Side Channel Analysis: A New Perspective for Vehicle Intrusion Detection System This is an online IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer seminar. Date: 12 Apr 2022 Time: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM Presenter: Dr. Jiajia Liu Abstract: Intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) have become the mainstream in the development of automobile industry. Many emerging technologies have been proposed to provide users... Read more →

  N-path Passive Mixers: Simple Circuits, Surprising Capabilities IEEE Solid State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecture Date:         April 22, 2022 Time:        12:00 - 13:00 Location:   Online Speaker:   Dr. Alyosha Molnar Abstract: In this presentation I will discuss N-phase passive mixers (and their close relative the “N-path filter”) as applied to interference tolerant radio receivers. Although known... Read more →

  Synthetic Aperture Radar for Oil Spill Observation   Date:          April 23, 2022 Time:             To be confirmed (see link below) Location:        To be confirmed (see link below) Presenter:   Dr. Maurizio Migliaccio   Marine oil pollution monitoring is a topic of great applicative and scientific relevance. Use of remotely sensed measurements is of special interest... Read more →

  Shared Spectrum in 5G and WiFi Date:          April 27, 2022 Time:         18:00 - 19:30 Location:    Online Presenter:  Dr. Rohan Grover, Federated wireless Abstract: Given the scarcity of spectrum in the U.S and the world, a new model of spectrum usage is being pioneered by the FCC for use in 5G and WiFi. Spectrum... Read more →

ISPSD 2022 - May 23-25th, 2022 The International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) is the premier forum for technical discussions in all areas of power semiconductor devices and power integrated circuits. Topics include, but not limited to, device physics, modeling, design, fabrication, materials, packaging and integration, device reliability, and device/circuit interactions. The... Read more →

Knowledge Graphs 2022: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities Date:        May 25, 2022 Time:        09:00 - 10:30 Location:   Online Presented by the IEEE Computer Society Vancouver Chapter Presenter:  Gerhard Weikum Abstract: Machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their relationships has been a long-standing vision and challenge of AI. Over the last two... Read more →

"ELECTRON DEVICES - World of Nanoelectronics: 75th Year of Transistor" An IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecture Date:           01 Jun 2022 Time:          11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Presenter:   Prof. Durga Misra, New Jersey Institute of Technology Abstract: Electron devices and materials has reached a crossroad with Moore’s law. While scaling (More Moore) will continue nanoelectronics... Read more →

UBC and SFU students: Join MDA and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society for an exciting event in partnership with the SFU SAT and UBC Orbit Satellite Design Teams to celebrate our collaboration on the ALEASAT CubeSat Project and to learn how new students at UBC and SFU can become involved. Date:         June 2,... Read more →

Interconnect Meets Architecture: On-Chip Communication in the Age of Heterogeneity   Date:          June 6, 2022 Time:         16:00 - 17:30 Location:    UBC and online (hybrid)   Presented by: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Vancouver Chapter Abstract: Neural Networks, graph analytics, and other big-data applications have become vastly important for many domains. This has led to a... Read more →

Neural Networks, graph analytics, and other big-data applications have become vastly important for many domains. This has led to a search for proper computing systems that can efficiently utilize the tremendous amount of data parallelism that is associated with these applications. Generally, we depend on data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to run various... Read more →

IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is another of the talk sessions that invite Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly on the third Saturday, with a hiatus during July and August. 9:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 8:45 AM. All IEEE members are welcome, especially... Read more →

IEEE SFU Student Branch has organized a Tour to TRIUMF, where you can meet professionals in their work setting. You will have a chance to interact and learn from experts in the industry, improve your job prospects and explore the other end of the horizon (beyond lecture sessions). The IEEE SFU Student Branch Team would... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318022

The expeditious evolution of wireless technologies and their convergence with diverse applications signify the coming next wave of our increasingly connected society. With the dramatically growing data traffic, massive connected devices and diverse services to be supported, the future success of our society relies heavily on our technical capabilities in the provisioning of massive capacity/connectivity... Read more →

Topics that will be covered are: AWS Security Hub GuardDuty Inspector Config CloudTrail IoT Devise Defender Speaker(s): Farshad Abasi, Agenda: - Introduction to the speaker - Today's Security Challenges of the Cloud. - How to find out if you are being attacked - Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320773

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. 3806 Kingsway, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/321902

Join members of the IEEE Vancouver Section Executive Committee at Burnaby Central Park. The event will be held at the picnic area adjacent to the parking lot off the Kingsway entrance. Drop in any time between 11 AM and 3 PM for a chance to meet with colleagues and friends in person, and stay as... Read more →

