Nikola Zlatanov: 2012 Vanier Scholar
Nikola Zlatanov, who was awarded the 2011 Killam Doctoral scholarship, is this year’s recipient of the 2012 Vanier scholarship. Supervised by Professor Robert Schober in the ECE PhD program, Nikola’s winning research proposal, Buffer-Aided Relaying: A New Protocol for Next Generation Wireless Networks, identifies a new protocol for wireless cooperative networks that can significantly improve their […]
Best Paper Award to Boostanimehr and Bhargava
PhD Candidate Hamidreza Boostanimehr and ECE Professor Vijay K. Bhargava are recipients of the Best Paper Award from the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications held in Beijing, China from August 15-17. Their paper, entitled, “Outage Analysis and Relay Allocation for Multi-stream OFDM Decode-and-Forward Rayleigh Fading Networks”, examines the outage behaviour of cooperative systems. Their […]
The Arab Spring – Implications & Opportunities for Canada – Prof Tyseer Aboulnasr
Professor Tyseer Aboulnasr recently addressed the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs on “The Arab Spring – Implications & Opportunities for Canada.” Outside of her professional career, Dr. Aboulnasr has been very active in Arab-Jewish dialogue groups, in interfaith discussions, in bringing Muslim organizations in Canada to speak with a harmonious voice on national issues, and she has […]
Robotic Search and Rescue Projects
EECE 375/474: Computer-Based Instrumental Design Laboratory focuses on designing complex engineering projects within a team environment. In addition to implementing advanced technical principles into projects, students also learned about project management and team communication. Instructed by Dr Paul Lusina, this year’s theme is on Robotic Search and Rescue. Students had to build an autonomous vehicle […]
Tanaya Guha Receives Frank & Betty Woodhams Memorial Scholarship
Tanaya Guha is a PhD student specializing in artificial intelligence. Her research focuses on automatic understanding of human activities in videos, which has significant real-world applications in surveillance, medicine, sports and entertainment.“As an engineer, I am passionate about designing practical systems that can improve human lives.” Tanaya is having a terrific year. She just won […]
Undergraduates Contributing to ECE Research: Mireille Ghoussoub
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. Mireille Ghoussoub is going into her fourth year in Electrical Option of Engineering Physics. She is working closely with Dr. Peyman Servati’s research group, especially Dr. Bobak Gholamkhass and PhD student Saeedeh Ebrahimi Takalloo this summer. What research project […]
Undergraduates Contributing to ECE Research: Omar Omari
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. This is the first of four interviews with undergraduate research interns working closely with ECE faculty members and graduate students. Omar Omari is a 3rd year ECE student in the biomedical option. His research internship is supervised by Dr. […]