Dr. Rafik A. Goubran: Graduate Students

 

In Progress:

·         Amaya Arcelus, Post Doctoral Fellow in the area of Smart Home for the Independent Living of Seniors.

·         Megan Holtzman, Ph.D. program, research area: "Patient Monitoring using Pressure Sensitive Mats", NSERC Scholarship, co-supervised by Dr. Frank Knoefel, Elisabeth Bruyère Hospital and Bruyère Continuing Care.

·         Daphne Townsend, Ph.D. program, research area: “Detection of Sleep Apnea using Non-Intrusive Pressure Sensitive Mats”, NSERC Scholarship.

·         Xiaochuan He, Ph.D. program, research area: “Signal Enhancement and Clinical Decision Support Systems for ECG Signals”, co-supervised by Prof. Peter Liu. 

·         Anita McKee, Ph.D. program, research area: “Smart Homes for the Independent Living of Seniors”.

·         Payam Moradshahi, M.A.Sc. program, research area: “Beamforming using Microphone Arrays Embedded in Smart Phones”.

·         Rania Eldeeb, M.A.Sc. program, research area: “Adaptive Filter Structures for Echo and Noise Cancellation”.

·         Mattthew Taylor, M.A.Sc. program, research area: “Patient Monitoring Using Pressure-Sensitive Mats”.

·         Geoff Green, Ph.D. program, research area: “Food Safety Analysis Using Electronic Noses”, co-supervised by Dr. Adrian Chan

·         Saba Rahimi, M.A.Sc. program, research area: “Monitoring of Electrical Appliance Usage in Smart Homes”, co-supervised by Dr. Adrian Chan

 

Completed:

·         Hanieh Chatrzarrin, M.A.Sc., “Feature Extraction for the Differentiation of Dry and Wet Cough Sounds”, September 2011.

·         Vilas Joshi, M.A.Sc., “Architecture for Adaptive Remote Patient Monitoring”, August 2011.   

·         Amaya Arcelus, Ph.D.,"Context-Aware Smart Home Monitoring Through The Analysis of Pressure Sequences",  September 2010, co-supervised by Dr. Frank Knoefel, Elisabeth Bruyère Hospital and Bruyère Continuing Care, winner of Senate Medal for Academic Achievement.

·         Trevor Burton, Ph.D. program, research area: "Efficient Subband Structures for Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Nonstationary and Nonlinear ", September 2010, NSERC Scholarship, winner of Senate Medal for Academic Achievement.

·         Anneliis Tosine, M.A.Sc., “Remote Medical Monitoring Decision Support System and User Interface Usability”, September 2010, co-supervised by Prof. Avi Parush, Psychology.

·         Brady Laska, Ph.D., "Transform Domain Model-Based Wideband Speech Enhancement with Hearing Aid Applications”, May 2010, co-supervised with Professor Miodrag Bolic, University of Ottawa, NSERC and OGS Scholarships, winner of Senate Medal for Academic Achievement.

·         Nicholas Foubert, M.A.Sc., “Posture Recognition and Postural Transition Detection Using Bed-Based Pressure Sensor Arrays”, April 2010, co-supervised by Professor Aysegul Cuhadar.

·         Emad Hanna, M.A.Sc., “Stereoscopic Imaging for Obstacle Detection Onboard Low-Flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, April 2010, co-supervised with Professor Paul Straznicky.

·         Idana Veledar, M.A.Sc., “Patient Bed Transfer Analysis Using Pressure Sensor Arrays”, (co-supervision with Dr. Frank Knoefel), August 2009.     

·         Kyle Mulligan, M.A.Sc., “Monitoring the Propagation of Lung Sounds Using Electronic Stethoscope Arrays”, (co-supervision with Dr. Andy Adler), August 2009.

·         Rami Abu El Quran, Ph.D., “Audio Signal Classification in Reverberant and Noisy Environments”, (co-supervision with Dr. Adrian Chan), May 09.

·         Ming Ye Yuan, M.A.Sc., “Using Thermal Imaging to Promote Independent Living”, (co-supervision with Dr. Jim Green), January 2009.

·         Christophe Herry, Ph.D., "Thermal Imaging for Medical Diagnosis", February 2008, co-supervised by Professor Monique Frize.

·         James Gordy, Ph.D., "Robust Echo Cancellation in Harsh Environments", April 2007 (NSERC Scholarship).

·         Lijing Ding, "Single-Ended Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Monitoring in VoIP", April 2007, co-supervised by Dr. S. El-Hennawey, Nortel, (Nortel Scholarship).

