2008 Archive of News & Announcements

Dec. 9, 2008
RESEARCH FEATURED IN THE FINANCIAL POST
Grad student, Angie Wu, featured in the Financial Post.
Nov. 1, 2008
GOVERNOR GENERAL GOLD MEDAL
Y. He awarded Ryerson's sole Governor General Gold Medal.
Nov. 29, 2008
2008 STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The 2008 Student Achievement Awards were held on Nov. 19th at Oakham House.
Nov. 1, 2008
IEEE TORONTO SECTION AWARDS
X. Fernando, D. Androutsos, A. Anpalagan and S. Krishnan win IEEE Toronto Chapter awards.
Oct. 17, 2008
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers exciting opportunities for international experience at the graduate level by partnering with three European universities.
Oct. 15, 2008
GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS
October 2008 Seminar Programme.
Sep. 26, 2008
ALTERNATE ENERGY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
The Alternate Energy and Global Synergy Symposium hosted by the Department and IEEE Toronto was a huge success. The proceedings and actions are available for download as PDF documents. Part 1Part 2
Sep. 20, 2008
ADVANCED HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH FUNDING
S. Krishnan and V. Yang awarded funding from the Ontario Research Fund for Infrastructure for Advanced Health Technologies.
Sep. 14, 2008
DEPARTMENT WELCOMES TWO NEW FACULTY
The Department welcomes two new faculty members: M. Kyan with expertise in machine learning for multimedia and biological data and J. Smith with expertise in bio-mechatronics joined the Department in August.
Sep. 14, 2008
IEEE FACULTY AWARDS
Congratulations to X. Fernando and D. Androutsos.
Aug. 13, 2008
HYDRO ONE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Department has entered into a five year partnership agreement with Hydro One Networks for internship fellowship opportunities for undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering students.
July 21, 2008
MOST CITED PAPER AWARD
Congratulations to T. Venetsanopoulos for winning the "Most Cited Paper Award" for his co-authored paper "Vector Sigma Filters for Noise Detection and Removal in Color Images" in the Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
July 16, 2008
Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics
V. Yang awarded Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics.
July 15, 2008
ALTERNATE ENERGY SYMPOSIUM
The Electrical Engineering Department and IEEE Toronto hosted an Alternate Energy and Global Synergy Symposium. BROCHURE PROGRAM
May 30, 2008
2008 DEPARTMENT RESEARCH AWARDS
Congratulations to the graduate student winners of the Department's research and GA/TA awards and to the faculty members who secured external research grants.
May 1, 2008
CCECE 2008
The Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering took place in Niagara Falls from May 4–7. The Department was one of the major organizers of CCECE 2008— the flagship conference of IEEE Canada.
Apr. 28, 2008
OPEN HOUSE PHOTO ALBUM
A photo album of the 2008 Open House which took place on April 25. Fourth-year students demonstrated their Capstone Design Project in various categories including: biomedical engineering, communications, digital signal processing, networking, power electronics, remote sensing & robotics.
Jan. 29, 2008
DEPARTMENT WELCOMES TWO NEW FACULTY
B. Venkatesh, with expertise in power systems, and V. Yang, with expertise in biomedical instrumentation, join the Department.
Jan. 22, 2008
Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow
Congratulations to B. Wu for being selected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
Jan. 16, 2008
From Idea To Innovation
X. Zhang secured Phase 1 of NSERC Idea to Innovation funding for the research project, "An Intelligent Information Retrieval and Processing System for Financial Databases".
Jan. 10, 2008
Research featured in the Toronto Star
Graduate student R. Phan's research on image retrieval based on content analysis is featured in the Jan. 10th edition of the Toronto Star.
Jan. 7, 2008
Best Paper Award
Ph.D. student Y. He and faculty researchers Drs. L. Guan and I. Lee were awarded the Best Research Paper Award at the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.