Ottawa-Carleton Joint Program

Students who wish to pursue studies in computer science leading to the degree of Master of Computer Science (MCS) or Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD) can do so in joint programs offered by the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Ottawa and the School of Computer Science at Carleton University under the auspices of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science. The Institute is responsible for supervising these programs and for providing a framework for interaction between the universities in graduate computer science education. In addition to the faculty members from the two computer science programs, the Institute also has members with computer science expertise from other departments. Requests for information and application forms should be sent to the graduate secretaries handling the admission process (Contact OCICS).

The professors included in the list below are members of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This means that they are authorized to supervise or co-supervise theses. A complete list of the faculty and staff members associated with the program can be found at https://ocics.site.uottawa.ca/graduate/index.php

ADAMS, Carlisle, Full Professor
Cryptography; network security; computer security; access control; privacy

AMYOT, Daniel, Associate Professor
Scenario-based software engineering, user requirements notation (URN); feature interactions in emerging applications

BARRIÈRE, Caroline, Adjunct Professor
Natural language processing; knowledge representation; knowledge extraction from text; corpus linguistics; computational lexicography and terminology; computer assisted language learning

BENYOUCEF, Morad
Software engineering; Internet technologies; electronic negotiations; online trust; e-procurement

BOCHMANN, Gregor, Full Professor
Communication protocols; software engineering; formal specifications; verification and validation; distributed applications and systems management; multimedia; high-speed networks; real-time systems

BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, Full Professor
Development of algorithms for solving large-scale distributed interactive simulation systems and wireless and mobile computing and networking systems

BOYD, Sylvia, Cross-appointment
Combinatorial optimization; network design; integer programming; polyhedral combinatorics

DRUMMOND, Chris, Adjunct Professor
Machine learning; specifically data mining; learning agents; hybrid systems and cost sensitive learning

DUBOIS, Eric, Full Professor
Digital signal processing; data compression; image processing and communication

EL EMAM, Khaled, Cross-appointment
Understanding the human, organizational, and technological factors that affect the quality and utility of data contained in electronic health records

EL SADDIK, Abdulmotaleb, Associate Professor
Collaborative haptic audio visual environments (E-touch & tele-haptics, tele-operations, and rehabilitation), Multimedia knowledge management & semantic web (E-training/E-learning/E-society, etc.); multimedia communications (tele-surveillance, tele-collaborative environments and multimedia and P2P networking protocols)

FAMILI, Fazel, Adjunct Professor
Data mining: bioinformatics; machine learning; artificial intelligence; automated knowledge discovery

FELTY, Amy, Full Professor
Theorem proving; automated deduction; formal methods in software engineering; computational logic

FLOCCHINI, Paola, Full Professor
Distributed computing; distributed algorithms; structural information; sense of direction; mobile computing; cellular automata; fuzzy cellular automata; discrete chaos

FRIZE, Monique, Emeritus Professor
Electromagnetic interference and medical instrumentation, medical instrumentation; medical decision support systems; RF electrical burns and control; medical technology management issues (clinical engineering); technical services for hospitals in developing countries

GORODNICHY, Dmitry O., Adjunct Professor

GROZA, Voicu, Associate Professor
Real-time embedded systems; smart sensors networks; reconfigurable computing; distributed intelligent instrumentation

GUEAIEB, WAIL
Machine intelligence & mechatronics; robotics & control systems; computational intelligence; theory & applications

INKPEN, Diana, Assistant Professor
Computational linguistics and artificial intelligence; more specifically: natural language understanding and generation; lexical semantics; information retrieval; speech recognition and synthesis; and intelligent agents for the semantic web

IONESCU, Dan, Full Professor
Network computing and control; design of distributed system software; real time systems; formal methods; network and distributed systems security; semantic Web

JANSE VAN RENSBURG, Daniel, Adjunct Professor

JAPKOWICZ, Nathalie, Assistant Professor
Learning in the absence of negative examples; text classification; natural language processing -- semantics/ontologies; change of representation and constructive induction, artificial intelligence: learning from imbalanced data sets

