THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2022
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Zubair Md Fadlullah
"The 3 C’s of IoT: Intelligent Collection, Communication and Computation of Data "

Friday, October 28th, 2022
11:30 am

Abstract:
The advent of the 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) communication systems and terrestrial-aerial-underwater-satellite integrated networks, along with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), have started to evolve the vision of the smart world into a reality. In particular, a seamless fusion of AI and IoT is anticipated to add new dimensions to intelligent and connected devices and applications since the demands of continuous and ubiquitous communication with automated, lightweight, and secure systems have massively risen. While AI-driven IoT and B5G networks can play an essential role in sufficing these demands, there are several challenges in attaining it. In this presentation, I will look into these emerging hurdles in emerging IoT and B5G network systems from the perspective of the 3 C’s, i.e., the three-fold directions in terms of data collection, communication, and computing layers. We argue that centralized remote cloud-based AI analytics may not be adequate for solving these challenges, and we need to emphasize bringing the computation into the resource-constrained, edge IoT devices. In the presentation, I will present different optimization and/or AI-enabled techniques to provide practical, lightweight, reliable, and privacy-preserving solutions for some selected challenges in the three layers with reference to specific use-cases. Future vision and plans to build collaboration and leadership in the area of ubiquitous connectivity will also be discussed.

Biography:
Dr. Zubair Fadlullah plays a dual role with a unique university-hospital collaboration in Northern Ontario, Canada. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Lakehead University while simultaneously developing an interdisciplinary research program at Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute (TBRHRI). He brings a cross-professional approach to connected, health-analytics solutions using cutting-edge communication networking and edge computing techniques to improve smart society and smart health technologies. Dr. Fadlullah has a unique vision for applying machine learning, deep neural networks, and privacy-preserving federated learning to solve computing problems in edge networks. Dr. Fadlullah’s research has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Education, Japan; Qatar National Research Fund; and NSERC, MITACS, TBRHRI, and NOHFC (Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation), Canada.


To register for this virtual event, please email grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca and a Zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.

Please join us for Nicole's Final Ph.D . Doctoral Dissertation Defense on Friday October 28th, 2022 at 2pm.

Student name: Nicole Keir
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Sex, Menstrual Cycle Phase, and Hormonal Contraceptives on Inhibitory Control
Supervisor: Dr. Kirsten Oinonen
Supervisory Committee Member: Dr. Gordon Hayman
Internal Examiner: Dr. Dwight Mazmanian
External Examiner: Dr. Elizabeth Hampson
GSC Rep: Dr. Deborah Scharf

Join Zoom Meeting
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Join this free, online event to hear from renowned palliative care doctor and researcher, Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov as he describes the connections between dignity and comprehensive, quality palliative care, and discusses the 'platinum rule' and its implications in providing person-centred care.

For more information and to register visit www.cerah.lakeheadu.ca/events.

Learn about the education and resources being developed by Lakehead and McMaster Universities to provide culturally relevant palliative care training. Join us for this free event - part of the 2022 Northwestern Ontario Palliative Care Online Summit organized by CERAH, Lakehead University.

For info & to register: https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca/events/2022-northwestern-ontario-palliative-c...

End of Life Doulas - Enhancing Care for All. Learn about what an EOL Doula does and meet EOL Doulas from Northwestern Ontario. Free, online event with Zoom. Must register to participate.

For more information and to register visit www.cerah.lakeheadu.ca/events.

In this free, online event, renowned Canadian doctor and scholar, Dr. Amy Tan describes how palliative care has been rooted in the Western perspectives of death and dying, and practical steps one can make towards providing antiracist palliative care to patients and families, at the individual and systemic levels. You must register to attend. Visit https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca/events/2022-northwestern-ontario-palliative-c... for more information.

Start creating your social media graphics, event posters, business cards, and more through Canva! This session will be great for those looking to learn more about the features of the platform and how to create beautiful, eye-catching graphics.
Lunch will be provided and seating is limited
To register:
https://ingenuity-canva-workshop.eventbrite.ca

Trinity Medical Science University (TMSU) invites Lakehead students interested in pursuing a career in medicine to an information session. Mr. Warren Ison, Director of Admission from TMSU, will provide an overview of the school and special scholarship opportunities and how you can pursue your dream to become a medical doctor through TMSU, located in the beautiful east Caribbean Sea, St. Vincent. The information session will be held on October 26th at 4:30 pm in UC 1017. Following the information session, a free Suture Clinic will be held at 5:15 pm. Students interested in the suture clinic must sign up through this link: https://forms.gle/aqbNmCQnCLZynaug7 OR through the QR code on the flyer. There are only limited spots available for the suture clinic.

If you have any questions, please contact us at international.relations@lakeheadu.ca.

Please join Shakira Mohammed in her CPRE presentation on her project, "An Exploration of Barriers and Facilitators for Eating Disorder Prevention Programming with Indigenous Youth in Northwestern Ontario" on Monday, Oct. 24 at 3 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/96858749652?pwd=OS9kNFBqSXpwSHVSNlNvRnpVd3gy...

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THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2022
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri
"Computational Social Semantics for Mining Actionable Insights"

Friday, October 21st, 2022
11:30 am

Abstract:
The influence of social media platforms on many aspects of our personal and societal lives has given rise to a host of computational methods that analyze social data. In this talk, I will motivate the need for computational semantics, i.e., automated sense making of social user generated content, in order to enable a deeper analysis of social content. I will present my group's approach to grounding social content in semantics despite their challenging characteristics including being antigrammatical, noisy and lacking in context. I will then show how capturing the semantics of social content can lead to a range of methods for micro (user level) and macro (community-level) analysis of social media content, as well as allowing for performing natural experiments through observational studies. I will provide impactful applications of our work in the healthcare domain such as maternal mental health and knowledge synthesis in the medical literature.


Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Social Information Retrieval as well as an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Social Media Analytics. He works on computational models for the semantic analysis of highly unstructured textual content in order to interpret the meaning behind surface-level human communication, leading to highly efficient information processing and management tools and techniques. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.


To register for this virtual event, please email grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca and a Zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.