SITE in the News!

• SITE has received a donation from Adobe consisting of 2 Flash Media Server 2 Professional Edition (Full licenses) and 60 copies of Adobe Flex Builder 2 (Full licenses) in support of the Undergraduate Teaching Program at SITE and particularly the courses SEG3120/SEG3520 taught by Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik in Winter 2007. The Faculty of Engineering acknowledges Adobe's generosity and support of our students in Engineering and Computer Science.
• Professor Jianping Yao, is the recipient of the Faculty's 2007 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.
• In the 2006/07 national competition of the highly selective NSERC Strategic Grant program, the University of Ottawa has been awarded 7 grants, of which 5 went to the Faculty of Engineering. SITE is pleased to announce that 4 of those 5 grants have gone to SITE professors, and congratulates the following faculty members for this excellent achievement:
  • Professors Ahmed Karmouch and Ali Miri for their project "Seamless mobility management of users and services over heterogeneous networks", funded at $127,000, $132,000, $116,000 for three years.
  • Professors Hussein Mouftah and Pin-Han Ho (from University of Waterloo), for their project "Availability-Aware Survivable Routing Architecture for GMPLS Networks", funded at $152,000, $147,000, $121,400 for three years.
  • Professors Shervin Shirmohammadi, Abed El Saddik, and Nicolas Georganas for their project "HARVEST: A Framework for Haptic, Interactive Virtual Environments for Tele-presence", funded at $155,500, $155,500, $155,500 for 3 years.
  • Professors Ivan Stojmenovic and Amiya Nayak for their project "Energy Conserving Coordination and Data Communication in Wireless Sensor Actuator Networks", funded at $124,000, $118,000, $118,000 for three years.
  In addition, Professor Iluju Kiringa has also won an NSERC Strategic award as a co-investigator in the University of Toronto project "Data Sharing in Peer Networks" by Renée Miller, John Mylopoulos, and Iluju Kiringa, funded at $136,000 per year for 3 years.
• MCRLab/DISCOVER researchers Mauricio Orozco, Behzad Malek, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik receive the Best paper Award at the 6th international conference Virtual Concept, for their original work "Graphical Password with Haptics".

• Computer Science Ph.D. student Naim El-Far of the Discover lab has won the Russ Jackson Award, one of "Canadian Interuniversity Sport's highest football honours.
• A public lecture in honour of the recipients of the G.S. Glinski and John V. Marsh awards took place on Wednesday, November 22, 2006. Canada Research Chair Professor Azzedine Boukerche was the recipient of the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research and Professor Claude D'Amours was the recipient of the John V. Marsh Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• MCRLab student ASM Mahfuzur Rahman and DISCOVER student Razib Iqbal, supervised by Professors El Saddik and Shirmohammadi respectively, share 3rd prize at the 2006 annual Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories Conference (I2LOR-2006) for their demos "Distributed Learning Objects Visualization in Virtual Environment" and "Adaptation of Video Learning Objects Using MPEG-21 DIA".
• MCRLab student Huiyan Qi, supervised by Professor Zhao, receives 2nd prize at the 2006 annual Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories Conference (I2LOR-2006) for her poster "Human Visual System Based Adaptive Digital Image Watermarking".
• Canada Research Chair Professor Azzedine Boukerche, Professor Mourad El-Hadef and Master Student Hisham El-Kadiki of the PARADISE Research Laboratory won the BEST PAPER award for the paper: "Diagnosing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Two Distributed Comparison-Based Self-Diagnosis Protocols", at the 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Spain, October 2006.
• Hapticast, a 3D first-person shooter with wizards and haptically enabled wands by SITE Master students Sheldon Andrews (supervised by Dr. Jochen Lang) and Javier Mora (supervised by Dr. WonSook Lee) from DISCOVER Lab, took the runner up prize for Future Game Technology and Design.
• Professors Hussein Mouftah and Azzedine Boukerche were honored at the University's annual reception in celebration of excellence in education and research. Dr. Mouftah was one of two UofO faculty members to receive the award of Distinguished University Professor. Dr. Boukerche was one of the four recipients of the Ontario Early Researcher Award at the University.
• Professors Shervin Shirmohammadi and Jochen Lang have received a $121,664 grant funded by the Canadian Foundation of Innovation and the Ontario Research Foundation for their research in Collaborative Virtual Presence Modelling, Communications, and Applications.
• SITE introduces a new graduate certificate in Modelling and Animation for Computer Games Technology.
• Professor Herna Viktor, adjunct professor Eric Paquet and Ph.D. student HongYu Guo will receive the PKDD Innovative Application Award at the European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases(ECML/PKDD2006) for their paper "Measuring to Fit: Virtual Tailoring through Cluster Analysis and Classification".
• Professors Miodrag Bolic and Wail Gueaieb receive CFI funding for the development of Smart Autonomous Mobile Robots for Rescue Missions (SAMRRM).
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas has won the prestigious Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research for 2006.
• Danny Collier, a student in second year of Software Engineering, was crowned Canadian Airplane King at the National Red Bull Paper Wings championship in Toronto.
• Ginette Trottier, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, CEG/CSI, is the winner of the Support Staff Prize of Excellence of the University of Ottawa.
• Professor Claude D'Amours has been awarded the Faculty of Engineering's 2006 John V. Marsh Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Professor Hussein T Mouftah, Canada Research Chair I in Optical Networks, has received the 2006 Distinguished University Professor title
• The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce unprecedented improvements to its Graduate Awards and Financial Support Program, effective May 2006. For details, please refer to http://www.grad.uottawa.ca/awards/admission/
• Professor Hussein T Mouftah has received the IEEE 2006 McNaughton Gold Medal, the highest distinction of IEEE Canada
• The undergraduate programs offered by SITE have been improved! Please see this summary of the modifications
• Professor Azzedine Boukerche has received the 2005-2006 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the Faculty of Engineering
• Professor Hussein T Mouftah has received the very prestigious Julian C Smith Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada awarded for "Achievement in the Development of Canada" (PDF announcement available)

