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Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a key enabler for reshaping wireless networks through their powerful reasoning and generalization capabilities. This talk begins with an overview of LLM fundamentals, followed by a discussion of their emerging applications in wireless systems, highlighting both the opportunities they create and the practical challenges they pose. Prompt engineering is introduced as a lightweight and effective alternative to fine-tuning, enabling accurate, context-aware, and resource-efficient decision-making. Two representative use cases will be presented. First, network resource allocation will be addressed through a unified multi-agent framework in which iterative prompting and structured feedback are used to solve constrained non-convex optimization problems, achieving scalable, feasible, and near-optimal performance. Second, intelligent decision-making for autonomous vehicular systems will be discussed through joint optimization of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications and autonomous driving policies. Across these applications, LLM-driven frameworks demonstrate reduced time complexity and enhanced adaptability compared to conventional approaches. The talk concludes by outlining how such LLM-driven optimization frameworks can evolve into unified, foundation-model-based engines for end-to-end wireless network <a href="http://intelligence.Biography:" target="_blank" title="intelligence.Biography:">intelligence.Biography: HINA TABASSUM (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada, where she joined as an Assistant Professor in 2018. She is also appointed as a Visiting Faculty with the University of Toronto in 2024, and the York Research Chair of 5G/6G-enabled mobility and sensing applications in 2023, for five years. She is listed in the Stanford’s list of the World’s Top Two-Percent Researchers from 2021 to 2025. She has been selected as the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2025–2026. She has co-authored over 120 refereed articles in well-reputed IEEE journals, magazines, and conferences. Her current research interests include multiband 6G wireless communications and sensing networks, connected and autonomous systems, and AI-enabled network mobility and resource management solutions. She has earned numerous distinctions, including the N2Women Star in Networking and Communications (2025), Early Career Lassonde Innovation Award (2023), N2Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications (2022), multiple Exemplary Editor awards from IEEE journals, and appointment to the NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Group (2025–2028). She served as an Associate Editor for IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS from 2019 to 2023, IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY from 2019 to 2023, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING from 2020 to 2023. She is also currently serving as an Area Editor for IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY and an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND <a href="http://TUTORIALS.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="TUTORIALS.Speaker(s):">TUTORIALS.Speaker(s): HINA TABASSUM, Room: EITC E1 270, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Please join us on May 8 for an insightful online presentation on advancements in searchable encryption, presented by Dr. Khosro <a href="http://Salmani.Summary:" target="_blank" title="Salmani.Summary:">Salmani.Summary: Searchable encryption has emerged as a key cryptographic technology for enabling efficient search over encrypted data while preserving confidentiality in untrusted environments. In this talk, I will introduce the fundamental concepts of searchable encryption methodologies and discuss the privacy challenges that have shaped their evolution. The presentation will review the historical development of searchable encryption, highlighting how early designs addressed basic functionality and how subsequent approaches responded to increasingly sophisticated privacy threats, such as access-pattern and leakage attacks. I will then present a structured classification of searchable encryption methodologies, offering a conceptual framework that helps clarify existing designs and their privacy trade-offs. This classification aims to strengthen the foundation for reasoning about privacy guarantees and to support the design of more robust and practical schemes. The talk will also touch on emerging directions, including usability considerations and the interaction between searchable encryption and modern data-driven systems. The goal of this talk is to provide an accessible introduction to searchable encryption and its privacy challenges, while motivating researchers and practitioners to further explore open problems and contribute to advancing privacy-preserving search <a href="http://technologies.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="technologies.Speaker(s):">technologies.Speaker(s): , Khosro SalmaniVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553885

La Section IEEE de Québec vous invite à une session spéciale d’une heure avec M. Philippe Dupont et Mme Nathalie Nault de Québec Destination Affaires, l’organisation responsable d’attirer et de soutenir la tenue de conférences internationales dans la région de Qué<a href="http://bec.L’objectif" target="_blank" title="bec.L’objectif">bec.L’objectif de cette rencontre est de présenter aux membres du Comité Exécutif, aux présidents de chapitres techniques, ainsi qu’aux présidents des groupes d’affinité (WIE et YP) les services logistiques, financiers et stratégiques offerts pour faciliter l’organisation de conférences IEEE à Québec. Québec Destination Affaires accompagne les comités organisateurs du début à la fin : préparation des dossiers de candidature, soutien aux visites préalables, coordination avec les infrastructures locales et possibilités d’appui <a href="http://financier.Cette" target="_blank" title="financier.Cette">financier.Cette session est une excellente occasion de mieux comprendre comment un chapitre ou un groupe d’affinité peut transformer ses ateliers, symposiums ou événements en conférences d’envergure, tout en profitant d’un soutien <a href="http://professionnel.Points" target="_blank" title="professionnel.Points">professionnel.Points clés abordés :-Services offerts aux organisateurs de conférences IEEE-Soutien stratégique et financier pour attirer des événements internationaux-Processus de mise en candidature et accompagnement-Exemples de collaborations réussies à Québec-Période de questionsDétails pratiques :-Date : 8 mai 2026-Heure : 12h00 à 13h00 (heure de l’Est)-Format : En personne au Salon VIP du Centre des Congrès de Québec (1000, boulevard René-Lévesque est, 6e étage Québec, QC, G1R 2B5)-Coût : Gratuit, lunch fourni par QDA (merci!)-Public cible : Présidents de chapitres techniques, présidents des groupes d’affinité (WIE, YP) et membres du Comité Exécutif de la Section IEEE de Québec. Tout membre intéressé à organiser une conférence IEEE à Québec est le <a href="http://bienvenu.Salon" target="_blank" title="bienvenu.Salon">bienvenu.Salon VIP du Centre des Congrès de Québec, 1000, boulevard René-Lévesque est, 6e étage, Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1R 2B5