Powerex was established in 1988 as the wholly-owned electricity marketing subsidiary of BC Hydro, responsible for marketing BC Hydro’s surplus electricity in the west. Today, Powerex is a key participant in energy markets across North America, buying and supplying physical wholesale power, natural gas, ancillary services, and environmental products with an ever-expanding list of trade... Read more →

TALK #9 in the cross-Canada monthly series of Saturday-morning presentations sponsored by the Vancouver Life Member Affinity Group Speaker(s): Terry Branch, IEEE Canada Chair LMAG, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/323278

Join us in Canada wide IEEE Day 2022 celebration event which is hosted by active affinity groups and student branches across the Canada. The whole community in Canada have an opportunity to connect with IEEE President and participate in a virtual talk given by President and vice president. This year we also have a special... Read more →

Every year on first Tuesday of October, members and friends of the Vancouver Section gather to celebrate the founding of the IEEE and everything it represents. IEEE Day is an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of past volunteers and look ahead to the future of the IEEE. IEEE Day is not just celebrated by... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/326418

Hey there! We as the IEEE SFU SB team are inviting all the SFU students to drop in and say Hi to your fellows and get more information on the opportunities, scholarships (Canada-wide or in Vancouver Section), competitions, internships (paid internship/coop at a Canadian space company) and volunteer positions that fit you. When: Thursday, October... Read more →

Speaker's experiences in attempting to put together an automatic watering system for his garden using wireless sensors. Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 9:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 8:45 AM (12:45 Halifax) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that... Read more →

R7 LMAG MONTHLY MEETING Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 2B1, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/327970

As part of IEEE CSS Day 2022 The Vancouver Section Control Systems Society chapter presents: Svante Capture Technology, Business Model, and Projects Presenter: Brett Henkel, Co-Founder & VP, Strategic Accounts & Government Affairs, Svante Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada   Date: Oct 19th, 2022 Time: 18:00 - 19:00 Location: Virtual   This presentation is part... Read more →

Dear Everyone, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) is holding the “CSS Day” http://ieeecss.org/css-day-2022 during October 19-24. It consists of a set of events organized by IEEE CSS and local chapters around the world. All events will be free for participants and most of them are online events. Registration is required and can be completed in... Read more →

As part of IEEE CSS Day 2022 The Vancouver Section Control Systems Society chapter presents: Data-Driven Approach for Value Analysis of Emerging Grid-Scale Storage Technologies Presenter: Dr. Kourosh Malek, Division Head, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Energy and Climate Research   Date: Oct 20th, 2022 Time: 18:00 - 19:00 Location: Virtual This presentation is part... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/330872

The recent advances in the nanofabrication and 3D printing technology offers robotic solutions at exceeding small scales. Microscale robots, equipped with multiple sensors and mechanical add-ons find application in various fields such as exploration of inaccessible areas, search and rescue, and most importantly inside the body. In this talk, I will review some of the... Read more →

Join us for a session with Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and part-time VP of Tech. at BluWave-ai. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 2017. He has held other engineering positions with Hatch and Canadian Solar, and adjunct and postdoctoral positions with the University of... Read more →

Speaker Lorne Keyes 9:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 8:45 AM (12:45 Halifax) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. Speaker(s): Lorne Keyes, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/331008

If you would like to hear about the Career Path of an SFU Alumni, Behnam Mohammad, MASc., P.Eng., join us on Friday, December 2, 2022, at a social event hosted by IEEE SFU Student Branch. Location: GSS Lounge at Burnaby Campus (Maggie Benston Centre, 2212) *Coffee and snacks will be provided. IEEE SFU SB team... Read more →

Brain PET originally started as a quantitative technique to investigate brain metabolism and blood flow. While compared to today’s standards the studies performed in the early days would be considered technically very simple, they revolutionized our understanding of brain function as related to health, disease and personality, with related health and social impact. Rapid advancements... Read more →

Several efforts of the last decade have demonstrated a radio transceiver’s ability to simultaneously transmit and receive using the same frequency band – this is commonly referred to as in-band full duplex communication. Numerous performance challenges are presented to the analog, mixed-signal and digital IC designer when attempting to suppress the strong transmitter self-interference (SI)... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/335550

Creating accurate predictions in the stock market has always been a great challenge in finance. With the rise of machine learning as the next level in the forecasting area, this research compares four machine learning models and their accuracy for forecasting three well-known stocks traded in the NYSE in the short term over the period... Read more →