• Canada Research Chair professor Azzedine Boukerche is one of the only four uOttawa recipients of the Ontario "Early Researcher Awards". This very prestigious award, previously known as Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA), was announced in the Ottawa Citizen on November 27 2005.
• SITE introduces the Distinguished Lectures on Information Technology and Engineering (DLite). Details at http://www.site.uottawa.ca/DLite.
• Andrew Roczniak, Ph.D. Candidate under the supervision of Dr. A. El Saddik at the MCRLab, received the "IBM Student Conference Grant" at the ACM Multimedia 2005 Conference for his work on Incentive of P2P collaborative environments.
• Professors Nicolas D. Georganas, Gregor v. Bochmann and Tuncer Ören are recognized as Pioneers of Computing in Canada by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies.
• Lijun Chen of the DISCOVER Lab won the BEST PAPER award for the paper: L. Chen and N.D. Georganas, "3D Mesh Compression Using an Efficient Neighborhood-based Segmentation", at the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-time Applications (DS-RT 2005, Montreal, Oct. 2005
• Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr has received the Order of Ontario for 2004. The Order of Ontario is the province's highest and most prestigious honour. (conferred to a person that showed excellence and of exceptional realization in Ontario).
• Professor Paola Flocchini was awarded by the University of Ottawa a very prestigious University Research Chair (URC).
• SITE PhD student YanPing Chen of the ASERT lab has been chosen as an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship recipient for academic year 2005-2006.
• SITE Ph.D. student Svetlana Kiritchenko of the TAMALE Lab has been chosen as a 2005 CITO Research Excellence Scholarship ($5,000 award) winner.
• SITE Ph.D. student Saeid Nourian of the DISCOVER Lab has been chosen as a 2005 CITO Research Excellence Scholarship ($5,000 award) winner.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas is appointed as Associate Vice-President Research (External).
• Alumni Joseph A. Nour, BASc 1990 (ELG) and Simon Nehme, BASc 1990 (CEG) are the recipients of the Faculty of Engineering's 2005 Alumni Award of Excellence for their success in building their company Protus IP Solutions.
• Alan Stewart receives the University of Ottawa Support Staff Award of Excellence in the Technicians and Technologists category.
• Professor Sylvia Boyd is the recipient of the University of Ottawa's 2004-2005 award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Professor Ivan Stojmenovic has been awarded the Faculty of Engineering's 2004-2005 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.

