Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Ottawa, Canada

Research Funding for Rafik Goubran (Principal Investigator unless otherwise stated)
Year Source TitleAmount per Year
2008-20011 (3 years)NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects. P.I. Diane Doran (Nursing U of Toronto), C.I. Frank Knoefel (Geriatrics, Bruyère Continuing Care), Sean Doherty (Geography, Wilfrid Laurier U) Integration of bio-physiological information with a
point-of-care decision support system for safer patient care
$ 153,000
2007-2010 (3 years)NSERC Strategic Project Grant. Co-applicants: Frank Knoefel,(Geriatrics, Bruyère Continuing Care) and  Heidi Sveistrup (Physiotherapy, U of Ottawa) Smart Environments and Communications for the Independent Living of Seniors $ 124,000
2007-2012 (5 years)NSERC Discovery Grant

Smart VoIP and Multimedia Terminals

$ 37,000
2007-2008 ( 1 year) Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), CANMET Lab (Research Contract) Intelligent Sensor System for Monitoring & Protecting Canadian Oil & Gas Pipelines $ 22,750
2006-2007 (2 years)ORNEC (Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce, e-health), Nortel, Tactex

Remote Patient Monitoring using Pressure-Sensitive Mats

$ 46,000
2006-2007 (2 years)

CITO (Ontario Centre of Excellence) and Mitel Networks.

Voice Quality Enhancement in VoIP

$ 80,000
2007 (1 year)Nortel (Research Grant) Sensor Solutions and Information Processing for Healthcare Applications $ 11,500
2006-2009 (3 years)NSERC CRD, Siemens

Intelligent Signal Processing for Environment-Sensitive Hearing Devices. (PI Professor Tyseer Aboulnasr and 5 co-applicants) 10%

$ 150,000
2006 (1 year)Nortel (Research Contract)

Proactive Real-Time Voice Quality Monitoring in VoIP Nortel Networks

$ 30,000
2005 (1 year)Nortel (Research Contract)

Non-Intrusive Voice Quality Assessment in VoIP Nortel Networks

$ 75,000
2004-2005 (2 years)CITO (Champions of Innovation)

Robust Hands-Free Speech Recognition Communications and Information Technology

$ 100,000
2004-2005 (2 years)CITO (Research Partnership Program), Mitel Networks

Stereophonic Wideband VoIP

$ 90,000
2002-2004 (2 years)NCIT (National Capital Institute of Telecommunications), NortelConferencing in VoIP (with T. Aboulnasr, M. Bouchard, R. Dansereau)$ 114,000
2002-2007 (5 years)NSERCSpeech Quality Enhancement in Conferencing$ 24,000
2002-2004 (2 years)Mitel NetworksAudio-Video Localization and Tracking$ 15,000
2002-2003NEC Corporation, JapanAdaptive DSP for Noise Cancellation in Wireless Phones and PDAs $ 28,000
2000-2002 (2 years)CITO, Nortel, NSERC CRDVoIP Algorithms and Architectures $ 134,700
2000MitelMicrohone Arrays and Beamforming$ 25,000
1999-2001 CITO Speech Quality Enhancement (C)$ 100,000
2000NortelMultiprocessor Architectures for DSP $ 15,600
1999-2000 CITO Voice Over IP: Architectures with Guaranteed QOS Requirements (PI: Prof. I. Lambadaris)$ 150,000
1999-2000 Nortel Audio DSP for Network Edge Devices (G) $ 15,000
1998-1999 Nortel Transform Domain Echo Cancellation (G) $ 15,000
1998-99 Mitel Network Echo Cancellers (G) $ 15,000
1998-99 Nortel Audio DSP for Network Edge Devices (G) $ 15,000
1998-99 Mitel Audio Signal Processing for Telephony (G) $ 10,700
1998-99 Mitel Beam Steering for Microphone Arrays (C) $ 6,300
1998-99 CITO Speech Quality Enhancement (C) $ 78,852
1998-99 CITO Architecture of Software-Definable Multi- Standard Radio (PI: Prof. S. Mahmoud) $ 56,258
1998-99 DND ATM Control Planes Security (C) (PI: Prof. John Lambadaris) $ 46,488
1998 Nortel Echo Cancellation for Home Office (C) $ 10,500
1998-02 NSERC Audio Quality Improvement using DSP (G) $ 17,187
1997 Nortel Evaluation of Echo Cancellation Technologies (C) $ 10,500
1997 Nortel Voice Over IP Structures and Algorithms (G) (with I. Lambadaris) $ 40,000
1996-98 TRIO Signal Processing for Telephony (C) $ 25,000
1996-98 Nortel Audio Signal Processing (G) $ 10,000
1996-97 DND Detection in Audio Radar Systems (C) $ 38,000
1994-98 NSERC Noise and Echo Cancellation (G) $ 16,684
1993-98 TRIO Hands-Free Telephony (C) $ 42,000
1992-93 NRC Ion Mobility Spectrometry (C) $ 5,000
1991-96 BNR DSP Applications in Acoustics (G) $ 15,000
1991-94 NSERC Acoustic Noise Cancellation (G) $ 19,000
1991-92 Bell Canada Noise Cancellation in Telephony (C) (with T. Aboulnasr) $ 30,000

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