AISP 2015 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Shahrokh Valaee
University
of Toronto
Title: Localization of Wireless Devices in
Covered Areas using Compressive Sensing
Abstract: New smartphones are equipped with plurality
of sensors. Accelerometer, gyro, barometer, and magnetometer are among the
sensors commonly available in new generation of smartphones. Using recent
advances in signal processing such as Compressive Sensing, we have developed
precise positioning schemes that can find user’s location in covered areas
where the GPS service is not available. Our technology uses RF signals received
from WiFi access points or iBeacons, along with the readings from multiple
sensors, to locate the user. We have developed solutions for integration of
multiple sensor readings into a single cohesive database. Our solutions are
device-agnostic, which makes them excellent candidates for crowdsourcing. There
are various applications for location estimation such as monitoring children
and elderly, customer service in shopping malls, tracking goods and assets,
targeted marketing, and localization of personnel in factories and mines. In
this talk, we will present some of our approaches and will demo our solution.
Biography: Prof. Shahrokh Valaee
received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Tehran, and the
Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada, all in Electrical Engineering.
From 1994 to 1995, he was a Research Associate at INRS Telecommunications,
University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. From 1996 to 2001, he was an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares
University, Tehran, Iran, and in the Department of Electrical Engineering,
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Since September 2001, he has
been with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Toronto, where he is a Professor and the Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He is the Founder and the Director of the
Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of
Toronto.
Professor Valaee was the Co-Chair for
Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, the Editor for IEEE
Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Toward Seamless
Internetworking of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks, and the Editor of a
Special Issue of the Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile
Computing on Radio Linkand Transport Protocol Engineering for Future Generation
Wireless Mobile Data Networks. He was the TPC Co-Chair and the Local
Organization Chair of IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC)
Symposium 2011. His current research interests are in wireless vehicular and
sensor networks, location estimation and cellular networks.
Memberships/Awards
• Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications
• Associate Editor, IEEE
Signal Processing Letters
• Connaught Award, 2012
and 2013
• NSERC Discovery
Accelerator Award, 2010
• MaRS Innovations cPOP
Award, 2012
• Plenary and Keynote
Invited Speeches at several IEEE and CSI conferences
• Distinguished Seminar
Series speaker at various institutions
• Professional Engineer
in the Province of Ontario
• Honorary member of The
Canadian Society of Iranian Engineers and Architects
• Technical Program
Committee membership of more than 70 conferences
• IEEE, ACM
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Prof. Madjid Fathi
Professor
& Director
University
of Siegen, Germany
Title: Advance methodology for examination of
stock market news
-A Sentiment Analysis –
Abstract: The imitation of the mental ability of word
association is the objective of the hybrid text mining conception, called
CIMAWA. The algorithm of the concept measures the symmetric and asymmetric
strength of association between two words in a corpus of documents. The
calculation is based on co-occurrences and frequencies of words and the outcome
of the formula is a numeric value. As an innovative method for sentiment
analysis we combined CIMAWA with a dictionary-based approach for keyword
detection and evaluation with the help of a lexical resource. With positive,
neutral or negative polarity of words it is possible to value each strength of
word association. For application, we developed a software prototype and used
this method on a large collection of financial market news from January 2000
through February 2014 and compared the calculated sentiment values of companies
with the development of their stock price over the time.
Biography: "Madjid Fathi is a
professor and vice-chair of EECS Department at the University of Siegen,
Germany. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. degree
(Dr.-Ing.) both from the University of Dortmund, Germany. Accordingly he
obtained Habilitation degree (Above Ph.D.) at the Technical University of
Ilmenau, Germany, in 1998. Since 2004, he is the director of Institute of
Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management (KBS & KM), at the
University of Siegen. He is also the funder and Directore of Knowledge
Management Center. He was Visiting Scholar with Professor Zadeh father of Fuzzy
Logic at U.C. Berkeley dept. of EECS
joined the BISC(Berkeley Initiative of Soft Computing) from Sep/2012 to
Sept/2013. As head of KBS lead a large
of different academic team of researchers and educators which has, thus far,
resulted in over 60 thesis His research interests are focused on Knowledge
Based System(KBS), knowledge management, Sentiment Analysis, Text mining and
recommender System and their applications in medicine and engineering, knowledge transfer,
organizational learning, and knowledge discovery from text (KDT).He is the
editor of "Integration of Practice-Oriented Knowledge Technology"
(2013) and "Integrated Systems, Design and Technology" (2011)
published by Springer, as well as two text- and nine edited books. He, with his
students, has published with more than 250 publications including 25 Journal
publications, and obtained four paper awards. He is a member of German
Professors association(DeutschHochschulVerband)and senior member of IEEE as well as member of
editorial board of five respective journals. He is the founder of Alzheimer
Knowledge Platform www.Alwip.de."
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