Dr. T. Akilan, P.Eng.

Vision Intelligence and Data Lab
takilan@lakeheadu.ca
+1 807-343-8010ext. 8693
ATAC5014
By appointment
Academic Qualifications: 

T. Akilan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Software Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada.

Date joined Lakehead: 
Sep., 2019
Previous Teaching/Work: 

Department of Software Engineering

  • ESOF-0151 Large-Scale Data Analytics
  • ESOF-3765 Database Systems
  • ESOF-4011 Applied Computational Intelligence
  • ESOF-4559 Digital Signal and Image Processing
  • ESOF-4969 Degree Project 
  • ESOF-5052 Bigdata Machine Learning Models 
  • ESOF-5036 Natural Language Processing

Department of Computer Science

  • COMP-5421 Deep Learning
  • COMP-141 Computer Programming I
  • COMP-5413 Topics in Natural Language Processing
  • COMP-5800 Graduate Project
  • COMP-4312 Cloud Computing
  • COMP-2430 Mobile Computing Technology
Research Interests: 

His research interests include object/action recognition, image/video processing and segmentation, and data fusion using statistical techniques, machine/deep learning, and natural language processing. 

Volunteering:

In 2018/2019, he served as secretary of the IEEE Windsor Section, Canada. He also served as secretary in 2021 and director of outreach in 2022 for IEEE Winnipeg YP. 

Currently, he serves as a reviewer for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

In the News:
 

March 22, 2021

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