Events
Status of the Internet in Canada and the importance of Canadian IXP’s
Jacques Latour
Chief Technology Officer, CIRA/.CA
A quick overview of the Canadian Internet exchange landscape from coast to coast to coast. Canada has its share of challenges and opportunities in building and growing the IXP infrastructure near the Canadian border, and also to support the need of the rural communities.
As an expert in developing innovative, leading-edge IT solutions, Jacques has established CIRA as a global leader among ccTLD registries. He has 25+ years of experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors and as CIRA’s CTO,is currently leading CIRA Labs, CIRA’s innovation hub and providing leadership and direction for the management and security of the .CA registry and its underlying DNS.
A visionary in the Internet community, Jacques led the development of CIRA’s Internet Performance Test, is an outspoken advocate for the adoption of IPv6 and represents the .CA registry internationally as a member of a variety of working groups and advisory groups, including being a member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), TLDOPS standing committees and TechDay and DNSSEC Planning Program Committee.
Jacques is committed to the development of a new Canadian Internet architecture. He has served as the catalyst for the creation of a national Canadian IXP association, CA-IX, and is a member of the Manitoba Internet Exchange’s (MBIX) and the DNS-OARC Board of Directors.
Jacques holds an Electronics Engineering Technologist diploma from Algonquin College in Ottawa, is ITIL v3 Foundation certified and is a certified Agile ScrumMaster.
Agenda
11:30 – 12:00 Â Lite Lunch, Networking, and Welcoming Remarks
12:00 – 13:00Â Seminar
Fields-CQAM Public Lectures: Ali Ghodsi, University of Waterloo
What is missing from common practice in machine learning?
AI, and machine learning in particular, is enjoying its golden age. Machine learning has changed the face of the world over the past two decades but we are still a long way from achieving a general artificial intelligence. In this talk, I will discuss a couple of elements that I believe are missing from common practice in machine learning, including incorporating causality and creating a new framework for unsupervised learning.
Biography
Ali Ghodsi is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. His research involves statistical machine-learning methods. Ghodsi’s research spans a variety of areas in computational statistics. He studies theoretical frameworks and develops new machine learning algorithms for analyzing large-scale data sets, with applications to bioinformatics, data mining, pattern recognition, robotics, computer vision, and sequential decision making.
DATE:
THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2019.
PRESENTATION
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
NETWORKING
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
LOCATION
HEALTH SCIENCE BUILDING, RM. 1301 (LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR), CARLETON UNIVERSITY.
FREE ADMISSION FOR THIS PUBLIC LECTURE.
PLEASE REGISTERÂ HERE.
![FIELDS CENTRE OF QUANTITATIVE MODELLING AND ANALYSIS: WORKSHOP ON Machine Learning in the Presence of Class Imbalance @ Residence Commons, Carleton University | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada](https://www.ieeeottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PELS-Day-300x209.jpg)
8:30 am – 9:00 am | Registration | ||
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9:00 am – 9:15 am | Opening Remarks | Rafik Goubran | Carleton University |
9:15 am – 10:00 am | Keynote Presentation:
Data Mining and Machine Learning for Authorship and Malware Analyses |
Benjamin C. M. Fung Biography |
McGill University |
10:00 am – 10:30 am | Break | ||
10:30 am – 11:45 am | Cybersecurity: Top 5 class imbalance ML challenges and data sets Abstract |
Stephan Jou Biography |
Interset |
Class Imbalance in Fraud Detection Abstract |
Robin Grosset Biography |
MindBridge Analytics Inc. | |
Handling class imbalance in natural language processing Abstract |
Isuru Gunasekara Biography |
IMRSV Data Labs | |
11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
12:30 pm – 2:10 pm | Adaptive learning with class imbalanced streams Abstract |
Herna L. Viktor Biography |
University of Ottawa |
Radar-based fall monitoring using deep learning Abstract |
Hamidreza Sadreazami Biography |
McGill University | |
Privacy-preserving data augmentation in medical text analysis Abstract |
Isar Nejadgholi Biography |
National Research Council | |
Failure modelling of a propulsion subsystem: unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches to anomaly detection Abstract |
Julio J. Valdés Biography |
National Research Council | |
2:10 pm – 2:25 pm | Break | ||
2:25 pm – 3:40 pm | TBD | Reddy Nellipudi | DB Schenker |
AuditMap.ai: Hierarchical Sentence Classification in Unstructured Audit Reports Abstract |
Daniel Shapiro Biography |
Lemay.ai | |
Deep Learning techniques for unsupervised anomaly detection Abstract |
Dušan Sovilj Biography |
RANK Software Inc. | |
3:40 pm – 3:50 pm | Closing Remarks |
Speaker 1: Hisham Abed, P.Eng., Ericsson
Topic:Â Power Integrity – Best design practices
Speaker 2: Dr. Ihsan Erdin, Celestica
Topic:Â Power Integrity Optimization amidst MLCC shortage
Parking:Â Free
Registration: Free, and is on a first to reply basis. Preference given to IEEE EMC and CPMT society members. Seating is limited. E-mail reservation is required.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
Organizer: Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa
EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.com,
Office :(613) 595 – 0507 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 355 – 6632
Directions:Â Â Â www.fidus.com
![Ottawa L5 Autonomous Vehicle Test Track Tour @ NCC Greenbelt Research Farm | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada](https://www.ieeeottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/L5_track-300x172.png)
Ottawa Life Member Affinity Group presents:Â Ottawa L5, the first integrated Connected & Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) test environment in North America.
The Ottawa L5 private test track is a 1,866 acre, fenced and gated private facility with 16 kilometres of paved roads. The largest secure test facility for CAVs in Canada, the Ottawa L5 private test track creates an ideal proving ground for the safe and productive pre-commercial development, testing, validation and demonstration of CAV technologies. The Ottawa L5 testing facilities are equipped with GPS (RTK), dedicated short range communications (DSRC), Wi-Fi, 4G/LTE and 5G telecommunications and networking infrastructure, making it the first integrated CAV test environment of its kind in North America. Find more information at:Â https://www.investottawa.ca/ottawal5
Tour will last about an hour involving a walk around the site and a group discussion of various technical aspects of the L5 facility. An additional treat is the possibility of an autonomous shuttle ride at the site for some attendees.
Please register in advance with wolfram.lunscher@ieee.org by Friday October 11. Priority will be given to Life members. All members and family are welcome. There is an online liability waiver to be signed. The link will be provided to registrants.