V2X - The Cooperative Safety Revolution Despite the development of automotive safety technologies in recent years, road fatalities keep going up. In order to change this reality we need a paradigm shift towards cooperative safety. V2X is the safety network that can protect all road users and bring on a true road safety revolution that... Read more →

Small Phase Theorem: versions 1.0 and 2.0 Abstract: Is there a small phase theorem in parallel to the small gain theorem? This is of no problem for SISO LTI systems since the phase response of such a system is well defined. For MIMO LTI systems, this question becomes nontrivial since a good definition of matrix... Read more →

Speaker: Dick Scarth 10:00 AM P.S.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. Speaker(s): Dick Scarth, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/333743

R7 LMAG MONTHLY MEETING Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 2B1, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/338448

The ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for radio communications. Its role is to manage the international radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources and to develop standards for radiocommunication systems with the objective of ensuring the effective use of... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Room: Cedar 1040, Bldg: Cedar, 12666 72 Ave, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342122

Human eyes have evolved over millions of years to have consistent vergence and accommodation. However, most stereoscopic AR/VR displays available today can easily cause vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC) and hence visual fatigue to users. We resolve the problem by taking a light field approach that directly projects sub-aperture views of the light field of a virtual... Read more →

Smart Buildings and Technology Summit - Hybrid Event and in-Person at BCIT Burnaby Campus There are 6 Speakers: More details coming theough shortly Co-sponsored by: British Columbia Institute of Technology Speaker(s): Bojan Andjelkovic, Rishi Gupta ***CANCELED*** Agenda: Tentative Agenda: Speaker sequence May change - Slightly: 8:30-8:40 Welcoming Remarks and Introduction to the event 8:45-9:25 Bojan... Read more →

5G requires higher data throughput due to higher numbers of users and devices, applications, and data rates. Adding the spatial domain using beamforming or Massive MIMO (MIMO) offers another resource to boost capacity. Beamforming antennas dynamically shape their main beam and null directions according to the location of their connected users and effectively reduce interference... Read more →

In conjunction with the February 15, 2023 celebration of the 50th anniversary of AESS, the IEEE AESS Chapter Summit brings together IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society chapter officers from across the US and Canada. Local volunteer leaders play a key role in engaging and serving our local members and advancing our technical interests in... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/346939

Speaker: Glen Fox Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.S.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. There was no speaker for last month,... Read more →

R7 LMAG Executive Teleconference - MONTHLY MEETING Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 2B1, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/348987

Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Sara Pozzi of Michigan University. Virtual Only on Zoom, please register to attend. No charge Co-sponsored by: TRIUMF Speaker(s): Dr Sara Pozzi, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347568

Industry Speakers Series Controls, Robotics and Cybernetics Joint Chapter of IEEE Vancouver Section Title: A Data-Driven Approach for Value Analysis of Emerging Grid-Scale Storage Technologies Speaker: Dr. Kourosh Malek, Division Head, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Division AI and Data Analytics, IEK-13, 52428 Jülich, Germany Date & Time: March 8th,... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350401

As an initiative to empower and support young professionals, students and women, IEEE WIE, YP, and SFU student branch of the Vancouver section are hosting a one-day summit of networking with industry professionals and academia. This event includes panels of industry leaders and academia discussing Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Future Technologies, and Innovation. The event also focuses... Read more →

As an initiative to empower and support young professionals, students and women, IEEE WIE, YP, and SFU student branch of the Vancouver section are hosting a one-day summit of networking with industry professionals and academia. This event includes panels of industry leaders and academia discussing Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Future Technologies, and Innovation. The event also focuses... Read more →

In this talk, a novel wireless infrastructure will be presented which includes a new stratospheric access & computing layer composed of high altitude platform station (HAPS) constellations positioned in stratosphere in addition to the legacy terrestrial layer and the emerging satellite layer. With its bird's-eye and almost-line-of-sight view of an entire metropolitan area, a HAPS... Read more →

This presentation will address the best practices for protecting intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets. Speaker(s): Leila Ashurov, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350940

For efficient design, verification and validation of integrated circuits and components it is important to have an easy to customize workflow. Python has become the standard programming language for machine learning, scientific computing and engineering. In this talk we describe the gdsfactory design automation tool. GDSfactory provides you an end to end workflow that combines... Read more →

Speaker: Allen Upward Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. We are looking for speakers for the... Read more →