• Professor Abdulmotaleb El Saddik has been recently recognized among the Best Teachers at uOttawa by the La Rotonde magazine in its April 2004 edition based upon the annual teaching evaluation reports.
• SITE Ph.D. student Saeid Nourian of the DISCOVER Lab was awarded 1st Prize (and $500) at the CITO Innovators Showcase in Toronto, Nov. 24, 2004, for "BEST STUDENT PRESENTATION".
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• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas contributed this brief history of the former Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Professor Hussein Mouftah has received the prestigious 2004 IEEE Communications Society's Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award.
• Professor Tim Lethbridge  has received the prestigious Mather Premium award from the Institution of Electrical  Engineers (IEE) for the paper "Comparative study of clustering algorithms and abstract representations for software remodularisation", co-authored with Nicolas Anquetil.
• Professor Dan Ionescu has received an National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) AGM/BoD award "In appreciation for outstanding contribution to the NCIT*net Advanced Research Network"
• ARISE, the University of Ottawa robotics team, successfully participated in the 7th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition, which was held in San Diego from July 28 to August 1. ARISE ranked in sixth position (out of 18 teams) and was awarded the "Best New Entry Award".
• Professor Emil Petriu was awarded by the University of Ottawa a very prestigious University Research Chair (URC).
• Professor Emil Petriu received the 2003 Society Award for technical excellence, given by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, for "outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of robot sensing and perception."
• Professor Andy Adler received $48,707 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) matched with an additional $47,707 from the Ontario Innovation Trust for advanced research in portable non-invasive biomedical monitoring technologies.
• Ph.D. student Waël Hassan finished second in the 2003-04 Student Technology Venture Challenge, where he presented his PrivaDoc product. This was followed by an interview on Rob TV.
• Professors Luigi Logrippo, Tuncer Ören, and Lou Birta contributed this brief history of the former Computer Science Department.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas was awarded, on June 2, an Honorary Doctorate from the Darmstadt University of Technology, in Germany.
• Professors Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Alan Williams, who are creating the "Secure Multimedia Research Group" to study ways of preventing breaches of computer security, received $353,715 from Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) matched with an additional $353,715 from the Ontario Innovation Trust.
• Professor Abdulmotaleb El Saddik has received a 2003 Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA).
• Ms. Aurore Morin has been chosen as one recipient of the two support staff university awards.
• SITE's ARISE team is the University of Ottawa's first entry into the 7th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition.
• Professor Gilles Delisle is the recipient of the CCPE Meritorious Service Award for Professional Service, given for outstanding contribution to a professional, consulting or technical association or society in Canada.
• Professor Hussein Mouftah receives the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.

• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas has been appointed founding Editor-in-Chief of the new "ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP)"
• Professor Gilles Delisle, Director of SITE, has been elected Fellow of the The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) of the United Kingdom.
• Professors Liam Peyton and Herna L. Viktor received $319,537 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) towards an Intelligent Data Warehouse Laboratory (IDWL), matched with an additional $319,537 from the Ontario Innovation Trust.
• Professor Emad Gad received the Governor General's Gold Medal and the Carleton University Medal for the best Ph.D. performance in 2003.
• SITE is now a major partner in a new $7.5 million NSERC Research Network: "LORNET: Learning Objects Repositories Network", which involves six canadian universities. SITE professors Nicolas D. Georganas, Eric Dubois, Abed El Saddik, Shervin Shirmohammadi, and Jiying Zhao will receive about $1.25 million over 5 years to study the "Creation, search and delivery of advanced multimedia learning objects".
• The paper "Dominating sets and neighbor elimination-based broadcasting algorithms in wireless networks" by Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic (SITE), M. Seddigh and J. Zunic, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, pp. 14-25, Jan. 2002, has been cited as a "Fast Breaking Paper" for Oct. 2003 by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators.
• Professor Trevor Hall of SITE, Canada Research Chair in Photonic Network Technology, has recently been named a Fellow of The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) of the UK.
• Computer engineering student, Vijay Narasimhan, wins the 2003 C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation Engineering Award.
• The SITE building has made the front page of the July issue of the 'Canadian Architect' magazine.
• Professor Azzedine Boukerche, a new professor at SITE, receives a Canada Research Chair.
• Professors Amy Felty, Jérôme Genest, Sergei Loyka, Mustapha C. E. Yagoub, Jianping Yao, Ali Miri, Lucia Moura and
  Marcel Turcotte receive major funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
• Ph.D. student Rami Abielmona received the CITO Student Research Excellence Scholarship.
• Professors Sunil R. Das, Emil M. Petriu and doctorate student Mansour H. Assaf received the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink prize paper award.
• SITE students won two of the four awards for the Student Paper Competition at the 2003 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering on May 7th. Congratulations to Yi Liu (with Professor Pierre Payeur) and to Wei Zhang (with Professor Claude D'Amours).
• Professors Hussein Mouftah and Tyseer Aboulnasr (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering) have been elected Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
• Professor Emil Petriu receives the 2003 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.
• Professors Gregor v. Bochmann, Trevor Hall, and Oliver Yang are part of a successful new $7 million NSERC Research Network on Agile All-Photonic Networks, led by McGill University.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal by Ontario Minister Brian Coburn, at a ceremony at the Ottawa Congress Center, January 18, 2003.
• Professor Paola Flocchini has received a 2002 Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) to carry out research on Security in Distributed Mobile Systems.
• Professor Eric Dubois has been elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
• Professor Sylvia Boyd has received one of the ten Excellence in Teaching Awards of the University of Ottawa.
• SITE will host the Sun Developer Day conference on January the 9th 2003.
• Professors Sunil Das and Emil Petriu, and Ph.D. student Mansour H. Assaf are co-recipients of the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, for their paper "Fault tolerance in systems design in VLSI using data compression under constraints of failure probabilities".

