[]Join the IEEE Toronto Instrumentation & Measurement – Robotics & Automation Joint Chapter for a technical talk presented by Dr. Shideh Kabiri Ameri from Queen's <a href="http://University.Monday" target="_blank" title="University.Monday">University.Monday, July 21, 2025 @ 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EST)Abstract: Wearable devices for health monitoring are conveniently being miniaturized, their functionalities have been increased, and they are rapidly being integrated into our daily life. However, the current commercialized wearables are not mechanically compatible with soft, stretchable and dynamic skin which is normally the first point of contact to the body in wearables. This results not only in discomfort but also causes low fidelity and reliability during long term <a href="http://sensing.In" target="_blank" title="sensing.In">sensing.In this talk, Dr. Kabiri will discuss various novel approaches they have taken to address these issues. Their developed unconventional wearable devices for health monitoring have high sensing performance and low motion artifacts, and in some cases offer visual imperceptibility and non-intrusive sensing that satisfy the user’s privacy and mental <a href="http://comfort.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="comfort.Speaker(s):">comfort.Speaker(s): Shideh Kabiri Ameri, Ph.D., Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/486792

Please join us for the inaugural event of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter at the IEEE Canadian Atlantic <a href="http://Section.We" target="_blank" title="Section.We">Section.We are pleased to host Dr. Min Xia, who will deliver an engaging and insightful seminar on second-life applications of retired lithium-ion batteries in sustainable energy <a href="http://storage.Title:" target="_blank" title="storage.Title:">storage.Title: Repurposing Retired Lithium-ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles for Sustainable EnergyAttendees are welcome to join the seminar in person at Dalhousie University or participate virtually via Zoom. Full details can be found <a href="http://below.Date" target="_blank" title="below.Date">below.Date and TimeDate: July 23, 2025Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (Atlantic Time)LocationIn-Person:Room MA 121, Industrial Engineering BuildingSexton Campus, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaVirtual (via Zoom):Zoom link: <a href="https://ieee-ies.zoom.us/j/86894164928?pwd=c0m04uuZbbudaeoBaY60hCA5UXIOVe.1Meeting" target="_blank" title="https://ieee-ies.zoom.us/j/86894164928?pwd=c0m04uuZbbudaeoBaY60hCA5UXIOVe.1Meeting">https://ieee-ies.zoom.us/j/86894164928?pwd=c0m04uuZbbudaeoBaY60hCA5UXIOVe.1Meeting ID: 868 9416 4928Passcode: 793286HostIEEE Industrial Electronics Society at Canadian Atlantic Section ChapterRegistrationNo registration required. Admission is <a href="http://free.All" target="_blank" title="free.All">free.All IEEE members and the public are welcome to <a href="http://attend.SpeakerDr" target="_blank" title="attend.SpeakerDr">attend.SpeakerDr. Min XiaAssociate Professor, Western UniversityDirector, Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIN Lab)[]Talk AbstractThe increasing adoption of electric vehicles is generating massive volumes of retired lithium-ion batteries (RLiBs), most of which still retain up to 80% of their original capacity. While unsuitable for reuse in vehicles, these batteries present great potential for second-life energy storage systems. However, the transition is not without challenges. This seminar will explore the latest AI-driven methodologies developed at Western University for state-of-charge (SOC), state-of-health (SOH), and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation of RLiBs. Emphasis will be placed on interpretability, data challenges, and real-world deployment across varying battery <a href="http://conditions.Speaker" target="_blank" title="conditions.Speaker">conditions.Speaker BiographyDr. Min Xia is an Associate Professor and Director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIN Lab) in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Western University. He previously served as Associate Professor at Lancaster University in the UK and earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Xia’s work spans intelligent condition monitoring, smart clean energy systems, and data-driven manufacturing. He has led 17 research projects across Canada, the UK, and Japan, with combined funding of over $20 million. Listed among Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020, he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mechatronic Systems and Control and Associate Editor for five IEEE <a href="http://Transactions.Room:" target="_blank" title="Transactions.Room:">Transactions.Room: Room MA 121, Bldg: Industrial Engineering Building, Sexton Campus, Dalhousie University , Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4R2, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/491183