The IEEE SFU Student Branch has organized tour to the former powerhouse facility and National Historic Site of Canada. Only 20 registration spots are available. Please register by March 12th at 12:00pm to secure a spot. About Stave falls Powerhouse: A 100 year old powerhouse and enjoy the historical displays, electricity demonstrations and many interactive... Read more →

After a few years of online Annual General Meetings, the IEEE Vancouver Section is excited to announce that we are returning to an in-person AGM and Gala for 2023. The 2023 IEEE Vancouver Section’s AGM and Gala Dinner will be held on Saturday, March 25th starting at 6 PM in Burnaby, BC at the Element... Read more →

ITS Technology Innovation Forum 2023 The objective of this forum is to bring together transportation professionals, technology providers, and researchers to leverage our collective expertise and experience to plan for regional transportation improvements. At this forum, federal, provincial, municipal, academia and private sector practitioners will come together with technology providers and industry experts to discuss... Read more →

Xanthan is one of the major polysaccharide biopolymers used in many industries due to its unique structure and physicochemical properties which gives the high degree of pseudoplasticity and functionality in different environments such as acid, high salts, and high shear stress. Due to its non- toxicity and biodegradability, it is extensively used in food industry... Read more →

This program was designed by the IEEE Seattle EMC Chapter and the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) to bring the latest inspired technology to the Pacific Northwest on Antenna Design as well as Antenna, 5G, EMC, and Wireless Test and Measurement Techniques for industry applications. Invited experts in industry, government, and academia will share practical... Read more →

IEEE 802.11be, which is also known as Wi-Fi 7, is the next amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks (WLAN). This amendment is anticipated to greatly enhance the performance of indoor and outdoor WLAN operations at both stationary and pedestrian speeds in the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz frequency bands. Wi-Fi... Read more →

April 2023 Executive Commitee meeting for Vancouver Section Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355418

Speaker: Carl Zanon Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. We are looking for speakers for the... Read more →

How much do you know about trucks? Engine brakes? Jacobs brake or Jake brake? Once a year during the Tulip festival, PACCAR Technical Center is open to the public for a few hours. It is scheduled for April 15, 2023 between 11:00am - 3:00pm. We will visit PACCAR Technical Center as an IEEE group but... Read more →

CMOS scaling maintains economic relevance with 5nm SoCs already in high-volume production for 2.5 years and 3nm well into risk production. Modest feature size reduction and design/technology innovations co-optimized primarily for logic scaling continue to offer compelling node-to-node power, performance, area, and cost benefits. In this tutorial, we start with a brief history of transistor... Read more →

The Royal Canadian Navy invites both IEEE student and graduate student members in Vancouver Section to participate in the Canadian Students at Sea program from 9-10 May 2023. On Tuesday, 9 May, participants will sail aboard the Canadian patrol frigate HMCS Ottawa from Burrard Dry Dock Pier in North Vancouver to HMC Dockyard at CFB... Read more →

Monthly executive committee meeting. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360202

R7 LMAG Executive Teleconference - MONTHLY MEETING Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 2B1, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361212

Technological Advancements in Smart HVAC Control span four major areas, Energy Saving Systems, Smart HVAC Systems, Mobile Device Control and Advanced Analytics. New smart devices are being used to analyze environmental conditions for occupancy and high precision temperature control. Fast-acting control systems provide the exact heating and cooling necessary resulting in significant energy savings and... Read more →

Starlink orbits at about 550km, which results in lower latency, in comparison to GEO satellites which orbit around 35,786km. Each satellite features a compact, flat-panel design that minimizes volume, allowing for a dense launch stack to take full advantage of the launch capabilities of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. join us to learn more about Starlink... Read more →

Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Hussein, Vancouver Section, IEEE Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. We are looking... Read more →

Distinguished Lecturer technical seminar with the following abstract: This talk will cover practical challenges for cryogenic CMOS designs for next generation quantum computing. Starting from a roadmap level understanding and future trends, it will detail the design considerations for a non-multiplexed, semi-autonomous, transmon qubit state controller (QSC) implemented in 14nm CMOS FinFET technology. The QSC... Read more →

Monthly executive committee meeting. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361328

Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. We are looking for speakers for the rest of the... Read more →

Abstract: Photodetectors that enable weak light detection can be found in numerous applications including biomedical imaging, chemiluminescence detection and scientific spectroscopy. Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs), Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs), and Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) or Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes (SPADs) have been widely used. However, bulky and power-hungry PMTs have suffered from severe temperature drift and hence, are... Read more →

