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![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 |
![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.
Title: 5G for Smart Everything: From Smart Meters to the New Power Grid. What is needed to get there ?
Speaker: Akshay Sharma, Executive Research Fellow, neXtCurve: www.next-curve.com
Date/Time:Â Tuesday, November 12, 2019, from 2 – 3 pm.
Admission: Free, but registration is required for security purposes. Please contact by e-mail: branislav @ieee.org or ajit.pardasani@ieee.org.
Abstract: This talk discusses how 5G with Edge Computing, and Ultra-low latency (sub-5ms) with Gigabit speed bandwidth will be a game changer with Smart Meters and a new Electric Grid can be enabled with Smart Lamposts. As we transition to DevOps, AIOps, newer Closed Loop Automation systems will occur. As we connect AI-powered Virtual Personal Assistants to IoT devices in the home, now we have to imagine the entire macro-infrastructures being all hyper-connected. What is needed to get there will be discussed at the seminar.
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Speaker’s Bio: Akshay Sharma is originally from Ottawa, B. Eng Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton, a tech analyst, formerly from Gartner, having authored or co-authored over 280 research notes, on emerging technologies like SD-WAN, 5G, mobile video, cloud CDN, IoT, etc. in the past decade. A frequent speaker at tech events, he is often quoted in leading institutions like CNN, Wall St. Journal, etc. He is a former CTO of one of the first video/WiFi smartphone firms, former Chief Architect at Siemens Mobile, and has been given awards by the NJ IEEE Chapter on talks he gave on 5G and Cybersecurity. He is on the tech advisory board for 5G and DevOps startups: LB-N, Kovair, along with others. Mr Sharma’s recent publications include: Search Results for “akshay†– neXt Curve
![Clarifying the Path to becoming a P.Eng. with Representatives from Professional Engineers Ontario](https://www.ieeeottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WhatsApp-Image-2020-02-02-at-9.07.20-AM-1-300x300.jpeg)
A joint event by IEEE YP & WIE Ottawa!
REGISTER NOW: https://forms.gle/ymzcQyp24vNJhx8K8
WHO? Representatives from Professional Engineers Ontario
WHAT? Clarifying the Path to becoming a P.Eng.
If
you are an engineering undergraduate or post-graduate student, or a
recent graduate starting out your engineering career, then this seminar
might be for you. In it you will learn:
- What is PEO?
- What engineering experience is PEO looking for once I graduate?
- I have international engineering education and experience; how is that evaluated by PEO?
- How is my engineering experience evaluated by PEO?
- How do I prepare my Experience Record?
- What is the PPE?
- What is the EIT Program and the Student Membership program?
WHERE?
Carleton University,
Minto Centre (MC) 5050
Paid Parking Available – carleton.ca/parking/parking-map/
WHEN?
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
6:00PM to 7:30PM
Free for all – You MUST pre-register!
REGISTER NOW: https://forms.gle/ymzcQyp24vNJhx8K8
![[CANCELLED] IEEE Ottawa seminar on Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling @ Algonquin College, T-Building, Room T129 | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada](https://www.ieeeottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IEEE_MFarrokhabadi_Seminar_Flyer_17Mar2020-232x300.jpg)
NOTE: This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 precautions
Dear colleagues,
Due to the current situation regarding corrona virus COVID-19, we have to CANCEL our IEEE Ottawa Section Seminar:
“Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling”
by Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi,
which was scheduled for Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020, 6:00 p.m., at Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., T-Building, Room T129.
The new date and time for this seminar will be determined and announced when the circumstances allow.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Branislav Djokic
TITLE: Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling
SPEAKER: Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, Ottawa
DATE: Â Â Â Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
TIME:    Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129, T-Building, School of Advanced Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa, ON Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING: Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect restricted areas.
Abstract: A microgrid is defined as a group of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and loads that act locally as a single controllable entity and can operate in both grid-connected and islanded modes. Microgrids are considered a critical link in the evolution from vertically integrated bulk power systems to smart decentralized networks, by facilitating the integration of DERs. Entities, such as government agencies, utilities, military bases, and universities around the world are deploying microgrids, and an increasing number of these systems are expected to be developed in the next decade. In general, stability in microgrids has been treated from the perspective of conventional bulk power systems. However, the nature of the stability problem and dynamic performance of a microgrid are considerably different than those of a conventional power system due to intrinsic differences between microgrids and bulk power systems, such as size, feeder types, high share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), converter-interfaced components, low inertia, measurement devices such as Phase-Locked Loop (PLL), unbalanced operation, etc.
This seminar discusses the findings of the award-winning IEEE PES Task Force on Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling, which defines concepts and identifies relevant issues related to stability in microgrids. The seminar presents definitions and classification of microgrid stability, considering pertinent microgrid features such as voltage-frequency dependence, unbalancing, low inertia, and generation intermittency. A few examples will be also presented, highlighting some of the stability classes discussed during the seminar.
Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi is the Senior Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, an internationally award-winning startup offering AI-enabled control and optimization solutions for smart grids. He has more than 8 years of experience in designing mission critical grid solutions for industry and academia, including technical leadership of a $6M international consortium in Electric Grid Modernization, and Smart Grid projects with Hatch and Canadian Solar. Mostafa has authored/co-authored several high-impact technical papers and patents on intelligent control and optimization of renewable-penetrated grids.
Mostafa obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has also studied and performed research in Sweden at KTH and Germany at KIT. During the course of his career, Mostafa has received multiple business, research, and teaching awards, including the prestigious University of Waterloo Doctoral Thesis Completion Award and Ottawa’s Forty Under 40.
Mostafa has also led the award-winning IEEE Power and Energy Society Task Force on microgrid stability, an international coalition of 21 researchers from 14 institutions investigating stability issues in microgrids. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Admission: Free. Registration required. Please register by e-mail contacting: ajit.pardasani@ieee.org or branislav@ieee.org.
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