January 8, 2015
Best Paper Award: Alberto Leon-Garcia
Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Leon Zucherman of TELUS, won the best paper award at the IEEE Globecom 2014, held in Austin, Texas, from December 8-18, 2014.
The IEEE GLOBECOM is one of the most significant events for the networking and communications community. It takes place once a year in North America and attracts roughly 2,000 leading scientists, researchers and industry leaders from all around the world.
Professor Leon-Garcia’s paper introduces research on the subjective measure of the customer experience regarding the technical quality of an end-to-end telecom service session. This paper pertains to Professor Leon-Garcia’s work under his NSERC CRD/TELUS grant titled “Quality of Experience: Research in Wireless Networks.”
Best Poster Awards: Eman Hammad and Jin Chang
The third annual NSERC CREATE Program in Distributed Generation for Remote Communities research symposium was held at the University of Toronto on Friday, November 21, 2014. Fifty posters were presented at the symposium, and both first- and second-place prizes were brought home by U of T PhD students. Eman Hammad, supervised by Professor Deepa Kundur, won first place for her “Off-Grid Cooperative Microgrid Networks with High Renewable Penetration” poster, and PhD student Jin Chang supervised by Professor Francis Dawson received the second place award. Members of the ISE Advisory Board and Steering Committee were on hand to judge the posters, and announce three awards to the top-reviewed posters.
The NSERC CREATE Program in Distributed Generation for Remote Communities (DGRC) provides research and training opportunities for students at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University to develop clean energy technologies for distributed generation systems that work in the remote settings of Canada. Through partnerships with community, institutional, and industry stakeholders, the program aims to provide trainees with a diverse research and training program that is internationally unique, launching them into successful careers in the energy sector.
More information:
Mireille Khreich
Communications Assistant
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-1999; mireille.khreich@utoronto.ca