Prof. Ibrahim O. Habiballah
Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals - Saudi Arabia
Effect of Electromagnetic Field on Live-Line Workers
Friday, December 5, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
EIT 3145

Dr. Jamal Deen
McMaster University
Low-Voltage, Low-Power Integrated RF Transceiver Circuits
Friday, December 5, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Prof. Anil Pahwa, Fellow IEEE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Power Outages Due to Lightning, Wind and Squirrels
Friday, December 5, 2008
10:00 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3151
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Dr. Slim Boumaiza
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Waterloo
Behavior Modeling and Linearization of Wideband and Multi-Carrier RF Power Amplifiers
Friday, December 5, 2008
9:30 am - 10:30 am
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Prof. Raj Mittra
Department of Electrical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Review of Metamaterials - Separating the Facts From Fiction
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. Raj Mittra
Penn State University
Square Kilometer Array (SKA)--A Unique Instrument For Radio Astronomy To Explore The Mysteries Of Cosmology
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
3:30 pm
RCH 110

Dr. Jonathan Wu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Windsor
Recent Developments in 3D Vision and Probabilistic Visual Tracking
Friday, November 21, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142

Mr. Adrian Ludwin
Altera Corporation, Toronto Technology Centre
Parallelization of a commercial FPGA placement tool
Thursday, November 20, 2008
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3141
Invited by: Prof. A. Kennings

Prof. Ke-Li Wu
Electronic Engineering Department
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Derived Physically Expressive Circuit Model for Integrated RF/Microwave Passive Components
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. Nathan Fisher
Wayne State University
The Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling of General Task Systems
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
DC 1304

Dr. Richard H. Middleton
Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland
Performance limitations in the Distributed Control of Strings of Autonomous Vehicles
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
10:30 am
DC 1304
Invited by: IEEE Control Systems Society KW Chapter

Prof. Geza Joos
Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Role of Energy Storage in the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in Diesel-Supplied Remote Power Grids
Friday, October 31, 2008
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. E. El-Saadany

Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea
ETH Zurich
Design and Control of Autonomous Systems
Friday, October 3, 2008
11:30 am - 12:20 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Davison

Dr. Dana Kulic
University of Tokyo
Robots in Human Environments: Safety, Perception and Learning
Monday, September 29, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Rodney Vaughan
Sierra Wireless Professor in Communications
School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University
The Joy of Propagation: A Short Story of Radiowaves
Thursday, September 25, 2008
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. Tara Javidi
University of California
Communicating Delay-Sensitive and Bursty Information over an Outage Channel
Friday, September 19, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Prof. Massimo Franceschetti
University of California, San Diego
Information-Theoretic and Physical Limits on the Capacity Scaling of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. L. Xie

Prof. Simon Yang
School of Engineering, University of Guelph
Bio-Inspired Intelligent Systems and Applications to Robotic Systems
Monday, September 8, 2008
2:00 pm
DC 1331
Invited by: Prof. F. Karray

Dr. David Thorsley
University of Washington, Seattle
Approximating Stochastic Biochemical Processes Using Wasserstein Pseudometrics
Monday, August 11, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. J. Thistle

Prof. Li Qiu
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Measure of Instability and Multivariable Networked Stabilization with Channel Capacity Allocation
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3145
Invited by: Prof. D. Miller

Prof. Mona Ghasseminan
Computer Science and Math Department
University of Greenwich
Mobility - A new dimension for research in Wireless Self-organised Networks
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3141
Invited by: Prof. S. Shen

Dr. Kenkichi Tanioka
Director General, NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation),
Tokyo, Japan
Ultra-Sensitive Imaging with HARP: From Concept to Realization at NHK
Monday, July 28, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Dr. Amir Aghdam
Concordia University
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robust Control of Structurally Constrained Controllers
Thursday, July 24, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Miller

Prof. Hossam Hassanein
Telecommunications Research Lab, Queen’s University
Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Access Networks
Monday, July 21, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Yu-Ting Cheng
National Chiao Tung University
Integration Technology Development for Low Power Microsystem
Monday, July 21, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
RCH 309

Prof. Ludmila Kuncheva
School of Computer Science
Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
Classifier Ensembles for Detecting Concept Change in Streaming Data
Monday, July 14, 2008
2:30 pm
EIT 3142
The KW-IEEE Section, Systems, Man and Cybernetic Society and The Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Group (PAMI)

Dr. Dennis Sylvester
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Low-Voltage Circuit Design for Widespread Sensing Applications
Monday, July 7, 2008
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. M. Anis

Prof. Junshan Zhang
Arizona State University
Distributed Network Utility Maximization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Noisy Feedback, Lossy Channel and Stability
Friday, July 4, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Prof. Durga Misra
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Reliability of High-k Dielectric Gate Stacks
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Profs. K. Karim and S. Sivoththaman

Prof. Rahul Roy
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India
Coverage of Space by Random Sets
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
10:00 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3151
Invited by: Prof. R. Mazumdar

Prof. Harry Kwok
Center of Advanced Materials & Related technology and Dept. of ECE
University of Victoria, BC
Thermoelectric effect: Quantum well or hetero-structure?
Friday, June 20, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Prof. Wei-Ping Huang
McMaster University
Photonics Integration for Bringing Optical Bandwidth to End Users: Where We Stand and What Can We Do?
Thursday, June 19, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Mahesh Tripunitara
Purdue University
Addressing two challenges in access control
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Yu Cheng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Edge-Based Internet Traffic Characterization by Packet-Pair Dispersion Measurement
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Bo Cui
Princeton University
Nanostructure fabrication by nanoimprint lithography and its applications
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Alvaro Cardenas
University of California
Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection Systems
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. John Yeow
Department of Systems Design Engineering
Biomedical Micro/Nano Devices
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Markus Flierl
Stanford University
Multiview Video Processing and Compression for Dense Camera Networks
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Raji Sundararajan
Purdue University, Indiana
Electro-Endocrine Therapy for Aggressive Breast Cancer Tumors Due to Obesity
Friday, May 16, 2008
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Jayaram

