Graduate Program in Computer Science & Engineering

Upcoming Events & Important Dates

2015-2016


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
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

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