·         Christopher McClellan, M.A.Sc., "Aspects of Nonlinear Dielectric Spectroscopy In The Non-Invasive Determination of Glucose", Dec. 2006, co-supervised by Prof. Adrian Chan.

·         Megan Howell Jones, M.A.Sc., "Autonomous Patient Monitoring with Pressure-Sensitive Arrays", Sep. 2006,  co-supervised by Dr. Frank Knoefel, SCO Health Services, (NSERC Scholarship).

·         Brady Laska, M.A.Sc., "Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Wideband VoIP", Sep. 2006, (OGS Scholarship).

·         Patrick Beirne, M.A.Sc., "Unsupervised Segmentation of Heart Sounds", Sep. 2006, co-supervisor: Prof. Chan

·         Aziz El-Solh, M.A.Sc., "Speech Enhancement Techniques for Speaker Recognition", Sep. 2006, co-supervisor: Prof. Cuhadar.

·         Jacek Dmochowski, M.A.Sc., "Combined Beamforming and Noise Cancellation", Sep. 2005, (OGS Scholarship).

·         David Lo, Ph.D., "Talker Localization in Video Conferencing Systems" (co-supervisor: Prof. Dansereau), July 2005.

·         Ning Ma, Ph.D., “Speech Enhancement Algorithms Using Kalman Filtering and Masking Properties of Human Auditory Systems”, (co-supervisor: Prof. Bouchard), July 2005.

·         Mohamed Tanabian, M.Sc. (ISS), “Speech Accent Identification and Speech Recognition using Speaker Accent Adaptation”, May 2005

·         Trevor Burton, M.A.Sc.,  “Acoustic Echo Cancellation in the Presence of Microphone Arrays”, December 2004

·         Joseph Gammal, M.A.Sc.,  “Speaker Recognition in the Presence of Reverberation”, December 2004

·         Anita McKee, M.A.Sc., "Beamforming for Multisesnsor Stethoscopes", September 2004 (NSERC Scholarship)

·         Hong Chen, M.A.Sc., "Improvement of the Classification Accuracy in Smell Detection Using Electronic Noses", September 2004, (co-supervised by Dr. Tofy Mussivand, University of Ottawa Heart Institute).

·         Philippe Moquin, M.A.Sc., "Beamforming using Scattering Conformal Microphone Arrays", February 2004, (co-supervision with Dr. Stephane Dedieu).

·         Zhong Lin, M.A.Sc., "Speech Quality Enhancement in High Noise Environments", August 2003, OGS-ST Scholarship

·         Ayman Radwan, M.A.Sc., "Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Assessment in VoIP", August 2003, (co-sup. Prof. S. El-Hennawey, Nortel Networks).

·         Rami Abu El Quran, M.A.Sc., "Audio Classification for Security Monitoring", August 2003, OGS-ST Scholarship

·         Mina Labib, M.A.Sc., “Smart Antenna Beamforming for CDMA", August 2003, (co-sup Prof. El-Tanany)

·         Shuman Jin, M.A.Sc., “"Multiple Packet Streams in Encrypted VoIP", May 2003, (co-sup. Prof. R. Dansereau).

·         Chengliang Li, M.A.Sc., "Lip Feature Extraction and Audio-Video Synchronization", May 2003, (co-sup. Prof. R. Dansereau).

·         Zhihong Qian, M.A.Sc., "Conferencing in VoIP", April 2003 (co-sup. Prof. El-Hennawey, Nortel Networks)

·         Trevor Yensen, Ph.D., "Hands-Free Terminals for VoIP", co-sup. Prof. Ioanis Lambadaris, December 2002, NSERC and OGS scholarships.

·         Han Zhao, M.A.Sc., "Talker Detection for Multimedia Conferencing", co-sup. Prof. John Knight, December 2002.

·         Suryani Chao, M.A.Sc., "Scheduling in DSP Multiprocessor Systems", co-sup. Prof. John Chinneck, September 2002.

·         Lijing Ding, "Speech Quality Evaluation in VoIP using the E-Model", September 2002, OGS-ST scholarship.

·         Rosa Zheng, Ph.D., "Spatial-Temporal Subband Beamforming for Near Field Adaptive Array Processing", co-sup. Prof. El-Tanany, August 2002.

·         Feng Deng, M.A.Sc., "Fast Fourier Transform Performance and Parallel Implementation", co-sup. Prof. El-Tanany,  June 2001, NSERC scholarship.

·         Michael Gawargy, M.A.Sc., "Communication Services in Next Generation Networks", April 2001.

·         Gilad Helman, M.A.Sc., "Speech Enhancement Using Microphone Arrays", September 2000, OGS-ST Scholarship.

