Speaker(s): Dr. Peter Liu, Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University

Date/Time: Feburary 6, 2015 12:00 – 13:00

Location: Tory Building Room 202, Carleton University

Parking: Paid parking available (P2 suggested)

Registration: Not required.

Organizer: James Green, SCE, Carleton University

Organized by: EMBS-Ottawa

Abstract:

At present, surgical residents develop required hands-on skills mainly through trials on animals, cadavers and patients. These training approaches, however, have obvious disadvantages: animals have different anatomies from humans; cadavers are unable to provide appropriate physiological responses; it is risky when students practice on patients. With recent advances in haptics, computer graphics and virtual reality, surgical simulators have great potential to overcome these problems. In this talk, the current development of surgical simulators will be reviewed. The main challenges and difficulties will be explained. In particular, we will focus on issues such as tissue modelling, visual feedback and haptic interaction.

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Event
From Innovation to Enterprise: Opportunities, Risks and the Evolution of Information Technologies

Speakers
John Duff, Director of Engineering at Shopify
Mike Abbott, Partner at Deloitte
Suzanne Rochford, Director of User Centered Design for TELUS Health

Date & Time
Wednesday, September 16
5:00 – 7:30 PM

Location
River Building, Atrium and Conference Rooms 2224–2228
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON

Parking
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Registration
Required, First-come First Serve
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Organizer &Contact info
Alexandra Leroux
alexandra.leroux@carleton.ca

Website URL

Abstract
Join for a special panel discussion on the evolution of information technologies. Hear from leaders of industry as they discuss the roles that information technologies play in the worlds of e-commerce, cyber-security, and healthcare. A reception will follow the speaker discussion

Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University

Workshop Chair: Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Professor, Carleton

Co-Organized and Sponsored by IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals Affinity Group.

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Arrival: 9:30 – 10:00 am
Morning Session: 10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Keynote Speech (abstract and bio at the end)

Exploration Strategy in Wireless Systems with Reinforcement Learning
Dr. Haris Gacanin, Department Head, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium

AI/ML-based Security and Trust in Mobile Services
Dr. Burak Kantarci, Professor, uOttawa

Lunch: 12:15 – 1:45 pm

The Caf – Carleton University, Residence Commons, 3rd floor

https://dining.carleton.ca/locations/the-caf

Afternoon Session I: 2:00 – 3:00 pm

Threat of Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning in Network Security
Kunle Ibitoye, PhD candidate, Carleton, and Rana Abou Khamis, MASc candidate, Carleton
(Supervisors: Professors Ashraf Matrawy and Omair Shafiq, Carleton)

Resource Allocation with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Microgrid Communications
Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci, Professor, uOttawa, and Medhat Alsayed, PhD candidate, uOttawa

Coffee Break: 3:00 – 3:30 pm

Afternoon Session II: 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Wireless Network Personalization: Why it Matters and How to Approach It
Rawan Alkurd, PhD candidate, Carleton
(Supervisors: Professors Ibrahim Abualhaol and Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton)

Machine Learning for Wireless Networks: Applications to Routing and Resource Management
Dr. Thomas Kunz, Professor, Carleton

Keynote Abstract

We are now several years into explosion of machine learning (ML) in wireless networks, used to enrich decision-making by finding structures in data – knowledge discovery – as means to describe the user behavior and network performance. With new designs of wireless networks, complexity and dynamicity rises, network resources are scattered and diversity of network elements increases. Consider these examples with interesting challenges: 1) massive number of Internet-of-Things devices, sensors and actuators give rise to the problem of dynamic network planning; 2) broadband wireless leads to problems with real-time radio resource management; 3) ultra-reliable communications require support of real-time adjustments on latency and reliability in the orders of 99,99999%. For such designs artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to support high adaptability with respect to wireless environment and its services (e.g. virtual reality).

This talk discusses a paradigm shift from contemporary data-driven wireless with ML toward autonomous wireless with AI. We explore motivation, opportunities and methodology to adopt training-free AI methods for self-organization of wireless systems. We point out specific properties of wireless environment and classify future directions on training-free vs training-based systems. We start from popular data-driven ML techniques and briefly elaborate their benefits and shortcomings for wireless application mentioned above. The main focus is on reinforcement learning as a major (training-free) representative of AI. We briefly discuss learning principles of intelligent agent with problem of random exploration for wireless-specific environment. We discuss principles of self-organization by synthesizing reasoning and learning with knowledge management. Finally, we end with a case study using wireless AI prototype for self-deployment and self-optimization. The talk provokes new coming challenges and unveil interesting future directions across multi-disciplinary research areas.

Keynote Biography:

Haris Gačanin received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical engineering from University of Sarajevo in 2000. In 2005 and 2008, respectively, he received MSc and PhD from Tohoku University in Japan. He worked at Tohoku University until 2010 as Assistant Professor and joined Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) in 2010, where he established research on data-driven analysis of communication systems at physical and media access layers. Currently, he is department head at Bell Labs and adjunct teaching professor at KU Leuven. His professional interests relate to research confluence between artificial intelligence and physical-layer communications to establish autonomous wireless systems. He has 200+ scientific publications (journals, conferences and patens) and invited/tutorial talks. He is senior member of IEEE and IEICE and recipient of IEICE Communication Systems Best Paper Award (joint 2014, 2015, 2017), The 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Award of Excellence, the 2012 KDDI Foundation Research Award, the 2009 KDDI Foundation Research Grant Award, the 2008 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers, the 2005 Active Research Award in Radio Communications, 2005 Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005-Fall) Student Paper Award from IEEE VTS Japan Chapter and the 2004 Institute of IEICE Society Young Researcher Award. He was awarded by Japanese Government (MEXT) Research Scholarship in 2002.