The (https://vancouver.ieee.ca) and the IEEE Future Directions Committee are organizing a series of presentations to address the widespread interest in clean energy sources, new nuclear reactor technologies, and the various related issues. This series of talks will cover aspects of nuclear energy and the disruptive new technology of Small Modular Reactors. These presentations will be of interest both to engineers who are not nuclear specialists, and to the general public who are interested in learning about the <a href="http://technology.TOPIC:Integration" target="_blank" title="technology.TOPIC:Integration">technology.TOPIC:Integration of SMRs in Renewable Energy MicrogridsDATE: July 30, 2025LOCATION: OnlinePRESENTER: Dr. Dennis MichaelsonDr. Dennis Michaelson will explore the application of Small Modular Reacrors (SMRs) in remote community power systems and off-grid industrial facilities. In some of these applications, a small SMR or micro-modular reactor would be combined with renewable power sources, energy storage, and loads to form a microgrid. In this talk we will explore potential configurations and operating scenarios for such systems, and discuss the considerations and trade-offs involved in their <a href="http://design.This" target="_blank" title="design.This">design.This presentation is free. IEEE members and the general public are welcome to attend. Registration is <a href="http://required.This" target="_blank" title="required.This">required.This presentation series is organized by:- (<a href="https://ieee-sustech.org/2023/ieees-sustech-initiative/)-" target="_blank" title="https://ieee-sustech.org/2023/ieees-sustech-initiative/)-">https://ieee-sustech.org/2023/ieees-sustech-initiative/)- (<a href="https://vancouver.ieee.ca/physics)This" target="_blank" title="https://vancouver.ieee.ca/physics)This">https://vancouver.ieee.ca/physics)This presentation series is supported by:- (<a href="https://ieee-npss.org/)-" target="_blank" title="https://ieee-npss.org/)-">https://ieee-npss.org/)- (<a href="https://ieee-npss.org/)Co-sponsored" target="_blank" title="https://ieee-npss.org/)Co-sponsored">https://ieee-npss.org/)Co-sponsored by: IEEE Future Directions Committee, IEEE SusTech InitiativeSpeaker(s): Dr. Dennis MichaelsonAgenda: The presentation will start at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC).09:00 Welcome and Speaker Introduction09:10 Presentation09:50 Questions and Answers10:00 Presentation endsNOTE If you have registered, you should receive the Zoom URL in a separate email, shortly before the presentation time. Please check your email spam <a href="http://folder.NOTE" target="_blank" title="folder.NOTE">folder.NOTE Please be sure to leave sufficient time to set up your web browser and / or remote meeting client prior to the start <a href="http://time.Virtual:" target="_blank" title="time.Virtual:">time.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/488978

[]Join the IEEE Toronto Instrumentation & Measurement – Robotics & Automation Joint Chapter for a technical talk presented by Dr. Roya Fallah Firoozi from University of <a href="http://Waterloo.Monday" target="_blank" title="Waterloo.Monday">Waterloo.Monday, August 11, 2025 @ 1:00 – 2:00 PM (EST)Abstract: As a robot manipulates 3D objects and navigates within 3D scenes, it requires spatial reasoning to ensure safe planning. Recent advances in 3D scene representation, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian Splatting, provide high-fidelity digital twins of arbitrary real-world environments from multi-view images. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Firoozi will discuss employing these 3D visual fields augmented to 3D vision-language fields using internet-scale semantic representations from Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for open-vocabulary robot <a href="http://planning.As" target="_blank" title="planning.As">planning.As the robot interacts with other dynamic agents in the scene (multi-agent settings), it also requires temporal reasoning to ensure safe interactive planning. In the second part of the talk, Dr. Firoozi will discuss safe and fault-resilient planning techniques across two categories of interactive planning: (i) Model Predictive Control (MPC), where the prediction and planning steps are decoupled, and (ii) more abstract approaches such as game-theoretic planning, where these steps are tightly coupled. While MPC offers computational efficiency, game-theoretic planning enables more complex modeling of agents' preferences and their mutual <a href="http://influences.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="influences.Speaker(s):">influences.Speaker(s): Roya Fallah Firoozi, Ph.D., Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487494

