Ottawa-Carleton Joint Program

Established in 1983, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE) combines the research strengths of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Ottawa and the departments of Electronics and of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University.

The Institute offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of Master of Applied Science (MASc), Master of Engineering (MEng) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Members of the Institute are involved in ten main research fields: computer communications, multimedia and distributed systems; computer-aided design for electronic circuits; computer and software engineering; digital and wireless communications; microwave and electromagnetics; signal, speech and image processing; integrated circuits and devices; systems and machine intelligence; photonics systems; and, biomedical engineering.Further information is posted on the departmental websites.

Most of the courses in the graduate programs are offered in English. Research activities can be conducted either in English, French or both, depending on the language used by the professor and the members of his or her research group.

In accordance with the University of Ottawa regulation, students have a right to produce their work, their thesis, and to answer examination questions in French or in English.

The program operates within the general framework of the regulations and procedures for Joint Graduate Programs and the general regulations of the graduate faculty at each of the two universities. The general regulations of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (FGPS) of the University of Ottawa are posted on the FGPS website.

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 http://www.ociece.ca/bi_ling/index.php?lang=1

ABIELMONA, Rami, Adjunct Professor
Sensor networks; distributed artificial intelligence; genetic algorithms; evolvable hardware; reconfigurable computing; multiagent systems

ABOULNASR, Tyseer, Adjunct Professor
Digital signal processing and its applications; more specifically, her interests include adaptive signal processing (algorithms/implementations and applications); blind signal processing and multirate signal processing

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

AHMED, Nasir, Emeritus Professor
Systems: deterministic, stochastic; distributed; differential equations and inclusions; optimal control; linear and nonlinear filtering; identification; hemodynamics of artificial heart, modeling of space station; stability and control; suspension bridges and their stability; dynamics of computer communication network and optimization

AMAYA, Rony, Adjunct Professor

ANIS, Hanan, Associate Professor
Engineering management; innovation management; entrepreneurship; product development, photonics devices and systems; passive optical networks (PONs); femtosecond fiber lasers, non-invasive blood monitoring using Raman spectroscopy; coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy; optical biosensors

ARAR, Maher, Adjunct Professor
Wireless research

ATIEH, Ahmad, Adjunct Professor

ATREY, Pradeep, Adjunct Professor

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

BERINI, Pierre, Full Professor
Plasmonics and related device applications

BIDNYK, Serge, Adjunct Professor
Waveguide modeling; nonlinear optimization; large-scale photonic IC's; blue laser development

BOLIC, Miodrag
Computer architechtures; signal processing; wireless communications

BOUCHARD, Martin, Full Professor
Signal processing methods and applications

CRETU, Ana-Maria, Adjunct Professor

D'AMOURS, Claude, Associate Professor
Communications with special interest in digital communications; coding; modulation; multiple access; information theory; and encryption

DAJANI, Hilmi, Full Professor

DAS, Sunil, Emeritus Professor
Computer systems, fault - tolerant computing; digital circuits testing

DE KEMP, Robert, Cross-appointment
Medical imaging physics and engineering; including positron emission tomography (PET); single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); X-ray computed tomography (CT); X-ray angiography; and multi-modality image fusion

DELISLE, Gilles, Adjunct Professor
High speed wireless broadband multimedia systems; intelligent antennas; antenna for millimeter-wave indoor cellular systems; indoor communication system design; signal processing

DOLGALEVA, Ksenia, Assistant Professor

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

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)

FLUERARU, Costel

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

GAD, Emad
Design automation of integrated circuits; simulation of nonlinear circuits; simulation of high-speed interconnects; numerical algorithms

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

HALL, Trevor, Full Professor
Photonic networks and switches; material; device; and component technologies; dynamics & control of complex systems; photonic science

HETTAK, Khelifa, Adjunct Professor
Communications research

HINZER, Karin

HOSSEINI ABARDEH, Mojtaba, Adjunct Professor

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

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

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

LOYKA, Sergey, Full Professor
Wireless communication

LU, Zhenguo, Adjunct Professor

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

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

MCNAMARA, Derek, Full Professor
Antennas; electromagnetics; microwaves

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

MUSSIVAND, Tofy V., Full Professor
Biomedical engineering; medical devices; artificial heart; clinical engineering; virtual patient simulation; biotelemetry; biofluid dynamics; devices for heart failure; project management; remote energy transfer

