Prof. Steve Hranilovic
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University
An Overview of Free-Space Optical Communications Research at McMaster University
Friday, December 17, 2010
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
DC 1304

Mr. Hamidullah Siddique
Manager, Power Operation and Despatch
Abu Dhabi Transmission and DespatchCompany (TRANSCO)
Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Overview of the Operation of the Power Sector in the United Emirates
Monday, November 22, 2010
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Dr. Mai Vu
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Half-Duplex Cooperative Communication with Partial Decode-Forward Relaying
Friday, November 19, 2010
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. C. Rosenberg

Dr. Patrick Loiseau
Post Doctoral Fellow, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt
Le Chesnay, France
Large Deviation and Application to Fine TCP Modeling
Thursday, October 28, 2010
3:30 pm
DC 1331
Invited by: Prof. R. Mazumdar

Prof. Greg Steffan
University of Toronto
Overlay Architectures for FPGAs
Thursday, October 28, 2010
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. H. Patel

Dr. Jürgen Ebert
Institute for Software Technology
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Transformations of Programs and Models Using GReTL
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. L. Tahvildari

Dr. Vaughn Betz
Senior Director of Software Engineering
Altera Corporation
FPGAs at 28nm: Meeting the Challenge of Modern Systems-on-a-Chip
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Kennings

Dr. Agustin Dominguez-Oviedo
Department of Mechatronics
ITESM Campus, Queretaro, Mexico
Algorithm-level Error Detection for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication
Friday, September 24, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3145
Invited by: Prof. A. Hasan

Dr. Steven M. Anlage
Department of Physics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Experiments with Superconducting Metamaterials
Thursday, September 23, 2010
3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. O. Ramahi

Dr. Piero P. Bonissone
GE Global Research, Schenectady, New York
Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making: The Intersection of Search, Preference Tradeoff, and Interaction Visualization
Friday, September 17, 2010
2:00 pm
RCH 309
Invited by: Prof. F. Karray

Dr. Kui Ren
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Storage Security in Cloud Computing
Thursday, September 2, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Shen

Prof. Wei Yu
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Multicell Coordination via Joint Scheduling, Beamforming and Power Spectrum Adaptation
Friday, August 27, 2010
1:00 - 2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Keigo Hirakawa
Assistant Professor, Intelligent Signal Systems Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
Advanced Digital Camera Processing: Modern Architecture and Future Challenges
Friday, August 20, 2010
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Profs. E. Yang and Z. Wang

Prof. Mohammad Kaykobad
Odessa Maritime University
Majority Spanning Trees and Cotrees and Their Applications
Monday, August 16, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. A. Hasan

Dr. Janglin Chen
Vice-President and General Director
Display Technology Center
Industrial Technology Research Institute
e-Paper Technology and Future Development
Thursday, August 5, 2010
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla
Virginia Tech University
Formal Model Driven Embedded Software Synthesis
Thursday, August 5, 2010
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
DC 1304

Dr. Sören Peik
Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Understanding Software Designed Radio: A Hands-on Approach
Thursday, July 29, 2010
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. R. Mansour

Dr. Stephan Trenn
University of Wurzburg, Germany
The Bang-Bang Funnel Controller
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Miller

Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Professor and University Research Chair SITE, University of Ottawa
Research in Collaborative Haptic-Audio-Visual Environments
Monday, July 26, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. F. Karray

Dr. Paul Tasker
Cardiff University
RF I-V Waveform Measurement and Engineering
Friday, July 23, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Boumaiza

Dr. Mark Lawford
McMaster University
Observation and Implementation of Simple Continuous Time Properties in a Discrete
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1304

Professors Donald Wilton, David Jackson, Ji Chen
University of Houston
Half-Day Workshop on Applied Electromagnetics
Monday, July 19, 2010
9:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini and Research in Motion

Prof. Qing Hu
Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Applications
Thursday, July 15, 2010
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. D. Ban

Prof. S. A. Soman
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Fair Allocation of Transmission System Usage Cost in Power Systems
Thursday, July 15, 2010
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3141
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Prof. S. A. Soman
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Units for Transmission Systems
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3151
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Dr. Xiaochuan Pan
Department of Radiology, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
University of Chicago
How Images Are Derived From Measurements in X-Ray Tomographic Imaging
Monday, July 12, 2010
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Prof. Liuqing Yang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Cooperative Sensing: The Detection Perspective
Thursday, July 8, 2010
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 4152
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Yan Zhang
Cambridge University, UK
The Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Electronic Applications
Monday, July 5, 2010
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3151
Invited by: Prof. T. Hesjedal