JOURDAN, Guy-Vincent, Associate Professor
Distributed systems; software verification; validation and testing; partially ordered sets; software security; algorithms; data visualization

KARMOUCH, Ahmed, Full Professor
Context aware multimedia mobile computing & ambient networks, distributed multimedia systems; context awareness; mobile agents; follow-me services; ambient intelligence; ad hoc communications

KIRINGA, Iluju
Databases: multidatabases; active databases; transaction models; artificial intelligence: knowledge representation; logic-based robotics; model checking

LAGANIÈRE, Robert, Associate Professor
The fundemental problem of image feature detection and matching; particularly under the context of sparse views and calibrated cameras

LANG, Jochen
Measurement-based modeling in the area of visual computing combining techniques from computer graphics and computer vision

LEE, Wonsook, Assistant Professor
Computer Animation; virtual reality in health care; music analysis; face recognition; human-computer interaction; computer vision

LEMAIRE, Edward, Cross-appointment
Physical rehabilitation; assistive devices; telehealth; biomechanics; prosthetics; orthotics; computer applications

LETHBRIDGE, Timothy, Full Professor
Complex structures; object oriented software engineering; software quality management; software engineering productivity, software engineering education; formal specification of software knowledge; engineering and knowledge acquisition, human-computer interaction and user interface design programming in smalltalk and Java software; cost estimation; software requirements engineering and brainstorming

LOGRIPPO, Luigi, Adjunct Professor
Software engineering

MAKRAKIS, Dimitrios, Full Professor
Wireless and optical networks: scheduling, routing, traffic engineering; pervasive computing; ad hoc and sensor networks; QoS supporting technologies; security for wireless networks; ultra wideband systems and networks

MANSOUROV, Nicolai, Adjunct Professor
KDM analytics

MAO, Yongyi, Assistant Professor
Graphical models and statistical inference; communications and information theory; bioinformatics

MASON, Peter, Adjunct Professor

MATWIN, Stanislaw, Full Professor
Artificial intelligence; knowledge-based systems; machine learning; software reuse

MICHALOWSKI, Wojtek, Full Professor
Clinical support systems; decision analysis and support; medical decision making; multiple criteria decision making

MIRI, Ali, Adjunct Professor
Cryptography; systems and control theory; information and coding theory; applied number theory

MOUFTAH, Hussein, Distinguished University Professor
Optical and wireless networks; computer networks; survivable optical networking; photonic switch architectures; wireless communication networks; ad hoc sensor networks

MOURA, Lucia, Cross-appointment
Mathematics of computing; combinatorial algorithms (design and analysis); combinatorics (combinatorial designs, graphs, hypergraphs, codes); applications of combinatorial designs; combinatorial optimization; polyhedral combinatorics

NAYAK, Amiya, Associate Professor
Fault tolerant computing; ad hoc networks; distributed systems; mobile & distributed computing

ONUT, Iosif, Adjunct Professor
Web applications

PAQUET, Eric, Adjunct Professor

PAYEUR, Pierre
Robot vision; robot path planning and collision avoidance; computer vision for autonomous systems control; 3D occupancy modeling

PETRIU, Emil, Full Professor
Intelligent sensors and networks; robot sensing and perception; neural networks and fuzzy systems; interactive virtual environments; digital integrated circuit testing

PEYTON, Liam
E-commerce; business process automation; compliance with privacy policies that integrates metrics; knowledge management; data mining and mobile computing support

PROBERT, Robert, Adjunct Professor
Software engineering; design and testing Internet applications for security, communication protocols and software testing; industrial best practices for testing e-commerce and Web applications

SAMAAN, Nancy, Assistant Professor
Wireless communication and mobile networking; QoS in wired and wireless networks; network management; autonomic networks; mapping network-related business level objectives; policy-based management; networking solutions to e-business applications

