DATE |
LOCATION |
TIME |
EVENT |
| August 16, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Nikolay Yakovets "Optimization of Regular Path Queries in Graph Databases" Supervisor: J. Gryz |
| August 8, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Oral Examination: Nada Elasal "Unsupervised Methods for Camera Pose Estimation and People Counting in Crowded Scenes" Supervisor: J. Elder |
| July 27, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Usman Muhammad "Towards Static and Dynamic Analysis of Architectural Elements" Supervisor: P. Faloutsos |
| July 14, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Morteza
Zihayat Kermani "Mining High Utility Patterns Over Data Streams" Supervisor: A. An |
| July 6, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Vitaliy
Batusov "Reasoning with and About Causality" Co-supervisor: Y. Lesperance, M. Soutchanski |
| June 24, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Thomas Young "An Arm-mounted Accelerometer and Gyro-based 3D Control System" Supervisor: S. MacKenzie |
| June 23, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Oral Examination: Nader
El-Taweel "Voltage and Reactive Power Control in Islanded Microgrids" Supervisor: H. Farag |
| June 23, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Feng Gao "A Short and Readable Proof of Cut Elimination for Two 1st Order Modal Logics" Supervisor: G. Tourlakis |
| June 16, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Oral Examination: Yang Yang "Modeling of Human Web Browsing Based on Theory of Interest-driven Behavior" Supervisor: N. Vlajic |
| June 15, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Ross Kitsis "Enhancing the VANET Network Layer" Supervisor: S. Datta |
| June 14, 2016 | 120E STED | 9:30 AM | Oral Examination: Jun Miao "Making a Better Query: Find Good Feedback Documents and terms via Semantic Associations" Supervisor: J. Huang |
| June 2, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Qualifying Examination: Mohamed
Zaki Mohamed "Development of Advanced Planning and Operational Control Algorithms for Active Distribution Networks-based Microgrids" Supervisor: H. Farag |
| May 31, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:30 AM | Qualifying Examination: Hazem
Ibrahim "Modeling, Analysis and Design of Cellular Networks Using Stochastic Geometry" Supervisor: U.T. Nguyen |
| May 11, 2016 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Qiyi
Tang "Computing Behavioural Pseudometrics for Probablistic Systems" Supervisor: F. van Breugel |
| May 11, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Nasim
Beigi Mohammadi "Adaptive Application-aware Software Defined Networks" Supervisor: M. Litoiu |
| May 2, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Oral Examination: Dusan
Stevanovic "Application-Layer DDoS in Dynamic Web-Domains: Building Defenses against Next-Generation Attack Behavior" Supervisor: N. Vlajic |
| April 29, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Qualifying Examination: Sanjida
Moury "Multi-Input Converters for Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems" Supervisor: J. Lam |
| April 28, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Rohollah
Soltani Bidgoli "Higher Order Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modelling" Supervisor: H. Jiang |
| April 26, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Iuliia
Kotseruba "Visual Attention in Dynamic Environments and Its Application to Playing Online Games" Supervisor: J. Tsotsos |
| April 21, 2016 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Oral Examination: Domi Papoi "Automatic Speed Control for Navigation in 3D Virtual Environment" Supervisor: W. Stuerzlinger |
| February 22, 2016 | 232 YL | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Foad Hamidi "Rafigh: A Living Media System for Motivating Target Application for Use of Children" Supervisor: M. Baljko |
| February 16, 2016 | 204B BRG | 11:00 AM | Oral Examination: Tim Peng "Leverage Financial News to Predict Stock Price Movements Using Word Embeddings and Deep Neural Networks" Supervisor: H. Jiang |
| January 26, 2016 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Xun Shi "The Role of Early Recurrence in Improving Visual Representations" Supervisor: J. Tsotsos |
| January 22, 2016 | 232 YL | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Brandon
Haworth "Computer Games for Motor Speech Rehabilitation" Co-Supervisors: P. Faloutsos and M. Baljko |
| December 18, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Qualifying Examination:
Mohammad Sajjadieh "Compressive Sensing MIMO Radar Systems" Supervisor: A. Asif |
| December 15, 2015 | 2003 TEL | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Cornel Barna "Engineering Model-based Adaptive Software Systems" Supervisor: M. Litoiu |
| December 11, 2015 | 204A BRG | 3:00 PM | Oral Examination: Andia
Ghoddousi "Integrating Medical Ontology and Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Medical Document Retrieval" Supervisor: J. Huang |
| December 8, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 9:00 AM | MASc Oral Examination: Yiyun
Huang "A High-Speed and Low-Noise Nanopore Amplifier andn Event Detector" Supervisors: E. Ghafar-Zadeh/S. Magierowski |