Dr. Zhongxiang Shen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Three-Dimensional Frequency Selective Structures
Monday, June 28, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. R. Mansour

Zhisheng Niu
Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Paradigm Shift toward Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks (GREEN)
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Prof. Ralph C. Smith
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Model Development, Parameter Estimation, and Control Design for High Performance Nonlinear Smart Material Systems
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
MC 5158
Invited by: Prof. R. Gorbet

Prof. Anjan Bose, Fellow IEEE
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
The Evolution of Control and Control Centers for the Smart Transmission Grid
Monday, June 14, 2010
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Tarek El-Fouly
Research Engineer, Canmet Energy, National Resources Canada
Smart Grid Research, Development and Demonstration Activities in Canada
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. M. Salama

Dr. Sukhdev Roy
Department of Physics and Computer Science
Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra 282 110 INDIA
All-Optical Bio-molecular Computing with Photochromic Proteins
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Saini

Prof. Raymond W. Yeung
Chair Professor and FIEEE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zero-Error Multichannel Source Coding
Monday, June 7, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. E. Yang

Prof. Xue Liu
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Two Vignettes of Cyber-Physical Systems Research
Friday, June 4, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Prof. Qiying Chen
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Organic Nanostructured Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency
Monday, May 31, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Ban

Dr. Hector J. De Los Santos
NanoMEMS Research, LLC
Theory of Nano-Electron-Fluidic Logic (NFL): A New Digital "Electronics" Concept
Monday, May 31, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Linxiang Wang
Institute of Mechatronic Engineering
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Modeling the Hysteretic Dynamics of SMAs Using Differential Equations
Thursday, May 20, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. R. Gorbet

Gary Cheng and Chris Ouslis
Fresco Microchip, Markham, Ontario
Technical and Business Challenges of a Fabless Semiconductor Startup Company in Consumer Electronics
Friday, May 14, 2010
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Nairn

Dr. Haidong Yuan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimal Control of Quantum Systems
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Aria Nosratinia
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Recovering the Multiplexing Loss of Half-Duplex Relaying via Spectrally Efficient Relay Selection
Monday, May 10, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Peter Levine
Columbia University
Active CMOS Biochips for Electrochemical DNA Assays
Monday, May 10, 2010
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142

Prof. John Papapolymerou
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lightweight Multilayer Organic RF Front Ends For Microwave and MM-wave Applications
Thursday, May 6, 2010
11:00 am
DC 1331
Invited by: Prof. R. Mansour

Dr. Chao Xu
Lehigh University
Control of Distributed Parameter Systems Arising in Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Sorin P. Voinigescu
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
100+ GHz Silicon SoCs: Portable, Self-Testable, Scalable
Friday, April 30, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini

Prof. Thomas Hou
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
Some Results on Base Station Movement Problem for Sensor Networks
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3151
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Siddarth Garg
Carnegie Mellon University
A Process Variation Perspective on 3D Integration
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Steven Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dynamic Vehicle Routing and Task Allocation for Autonomous Systems
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302

Dr. Rodolfo Pellizzoni
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Control Abstractions for the Safe Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems
Monday, April 12, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142

Dr. Chengmo Yang
University of California
Tackling Execution Uncertainty in Multicore Systems through Adaptive and Reliable Computation Frameworks
Monday, April 5, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142

Alex Shye
Northwestern University
Incorporating the End User in Computer Design and Optimization
Monday, March 29, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1302

Amlan Ganguly
School of EECS, Washington State University
Wireless Network-on-Chip: The future backbone of Multi-Core processing platforms
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142

Dr. Stephen Burrow
Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
The Multidisciplinary Challenges of Energy Harvesting Systems
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Jin-Oh Hahn
University of British Columbia
Condition Monitoring and Control Applied to Automotive and Physiologic Systems
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Alexander Olshevsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Efficient information aggregation strategies in distributed control and sensor networks
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof.

Dr. Govind V. Kaigala
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Urology, Stanford University
Microfluidic technology for chemical and biochemical assays
Monday, March 1, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Zetian Mi
Assistant Professor & Hydro-Quebec Nano-Engineering Scholar
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Nanoscale Quantum Dot Tube Lasers on Si
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
10:00 am - 11:00 am
DC 1304
Invited by: Profs. D. Ban and S. Saini

Dr. Mohamed E. El-Hawary
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Smart Grid: Fact, Fiction, Myth and What Really to Look For
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3145
Invited by: Prof. E. El-Saadany

Dr. Irene Goldthorpe
Stanford University
Germanium nanowires and germanium/silicon heterostructured nanowires
Monday, January 11, 2010
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302