MHCI Keynote Lecture

August 22 | 9:15 - 10:00 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

User-Centred Design of Augmented and Virtual Reality Human-Computer Interfaces
Dr. Roy Eagleson, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Roy Eagleson is Professor of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, is a Core Member of the UWO Brain and Mind Institute, and is a Scientist and Principal Investigator at CSTAR, the Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics centre. His 1992 PhD was supervised by Zenon Pylyshyn at the Centre for Cognitive Science, and he did post-doctoral research at the Rutgers Center for Cogntive Science. His closest collaborating labs at UWO are directed by Terry Peters, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Rajni Patel and Christopher Schlachta (CSTAR), and Mel Goodale (BMI). Professor Eagleson has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Human-Computer Interface Design for the past two decades. His research programme is funded by Canadian Federal agencies (NSERC, CFI) as well as provincial agencies (OCE, Mitacs), and has been a visiting researcher at the Augmented Reality labs in Munich (with Nassir Navab) and Rennes (with Pierre Jannin). Eagleson's research involves the formulation of Multimedia User Interface Design and Evaluation methodologies for Medical Image Visualization, and Computer-Assisted Surgical Interventions.

ICBES Keynote Lecture

August 22 | 10:00 - 10:45 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

The Role of Dissipation in Developing Hydrogels for Functional Tissue Engineering
Dr. Dominique P. Pioletti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Dominique Pioletti received his Master in Physics from the EPFL in 1992 at Lausanne. He pursued his education in the same Institution and obtained his PhD in biomechanics in 1997. He developed original constitutive laws taking into account viscoelasticity in large deformation. Then he spent two years at UCSD as a post-doc fellow and was interested in particular to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms leading to peri-implant osteolysis. He developed at that time the pioneer idea to use orthopedic implant as drug delivery system and has since proposed different solutions relevant for clinical applications. From 2006 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor at EPFL and since August 2013, was appointed Associate Professor of Biomechanics at EPFL. He is the director of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics. His research topics include biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system, mechanobiology in bone and cartilage, drug delivery system for bone and cartilage, functional tissue engineering. His close collaboration with different hospital departments has resulted in research output oriented toward applications.

CIST Keynote Lecture

August 22 | 11:05 - 11:45 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Empowering Engineering and Information Technology (IT) Students to Become Evolutionary Cybersecurity Tinkers
Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA

Aparicio Carranza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Technology at The New York City College of Technology (CityTech) of The City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY; and was the Department Chair from 2007 to 2013. He is an adjunct faculty in the Engineering Department (CE & EE) at SUNY New Paltz, NY, (Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate courses since Spring 2015). He is also an adjunct faculty in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, (Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate courses since Fall 2016 – online and onsite). Professor Carranza earned his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering (EE) from The Graduate School and University Center (CUNY); Bachelor of Science in EE (summa cum laude) and Master of Science in EE from The City College of New York (CUNY); and a AAS in Electronics Circuits and Systems (summa cum laude) from Technical Career Institutes of New York. Dr. Carranza worked as an engineer and scientist at the Development Division of IBM Corp. in Poughkeepsie, NY for several years. He was a design engineer team member for the I/O Switches for the IBM RS­6000 Sytems, Logic Verification and Simulation of I/O subsystem for the S/390 mainframe computers, failure analysis of I/O adapter cards, PCB schematics development; and also led the development of the hardware design and simulation process for ISO 9001 Certification by Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Dr. Carranza has served as an advisory council to five colleges (Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, NY; DeVry University, NY; Bronx Community College (BCC), NY; Technical Career Institute College of Technology (TCI), NY; and SUNY Rockland Community College, NY). Professor Carranza joined CityTech as an adjunct in fall 1996 and as full­time faculty in fall 2000. He has upgraded and taught a wide range of courses at the Associate/Bachelor’s level: analog/digital electronics, programming languages, applied engineering analysis, data communications, Cybersecurity, Linux OS, Applied Digital/Software Technology, engineering design and other related courses. Dr. Carranza’s research interest involves Cybersecurity and Technology Education, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Virtualization and Cloud Computing – During his 19 years+ at CityTech, Dr. Carranza has involved dozens of students to perform undergraduate research. Many students under his supervision have presented/published papers at National and International Conferences (Canada, England, Spain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Peru). In 2016 in Canada, he and his students received the best paper award; and in 2017, in Costa Rica his students were awarded second place award in the best student paper category, from 80+ papers submitted, including PhD students’ work. Dr. Carranza has published a Book Chapter, Several Journal Papers; and numerous papers in conference proceedings. He has served as conference presentation chair, and also has served as Scientific and Technical Committee member to more than 7 International Conference venues (ASEE, CIST, ONDM, CIT, ICA3PP, HPCC, LACCEI), and reviewed submitted technical papers. At CityTech, Dr. Carranza with his students have presented 50+ posters during the Poster session presentations (November 2003 – 2018).

