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2012
Best Student Poster Presentation
Congratulations go to Professor Jan Bajcsy and his PhD student Yong Jin Daniel Kim for receiving the Best Student Poster Presenation Award at the 2012 Turbo Symposium for their poster "An Architecture for Faster than Nyquist Turbo Broadcasting".
2009 - 2010
Best Paper Award
Congratulations go to Prof. Michael Rabbat and his PhD student Konstantinos Tsianos for receiving the Best Paper Award (Signal Processing and Information Theory Track) for their paper "Fast Decentralized Averaging via Multi-Scale Gossip". This paper was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) in June 2010."
The Best Paper/Poster Award
Miss Maryam Golshayan, a PhD student supervised by Professor Steve McFee, received the award for best poster presentation for her paper entitled “The Importance of Including Fiber Oriented Conductivity Data in Computational Myocardium Defibrillation Analyses” at the 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation in Chicago, IL, May 2010.
Teaching Assistants Awards
Congratulations go out to Steve Khoury, Karim Allidina, Bhavin Shastri for winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2010. Outstanding!
William Everett Award of Excellence
Three promising graduating undergraduate students will be awarded a William Everett Award of Excellence. This year, they also included graduating students in the software Engineering Program. This year’s recipients are: Simon Fauvel, Marc Atie, and Ivan Aslamov. Congratulations gentlemen!
2008 - 2009
Double Best Paper Award
Congratulations go out to Dr. C.-K. Jen and his PhD student
Jeanne Shih for obtaining two best student paper awards. They are:
- J.-L. Shih, M. Kobayashi and C.-K. Jen, “Flexible ultrasonic transducers for structural health monitoring of pipes at high temperatures”, Best student paper award presented at IEEE Ultrasonics Symp., Rome, Italy, Sept.20-23, 2009.
- J.-L. Shih, M. Kobayashi, J.-F. Moisan and C.-K. Jen, “Energy harvesting using piezoelectric thick films fabricated by a sol-gel process”, 2008 Institute of Physics Best student paper award presented at CanSmart Int’l Workshop on Smart Materials and Structures, Oct.23-24, 2008. Detailed announcement .
The Best Paper/Poster Award
![Karim Allidina (Left)](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Karim_Allidina02.jpg?itok=MYo4kSZo)
Congratulations to Professor Mourad El-Gamal and Mr. Karim Allidina for winning the Best Student Paper/Poster Award during the CANEUS Fly-By-Wireless 2009 Workshop. The research work presented was: “Low Power Ultra Wideband Circuits – Front End Building Blocks”.
Both National and International students ran for this competition and judging was conducted by a panel of six industry representatives. The award was presented to Mr. Allidina by a senior Bombardier manager at the beginning of June. Mr. Allidina holds an NSERC / MEDA - Vadasz Scholarship.
Outstanding Teaching Assistants Awards
![Vahid R. Dehkordi](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Vahid_Dehkordi.jpg?itok=PcHZNAYU)
Congratulations to Vahid Raissi Dehkordi for being awarded the Faculty of Engineering’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2009. This award was given to recognize the important role that Undergraduate Student Course Assistants play in undergraduate education.
The CCPW Best Poster Award
![David Fernandez (Right)](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/David_Fernandez_award.jpg?itok=UwbbX9u1)
Mr. David Fernandez, a PhD student co-supervised by Professor Dennis Giannacopoulos and Professor Warren Gross, won the "CCPW-2009 Best Poster Award" for his poster entitled "Efficient Multicore Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication for Finite Element Electromagnetics on the Cell-BE Processor".
2007 - 2008
IEEE Best Student Paper Award
![Usa Valipornsawai](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Usa_Vilapornsawai.jpg?itok=QWZv4yMe)
Congratulations go to Usa Vilaipornsawai for winning the IEEE VTC2008-Fall Best Student Paper Award for writing "Spatial Correlation Effects on MAP-PSP Decoding of Multiple STTC’s".
Ms. Vilaipornsawai is currently pursuing her PhD Degree with Professor Harry Leib.
The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Graduate Scholarship Award
![Kasra Payandehjoo](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Kasra_Payandehjoo.jpg?itok=Oa_NbVN0)
The award goes to Mr. Kasra Payandehjoo, a PhD student currently pursuing his degree with supersivor, Professor Ramesh Abhari.
There is an increasing demand for high-gain beam steering antennas in reconfigurable wireless network and microwave wireless communication applications. Furthermore, multiple antennas are employed in MIMO systems to achieve diversity gain and increase link throughput and bitrate. Mr. Payandehjoo’s project explores analysis and modeling of these multilayer systems using multiconductor transmission line theory. The project also involves improvement of the isolation between the antenna elements in these multiantenna systems using frequency selective surfaces. Implementation of an efficient and compact ultra-wideband beam steering antenna array using a nonlinear transmission line feed network is also part of Mr. Payandehjoo’s project.