ONUT, Iosif, Adjunct Professor
Web applications

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

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

SCHRIEMER, Henry, Associate Professor
Nanophotonics & optoelectronics; complex systems & optical metamaterials; integrated photonic components; scanning probe microscopies; multiphysics simulation

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

SPERANZA, Filippo, Adjunct Professor

TAM, Wa James, Adjunct Professor

TOLSTIKHIN, Valery, Adjunct Professor

VUKOVIC, Alex, Adjunct Professor
Network architecture & communications systems; advanced thermal management (telecommunications); network performance characterization & feasibility

WHITE, Kenton, Adjunct Professor

WU, Jing, Adjunct Professor
Layer 1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) management by users; peer-to-peer optical networks; LDP failure recovery mechanism and analyze the performance; traffic grooming and network reconfiguration, intra-domain routing using inaccurate routing information

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

YAO, Jianping
Microwave photonics; optical signal processing; optical communications; radio over fiber; fiber-optic sensors

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

YONGACOGLU, Abbas, Full Professor
Wireless communication; channel coding and source coding; spread spectrum systems; digital signal processing

ZHANG, Liang, Adjunct Professor

To be considered for admission, applicants must:

• Hold a master’s degree in computer and electrical engineering or in a related discipline with a minimum average of 80% (A-);
• Demonstrate a good academic performance in previous studies as shown by official transcripts, research reports, abstracts or any other documents demonstrating research skills;
• Provide at least two confidential letters of recommendation from professors who have known the applicant and are familiar with the student work;
• Provide a statement of purpose indicating the career goals and the interests in the proposed research area;
• Identify at least one professor who is willing and available to act as thesis supervisor;
• Be proficient (understand, speak and write) in English. Most of the courses in these programs are offered in English. Research activities can be conducted either in English, French or both, depending on the language used by the professor and the members of his or her research group.

The Department may require students to take additional courses depending on their backgrounds.

Transfer from Master's to PhD program

Students enrolled in the MASc program may be allowed to transfer to the PhD program without being required to write a master’s thesis provided they meet the following conditions:

• Completion of all graduate courses with a minimum average of A- (80%);
• Satisfactory progress in the research program;
• Written recommendation by the supervisor and by the graduate studies committee.

The transfer must take place within sixteen months of initial registration in the master’s. Please note that the minimal admission average requirements for the doctoral program must also be met. Following the transfer, all of the requirements of the doctoral program must be met.

PhD Degree Requirements

• Successful completion of a minimum of 9 course credits;
• Successful completion of a thesis proposal (ELG9997) and a comprehensive examination (ELG9998);
• Presentation and defense of a thesis (ELG9999) based on original research carried out under the direct supervision of a research faculty member in the Department.

Requirements Following Transfer from the Master's to the PhD Program

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

Minimum Standards

The passing grade in all courses is B. Students who fail 6 credits, the thesis proposal, the comprehensive exam, the thesis, or whose progress is deemed unsatisfactory must withdraw from the program.

Residence

All students must succesfully complete a minimum of six sessions of full-time registration. In the case of transfer students, the residency period is nine full-time sessions from the time of the initial registration in the program.

Duration of the Program

Thesis Advisory Committee

Génie informatique, génie logiciel / Computer & Software Engineering

Systèmes et intelligence machine / Systems and Machine Intelligence

Communications numériques et optiques / Digital and Optical Communications

Traitement des signaux, de la parole et des images / Signal, Speech and Image Processing

Réseau de communications informatiques, systèmes répartis et RNIS à large bande / Computer Communication Networks, Distributed Systems and BISDN

Conception assistée par ordinateur pour les circuits électroniques / Computer-Aided Design for Electronic Circuits

Micro-ondes et électromagnétismes / Microwaves and Electromagnetics

Dispositifs à semi-conducteurs et fabrication de circuits intégrés / Solid State Devices and Integrated Circuit Fabrication

Circuits intégrés à très grande échelle / VLSI

Cotes de service / Service Codes

Academic Unit Coordinates