SANKOFF, David, Full Professor
Mathematical genomics

SCOTT, Philip, Full Professor
Logic; category theory; theoretical computer science

SELINGER, Peter, Adjunct Professor
Mathematical logic; category theory

SHIRMOHAMMADI, Shervin
Multimedia communications; telecollaborations; Web based multimedia tools; virtual environments

SIDNEY, Jeffrey, Adjunct Professor
Management science; combinatorial optimization; production scheduling; algorithms

SOKOLOVA, Marina, Cross-appointment
Health Information; Text Data Mining; Data Mining

SOME, Stéphane
A distributed object oriented environment programming methodology

STOJMENOVIC, Ivan, Cross-appointment
Mobile networks; routing; geocasting; location updates; broadcasting; activity scheduling; clustering; bluetooth; cellular; medium access; data broadcast

SZPAKOWICZ, Stanislaw, Full Professor
Natural language processing; computational linguistics; automatic text summarization; language in electronic negotiations; lexical resources

TCHAGANG, Alain, Adjunct Professor

TRAN, Thomas
Artificial intelligence; electronic commerce; multi-agent systems; autonomous agents; reinforcement learning; trust and reputation modelling; recommender systems

TURCOTTE, Marcel, Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; algorithms design; applications of machine learning

TURNEY, Peter, Adjunct Professor
Natural language and speech understanding; adaptive, learning and evolutionary systems; artificial intelligence; data mining

URAL, Hasan, Full Professor
Software engineering; distributed computing; formal methods for software specification and design; software testing and verification

VAILLANCOURT, Rémi, Adjunct Professor
Scientific computation

VALDES, Julio, Adjunct Professor

VIKTOR, Herna, Associate Professor
Data Mining; data warehousing; data and information quality

WRIGHT, David, Full Professor
Broadband telecommunications; e-commerce

YAGOUB, Mustapha
Microwave and millimeter-wave devices; circuits and systems; applied electromagnetics; microwave circuit CAD; neural nets for microwave applications; linear and nonlinear modeling; optimization methods

YANG, Oliver, Full Professor
Optical communication network; broadband ATM switch architecture; traffic management in high speed network; network topologies; Network Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation; protocols and algorithms

YEAP, Tet, Associate Professor
Wireless communication; application specific VLSI architectures; high capacity wireline and wireless access; neural networks; communication systems

YU, Eric, Adjunct Professor

ZAGUIA, Nejib, Full Professor
Algorithms; algorithms graphs; order optimization

ZHAO, Jiying
Image and video processing; signal processing; multimedia communications

Students who are currently registered in the master's program may, in exceptional cases, be permitted to transfer into the PhD program if they have completed all course requirements with at least a "A-" (80-84%) average and demonstrate significant promise for advanced research.

Transfer from Master’s to PhD Program

• Completion of 5 graduate courses (15 credits) with a grade of A- or better in each.
• Satisfactory progress in the research program.
• Written recommendation from the supervisor and the thesis advisory committee.
• Approval by the graduate studies committee.

The transfer must take place within sixteen months of initial registration in the master’s. Following transfer, all the requirements of the doctoral program must be met.

• Software Engineering (category E)
• Theory of Computing (category T)
• Computer Applications (category A)
• Computer Systems (category S)

Duration of the Program

Residence

Minimum Standards

Thesis Advisory Committee

Les cours sont regroupés selon les catégories suivantes :

Courses are grouped according to the following categories:

Génie du logiciel (symbole E dans la liste des cours) / Software Engineering (code E in the course list)

Théorie de l'informatique (symbole T dans la liste des cours) / Theory of Computing (code T in the course list)

Applications informatiques (symbole A dans la liste des cours) / Computer Applications (code A in the course list)

Systèmes informatiques (symbole S dans la liste des cours) / Computer Systems (code S in the course list)

Thèses et projets / Theses and Projects

Academic Unit Coordinates