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Name of Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton	Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Toronto and Google Inc.	Deep Learning	Jan 15, 2015
Prof. Yong Lian	IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University	Self-Powered Wearable Biomedical Sensors: Challenges and Future	Oct 2, 2014
Dr. Bhaskar D. Rao, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA, September 8, 2014	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego	Bayesian Methods for Sparse Signal Recovery and Compressed Sensing	Sept 8, 2014
Dr. Sun-Yuan Kung	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ	Curse and Blessing of high-dimensionality for complete and incomplete data analysis	May 13, 2014
The Honourable David Collenette	Former member of Parliament and Federal Minister	Crisis Management and Policy Innovation	March 20, 2014
Dr. Arianna Mencattini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy	University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy	Computer-aided Detection of Breast Masses in Mammograms	July 22, 2013
Dr. V Vaidehi, Professor & Head, Dept. of IT, MIT Anna University	Head, Department of IT, MIT Anna University	Sensor Networks and its applications in Surveillance and Healthcare	June 21, 2013
Dr. Vinod Kumar, Professor	Dean of Faculty Affairs of Electrical Engineering at IIT, Roorke, India,	Virtual Biomedical Instrumentation Project,	June 21, 2013
Prof. Yonina Eldar	Department of Electrical Engineering Technion Israel Institute of Technology,	Defying Nyquist in Analog to Digital Conversion	April 29, 2013
2012
Dr. Ramin Pichevar	Communications Research Centre, Ottawa	Sparse Audio Signal Processing	Sept. 7, 2012
Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques	Image Science and Medical Physics Center Internal Medicine Department School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo Brazil	Computer-aided Diagnosis in Orthopedic Radiology: Quantitative Evaluation of Vertebral Morphometry	April 16, 2012
Zhi-Quan Luo	University of Minnesota USA	Sparse Precoding and Coordinated Transmission for Interference Management in Heterogenous Networks	April 4, 2012
Prof. Ricardo L. de Queiroz	Universidade de Brasilia Brazil	Greener Video Coding	March 5, 2012
Prof. Ricardo L. de Queiroz	Universidade de Brasilia Brazil	Greener Video Coding	March 5, 2012
2011
Rangaraj M. Rangayyan	Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary	Digital Image Processing Techniques for the Detection and Analysis of Diagnostic Features in Fundus Images of the Retina	Dec. 15, 2011
Shengkun (Victor) Xie, PhD	The Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ryerson University	Long-term Observational Signal Classification via Sparse Approximation	Dec. 2, 2011
Sheila S. Hemami	School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Cornell University	A Signal-Processing Approch to Modeling Vision, and Applications	Nov. 18, 2011
Prof. Patrick Flandrin	CNRS & Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon France	An Overview of Empirical Mode Deomposition	July 13, 2011
Dr. Ganesh Naik	RMIT University Melbourne, Australia	Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for Audio and Biosignal (EMG) applications	June 30, 2011
2010
Dr. Gita Pendharkar	Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia	Analysing Abnormal Gait using Sensors	June 22, 2010
2009
Dr. Amy Reibman	AT&T Labs NY	Image and Video Quality Assessment: The Truth about PSNR	Nov. 5, 2009
Prof. Sergios Theodoridis	Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens, Greece	Adaptive Learning in a World of projections	Oct. 27, 2009
2008
Dr. Alexander Loui	Kodak Research Labs Eastman Kodak Company, NY	Semantic Content Analysis and Indexing for Personal and Social Applications	Nov. 28, 2008
Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D.	Center for Biomedical Engineering Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT	Microengineered hydrogels for stem cell bioengineering and tissue regeneration	Nov. 3, 2008
Prof. K. Max Wong	Canada Research Chair in Signal Processing Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario	The QR Decomposition and the Decision Feedback Detectors: Applications to Block Data Transmission Systems	Oct. 23, 2008
Dr. Carmen Serrano Gotarredona	Professor of Signal Theory and Communications University of Seville Seville, Spain	Address-Event-Representation (AER)-based Vision Processing	Sep. 19, 2008
2007
Simon Haykin	University Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University	Cognitive Dynamic Systems	Nov. 15, 2007
Professor Xiaodong Wang	Prof. at Columbia University New York	Statistical Signal Processing for Misbehavior and Attack Detection in Wireless Networks	Oct. 10, 2007
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos	Professor Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA	Recent Advances in Image and Video Recovery	May 14, 2007
Andy Adler	Associate Professor Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University, Ottawa	Biometrics & Authentication Technologies	May 10, 2007
