Monday, September 25, 2017

In the News: Monitoring Dementia Patients

SCE projects related to monitoring dementia patients have been in the news lately. The projects are led by Frank-Dietrich Knoefel and Rafik Goubran and focus on the applications of sensors and analytics for measuring mobility and memory with a specific focus on Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment patients. Some of the projects are being... More

Friday, September 22, 2017

For Senior Undergrads thinking about graduate studies: all-expenses paid Boot Camp

Thinking about grad studies in ENGINEERING or DESIGN? Carleton University is offering an ALL EXPENSES PAID full-day “Boot Camp” workshop for senior undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies in engineering, architecture, industrial design and information technology in the national capital. Meet with faculty and students who... More

Friday, September 22, 2017

Seminar: Design of Permutation-Based Sparse Code Multiple Access System

WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date/Time: Thursday, Sep 28, 3:00-4:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Map. Title: DESIGN OF PERMUTATION-BASED SPARSE CODE MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM Speaker: Dr. Michel Kulhandjian, Research Scientist, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa ABSTRACT: We... More

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

New patents for Yanikomeroglu and Gohary

Halim Yanikomeroglu has been granted 3 US patents this year (so far!). Ramy Gohary is co-inventor on the second one in the list below. Congratulations to both! US patent 9,730,153: System and Method for Multi-Objective Cell Switch-Off in Wireless Networks Granted on 08 August 2017 https://www.google.com/patents/US9730153 US patent 9,654,324:... More

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Computer Systems Engineering 35th Anniversary Celebration Friday September 15

As part of Carleton Homecoming, proud graduates of Computer Systems Engineering are invited to join former classmates and professors for a fun, casual evening celebration of the program’s 35th anniversary! Whether you graduated decades ago, or in the past few years, this event is the perfect chance to catch up, enjoy some food and... More

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Seminar: From Wireless Research to Google Search — a Journey

Seminar title: FROM WIRELESS RESEARCH TO GOOGLE SEARCH -- A JOURNEY Date: Thursday, September 21 Time: 1:30-3:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), map Speaker: Dr. Ela Beres, Product Manager, Google Search App ABSTRACT: This is a talk about career paths. I graduated from Carleton University in 2002 and since then my... More

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Graduate Student Orientation Friday September 8

Graduate Students! Please join us on Friday September 8th @ 9:15am in room 508 Architecture Building for our Department Graduate Orientation. Orientation will be followed by our Department BBQ for which tickets will be required. You will be given your ticket for the BBQ at the morning orientation session.The BBQ will start at noon... More

Monday, September 4, 2017

Graduate students in the spotlight

Our graduate students have been in the spotlight lately: Mohamed Abdelazez was awarded a prestigious Vanier Award Yasmina Souley Dosso's work on detecting anemia was featured in the Carleton graduate student news Irem Bor's work on using drones to increase wireless capacity was featured in the Carleton graduate student news Congratulations... More

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Seminar: System-Level Analysis and Design of Cellular Networks: the Magic of Stochastic Geometry

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society -- Distinguished Lecture Date and time: Wednesday, September 6, 1:00-2:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Campus map. Registration: Free by sending an email to richard.yu@carleton.ca Title: On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry... More

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Omar Hesham Wins Another Best Paper Award

Omar Hesham received the Best Student Paper Award at the SimAud'17 conference in May of this year. Here's a tweet with that news. This is Omar's second conference paper and second Best Student Paper Award. Quite a... More

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Seminar: Localization and Tracking in 5G Wireless Networks

Title: Localization and Tracking in 5G Wireless Networks Date/Time: Thursday, August 3, 1:30 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building), campus map Speaker: Dr. Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh, Assistant Professor, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Visiting Professor, Carleton University Speaker Bio: Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh... More

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

John Chinneck receives CORS Award of Merit

John Chinneck was presented with the CORS Award of Merit at the CORS Conference in Quebec City on July 18. This award is given by the Canadian Operational Research Society "for numerous contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research in Canada, and for significant contributions to the Canadian Operational Research... More

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Seminar August 4: Control of Powered Prostheses

Title: EMG Control of Powered Prostheses: State-of-the-Art and Clinical Challenges   Location: Mackenzie Building Room 4359 Date: August 4, 2017 Time: 13:00 - 14:30 Speaker:  Dr. Kevin Englehart, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick. Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of New... More

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Wireless Systems Seminar July 25

Date: Tuesday, July 25 Time: 10:30 am -- 12:00 noon Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Campus Map. Title: ENERGY EFFICIENT PHYSICAL LAYER WIRELESS SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF INDEX MODULATION Speaker: Dr. Georges Kaddoum, Associate Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), University of Québec, Montreal ABSTRACT:... More

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Spring Convocation: Hébert Family Study Together, Graduate Together

A nice story in the Carleton Newsroom about our very own Darlene Hébert and her daughter studying and graduating... More

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

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