter Memorial Alana Etsy – Bill Hersh Memorial Scholarship Kevin Dick – Koningstein... More

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Seminar: Design of Throughput-Efficient HARQ Protocols

Date and Time: Monday, Dec 18, 2:30-3:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building) Title: DESIGN OF THROUGHPUT-EFFICIENT HARQ PROTOCOLS Speaker: Leszek Szczecinski, Professor, INRS, Montreal ABSTRACT: In this presentation, we are interested in increasing the throughput of the physical layer (PHY) when the coded information is... More

Monday, December 11, 2017

Partnership with Huawei on 5G Networks Extended

Carleton University and Huawei, one of the world’s largest technology companies, have announced plans  extend their successful research partnership program for 5G advanced communications research. The announcement was made in support of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s visit to Huawei’s headquarter campus in Shenzhen, China. Halim... More

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Seminar Dec. 11: Powering the Internet of Things

WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date and time: Monday, Dec 11, 3:00-4:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building) Title: Powering the Internet of Things: Efficient and Reliable Wireless Communications with Unreliable Power Supply Speaker: Ozgur Ercetin, Professor, Sabanci University, Turkey, Visiting Professor with Carleton... More

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Eran Ukwatta receives an OCE VIP 1 + NSERC Engage grant

Eran Ukwatta received an OCE VIP 1 + NSERC Engage grant for the project "Development of an Automated Image Processing Framework for Segmenting Floor Plans for Optimal Placement of Internet Access Points ". This grant allows him to form an initial collaboration with Ericsson Canada, an industry partner in... More

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Mohamed Ibnkahla awarded NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things

Mohamed Ibnkahla has been named the NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is projected that the IoT will connect billions of objects and devices. These new connections are expected to impact both business models and our personal lives. Prof. Ibnkahla's work will study algorithms,... More

Friday, December 1, 2017

Adrian Chan and the new Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) program

Adrian Chan hosted the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) program symposium Monday Nov 27, which launched the READI program. Prof. Chan was awarded $1.65 million from NSERC for this initiative, which performs research on providing support for people with disabilities. All NSERC CREATE grants were announced at... More

Monday, November 27, 2017

November 27: New National Centre to Help Seniors Age in Place opens today

The AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), Bruyère Research Institute and Carleton University are pleased to announce the launch of the newest national innovation hub today. The hub advances the development of sophisticated sensor systems that address mobility and memory challenges among older people. The initiative is led by SCE... More

Friday, November 24, 2017

Richard Yu elevated to IEEE Fellow

Richard Yu has been elevated to IEEE Fellow as of January 1, 2018, for contributions to mobility management and radio resource allocation in mobile wireless networks. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. From the citation: "Prof. Yu... More

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Senate Medals for Singh and Toroghi

MASc graduate Gurinderbeer Singh and PhD graduate Yoones Hashemi Toroghi both received Senate Medals at the Fall 2017 convocation. These are awarded, when merited, for outstanding academic achievement. Congratulations to... More

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Sreeraman Rajan public seminar. “Tech Caretakers: Remote Vital Sign Monitoring”

Sreeraman Rajan will present an Ingenious Talks public seminar on the topic "Tech Caretakers: Remote Vital Sign Monitoring". Date: Wednesday December 6, 2017 Time: 6:30-7:30 pm Location: Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street Everyone welcome!... More

Monday, November 6, 2017

AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub Launch- Monday November 27th

A number of our faculty members and researchers (Frank Knoefel, Rafik Goubran, and Bruce Wallace) are involved in an AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub. "An AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub is a place where a broad range of stakeholders in the area of technology and aging can work together on technological innovations that will support seniors... More

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Halim Yanikomeroglu on 5G Wireless Technologies

Halim Yanikomeroglu will speak about 5G Wireless Technologies tonight, Wednesday November 1, as part of the Ingenious Talks series. These talks are aimed at the general public. Details: 6:30-7:30 pm at the Sunnyside Library at 1049 Bank Street. See the details... More

Thursday, October 26, 2017

John Chinneck and students win COIN-OR Cup

COIN-OR is a repository of open source software for use in operations research. The organization awards the COIN-OR Cup prize yearly for the best use of, or contribution to, the software repository. (The "cup" is actually a souvenir coffee mug filled with chocolate coins. Yes really. They have a sense of humour.).  The winners... More

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

SCE Research on Autonomous Vehicles

A number of professors in Systems and Computer Engineering are working on autonomous vehicles, which is a natural fit for a department that has special strengths in interfacing hardware and software. Involved faculty include Thomas Kunz, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Yvan Labiche. See the recent coverage of this fascinating area of... More

Friday, October 13, 2017

Amir Banihashemi receives IEEE Ottawa Outstanding Engineer Award

Amir Banihashemi has been selected as the winner of the 2017 IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Engineer Award for outstanding and pioneering contributions in theory and practice of error correction coding schemes and digital communications. The award was presented at the 73rd Annual General Meeting Banquet on Friday, October 27, 2017. See the... More

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