• Professor Daniel Amyot has received the University of Ottawa's Pierre Laberge prize, granted in recognition of an excellent doctoral thesis in sciences.
• A team of SITE students led by Ph.D. student Rami Abielmona has received the Best Student Presentation Award, at the CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2002 held in Ottawa on Oct. 24 2002.
• Professors Robert L. Probert, Alan Williams and graduate student Qing Li have won the SDL-2000 design competition.
• Professor Gregor von Bochmann receives the University's excellence in research award.
• SITE's new building is inaugurated.
• Roger Montcalm is the recipient of the University of Ottawa Support Staff Award of Excellence.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas receives the coveted 2002 Killam Prize.
• Andy Pan, a second year Electrical Engineering student, has won the prestigious CD Howe national scholarship.
• Professor Sylvia Boyd receives the Faculty's Marsh Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Professor Sunil R. Das is inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
• Professor and Dean Tyseer Aboulnasr is named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
• Professor Jérôme Genest receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for his research in optical communications
• Professor Gregor v. Bochmann to receive the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, recognizing his pioneering research in software engineering and communication protocols.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas has been named as University Distinguished Professor "in recognition of unusual scholarly achievement at the University and preeminence in a particular field of knowledge". This is an honor given to a very select few to a total of ten active professors at the University any given point in time.
• PMC-Sierra donates 8 UltraSparc-10 Unix workstations to SITE.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas has been inducted in the Order of Ontario.
• Professor Gregor v. Bochmann is the recipient of the 2001 Thomas W. Eadie Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Professor Emil Petriu has been inducted as Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering.
• Professor Pierre Berini has been selected as the recipient of the University of Ottawa Young Researcher Award.
• Launch of the third competition of the Lucent Global Science Scholars Program. In the past two years, 3 of the 5 Canadian students that won this prestigious award were from SITE.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas receives the prestigious 2001 Researcher Achievement Award of the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence.
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas is the recipient of a prestigious Canada Research Chair in Information Technology.
• Professor Charalambos Charalambous has received the prestigious Ontario's Premier Research Excellence Award (PREA).
• Professor Emil Petriu has been elected Fellow of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) with the citation "for contributions to the development of pseudorandom encoding techniques for absolute position measurement".
• Professor Nicolas D. Georganas receives the Bell Canada Forum Award from the Corporate Higher Education Forum. This forum is dedicated to fostering understanding and collaboration between Canada's business and academic communities.
• Dr. Tofy Mussivand, who is cross appointed with SITE, has been elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Science.
• Professor Pierre Berini wins Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award.
• Professor Sunil R. Das receives the Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel Best Paper Award of the Society for Design and Process Science, for the paper "Space Compression in VLSI Circuits Based on Nth Order Detectable Error Probability Estimates and Derived Sequences," presented at the Fifth World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology, Dallas, TX, June 2000.
• Professor Monique Frize receives the prestigous YMCA-YWCA Life time Achievement award.
• SITE team ranks second in 2000 International Feature Interaction Contest
• Professor Dimitrios Makrakis wins Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award.
• Mitel and the University of Ottawa establish Scholarship Fund for Photonics Research.
• The Pathmakers program, led by Professor Monique Frize wins the 1999 Engineering Student's Project Award from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation.
• Professor Nicolas Georganas wins the McNaughton Medal, IEEE Canada's highest distinction.
• Professor Jean-Yves Chouinard wins the Neal Shepherd Best Propagation Paper Award for his paper, "Eigen Analysis of Wide-Band Fading Channel Impulse Responses", published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Professor Gregor von Bochmann receives the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research.
• Professor Nicolas Georganas receives The Engineering Institute of Canada's Julian C. Smith Medal in recognition of outstanding achievements in the development of Canada.
• Professor and SITE Director Emil Petriu is named a Fellow of The Engineering Institute of Canada.
• Nortel undergraduate CASE competition: We Win Again!
• Professor Nicolas Georganas receives the 1999 Thomas W. Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding contributions to Engineering in the area of communications.
• Professor Pierre Berini receives a 1999 URSI Young Scientist Award from the Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale.

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