Defenses and Seminars

NOTICE OF PhD DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Hossein Hassani

Title: Multicriteria Consensus Models to Support Intelligent Group Decision-Making

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM

Location: RM 3003 CEI and Teams

Committee Members

Dr. M. Saif, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. R. Razavi-Far , Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. M. Ahmadi, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. J. Wu, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. A. Rahimi, Outside Reader, Mechanical, Auto. & Mat. Engineering

Dr. R. Samavi, External Examiner, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. TBA, Chair of Defense, 

NOTICE OF 1 st PhD SEMINAR

CANDIDATE: Areej Fatima

Title: Permeance-Based Equivalent Circuit Modelling of a Squirrel Cage Induction Machine Considering NonLinearities, Harmonics, and Thermal Effects

Date: Friday, April 28 th,2023

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Rm 1230 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. N. Kar, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. N. Zhang, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. B. Balasingam, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. O. Jianu, Outside Program Reader, MAME

NOTICE OF M.A.Sc. DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Yameema Babu Lopez

Title: Computational analysis investigation of a piezoelectrically actuated micropump for air sniffing applications

Date: Wednesday, April 19 th,2023

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Room 3001 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. A. Emadi, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. J. Ahamed, Co-Advisor, Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering

Dr. E. Abdel Raheem, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. A. Azad, Outside Program Reader, MAME

Dr. B. Shahrrava, Chair of Defense, Electrical & Computer Engineering 

NOTICE OF M.A.Sc. DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Mike Thamm

Title: 2D Hybrid Analytical Model Performance Optimization for Linear Induction Motors

Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: Room 3003 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. N. Kar, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. M. S. Toulabi, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. J. Urbanic, Outside Program Reader, MAME

Dr. C. Chen, Chair of Defense, Electrical & Computer Engineering

NOTICE OF 1 st M.A.Sc. SEMINAR

CANDIDATE: Sana Etemadi

Title: Development and Evaluation of Optimization Algorithms for Accurate Multiparameter Estimation of PMSMs Accounting for Motor Nonlinearities

Date: Thursday, April 20th,2023

Time: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Rm 1230 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. N. Kar, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. B. Balasingam, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. O. Jianu, Outside Program Reader, MAME 

NOTICE OF 1st M.A.Sc. SEMINAR

CANDIDATE: Khagendra Thapa

Title: Torque Ripple Reduction in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine with Resistance Asymmetry

Date: Thursday, April 13th

Time: 3:00 pm

Location: CEI 3007

Committee Members

Dr.N. Kar, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. L.V. Iyer, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. B. Balasingam, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. M. Etemadi, Outside Program Reader, MAME

Notice of 2nd PhD Seminar

CANDIDATE: Tong Zhang

DEGREE SOUGHT: PHD

TITLE: Observability, Observer and Controller Design for robotic system modeling on SE(3) with Cameras

DATE: April 14th ,2023

TIME: 9:30 AM

LOCATION: 3001 CEI

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Dr. Xiang Chen, ECE, Supervisor

Dr. Balakumar Balasingam, ECE, Program Reader

Dr. Sazzadur Chowdhury, ECE, Program Reader

Dr. Jalal Ahamed, MAME, Outside Program Reader

NOTICE OF M.A.Sc. DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Md Maksud-Ul-Kabir Rico

Title: Performance Analysis of CNN Model for Image Classification with Intel Open VINO on CPU and GPU

Date: Friday, April 14, 2023

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: TEAMS & 3003 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. M. Khalid, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. K. Tepe, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. D. Wu, Outside Program Reader, School of Computer Science

Dr. M. S. Toulabi, Chair of Defense, Electrical & Computer Engineering

NOTICE OF 2nd PhD Seminar

CANDIDATE: Chen Zhang

Title: Area-Efficient Finite Field Multiplication Using Hybrid SET-MOS Technology

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: 3001 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. H. Wu, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. C. Chen, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. J. Wu, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. S. Chowdhury, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. X. Yuan, Outside Reader, School of Computer Science

NOTICE OF 2nd PhD SEMINAR 

CANDIDATE: Mahsasadat Seyedbarhagh

Title: Digital Realization of Spiking Neural Network

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Time: 8:45 a.m.

Location: TEAMS MEETING

Committee Members

Dr. A. Ahmadi, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. E. Abdel-Raheem, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. M. Azzouz, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. J. Ahamad, Outside Program Reader, MAME