·         Jeff Lariviere, Ph.D., "Transform Domain Echo Cancellation and Noise Reduction", July 2000, NSERC and OGS-ST Scholarships.

·         Marios Parperis, M.A.Sc., "Computer-Telephony Integration and Voice over IP: Delay Estimation", (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris), February 2000, OGS Scholarship.

·         Susan Xu, M.A.Sc., "Effects of Delay Jitter and Clock Slippage on Network Echo Cancellation", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed January 2000, OGS-ST Scholarship.

·         Ying Huang, M.A.Sc., "Effects of Vocoder Distortion and Packet Loss on Network Echo Cancellation", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed January 2000, OGS-ST Scholarship.

·         Jim Ryan, "Microphone Arrays for Hands Free Telephony: Near-Field Beamforming", Ph.D. thesis, completed August 1999, NSERC Scholarship.

·         Elias Nemer, "Speech Analysis and Quality Enhancement using High Order Cumulants", Ph.D. thesis, completed July 1999. (co-supervision with Prof. S.A. Mahmoud)

·         Trevor Yensen, "Structures and Interfaces for Voice Over IP Networks", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed September 1998, (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris), NSERC Scholarship.

·         Trevor Moat, "Echo Cancellation in the Transform Domain", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed January 1998.

·         Neil Birkett, "Nonlinearity Adaptive Filtering with Applications to Acoustic Echo Cancellation", NSERC Scholarship, Ph.D. thesis, completed April 1997.

·         Nong Li, "Effects of Vibration and Rattling on Hands-Free Telephones", M.Sc., completed December 1997.

·         Timothy Webster, "Tracking Performance of Acoustic Echo Cancellers", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed August 1995, NSERC Scholarship.

·         Jeffery Lariviere, "Functional Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart-Valves Through Acoustic Analysis" M.A.Sc. thesis completed August 1995. (co-supervision with Dr. Toffy Mussivand, Ottawa Heart Institute), NSERC Scholarship.

·         Shivakumar Venkataraman, "Adaptive Filter Structures for Equalization and Diversity Combining", M.A.Sc. thesis completed July 1994. (co-supervision with Prof. S.A. Mahmoud)

·         Haiyan Yuan, "Dynamic Behavior of Acoustic Echo Cancellers" M.A.Sc. thesis, completed March 1994.

·         George Yaremchuk, "Design and Implementation of a Multiprocessor for DSP and Communications Systems Algorithm Evaluation", M.A.Sc. thesis completed March 1993. (co-supervision with Prof. T. Kwasnewski, Electronics)

·         Nabeel Ghuzlaan, "VBR Video Coding and Transmission over ATM Channel Using a Multiprocessor Architecture", M.A.Sc. thesis completed March 1993. (co-supervision with prof. Kaye)

·         M.E Knappe, "Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Performance and Structures", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed September 1992. (Winner of the University Senate Medal), NSERC Scholarship.

·         D.B Oakley, "Image Filtering on Slotted Ring Multiple DSP Systems", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed September 1992. (co-supervision with Prof. D.C. Coll), NSERC Scholarship.

·         Jim Ryan, "Subband Adaptive Filters", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed April 1992, NSERC Scholarship.

·         Leon Lipoth, "Neural Network Based Detection of EEG Abnormalities", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed December 1991. (co-supervision with prof. Hafez), NSERC Scholarship.

·         Bruce Wallace, "Parallel Adaptive Filter Structures for Noise Cancellation", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed February 1991, NSERC Scholarship.

·         Robert Hebert, "Acoustic Noise Cancellation in Mobile Telephony", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed January 1991. (co-supervision with prof. H.M. Hafez).

·         Oliver Zimmermann, "The design and Test of a Millimeter Resolution EEG Amplifier", M.Sc. thesis, completed Aug. 1990. (co-supervision with Prof Van der Puije, Electr.)

·         Richard Jerome, "Performance Analysis of Space-Based Radar Tracking Techniques", M.A.Sc. thesis, completed August 1990.

Completed by Coursework and Project:

·         Marc Morin, "Architectural Evaluation of General Purpose Microprocessors", M.Eng. Project, completed March 1994

·         E.K. Chang, "Optical Storage Systems in Modern Jukeboxes", M.Eng. Project, completed May 1992

·         Nicodem Tilya, "Digital Signal Processing for Ion Mobility Spectrometry", M.Eng. project, completed April 1992

·         Gary Hutchinson, "Multiprocessor Architectures for DSP Applications", M.Eng. project, completed December 1989