Governor General's Gold Medal &D. W. Ambridge Prize
![Joshua Schwartz](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/joshua_schwartz_0.jpg?itok=OnDmRbSa)
The Governor General's Gold Medal was awarded to Dr. Joshua Schwartz on May 28th, 2008 at Convocation for being the top graduating student receiving a Ph.D. or Masters in any discipline of the Natural Sciences and Engineering. At the same time he received the D. W. Ambridge Prize as the top graduate student receiving a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
![Adrian Ngoly](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Adrian_Ngoly.jpg?itok=LbHmr5lf)
Best Paper
![Asanee Suntives](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Suntives_Asanee.jpg?itok=YGAh0w_f)
![Darryl Kostka](/ece/files/ece/images/Kostka_Darryl.jpg)
IBM Outstanding Problem Solving Award
While working on a project for this same conference, Mr. Darryl Kostka made use of the IBM , in the research project entitled "Analysis of Power Distribution Networks Containing Electromagnetic Bandgap Strcutures Using Multiconductor Transmission Line Theory". As a result of his innovative approach to use of this software, Mr. Kostka was awarded the "IBM Outstanding Problem Solving Award Based on the Use of the EIP Tool Suite"
Best Paper
![Chris Taillefer](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/taillefer1.jpg?itok=Sqe34Afp)
Canada Graduate Scholarships
![Ivan Bilicki](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Bilicki.jpg?itok=ziHlxxp7)
![Philip Chopp](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/pchopp.jpg?itok=ZMC2oBkd)
Mr. Ivan Bilicki who is pursuing a Masters degree, with supervisor Professor Zeljko Zilic, also recieved a one year scholarship from NSERC.
IEEE Graduate Research Award
Mr. Zhu’s project explores the physical contrast between the tumor and normal breast tissue under microwave radiation. When a microwave signal meets a breast tumor, part of the microwave energy is scattered by the tumor. The other part of the microwave energy is absorbed by the tumor and converted to heat, which causes the thermal expansion of the tumor and generates an acoustic wave. Correlating the scattered microwave signals and the induced acoustic signals provides the promise of early detection of breast tumors, which are not “opaque” enough to be seen by conventional means.
Kevin is in his third year as a PhD student with Professor Milica Popovic. They use sofisticated software and numerical techniques that simulate the interaction of human tissue and microwaves, thereby establishing the feasibility of the new imaging techniques.
2006 - 2007
Best Teaching Assistants
![Frederic Thouin](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Thouin.jpg?itok=2MRa9sRx)
![John Harrison](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Harisson.jpg?itok=jbs5QIOC)
Mr. Frederic Thouin followed with the award for best TA in the winter term (2007) for teaching the Telecommunications Network Lab. He helped professors Lorne Mason and Mark Coates modifying the class and this was most rewarding. He is currently pursuing his PhD Degree with professor Coates.
LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award
![Dominik Pudo](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/DominikPudo.jpg?itok=WSeZNpGU)
Mr. Pudo is finishing his PhD degree with Professor Lawrence Chen. This is the second time since its inception in 1999 that a student of the Photonics Systems Group is granted this award, the first one having been given to Mr. Mike Venditti in 2002.
URSI Award for Best Student Paper
![Joshua Schwartz](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/Joshua.jpg?itok=swEYphgh)
The URSI Award for Best Student Paper was given to Mr. Joshua Schwartz in 2006 for his paper titled “A Fully-Electronic Time-Stretch System”
Although the idea of temporal imaging was first proposed in 1969, this is the first time it has been done entirely with electronics in the GHz frequency range preferred by modern wireless communication systems. In his research, Mr. Schwartz has demonstrated how to process an electrical signal within a given time frame and put it through a sort of “time lens” (much as you would might send an image through photographic lens in order to enlarge or compress that image). He can then form an “image” of the signal, either slowed down or sped up in the time domain, without introducing distortion. This has key applications for performing fast digital-to-analog conversion and for generating arbitrary waveforms with high frequency content, of interest to developing ultra-wideband (UWB) systems.
IEEE 2nd Place for Best Student Paper
Mr. Kasra Payandehjoo was 2nd place winner of the Best Student Paper at the Antem 2006/URSI conference for his paper entitled "Modeling of Simultaneous Switching Noise in Power Distribution Network of Electronic Circuits".
With the increase in the speed (and therefore frequency content) of modern electronic circuits the "wave effect" of the noise generated at one part of the chip becomes an issue as it travels along the power distribution network to other parts of the chip and causes distortions. Mr. Payandehjoo's project was about finding accurate models for power distribution networks to capture this effect. Important applications of this research are in designing power distribution networks of electronic circuits for suppression of power/ground noise.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
![Jean Samuel Chanard](/ece/files/ece/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/images/JSChenard.jpg?itok=T5vma-YU)
Mr. Jean Samuel Chenard and Mr. Amaan Mehrabian were voted the very best Teaching Assistants in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering last year. Mr. Chenard is a PhD student working with Professor Zejlko Zilic and Mr. Mehrabian is completing his PhD with Professor Peter Kabal.