This work period is aimed for participants or interested groups for the Ottawa Robotics Competition 2026. Teams and their supervisors will be able to ask the organizers questions about the competition details and try out test versions of many of the <a href="http://competitions.Work" target="_blank" title="competitions.Work">competitions.Work Period #1: April 25th Room T102 (First floor)Work Period #2: May 9th T207 (Second floor)Attendees under the age of 18 are expected to be accompanied by a parent or supervisor for the duration of the work period <a href="http://attendance.NOTE:" target="_blank" title="attendance.NOTE:">attendance.NOTE: This event is not held at the same location as the final competition, we would like to thank Algonquin College for allowing us to use their space for this event!Room: 207, Bldg: T, Algonquin college , 1385 Woodroffe avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2G 1V8

IEEE Kingston Section + Ingenuity Labs present Multi-Robots WorkshopThis event brings three multi-robots specialist from different backgrounds to talk about their research and tranding topics in the <a href="http://field.Registration" target="_blank" title="field.Registration">field.Registration is free for IEEE members and Ingenuity Labs membersDr. Melissa Greeff is an Assistant Professor at Queen's University and leads the Robora Lab. Her research interests include aerial robots, vision-based navigation, and safe learning-based <a href="http://control.Dr" target="_blank" title="control.Dr">control.Dr. P. Travis Jardine is an adjunct professor at Queen's University and is an early member of the Autonomous Robotics Research Group. His research lies at the intersection of control, learning, and cooperation in multi-agent robotic <a href="http://systems.Dr" target="_blank" title="systems.Dr">systems.Dr. Jean-Alexis Delamer is an Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University. His primary research interests include Artificial Intelligence applied to Robotics, particularly Markov decision processes; POMDPs; Game Theory; Path Planning; <a href="http://UAVs.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="UAVs.Speaker(s):">UAVs.Speaker(s): Melissa, Travis, Jean-AlexisAgenda: 08:30 – 08:50 Registration & Morning Coffee08:50 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction09:00 – 09:40 Technical Talk 1 –09:40 – 10:20 Technical Talk 2 –10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break + Networking10:40 – 11:20 Technical Talk 3 –11:20 – 11:40 Panel Q&A / Open Discussion11:40 – 11:50 Closing RemarksRoom: 395, Bldg: Mitchell Hall, 69 Union St., Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 2N9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546171

The Graduate Research Conference (GRC) highlights the breadth and quality of graduate research across the department through keynote talks and student research presentations spanning diverse engineering domains. The conference fosters discussion, collaboration, and connection within the research community, providing graduate students with a platform to share their work and engage with the latest faculty-led research. This is a great opportunity to promote IEEE and attract IEEE Student <a href="http://membership.Room:" target="_blank" title="membership.Room:">membership.Room: Sears Atrium, Bldg: ENG, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2K3

IEEE Electronic Packaging Society Toronto is proud to invite you to a virtual distinguished lecture by Dr. Mukta Farooq of IBM <a href="http://research.Join" target="_blank" title="research.Join">research.Join us Monday, 11 May 2026 at 10AM (ET)Abstract---------------------------------------------------------------While silicon scaling has reached astonishing levels over the last half century, there has not been a corresponding level of scaling in electronic packaging technology. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) architectures are now changing the landscape, increasingly moving us towards chiplets and advanced packaging technology, especially Heterogeneous Integration (HI). What are these unique requirements of AI which are driving the need for HI? What are some of the unique challenges in semiconductor and packaging technologies that must be overcome to make this successful? This seminar will discuss key HI methods including interposers, fan out wafer level processing, silicon bridges, and 3D integration. We will look at their attributes as well as their challenges, to determine how they can be leveraged to achieve AI <a href="http://architectures.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="architectures.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Speaker(s):">architectures.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Speaker(s): Dr. Mukta Farooq, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554791