Dr. Rajendra M. Patrikar
Computational Research Laboratories Ltd
Pune, India
Simulation of Self Assembly Processes: A Case Study of Quantum Dot Growth
Friday, May 16, 2008
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. M. Anantram

Prof. Simarjeet Singh Saini
University of Waterloo
High Performance Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Enabling All-Optical Circuits
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Jiming Bao
Harvard University
Nanophotonics, Nanofabrication and Nanomaterials
Monday, May 12, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Waleed Khalil
Arizona State University
RFIC and mm-Wave Design in Nanometer CMOS: Challenges and Solutions
Friday, May 9, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
PHY 150

Dr. Bo Yang
Texas Tech University
What Can Linear Feedback Accomplish for Highly Nonlinear Systems
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Matthew Parker
Selmer Centre
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Close Encounters with Complementary Sequences of Three Different Kinds
Friday, May 2, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. G. Gong

Prof. Ted Szymanski
Bell Canada Chair in Data Communications
McMaster University
A Survey of Low-Jitter Guaranteed-Rate Scheduling Algorithms
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Mojgan Daneshmand
University of Waterloo
Emerging Technologies in Radio Frequency Micro-scale Devices: From Aerospace to Biomedical Applications
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Florin Ciucu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Scaling Properties of Probabilistic Worst-Case Delays in Networks
Friday, April 11, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. R. Mazumdar

Dr. Christopher Nielsen
University of Toronto
Set stabilization: Emerging theory, techniques and applications in control
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Robert Street
Palo Alto Research Center
California, U.S.A.
New Technology for Flat Panel Displays - Flexible, Printed and Organic
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Prof. Ben Liang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Data Persistence in Large-scale Sensor Network with Decentralized Fountain Codes
Monday, April 7, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Xiangrong Zhou
University of Maryland
College Park
Cross-Layer Customization Platform for Low-Power and Real-Time Embedded Applications
Friday, April 4, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Feng Hao
University College London, UK
Password Authenticated Key Exchange by Juggling (J-PAKE)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302

Bradley Quinton
University of British Columbia
Post-Silicon Debug and Error Correction Using Embedded Reconfigurable Logic
Friday, March 28, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Umit Y. Ogras
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of On-chip Communication Architectures
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Costas Vournas
Electrical Energy Systems Laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Assessing Voltage Security Margins
Monday, March 24, 2008
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. C. Canizares

Prof. Jun Chen
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Multiple Description Coding: Shannon Meets Wiener
Monday, March 24, 2008
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. L. Xie

Dr. Amr Helmy
University of Toronto
Technologies for Phase Matching Second Order Optical Nonlinearities in Compound Semiconductors
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3145
Invited by: Profs. M. Anantram and Gregor Weihs of IQC

Dr. Mohsen Mahvash
Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Teleoperation of Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Monday, March 17, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302

Dr. Reouven Elbaz
Princeton University
Solutions for Memory Authentication on Trusted Computing Platforms
Friday, March 14, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3145

Dr. H. C. Liu
National Research Council of Canada
Quantum Infrared and Terahertz Semiconductor Devices
Friday, March 14, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Profs. D. Ban and M. Anantram

Dr. Siva Sivoththaman
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Waterloo
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion: Status and Critical Research Directions
Video of this talk is available
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Marie-José Montpetit
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Motorola Home and Network Mobility
Home Networking: taking on the Community and the World
Video of this talk is available
Friday, February 29, 2008
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Patrick Mitran
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Waterloo
Cognitive Radio: A Survey
Video of this talk is available
Thursday, February 28, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Mahdi Tavakoli
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Haptic Feedback and Image Guidance in Robot-assisted Surgery
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Rajesh Menon
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
and
LumArray, Inc. Sommerville, MA
Patterning and Imaging at the Nanoscale with Far-field Optics via Absorbance Modulation
Monday, February 25, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Kelly Kanellakis
Strategic Planning and High Performance Networking
Office of the CTO, Nortel
Innovation For the Future...Today
How Nortel Views the Challenge of Hyperconnectivity
Video of this talk is available
Thursday, February 21, 2008
2:30 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

David Brumley
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Automatically Generating and Defending Against Exploits by Binary Code Analysis
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302

Dr. Slim Boumaiza
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Waterloo
Advanced Techniques in Power Efficiency and Linearity Enhancement of 3G and Beyond Wireless Transmitters
Video of this talk is available
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Balaji Panchapakesan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Delaware MEMS and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Understanding the Interaction of Light on Carbon Nanotubes: From Micro-Optomechanical Systems to Cancer Nanotechnology
Thursday, February 7, 2008
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Michael Butts
Ambric Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
A Massively Parallel TeraOPS Architecture, Chip and Tools Built for a Structural Object Programming Mode
Video of this talk is available
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Professor Vincente E. Boria
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Analysis, Synthesis and Design of Waveguide Filters for Satellite Applications
Friday, January 18, 2008
11:00 am
EIT 3142

Mr. Tomasz S. Czajkowski
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Toronto
Functionally Linear Decomposition and Synthesis of Logic Circuits for FPGAs
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Kennings