Mr. Vinicius Prado da Fonseca defending his Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Thesis entitled Machine Learning for Object Identification and Pose Estimation by Tactile-Enabled Robotic In-Hand Manipulation
Taking place: Friday February 7, 2020 from 13:00 until 16:00
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. Emil Petriu
External Examiner:
Prof. Sidney Givigi (Queen’s Univ.)
OCIECE Examiners:
Prof. Hussein Al Osman (Univ. of Ottawa)
Mr. Bilal Jarrah defending his Mechanical Engineering PhD Thesis entitled Fractional Order and Inverse Problem Solutions for Plate Temperature Control
Taking place: Friday February 7, 2020 from 14:00 until 17:00
Location: CBY C206
Thesis Supervisor:
Prof. D. Necsulescu
External Examiner (participating via videoconference):
Prof. Ion Stiharu (Concordia Univ.)
OCIMAE Examiners:
Prof. Balbir Dhillon (Univ. of Ottawa)
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. Mohammad Salah defending his Civil Engineering PhD Thesis entitled A Method to Improve the Performance of Capillary Barriers Using Heated Air Flow
Taking place: Thursday January 30, 2020 from 9:00 until 12:00 (Okanagan)|from 12:00 until 15:00 (Ottawa)
Location: LPR 286
Thesis Supervisors:
Prof. Julio Angel Infante Sedano
Prof. Rozalina Dimitrova
External Examiner (participating via videoconference):
Prof. Sumi Siddiqua (The Univ. of British Columbia)
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.)
Ms. Aynsley Griffin defending her Civil Engineering MASc Thesis entitled Evaluation of Corrosion Detection Methods in Reinforced Concrete Structures
Taking place: Friday January 24, 2020 from 8:30 until 10:30
Location: STE 1010
Thesis Supervisors:
Prof. Beatriz Martin-Perez
Prof. Pouria Ghods
OCICE Examiners:
Prof. Gunay H. Burak (Carleton Univ.)
Prof. Leandro Sanchez (Univ. of Ottawa)
Defence Chairperson:
Prof. Roberto Narbaitz
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)
