IEEE Computer Society SE Michigan Chapter & Oakland University IEEE Student Branch presents:
“Building the World’s Fastest File System: Weka.IO”
Abstract: For decades, folks all over the world who use computing to solve problems or conduct business, have had to grapple (near physical wrestle) with problems relating to solving the data storage issues. From demands of all end users (scientists, engineers, business, students, government, etc.) – all of them require fast access to the data, growing sizes of data, ever wide variety or type of data: text, databases, video, audio, graphic images, etc. IT folks have struggled to make this an easy thing but without much success.
There is a new kid on the block – with the name of Weka.IO(ask them how they came up with that name), which seems to have addressed this in an innovative manner. Created by the original founders of storage sold by IBM – they have used their experience to vastly improve many of the old issues, IT leaders, analysts, support persons, automotive engineers struggling to save all that data from those Self Driving vehicles, data capture systems, etc., all will benefit from checking this out. Weka.IO has built the world’s fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenger in AI deep learning and technical computing.
Speaker: Tony Raleigh
About Speaker: Mr. Raleigh graduated from Oakland University back in 1998. His specialities include Customer relations, system engineering, system administration, technical support, and maintaining a positive attitude. He consistently builds and maintains rapport with customers, managers, and co-workers.
Date: Thursday, January 24th
Time:5:30PM – 7:30PM
Location: Room 202, Dodge Hall, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309.
Parking: 115 Library Drive (In front of Engineering Building)
Audience: All Students, members, Professionals and Industry Techs
Energy Sources: Soda Pop, water, Veggie Pizza, Cheese Pizza to maximize information absorption bandwidth.
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and IEEE Windsor Section presents:
” Health Informatics: Overview, Approaches, Challenges, and Applications ”
Since its emergence in the 1950s and 1960s, Health Informatics (HI) has become a hot and challenging interdisciplinary field in all three pillars of medical care, education and research. With the advent of the Internet, supercomputers, cloud computing, smartphones, and many other technological innovations that have made their way into our everyday lives, HI has become an even more complex and multifaceted field and will only continue to grow with future advancements. Therefore, it will not only attract more health professions, but will also continue to appeal to scientists and researchers from a variety of other disciplines to make itself more enriched, with the ultimate goal of directly improving people’s quality of life in an equitable and cost-effective fashion, as well as to increase health literacy and consumer education. On its way to reach these objectives, HI is facing many challenges, including, but not limited to, storing and linking health data, converting health data to information and knowledge for decision support systems, data privacy and security, ethical concerns, cost of adopting technologies, lack of knowledge and education about new technologies and available tools, and many more. In this talk, Dr. Samet will briefly go through an overview of HI, and some of its challenges, approaches, and applications, followed by a review of his previous and current research in this multidisciplinary field.
About Speaker:Dr. Samet is a faculty member at the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, and an adjunct professor at the e-Health Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, where he was an assistant professor from 2012 to 2017. His research interests and activities are in privacy-preserving and security aspects of various applications, especially in health sector, and health informatics. Prior to that, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the e-Health Information Laboratory at the Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute from 2010 to 2012. During his post-doc fellowship, he designed and developed several secure protocols for various health applications. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and his thesis title was “Privacy-Preserving Data Mining”, in which he proposed and designed some protocols on privacy-preserving methods for standard data mining and machine learning techniques.
Event Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Time: 11:3o AM to 1:30 PM
Location: Centre for Engineering Innovation (CEI), Windsor, ON
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, University of Windsor presents:
“Wearable Sensing for Behavioral/Physiological Monitoring”
Speaker: Dr. Omid Dehzangi, Assistant Professor Computer and Information Science, Univ of Michigan
Speaker Bio: Omid Dehzangi received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University. He also received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University.Omid Dehzangi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research interests lie broadly in the area of wearable embedded systems, their signal processing and data analytics algorithm design with the emphasis on medical applications.
About the Topic: Wearable health technology is drawing significant attention for good reasons. The pervasive nature of such systems providing ubiquitous access to information will transform the way people interact with each other and their environment. The resulting information extracted from these systems will enable emerging applications in healthcare, wellness, emergency response, fitness monitoring, elderly care support, long-term preventive chronic care, assistive care, smart environments, sports, gaming, and entertainment which create many new research opportunities and transform researches from various disciplines. Despite the ground-breaking potentials, there are a number of interesting challenges in order to design and develop wearable medical embedded systems.
IEEE Young Professionals Windsor Section presents:
“Optimisation-Based Control of Nonlinear Processes”
About the Topic:A major trend in industry over the last 40 years has been employing constrained mathematical optimisation techniques to compute control actions that optimise a quadratic objective function with its minimum at a process steady-state, subject to linear or nonlinear process models and practical constraints such as bounds on flow rates due to valve limitations. These optimisation-based control designs (referred to as model predictive control or MPC) are typically implemented within a two-layer architecture.
Speaker: Dr. Helen Elaine Durand, Professor Wayne State University
Speaker Bio: She received her B.S., M.S. and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2017. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Wayne State University. Her research interests are in the general area of process systems engineering with a focus on process optimisation and control, process operational safety and computational modelling.
Date: 19th October 2017
Time: 12 PM to 1:30 PM EST/EDT
Location: Room 3000, CEI, University of Windsor. 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. N9B 3P4
IEEE Student Branch and Joint Chapter of Circuits and Systems and Computer Society, Windsor Section presents:
” PHYTHON- for Deep Learning a Practical approach.“
Speaker: Akilan Thangarajah, PhD Candidate, Vice Chair IEEE Univ of Windsor Computer Society, University of Windsor
About the Topic: Python is a high level programming language designed to be easy to read and simple to implement. It is open source which means it is free to use, even for commercial applications. Python can run on Mac, Windows and Unix Systems and has also been ported to Java and virtual machines (techterms.com).
The event is for Undergrad, Grad students and Researchers who seek to write a technical or scientific report or papers. The attendees should bring their own laptops
Date: June 11, 2017, Sunday
Time: 4 PM to 6 PM EST/EDT
Location: CEI Building Room 2101 University of Windsor
IEEE Women In Engineering, Windsor Section presents:
” A technical Seminar on chaotic system control for brain stimulation.“
Speaker: Dr. Zhang, Assistant Professor Electronic Systems Engineering in University of Regina.
Speaker Bio: Her interests include FPGA Embedded System Design; FPGA Implementation for Hardware Acceleration; Ultrasound Testing for Long Distance Pipelines; Boundary-Scan Testing; Design for Testability; Brain Computer Interface, Brain stimulation, Neural Network simulation. She has also expertise in Boundary-scan technology for PCB board design, debugging and testing
The IEEE Canada Industry Relations Committee together with the CCECE 2017 Conference invites you to attend a forum on innovation and regional development. The forum will be composed of industry leaders; technology startup entrepreneurs, government regional development and granting agency representatives; technology vision, experience and advice on advancing technology to drive our future manufacturing and economy as a whole.
Date: Monday 1st May 2017 from 1:45 PM to 3:50 PM (EDT)
The IEEE Canadian Foundation Dr. Raymond D. Findlay Scholarship is now receiving Nominations. This $1,000 Scholarship, new in 2017, encourages leadership, creativity and enthusiasm for the engineering profession. The nominee must be an undergraduate IEEE Student Member in good standing, registered in their penultimate year.
Nominations and related Student Declarations are due March 15.