| November 27, 2015 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Nima
Shahbazi "Incremental and Interactive Mining of Frequent Patterns" Supervisor: J. Gryz |
| November 26. 2015 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | MASc Oral Examination: Hossein
Pourmodheji "Towards CMOS Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Design, Implementation and Experimental Results" Supervisors: E. Ghafar-Zadeh/S. Magierowski |
| November 25, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 9:30 AM | MASc Oral Examination: Sarah
Kandil "Planning of PEVS Parking Lots in Conjunction with Renewable Energy Resources and Battery Energy Storage Systems" Supervisor: H. Farag |
| November 23, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | Qualifying Examination: Navid
Mohaghegh "NGRID - Open Platform to Detect and Monitor Age Related Macular Degeneration" Supervisor: E. Ghafar-Zadeh |
| November 17, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | MSc Oral Examination: Alireza
Moghaddam "Impacts of Channel Switching Overhead on the Performance of Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks" Supervisor: U.T. Nguyen |
| November 16, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 3:00 PM | MSc Oral Examination: Fatema
Alabdulkareem "Goal and Preference Identification in Natural Language Expressions" Supervisor: S. Liaskos |
| October 30, 2015 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Yan (Jason)
Chen "Approximate Parallel High Utility Itemset Mining" Supervisor: A. An |
| October 16, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 2:15 PM | Qualifying Examination:
Abdullah Almowanes "The Pursuit of Modernity: The Roots and Development of Computing in Saudi Arabia, 1940-2000" Supervisor: Z. Stanchniak |
| September 17, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 9:00 AM | Oral Examination: Farzana
Yasmeen "A Message Transfer Framework for Enhanced Reliability in Delay-and Disruption-Tolerant Networks" Supervisor: U.T. Nguyen |
| August 24, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Qualifying Examination: Simon
Hudon "Scaling up Proofs of Liveness via Refinement and Modular Decomposition" Supervisor: J. Ostroff |
| July 22, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Celia Li "Efficient Security Protocols for Fast Handover in Wireless Mesh Networks" Supervisor: U.T. Nguyen |
| July 15, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Qualifying
Examination: Mourad Amara "Towards All Electrical Characterization of 2D Cantilever Array Base High Throughput Force & Biomolecular Sensors" Co-Supervisor: E. Ghafar-Zadeh Co-Supervisor: S. Magierowski |
| July 13, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Nariman
Farsad "Molecular Communication: From Theory to Practice" Supervisor: A. Eckford |
| July 3, 2015 | 114G STEAD | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Niloufar
Shafiei "Non-blocking Data Structures Handeling Multiple Changes Atomically" Supervisor: Eric Ruppert |
| July 2, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Noura Hantira "Compressive Sensing and Time Reversal Beamforming Approaches for Ultrasound Imagining" Supervisor: A. Asif |
| June 9, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Mohammad Reza Faghani "Malware Propagation in Online Social Networks" Supervisor: U. T. Nguyen |
| June 2, 2015 | 2002 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Loutfouz
Zaman "User Interfaces and Difference Visualizations for Alternatives" Supervisor: W. Stuerzlinger |
| May 8, 2015 | 232 York Lanes | 11:00 AM | Oral Examination: Shivam Saxena "Distributed State Estimation for Smarter Electric Power Grids" Supervisor: A. Asif |
| May 6, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Elnaz
Delpisheh "Extending Topic Models with Syntax and Semantics Relationships" Supervisor: A. An |
| April 28, 2015 | 120E STEAD | 11:30 AM | Oral Examination: Margarita
Vinnikov "Gaze-Contingent Multi-Modal and Multi-Sensory Applications" Supervisor: R. Allison |
| April 14, 2015 | 232 York Lanes | 3:00 PM | Oral Examination: Parisa Mojiri
Forooshani "Coordinated Sensor-based Area Coverage and Cooperative Localization of a Heterogeneous Fleet of Autonomous" Supervisor: M. Jenkin |
| April 8, 2015 | 232 York Lanes | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Vida Movahedi "Automatic Extraction of Closed Contours Bounding Salient Objects: New Algorithms and Evaluation Methods" Supervisor: J. Elder |
| March 23, 2015 | 120E STED | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Jiashu
(Jessie) Zhao "Term Association Modelling in Information Retrieval" Supervisor: J. Huang |
| March 16, 2015 | 1012J LAS | 4:00 PM | OGS - Masters and PhD applications due |
| March 13, 2015 | LAS Lobby | 10:30 AM | Graduate Student Poster Day |
| February 23, 2015 | 2002 LAS | 11:30 AM | Oral Examination: Niloofar
Banivaheb "Comparing Measured and Theoretical Target Registration Error of an Optical Tracking System" Supervisor: Burton Ma |
| January 19, 2015 | 3033 LAS | 9:00 AM | Oral Examination: Amir Rasouli "Attention and Sensor Planning in Autonomous Robotic Visual Search" Supervisor: Professor Tsotsos |
| November 7, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Oral Examination: Ossama