Semi-annual Hamilton-KW LMAG lunch. Guest: Tom Dean, engineer and well-known <a href="http://speaker.Agenda:" target="_blank" title="speaker.Agenda:">speaker.Agenda: 11:30 a.m. arrival12:00 noon: lunch12:45 p.m. speaker1:30 p.m. adjournmentSouthcote 53 Tap and Grill, 534 Garner Rd E, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada,L9G 0A1

Phononic frequency combs (PFC) are the mechanical analogues of celebrated photonic frequency combs. These represent a newly documented physical phenomenon in the well-researched physical domain of mechanical resonators . The emergence of PFC is mediated by nonlinear modal coupling. Through a series of experiments using micromechanical resonators, various physical features of PFC have been identified. These include drive parameters for comb operation, hysteresis for comb spectrum tailoring and nonlinear sensitivity to physical perturbations. My talk will describe the physics of PFC and will emphasize how these combs could be foundational to the fields of materials science, molecular science and chemical science. In that respect, I will present our first conceptual demonstrations of material combs, molecular combs and chemical combs respectively. I will also showcase our recent demonstrations of broadband PFC using optical tweezers and phonon lasers . The future work will be focused on the applications of PFC in sensing, communications and quantum information <a href="http://science.1" target="_blank" title="science.1">science.1. Ganesan, A., Do, C. and Seshia, A., 2017. Phononic frequency comb via intrinsic three-wave mixing. Physical review letters, 118(3), p.033903.2. de Jong, M.H., Ganesan, A., Cupertino, A., Gröblacher, S. and Norte, R.A., 2023. Mechanical overtone frequency combs. Nature Communications, 14(1), p.1458.3. Xiao, G., Feng, Z., Kuang, T., Huang, R., He, Y., Chen, X., Zuo, Y., Han, X., Xiong, W., Tan, Z. and Ganesan, A., 2026. Ultrabroadband phonon laser frequency comb. Advanced Photonics, 8(2), <a href="http://pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s):">pp.026004-026004.Speaker(s): Adarsh , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554934

Come join us for a free in-person networking night! Whether you're a student, early-career professional, or seasoned engineer, this is a great chance to meet like-minded people and build connections in a casual, no-pressure <a href="http://setting.Both" target="_blank" title="setting.Both">setting.Both IEEE members and non-members are welcome — and if you're a student curious about what IEEE has to offer, this is the perfect place to find out!📍 Oxford Taproom (Garrison Brewing)📅 Thursday, May 14th | 5:30 – 7:30 PMAdmission is free, and each attendee will receive a drink ticket along with snacks. All non-alcoholic drinks are on us throughout the <a href="http://evening.We" target="_blank" title="evening.We">evening.We hope to see you there!The Oxford Taproom, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

(https://quebec.ieee.ca/) vous invite à participer à la première assemblée générale du Chapitre local de la (https://ieee-pes.org/) (PES).Cet événement marque une étape importante dans le développement de la communauté IEEE en énergie de la Section de Québec (région de Québec, Saguenay, Côte-Nord et Bas St-Laurent), en rassemblant les professionnels, chercheurs et étudiants intéressés par les enjeux liés aux systèmes électriques, à la transition énergétique et aux technologies associé<a href="http://es.Cette" target="_blank" title="es.Cette">es.Cette assemblée a pour objectif de présenter le chapitre, de constituer son comité exécutif et de lancer officiellement ses activités.---------------------------------------------------------------Ordre du jour- Historique, raison d’être et formation du Chapitre- Appel à candidatures au Comité Exécutif et élection- Discours du premier Président du Chapitre IEEE PES de Québec- Levée de l’assemblée et cocktail réseautage offert par la Section IEEE de Québec (**commanditaire bienvenu!**)---------------------------------------------------------------Nous vous invitons à vous joindre à nous pour contribuer activement à la mise en place de ce nouveau chapitre et rencontrer les acteurs clés du secteur de l’énergie au Qué<a href="http://bec.C'est" target="_blank" title="bec.C'est">bec.C'est une excellente occasion de vous impliquer dans le développement du Chapitre! Il y a de la place pour tout le monde...L'événement aura lieu dans les bureaux de la firme d'ingénierie (https://www.tetratech.com/) sur le boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel. <a href="http://Gratuit.Room:" target="_blank" title="Gratuit.Room:">Gratuit.Room: R16, Bldg: Bureau 150, Tetratech, 1950, boulevard Wilifrid-Hamel, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, G1N 3Z2

Monthly Executive Team Meeting - IEEE Hamilton Section (May'2026)Agenda: 07:00PM - Meeting starts08:00PM - Meeting endsVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553990