Mr. Isaac Ampratwum defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering MASc Thesis entitled An Intelligent Traffic Classification based optimized routing in SDN-IoT: A Machine Learning Approach
Taking place: Tuesday February 4, 2020 from 9:30 until 11:30
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Amiya Nayak
OCIECE Examiners:
Prof. Ahmed Karmouch (Univ. of Ottawa)
Prof. Wei Shi (Carleton Univ.; participating via videoconference)
Defence Chairperson:
Prof. Nancy Samaan

Ms. Sana'a Abdel Ra'uof Alwidian defending her Computer Science PhD Thesis entitled Union Models: Support of Variability Modeling and Efficient Reasoning about Model Families over Space and Time
Taking place: Wednesday February 5, 2020 from 12:00 until 15:00
Location: CBY C206
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Daniel Amyot
External Examiner (participating via videoconference):
Prof. Nan Niu (Univ. of Cincinnati)
OCICS Examiners:
Prof. John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Ottawa)

Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Thesis entitled Random Medium Access Decision-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Taking place: Monday February 3, 2020 from 13:00 until 16:00
Location: CBY C206
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Hussein Mouftah
External Examiner (participating via audio-only teleconference):
Prof. Xianbin Wang (Univ. of Western Ontario)
OCIECE Examiners:

Ms. Rajwa Abdullah Al-harthi defending her Computer Science PhD Thesis entitled Recognizing Human Needs using Machine Learning-powered Psychology-Based Framework
Taking place: Monday January 27, 2020 from 13:00 until 16:00
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
External Examiner:
Prof. Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier Univ.)
OCICS Examiners:
Prof. Hussein Al Osman (Univ. of Ottawa)
Prof. Peter Xiaoping Liu (Carleton Univ.)

As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Michael Ross, from Yukon College, will give a presentation titled "Challenges and research in northern & remote electric power". Join us at 2:15 p.m.

Mr. Juan Sebastian Arteaga Falconi defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Thesis entitled Towards an Accurate ECG Biometric Authentication System with Low Acquisition Time
Taking place: Monday January 20, 2020 from 9:00 until 11:30
Location: CBY C206
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
External Examiner (participating via videoconference):
Prof. Ling Guan (Ryerson Univ.)
OCIECE Examiners:
Prof. Hussein Al Osman (Univ. of Ottawa)

Ms. Elham Kalantari defending her Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Thesis entitled Placement of Air and Ground Base Stations in Integrated Aerial and Terrestrial Wireless Cellular Networks
Taking place: Monday January 20, 2020 from 13:00 until 16:00
Location: CBY A707
Thesis Supervisors:
Prof. Abbas Yongacoglu
Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu
External Examiner:
Prof. Sameh Sorour (Queen’s Univ.)
OCIECE Examiners:
Prof. Claude D’Amours (Univ. of Ottawa)

Mr. Anas Alakhras defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Thesis entitled The Shape Synthesis of Non-Planar and Closely-Spaced Electrically-Small Conducting Surface Antennas
Taking place: Monday January 13, 2020 from 10:00 until 13:00
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Derek McNamara
External Examiner:
Prof. Tayeb A. Denidni (Institut national de la recherche scientifique)
OCIECE Internal Examiners:
Prof. Rony Amaya (Carleton Univ.)

As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Mariana Bertoni, from Arizona State University, will give a presentation titled "Defect kinetics and reliability of silicon cells and modules" . Join us at 2:15 p.m.

Mr. Chuan Xiong defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering MASc Thesis entitled Secured System Architecture for the Internet of Things Using a Two Factor Authentication Protocol
Taking place: Tuesday December 17, 2019 from 12:00 until 14:00
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisors:
Prof. Tet Yeap
Prof. Iluju Kiringa
OCIECE Examiners:
Prof. Herna Viktor (Univ. of Ottawa)
Prof. Tony White (Carleton Univ.)
Defence Chairperson:
Prof. Timothy Lethbridge