In recent years, we have been observing fast social and economic development, rapidly changing industry, and continuously growing demand for bandwidth. This development raises new challenging optimization problems for the optical communication networks. These problems are often very complex not only due to the optical network configurations, but also due to their enormous traffic and... Read more →

Join us at this event to gain valuable insights into static program analysis, a crucial technique for software engineers and programmers to improve software quality and performance. Learn how static analysis can help you understand, verify, and optimize your programs, with a focus on numerical static analysis and popular abstractions. Don't miss this opportunity to... Read more →

IEEE VTS/ITSS and ITS Canada Joint Meeting EX EMERGE: A research and innovation initiative on connected and automated driving Fortunato Santucci University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy Abstract - In the challenging field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) we present a multi-disciplinary research project (EX-EMERGE) that aims at developing and validating key technology enablers for advanced... Read more →

Monthly executive committee meeting. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/365709

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Dr. Rami Abielmona presenting Distilling AI: The Hitchhiker's Guide : In this talk, I will present real-world AI/ML Big Data solutions involving unique learning algorithms that allow one to process vast amounts of critical information combined with knowledge acquired from specific domains. These unique... Read more →

An important way to understand the operation of computer and electronic circuits and systems is to analyze how these circuits and systems are implemented. We will take a tour inside various chips, showing solutions from the physical level to the system level, solutions observed through reverse engineering of microprocessors, such as the Z8000, and that... Read more →

Microwave photonics (MWP) is a typical optical signal processing application for optical communications, antenna systems, and 5G/6G networks. At the same time, optical frequency combs (OFC) and programmable optical filters enable this system to be reconfigurable. There are several approaches to creating OFC lines, such as the micro-ring resonator, cascaded electro-optic modulator, and mode-locked laser... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh presenting Security challenges and opportunities at the Intersection of Architecture and ML/AI : Machine learning is an increasingly important computational workload as data-driven deep learning models are becoming increasingly important in a wide range of application spaces. Computer systems, from the architecture... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with David A. Bader presenting Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics : Data science aims to solve grand global challenges such as: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; protecting our elections from cyber-threats, and... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with David A Fisher presenting Why Software Fails and Why AI cannot Help : It was once widely believed that computers would enhance the speed, reliability, and applicability of human deductive reasoning in the physical and social sciences, much as motorized vehicles (e.g., cars, trains,... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Yuhong Liu presenting Trust and Privacy Vulnerabilities of Today’s Online Social Networks : As we move further into the big data era, people are motivated in numerous ways to proactively generate, share and exchange diverse digital contents online every day. While the increasing amount... Read more →

The insatiable growth of datacenter traffic mandates increasing the capacity of cost-effective transceiver technologies to meet the foreseen demand. Competing configurations include Intensity Modulation / Direct Detection (IM/DD) and coherent transceiver architectures. In this presentation we will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with these two options including such topics as: wavelength, reach modulation format,... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with David Alan Grier presenting The Generations of Computing and the Coming Data Age : If you look carefully at the development of computing, you can see clear generational cycles. These cycles are marked by a sharp change of technology and a group of young... Read more →

For efficient design, verification and validation of integrated circuits and components, it is important to have an easy-to-customize and extend workflow. Python has become the standard programming language for machine learning, scientific computing and engineering. Gdsfactory is a Python library to build chips (Photonics, Analog, Quantum, MEMs, …) that provides you with a common syntax... Read more →

Join fellow IEEE members and Section leaders to socialize, and explore opportunities to connect with the section. This event is free to attend for all IEEE Members. Family members and guests are welcome to join, with a $10 registration fee to cover the price of food and drinks. The event will be taking place at... Read more →

Controls, Robotics and Cybernetics Joint Chapter of IEEE Vancouver Section Title: Kinematically Redundant Hybrid Parallel Robots for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Speaker: Dr. Kefei Wen Date & Time: August 31st, 2023 at 3PM Pacific Time Place: Zoom and UBC Point Grey Campus Abstract: Robots that physically interact with humans are making their way into many applications... Read more →

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Jon Peddle presenting The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR : If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or... Read more →

Technical Seminat by Dr. Kemal Aygün (Intel Fellow, IEEE Fellow) with the following abstract: Recently, applications such as artificial intelligence has been evolving very rapidly and bringing with it a more stringent set of requirements for system performance. One area where the performance demand has been scaling very aggressively is that for interconnecting different components... Read more →

Monthly executive committee meeting. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/370046