Abdel-Hamid "Automatic Speech Recognition Using Deep Neural networks: New Possibilities" Supervisor: Professor Jiang |
| November 6, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 10:30 AM | Oral Examination: Steven
Castellucci "Optimizing Human Performance in Mobile Text Entry" Supervisor: Professor MacKenzie |
| October 22, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Qualifying Examation: Bita
Banihashemi "A Logic Based Framework for Decentralized Agent Supervision" Supervisor: Professor Lesperance |
| October 6, 2014 | 1012M LAS | NSERC - PGS-D & CGS-D
Doctoral Submit all transcripts to Ouma |
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| September 26, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Oral Examination: Hamoun
Ghanbari "Model-based Dynamic Resource Management for Service Oriented Clouds" Supervisor: Professor Litoiu |
| September 17, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Md Kowsar
Hossain "Novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor and Ad hoc Networks (WSANs) and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) Supervisor: Professor Edmonds |
| September 12, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Hui Wang "Exploring Topological Environments" Supervisor: Professor Jenkin |
| August 13, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 1:00 PM | Oral Examination: Glen Berseth "Optimizing Simulated Crowd Behaviour" Supervisor: Professor Faloutsos |
| August 8, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Martin
Dimkovski "Computational Models of Neocortical Cononical Circuits" Supervisor: Professor An |
| July 7, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 2:30 PM | Qualifying Examination: Nikolay
Yakovets "Efficient Evaluation of Regular Path Queries on Large Graphs" Supervisor: Professor Gryz |
| June 25, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Nariman
Farsad "Molecular Communication" Superivsor: Professor Eckford |
| June 16, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Examination: Ameeta
Agrawal "Emotion Analysis from Text" Supervisor: Professor An |
| July 15, 2014 | 1012M LAS | 4:00 PM | Deadline for all Academic
Petitions (Fall 2014) Submit to Ouma in 1012 M LAS, before 4 PM |
| May 22, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | Qualifying Examination:
MortezaKermani "High Utility Pattern Mining Over Data Streams" Supervisor: Professor An |
| May 5, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | MSc Oral Examination: Michelle
Brown "In-Air Un-Instrumented Pointing Performance" Supervisor: Professor Stuerzlinger |
| April 3, 2014 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | PhD Oral Examination: Jing Yang "Planning Practical Paths in High-dimensional Space" Supervisor: Professor Jenkin |
| March 31, 2014 | 120 E STED | 1:00 PM | PhD Oral Examination: Nastaran
Shafiei "Model Checking of Distributed Multithreaded Java Applications" Supervisor: Professor van Breugel |
| March 15, 2014 | 1003 LAS | 4:00 PM | Deadline for all Academic
Petitions (Summer 2014) Submit to Ouma in 1003 LAS, before 4 PM |
| February 17, 2014 | 1003 LAS | 4:00 PM | Deadline for OGS applications. |
| January 27, 2014 | 232 York Lanes | 10:00 AM | MSc Oral Examination: Hongbin
Lu "Achieving Adaptation Through Live Virtual Machine Migration in Two-tier Clouds" Supervisor: Professor M. Litoiu |
| January 17, 2014 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | PhD Oral Examination: Serene
Wong "Exploiting Structure Information for Network Dissimilarity Characterization-Application to Disease Network Analysis and Treatment Prediction" Supervisor: Professor N. Cercone |
| December 18, 2013 | 3033 LAS | 1:00 PM | PhD Qualifying Exam: Paria
Mehrani "Single View Reconstruction of Smooth Shapes from Contour" Supervisor: Professor J. Elder |
| December 12, 2013 | 2002 LAS | 10:00 AM | PhD Qualifying Exam: Elnaz
Delpisheh "Probabilistic Topic Modeling" Supervisor: Professor A. An |
| November 21, 2013 | 3033 LAS | 10:00 AM | PhD Oral Examination: Arash
Mohammadi "Distributed Implementations of the Particle Filter with Performance Bounds" Supervisor: Professor A. Asif |
| November 20, 2013 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | PhD Qualifying Exam: Steven
Castellucci "Optimizing Human Performance in Mobile Text Entry" Supervisor: Professor S. MacKenzie |
| November 15, 2013 | 1003 LAS | 4:00 PM | Deadline for all Academic
Petitions (Winter 2014) Submit to Ouma in 1003 LAS, before 4 PM |
| October 31, 2013 | 1003 LAS | 4:00 PM | Deadline for Research Cost Fund applications. |
| October 22, 2013 | Submit final applications to NSERC. | ||
| October 11, 2013 | 3033 LAS | 2:00 PM | PhD Oral Examination: Jing
(Lisa) Yan "Multiagent Systems, Games and Learning from Structures" Supervisor: Professor N. Cercone |
| October 4, 2013 | 3033 LAS | 11:00 AM | Scholarships Information Session |
| October 4, 2013 | 3062 TEL | 10:00 AM | Qualifying Exam: Jun Miao "Make a Better Query: Find Good Feedback Documents and Terms for Query Expansion." Supervisor: Professor J. Huang |
| October 3, 2013 | 1003 LAS | 4:000 PM | Submit all transcripts to Ouma for NSERC applications. |
| August 28, 2013 |
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Orientation http://www.yorku.ca/grads/students/orientation.html |