Session

August 22 | 11:45 - 1:05 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Nurul Chowdhury, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Applied Computer Science

Session

August 22 | 11:45 - 1:05 | SANCHO 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Adam Piechna, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Biomaterials

Workshop

August 22 | 2:00 PM - 5:20 PM

The hidden challenges of ICT Research & Innovation: can RRI effectively tackle them?

Alexandre Almeida, LOBA, Portugal
Pietro Rigonat, LOBA, Portugal
Emma Day, Vitae, UK

This workshop invites attendees to learn and discuss Sustainable Development Goals' and ICT challenges we face nowadays connected to AI, machine learning, and big data. All attendees are welcomed to attend the three hour workshop at no additional cost when they have registered to CIST'19. Upon completion of the workshop, attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation.

MVML Keynote Lecture

August 23 | 9:00 - 9:45 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

AI and Machine Learning for Multi-spectral Imaging Applications
Dr. Dalila B. Megherbi, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA

Dr. Dalila B. Megherbi received the Sc.M in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Sc.M in Applied Mathematics, and the Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Dr. Megherbi is a faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the founder and Director of the research Center for Computer Machine/Human Intelligence Networking and Distributed Systems (CMINDS). Her research is internationally recognized. Since joining UMass Lowell, Dr. Megherbi holds more than 120 refereed peer-reviewed publication articles, including in the IEEE and the prestigious Nature Biotechnology (impact factor 41.667). She holds US patent. At UMass Lowell, she has been the recipient of numerous research grants and contracts, as the primary lead principal investigator, from several federal agencies and the industry, including, DoD AFRL/WPAB, NSF, US FDA, NIH, Raytheon Air Missile Defense Systems, Xilinx Inc., Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Altera Inc., and Sky Computers Inc. She graduated more than 30 graduate students Ph.D. and MS students with a thesis option. She serves as associate editor and member of the editorial boards and reviewer for a dozen of journals, including IEEE transactions. She has been invited to organize/TPC/session chair, and to speak at several national and international conferences. She has been invited to serve on national and international peer review boards including, NSF, NIH, NASA, and National Science Foundation of Ireland. She has been the recipient of several research and teaching awards, including the recipient of the Best Paper Award of all conference tracks at the IEEE International Conference on Homeland Security, the recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society CDC Best Paper Finalist Award, the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE international conference ROMA, the recipient of the Top Professor Award for Outstanding Academic Integrity Leadership and Service to the students, the recipient of several university of Massachusetts Lowell Outstanding Teaching Excellence Awards, the recipient, each year since this recognition award was initiated in 2010, of 6 UMass Lowell Annual Research and Scholarship Recognition Awards, in recognition of faculty with extensive scholarship during that year. She has been a member of an international project consortium led by the US FDA. She was invited, interviewed and quoted in the New York Times for her expertise in big data facial recognition for homeland security applications. She was contacted by major national and international news agencies for her work and expertise in big data and facial recognition for homeland security. She was invited, interviewed and featured by the Science News Radio Network for her expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data technologies applied to Weapons of Mass Destruction. Her primary current research interests are in computational machine vision and intelligence, deep learning, “Big data” analytics, knowledge extraction/representation, and adaptive learning systems in distributed computing systems and networks, with applications to homeland security and the life sciences (high throughput meta-genomics). Her main research goal is the understanding of and building sensor-based machines that can be made to exhibit intelligence. The idea is to build intelligent machines/sensors and to understand certain aspects of human and animal biological intelligence.

