Shervin Shirmohammadi, IEEE Fellow, SM-ACM, Ph.D., PMP, P.Eng.
Director of DISCOVER Lab
Professor (short bio)
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
University of Ottawa, Canada
See my profile in: LinkedIn Google Scholar ResearchGate ORCID scopus ACM DL
Research
Multimedia Systems and Networks, specifically in:

  • Applied AI in Multimedia Systems: Vision Based Measurement, Network Measurement, Image-Based Food Computing
  • Video Systems and Networks: Video Streaming, Video Conferencing, Mobile Video, 3D/Multiview Video, Multiple Description Coding
  • Gaming Systems and Networks: Networked Games, Mobile Games, Serious Games, Cloud Gaming, Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) and Virtual Environments
  • Multimedia-Assisted Personal Health Systems: Assistive Systems, Serious Games for Medical Diagnosis, Virtual Rehabilitation, Food Computing
Designations, Awards, and Honours
  • Career and 2021 Top-2%-cited Scientist, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, standardized citation indicators
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award, 2021
  • George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, recognizing Faculty of Engineering’s Researcher of the Year, University of Ottawa, 2019
  • Associate Editor of the Year, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2019
  • Best Associate Editor AwardIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2018
  • IEEE Fellow, for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements, 2017
Activities
IEEE Board:
Editorial Board:
Conference Organizing:
Technical Societies:
  • Executive Vice President, IEEE IMS
  • Chair, Society Management Committee, IEEE IMS
  • Member, Fellow Coordination Committee, IEEE IMS
  • Key Member, IEEE Multimedia Cloud Computing Interest Group (MCCIG)
  • Member, IEEE CS Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC)
  • Member, IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC)
  • Member, ACM SIGMM
Publications
See publications list on my Google Scholar profile (updated frequently by Google).
Teaching
  • ELG 5121/CSI 7163: Multimedia Communications (Fall '19, Winter '23)
  • ELG 5100: Software Engineering Project Management (Winter '06, '07, '08, '18, Fall '09, '10, '11, '13, '14, '15, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22)
  • ELG 4913: Electrical Engineering Design Project II (Winter '21, '22)
  • ELG 4912: Electrical Engineering Design Project I (Fall '09, '10, '11, '20, '21)
  • GNG 1106: Fundamentals of Engineering Computation (Fall '02, '11, '14, '18, '19, '20)
  • SEG 4105: Software Project Management (Fall '04, '05, '06, '07, '09, '10, '11, '13, '14, '15, '18, '19)
  • EMP 5117: Foundations of Software Engineering (Winter '18)
  • ELG 5374: Computer Communication Networks (Fall '15)
  • ITI 1120: Introduction to Computing I (Fall '13)
  • CEG 4395: Computer Network Management (Winter '06, '07, '08)
  • CEG 4185: Computer Network Design (Winter '08)
  • CEG 4183: Higher Layer Network Protocols (Winter '04, '05; Fall '05, '06, '07)
Postdoc, PhD, and Master's researchers trained
Talks
  • Quantifying Uncertainty in Machine Learning-Assisted Sensing, IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 18, 2023.
  • Towards Automating Network Operation Centers with AI, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 22 2023.
  • Quantifying and Communicating Uncertainty in Machine Learning-Assisted Measurement, Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Measurement & Data Analytics, December 22 2022 .
  • AI-Assisted Light Field Depth Estimation and Compression, Invited talk, 2nd JPEG Pleno Workshop on Learning-Based Light Field Coding Proceedings, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, wg1n100308, September 21 2022.
  • Quantifying Uncertainty in Machine Learning Based Measurement, Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques 2021, New York, USA, August 24 2021.
  • Measuring without Measurement: Applied AI Meets Applied Measurement, Invited Talk, Taiwan Instrument Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan, March 9 2020.
  • Applied AI in EEG-Assisted Detection of ADHD: The FOCUS Game, Keynote, IEEE GlobalSIP, Ottawa, Canada, November 14 2019.
  • AI Assisted Video Networking, Keynote, IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, April 21 2019.
Research Funding Sponsors and Partners
Private Sector
Ciena Swarmio Cisco Magor CAE Cognivue  Espial Nokia Nuraleve Huawei Pleora Solink Biopeak IBM  D-Box  Konica Minolta point grey Dell xsens 

Public Sector

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Prof. Shervin Shirmohammadi
School of EECS, 800 King Edward Ave., room 5-011
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5
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