Defenses and Seminars

NOTICE OF 2nd PhD SEMINAR

CANDIDATE: Maryam Eshaghi

Title: An Energy Harvesting Solution for IoT Devices in 5G Network

Date: Friday, March 31, 2023

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: CEI 3001

Committee Members

Dr. R. Rashidzadeh, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. R. Muscedere, Co-advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

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

Dr. J. Ahamed, Outside Program Reader, Mech, Auto & Materials Engineering

NOTICE OF PhD DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Abdallah Aboelnaga

Title: Control and Protection Solutions for Resilient Protective Relaying of Modern Power Systems

Date: Monday, April 24, 2023 

Time: 12:00 p.m.

Location: 3000 CEI

Committee Members

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

Dr. N. Kar, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering 

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

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

Dr. W.M. Ibrahim, External Examiner, UOIT

Dr. TBÀ, Chair of Defense

NOTICE OF PhD DEFENSE  

CANDIDATE: Rumana Islam

Title: Signal Processing Based Pathological Voice Detection Techniques

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: 3000 CEI

Committee Members

Dr. E. Abdel-Raheem, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

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

Dr. L. Rueda, Outside Reader, School of Computer Science

Dr. A. Elmaghraby, External Examiner, University of Louisville Kentucky

Dr. X. Xu, Chair of Defense, Civil & Environmental Engineering

NOTICE OF 1 st PhD SEMINAR 

CANDIDATE: Ehsan Hallaji 

Title: Mitigating Privacy and Performance Related Threats in Federated Learning Systems

Date: Friday, March 24, 2023

Time: 11:00 a.m

Location: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

Committee Members

Dr. M. Saif, Advisor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. R. Razavi-far, Advisor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Dr. N. Zhang, Dept, Reader, Electncal and Computer Engineering

Dr. L.Rueda, Oulside Reader School of Computer Science

NOTICE OF 1st M.A.Sc. SEMINAR 

CANDIDATE: Abolfazl Akbari

Title: Trajectory Planning of Robot Manipulator by Using Multi-objective Optimization Methods

Date: Tuesday, March 7th

Time: 10:00 AM

Location: Rm 3003 CEI

Committee Members:

​Dr. S. Alirezaee, Co-Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

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

Dr. J. Ahamed, Outside Program Reader, MAME

NOTICE OF M.A.Sc. DEFENSE

CANDIDATE: Jiayuan Wang

Title: Unsupervised Bidirectional MR to CT Synthesis Based on Generative Adversarial Networks

Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Room 3000 CEI

Committee Members:

Dr. J. Wu, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. N. Zhang, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. D. Xiao, Outside Program Reader, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dr. S. Alirezaee, Chair of Defense, MAME

NOTICE OF Defence

CANDIDATE: Vamsi Krishna Kurramsetty
TITLE: Maximum Overall System Efficiency Pre Ampere Control for Improved Performance of Would Field Synchronous Machine Drives in EV Applications 
TIME: 9:00 AM 
LOCATION: CEI 3000

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Dr. Narayan C. Kar,  Electrical and Computer Engineering (Co-Advisor)
Dr. K. L. Varaha Lyer,  Electrical and Computer Engineering (Co-Advisor)

Dr. B. Balasingam, Electrical and Computer Engineering, (Departmental Reader)

Dr. M. Etemadi, Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering (Outside Departmental Reader) 

Dr. Jacqueline A. Stagner, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator (Chair)

All Graduate Students are Invited to Attend

NOTICE OF Defence

CANDIDATE: Agnila Barua
TITLE: A Novel Multi-Mode OFDM with Index Modulation
TIME: 11:00 AM (EDT)
LOCATION: CEI 3003

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Dr. Behnam Shahrrava, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Supervisor)
Dr. Ning Zhang,  Electrical and Computer Engineering (Departmental Reader)

Dr. Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering (Outside Departmental Reader)

Dr. M. S. Toulabi, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Chair)

All Graduate Students are Invited to Attend

NOTICE OF M.A.Sc. Defense

CANDIDATE: Parinaz Montazeri
TITLE: Optimal Protection Coordination of Microgrids Powered by Synchronverters During Unbalanced Faults 
TIME: 11:00 AM (EDT)
LOCATION: CEI 3001

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Dr. M. Azzous, Advisor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dr. A. H. Sakr, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. F. Gherib, Outside Program Reader, Civil & Environmental Engineering 

Dr. TBA, Chair of Defense, Electrical & Computer Engineering 

All Graduate Students are Invited to Attend

NOTICE OF 1 st M.A.Sc. SEMINAR

CANDIDATE: Sai Preetham Bonagiri

Title: A New Resource Efficient Multi-Puf Design

Date: Tuesday, March 14th

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Rm 3001 CEI

Committee Members

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

Dr. A.H. Sakr, Dept Reader, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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