EEE Keynote Lecture

August 23 | 9:45 - 10:45 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Printed Graphene Radio Frequency and Microwave Electronics
Dr. Zhirun Hu, The University of Manchester, UK

Zhirun Hu received his BEng in Communication Engineering from Nanjing, China in 1982. Maser in Business Administration and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Queens’ University, Belfast, UK in 1988 and 1991, respectively.

He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College of Swansea as a senior research assistant in computational semiconductor device modelling in 1991. He was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Queens’ University, Belfast, as a research fellow in MMIC design and characterization in 1994. In 1996, he joined GEC Marconi as a microwave technologist. He was a lecturer with the Department of Electronic Engineering, King’s College London from 1998 to 2003. He is now a professor of RF and Microwave Electronics with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Manchester. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.

Session

August 23 | 10:45 - 11:05 | SANCHO 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Adam Piechna, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Poster Session

Session

August 23 | 11:25 - 12:45 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Antonio Jesus Ruiz-Sanchez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Biomedical Engineering

Session

August 23 | 11:25 - 12:45 | SANCHO 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Nurul Chowdhury, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Communication Systems and Engineering

ICBES Keynote Lecture

August 23 | 1:45 - 2:30 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Novel Communication Technology for Individuals with Deaf/Blind Deficiencies
Dr. Sam Mil'shtein, UMass Lowell, USA

Prof. S. Mil’shtein publication list carries over 270 publications, patents, and conference presentations. His current research work covers high speed quantum electronics, design of solar sell systems, imaging systems for biometrics and medical engineering applications. In recent years Prof. S. Mil’shtein served as member of organizing committees of number International Conferences covering various aspects of semiconductor electronics, nanotechnhology and low-dimensional systems, homeland security.

On May 22 2015 Prof. S. Mil’shtein as elected to be a Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Science of Republic of Kazakhstan. Dr. Samson Mil’shtein is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Massachusetts at Lowell since 1987. From 1990 he is the director of the Advanced Electronic Technology Center at UMass. During 1998-1999 he served as Assistant Dean of Engineering for Research, UMass, Lowell, MA. He received his M. Sc. Degree in Semiconductors from State University of Odessa (Ukraine), and Ph. D. from University of Jerusalem (Israel). At age 23 he was the youngest professor of Semiconductor Electronics Department, Polytechnic College of Kherson (Ukraine). Dr. Mil’shtein worked for semiconductor companies in Russia and the USA, was teaching at Russian and Israeli Colleges, served as research fellow in Russian Academy of Sciences and at AT&T Bell Laboratories.Working as a member of the research staff with the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Science, he received in 1971 the first prize of ISSP of the Academy of Science of USSR for the discovery of dislocation based p-n junctions in Si and Ge. This discovery led to the design of the “Smallest Transistor” with the extremely short channel.

Session

August 23 | 2:30 - 3:30 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Antonio Jesus Ruiz-Sanchez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Biomedical Optics

Session

August 23 | 2:30 - 3:30 | SANCHO 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Hong Qing Yu, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Image Processing I

Session

August 23 | 3:50 - 5:30 | SANCHO 3 | Session Chair: Dr. Zhirun Hu, The University of Manchester, UK

Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Session

August 23 | 3:50 - 5:10 | SANCHO 2 | Session Chair: Dr. Luigi Benedicenti, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Image Processing II