Dr. En-hui Yang	Professor & Canada Research Chair Department of ELCE University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario	Distributed Source Coding: Theory and Algorithms	April 26, 2007
Bruce Hellinga, PhD PEng	Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON	Estimating Roadway Traffic Conditions Via Anonymous Tracking of Cell Phones	April 13, 2007
Dr. Ling Guan Dr. Bin Wu Dr. Fei Yuan Ms. April Khademi Mr. Valeri Kirischian	Canada Research Chair in Multimedia Industrial Research Chair in Power Electronics Ryerson Research Chair in Microsystems PhD Student and NSERC CGS Holder PhD Student and OGS Holder	Panel Discussion: Future Research Trends in Energy, Micro, and Multimedia Systems	March 2, 2007
Dr. Sander Stepanov	Design Engineer Broadcom	Statistical Signal Processing for MIMO Communication Channels	Jan. 16, 2007
2006
Raj Rangayyan, PhD, PEng, FIEEE, FEIC, FAIMBE, FSPIE	University Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering (Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Radiology) University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada	Segmentation and Quantitative Analysis of the Tissue Content of the Tumor Mass in Neuroblastoma	Nov. 2, 2006
Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA	Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing and Communication: Challenges and Future Trends	Sep. 28, 2006
Dr. Alex C. Kot	Professor & Vice Dean (Research) School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Security in Black and White	Sep. 29, 2006
Dr. Robert M. Gray	Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering Stanford University, California, USA	Extracting Discrete Information from a Continuous World: Quantization, Compression, and Classification	July 20, 2006
Dr. Jürgen Burger	Professor of Microtechnology and Medical Technology University of Applied Sciences Berne, HTA Biel Switzerland	Smart Surgical Instruments and Implants	June 26, 2006
Dr. Jie Chen	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	Applying Nanotechnology in Nanoscale Computing and Biomedical Applications	May 2, 2006
Dr(s). Dimitri Androutsos, Sri Krishnan and Xavier Fernando	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ryerson University, Toronto	Processing, Protecting and Providing Multimedia Information	May 1, 2006
Prof. Jon W. Mark	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Centre for Wireless Communications University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1	Evolution of Wireless Communications	April 24, 2006
Mr. Bern Grush	Founder and CTO Applied Location Corporation Toronto	Application of Digital Signal Processing to GNSS Signals for Transportation Pricing Systems	April 10, 2006
2005
Dr. Aleksandar Dogandzic	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University Ames, Iowa	Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks Using Hidden Markov Random Fields	May 6, 2005
Dr. Abhay Sharma	Department of Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan	Color Management - Introduction and Overview	April 20, 2005
Dr. Ali Sayed, F-IEEE	Electrical Engineering Department University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California	Signal Processing Challenges in Wireless Location	April 14, 2005
Dr. Omid S. Jahromi	Sr. Algorithm Developer Bioscrypt Inc., Mississauga, Ontario	Biometric Identity Verification	April 7, 2005
Dr. Aziz Guergachi, Assistant Professor	School of Information Technology Management Ryerson University	The Support Vector Machine Approach for Engineering, Applied Science and Management Science	March 10, 2005
Dr. Antonio Martins, Associate Professor	State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) Sorocaba, Brazil	Computer Tomographic Imaging for Non-destructive Testing of Materials	Jan. 31, 2005
2004
Dr. Norman Morrison	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Predictive Filters	Nov. 23, 2004
Dr. Reza Dizaji	Raytheon Canada Limited	HFSWR, A Radar Technology to See Beyond Horizon Signal Processing Challenges	Nov. 16, 2004
Robert Haighton	past president Amateur Radio Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)	Amateur Radio Satellites	Oct. 18, 2004
Professor K. J. Ray Liu	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Toward Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time, and Frequency	Oct. 8, 2004
Dr. Heping Ding,	Institute for Microstructural Sciences National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada	Stable and Robust Fast Affine Projection - Adaptation Algorithms	Sep. 23, 2004
Dr. Raj Rangayyan	University Professor, University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, CANADA	Computer-aided Detection of Early Signs of Breast Cancer	July 23, 2004
Prof. Thrasyvoulos Pappas	Electrical and Computer Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois	Adaptive Perceptual Color-Texture Image Segmentation	May 21, 2004
Professor Amir K. Khandani	NSERC-Nortel Networks Chair University of Waterloo	Challenges and Enabling Techniques for Future Generations of Wireless Systems	April 19, 2004
Dr. Thia Kirubarajan	McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.	Optimization-Based Assignment Algorithms for Large-Scale Target Tracking and Surveillance	March 16, 2004