The IEEE Young Professionals Montreal Panel Discussion at the esteemed IEEE PEDS 2023 Conference is your exclusive opportunity to gain valuable insights into the professional journeys of seven accomplished young professionals. Date: August 10th, 2023 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM 📍 ÉTS, Université du Quebec: Auditorium A-1600, Block A, 1st Floor, 1100 Notre-Dame St W, Montreal, Quebec H3C 1K3, Canada Immerse yourself in an inspiring discussion as these remarkable panelists share their personal experiences, triumphs, and challenges encountered on their path to success. Explore the multifaceted dimensions of their professional lives, including the role that family plays in shaping their careers. Uncover the secrets to achieving professional excellence and discover how these outstanding individuals have excelled in their respective fields. From academia to industry, our panelists represent a diverse range of expertise and can provide valuable insights to empower your own professional growth. Gain unparalleled guidance and actionable strategies as our panelists reveal the pivotal moments, career choices, and skills that have propelled them forward. Learn from their experiences and discover new perspectives to enhance your own professional journey. Connect with fellow young professionals and expand your network during this engaging event. Forge new connections, exchange ideas, and leverage the collective wisdom of the IEEE community. Secure your seat now! Limited spots available. Register to reserve your place at this enriching panel discussion. Join us on August 10th, 2023, and embark on a transformative journey as you delve into the professional lives of our distinguished panelists. Speaker(s): Dr. Matthew Posner, Dr. Seyed Masoud Mohseni-Bonab, Dr. Qingsong Wang, Dr. Carla Mouradian, Dr. Jasmine Boparai, Dr. Miloud Rezkallah, Dr. Ali Moeini Room: Auditorium A-1600, Bldg: Block A, 1st Floor, ÉTS, Université du Quebec, 1100 Notre-Dame St W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 1K3

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Yuhong Liu presenting Trust and Privacy Vulnerabilities of Today’s Online Social Networks : As we move further into the big data era, people are motivated in numerous ways to proactively generate, share and exchange diverse digital contents online every day. While the increasing amount of information greatly facilitates people’s decision makings, it also brings great challenges. For example, driven by the huge profits behind the big data economy, malicious attacks are emerging rapidly to mislead normal users’ decision-making process by providing carefully crafted false information. In addition, retrieving tremendous amount of user private information has become a popular attack target. This talk will discuss the security, trust and privacy issues in online social networks, the trend and challenges, particularly focusing on several sample attacks. Speaker(s): Dr Yuhong Liu, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364004

In this lecture a broad review of vehicles for farming operation will be given starting from tillage to crop harvesting. Agriculture and farming vehicles that have significant use of power electronics will be covered such as Exact Emerge Planter for seeding operation. This presentation will cover how power electronics supports crop-care system to exactly apply prescriptions such as fertilizers, pesticides, fungicide, etc. Idea is to create awareness that power electronics professionals could enable increased productivity so that by 2050 over 9.5 billion could have food, fiber, fuel (bio-based), shelter, and an efficient transportation system. This talk will also cover how vehicle electrification enables many functions, forms, and features in off- and on-highway vehicle. Speaker(s): Brij Singh, , Room: room EV002.184, Bldg: Concordia University EV Building, 1515 Sainte-Catherine O, Montreal, Ontario, Canada, H3G 2W1

The insatiable growth of datacenter traffic mandates increasing the capacity of cost-effective transceiver technologies to meet the foreseen demand. Competing configurations include Intensity Modulation / Direct Detection (IM/DD) and coherent transceiver architectures. In this presentation we will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with these two options including such topics as: wavelength, reach modulation format, modulator technology, and power consumption. In partnership with the (https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-development/research-collaboration/programs/high-throughput-secure-networks-challenge-program)Challenge program at National Research Council (NRC), we invite you to join this virtual seminar series to promote scientific information sharing, discussions, and interactions between researchers. ---- Résumé : La croissance insatiable du trafic dans les centres de données exige l'augmentation de la capacité des technologies d'émetteurs-récepteurs rentables pour répondre à la demande prévue. Les configurations concurrentes comprennent la modulation d'intensité/détection directe (IM/DD) et les architectures d'émetteurs-récepteurs cohérents. Dans cette présentation, nous discuterons des défis et des opportunités associés à ces deux options, y compris des sujets tels que la longueur d'onde, le format de modulation de la portée, la technologie du modulateur et la consommation d'énergie. Co-sponsored by: National Research Council, Canada Speaker(s): Prof. David V. Plant, Room: MC603, Bldg: McConnell Engineering building, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 0E9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/367465

This is a weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with David Alan Grier presenting The Generations of Computing and the Coming Data Age : If you look carefully at the development of computing, you can see clear generational cycles. These cycles are marked by a sharp change of technology and a group of young leaders taking advantage of those changes. There is clearly a period of 20 years in which these leaders rise to prominence in the field before passing command to the next generation. We can point to the mainframe generation of the Fifties, the Software/PC Generation of the 70s, the Internet/Mobile Generation of the 90s. We are clearly nearing the end of the 90s cycle and need to start asking what follows and who will be the next generation. This talk considers the extent to which data will be the next driving technology and the extent to which we are already shifting towards the data generation of leaders. Speaker(s): David Alan Grier, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364007