The development of innovative cybersecurity technologies, tools, and methodologies that advance the energy system’s ability to survive cyber-attacks and incidents while sustaining critical functions is needed for the secure operation of utility and industrial systems. It is essential to verify and validate the ability of the developed solutions and methodologies so that they can be effectively used in practice. Developing solutions to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities throughout the energy delivery system is essential to protect hardware assets. It will also make systems less susceptible to cyber threats and provide reliable delivery of electricity if a cyber incident <a href="http://occurs.This" target="_blank" title="occurs.This">occurs.This talk will describe how the developed solution can protect the power grid and industrial infrastructure from cyber-attacks and build cybersecurity protection into emerging power grid components and services. This includes microgrid and demand-side management components and protecting the network (substations and productivity lines) and data infrastructure (SCADA) to increase the resilience of the energy delivery systems against cyber-attacks. These developments will also help utility security systems manage large amounts of cybersecurity risk data and cybersecurity operations. For these developments to succeed, cybersecurity testbeds and testing methodologies are necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of any proposed security <a href="http://technologies.The" target="_blank" title="technologies.The">technologies.The focus on developing cybersecurity capabilities in energy systems should span over multiple strategies: in the near term, midterm, and long term. Continuous security state monitoring across cyber-physical domains is the goal in the near term. The development of continually defending interoperable components that continue operating in degraded conditions is required in the midterm. Developing methodologies to mitigate cyber incidents to return to normal operations quickly is necessary for all system components in the long term. We will discuss R&D efforts in these areas centered on developing operational frameworks related to communication and interoperability, control, and <a href="http://protection.The" target="_blank" title="protection.The">protection.The importance of interoperability between smart grid applications and multi-vendor devices must be considered. The current grid comprises multi-vendor devices and multi-lingual applications that add to the complexity of integrating and securing the smart grid components. Standards development entities have been working with utilities, vendors, and regulatory bodies to develop standards that address smart grid interoperability. These include IEEE, IEC, NIST, ANSI, NERC, and others. In this presentation, we will conceptualize a comprehensive cyber-physical platform that involves the communication and power network sides integrating the cyber information flow, physical information flow, and the interaction between them. A data-centric communication middleware provides a common-data bus to orchestrate the system’s components, leading to an expandable multi-lingual system. We will present a hardware protocol gateway that was developed as a protocol translator capable of mapping IEC 61850 generic object-oriented substation event (GOOSE) and sampled measured value (SMV) messages into the data-centric Data Distribution Service (DDS) global data bus. This is necessary for integrating the widely used IEC 61850-based devices into an exhaustive microgrid control and security <a href="http://framework.We" target="_blank" title="framework.We">framework.We will also discuss a scalable cloud-based Multi-Agent System for controlling large-scale penetration of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and their infrastructure into the power grid. This is a system that can survive cyber-attacks while sustaining critical functions. This framework’s network will be assessed by applying contingencies and identifying the resulting signatures for detection in real-time operation. As a result, protective measures can be taken to address the dynamic threats in the foreseen grid-integrated EV parks where the developed system will have an automated response to a <a href="http://cyber-attack.In" target="_blank" title="cyber-attack.In">cyber-attack.In distributed energy management systems, the protection system must be adaptive. Communication networks assist in reacting to dynamic changes in the microgrid configurations. This presentation will also describe a newly developed protection scheme with extensive communication provided by the IEC 61850 standard for power networks to monitor the microgrid during these dynamic changes. The robustness and availability of the communication infrastructure are required for the success of protection measures. This adaptive protection scheme for AC microgrids can survive communication failures through energy storage <a href="http://systems.Co-sponsored" target="_blank" title="systems.Co-sponsored">systems.Co-sponsored by: Power Electronics/Industrial ElectronicsSpeaker(s): Osama, Room: UA1140, Bldg: UA, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, L1G7K4

IEEE IAS/PES Committee MeetingBldg: 140, 1500 Quebec Ave, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 1V7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487740

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the <a href="http://event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DIDfdbkgRFeEd3JbzURIUQSynopsis:How" target="_blank" title="event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DIDfdbkgRFeEd3JbzURIUQSynopsis:How">event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DIDfdbkgRFeEd3JbzURIUQSynopsis:How are machine learning algorithms able to answer questions from any nook and corner of the World Wide Web? How are trending hashtags from the near infinite microblog posts, unique visitors and other distinct counts in the near infinite website traffic determined? How do blogging websites avoid recommending articles a user has previously read? In general, how can we answer complex queries about enormous data streams without storing them entirely, in real-time? The answer often lies in clever approximation algorithms and data "sketches" that capture essential properties using vastly reduced space. The relentless flow of data in modern systems indeed presents significant challenges. These data streams are often too large to store and too fast to process exhaustively with traditional methods. This talk introduces key sketching and approximation techniques that help generate real-time data insights by processing data <a href="http://streams.---------------------------------------------------------------By" target="_blank" title="streams.---------------------------------------------------------------By">streams.---------------------------------------------------------------By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public <a href="http://viewing.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="viewing.Speaker(s):">viewing.Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. PendyalaVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/482936

REGISTRATION FOR SPEAKERS IS <a href="http://CLOSED.WE" target="_blank" title="CLOSED.WE">CLOSED.WE ENCOURAGE TO REGISTER AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBERFor more details, please refer to the conference webpage<a href="https://ieee.usask.ca/nemess-2025.phpNEMESS" target="_blank" title="https://ieee.usask.ca/nemess-2025.phpNEMESS">https://ieee.usask.ca/nemess-2025.phpNEMESS 2025 is a platform to showcase diverse groundbreaking research work. The conference will offer a dynamic space for meaningful interdisciplinary networking, where you can engage with leading experts, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations. Additionally, distinguished speakers from around the world will share their latest findings, fostering an atmosphere of international cooperation and <a href="http://discovery.Ways" target="_blank" title="discovery.Ways">discovery.Ways to participateBecome an Audience Member: Register as attendee and immerse yourself into unique research day with meaningful <a href="http://networking.Agenda" target="_blank" title="networking.Agenda">networking.Agenda & Location DetailsDate: Friday, August 29, 2025Time: from 11 am to 6 pm (GMT-6)Location: Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) Commons, 1337 College Dr, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6Agenda is to be posted on the website in <a href="http://July.Note:" target="_blank" title="July.Note:">July.Note: Organizational fee is non-refundableCo-sponsored by: Ukrainian Students' Research Association (USRA)GSA Commons, 1337 College Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W6

IEEE North Saskatchewan Section Meeting57 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469123

IEEE IAS/PES Committee MeetingBldg: 140, 1500 Quebec Ave, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 1V7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487742

Speaker: Dr. Gord Lovegrove, Kelowna, BCSubject: An update on the electrification of a <a href="http://Locomotive.Abstract:Dr" target="_blank" title="Locomotive.Abstract:Dr">Locomotive.Abstract:Dr. Lovegrove will provide updates since his Vancouver TALK 19: Locomotives Powered by Hydrogen given 2023-<a href="http://Oct-31.This" target="_blank" title="Oct-31.This">Oct-31.This is part of the TALK series organized by Carl Zanon of Vancouver Section LMAG. Times are Vancouver, 9:45 AM PDT is 12:45 PM <a href="http://EDT.All" target="_blank" title="EDT.All">EDT.All Life Members and anyone else interested is welcome to <a href="http://attend.Registration" target="_blank" title="attend.Registration">attend.Registration is optional, but we want to know who to <a href="http://expect.TALK" target="_blank" title="expect.TALK">expect.TALK series talks are not recorded, but sometimes the speaker makes the powerpoint presentation available. Only registered participants may request <a href="http://presentation.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="presentation.Speaker(s):">presentation.Speaker(s): Dr. Gord LovegroveAgenda: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/49125402539:45" target="_blank" title="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/49125402539:45">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/49125402539:45 AM PDT Zoom opens 15 minutes of introductions, general discussion and computer <a href="http://help.10:00" target="_blank" title="help.10:00">help.10:00 AM PDT Welcome and speaker introduction10:05 AM PDT SpeakerVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/490455