I am grateful to many of my students who have provided me with research material that I have used in these speeches. Without their continued support, these lectures would have not been possible.
-Shahrokh Valaee
Invited Speeches
- "A Unifying Framework for Dropout in Neural Networks", (Invited Talk) The Edge Intellgence Workshop, 2020.
- "Localization of Wireless Terminals in 5G and Beyond," (Invited Talk) The 57th IEEE 5G Summit - Sheridan, 2019.
- "C-V2X Scheduling in the Next Generation of Wireless Networks", (Invited Talk) IEEE 5G Toronto Summit 2019.
- "Localization of Wireless Terminals using the WiFi Technology," (Invited Talk), University of Calgary, 2018.
- "Machine Learning for Training Neural Networks with Little Data," (Invited Talk) Huawei, Montreal, 2018.
- "Cooperative Self-driving Vehicles," (Keynote Speech) the 20th International Conference on
Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2017)
- "User Localization in Next Generation Wireless Networks," (invited Talk) 3rd International
Workshop Research Advancements in Future Internet Architectures (RAFNET), in conjunction with IEEE VTC Fall 2017.
- "Connected Cars for Smart Urban Mobility," (Keynote),
EAI International Conference on Smart Urban Mobility
Services, October 13th, Toronto, 2015.
- "Localization of Wireless nodes," (Plenary Speech),
CSI Computer Conference, and Articial Intelligence
Workshop, , Mashhad, Iran, March 9th, 2015.
- "From Self-driving Cars to Intelligent Vehicles,"
(Invited Talk), Department of System and Computer
Engineering, Carleton University, September 15th, 2014.
- "From Self-driving Cars to Intelligent Vehicles,"
(Invited Talk), Department of Electrical Engineering,
King Fahad University, May 13th, 2014
- "From Self-driving Cars to Intelligent Vehicles,"
(Invited Talk), King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST), May 14th, 2014.
- "Vehicular Networking: A New Paradigm at Network
Edge," (Invited Talk), Edge of the Network Computing
(EON) Workshop, (part of the Embedded Systems Week
Conference), October 4th, 2013.
- "Autonomous Vehicles: What is next?," (Invited Talk),
IEEE Montreal Section, Concordia University, February
4th, 2013.
- "Localization of Wireless Terminals in Indoor
Environments," (invited talk), The 12th Emerging
Information and Technology Conference (EITA-EITC 2012),
August 16th, 2012, Toronto.
- "Anonymous Localization of Wireless Terminals in Indoors,"
(invited talk), The 3rd Invitational Workshop on
Opportunistic RF Localization for Next Generation
Wireless Devices Future Directions, Technologies,
Standards and Applications, May 2012, New Orleans, LA,
USA. [YouTube]
- "Localization of Smartphones in Indoors," (invited
talk), Mohandes, The Canadian Society of Iranian
Engineers and Architects, Dec 2010 ;
- "Application of Compressive Sensing and Anity
Propagation for Localization of Wireless Terminals,"
(Invited Talk) IEEE Montreal Section, December 7th,
2009.
- "Taxonomy of Sensor Networks," (Plenary Address),
14th CSI Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran, March 10th,
2009.
- "Sensing, Localization and Applications in Sensor,
Networks," (Keynote Speech), Third IEEE
International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building
Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), October 2008.
- "Ad Hoc Networking in Vehicular Environment," (Keynote
Speech), 4th International Workshop on Wireless Ad
Hoc and Sensor Networking, in conjunction with IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS) June 2007.
- "Scheduling in 802.16 Mesh Networks," (invited talk),
Sharif University of Technology, June 2007.
- "Minimum Delay Scheduling in TDMA Networks," (invited
talk), CIS Research Seminars, University of Guelph,
March 2007.
- "Mobile Hotspots," (Distinguished Seminar Series),
University of Waterloo, May 2005.
- "Information Raining for Mobile Hotspots in 4G
Wireless Networks," Distinguished Speaker in the 22nd
Biennial Symposium in Communications, June 2004.
- "Using Network Calculus in Wireless Local Area
Networks," (Invited Speaker), IEEE Kingston Section,
Queens University, December 2003.
- "Telecommunication Networks, Past, Present and
Future," (Invited Speaker), IEEE Branch at Amir Kabir
University, Tehran, Iran 2000."
- "ATM & IP, Technologies for Information Super
Highways," (Invited Speaker), IEEE Iran Section, 2000.
- "Information Highways," (Keynote Speaker), Computer
Society of Iran, 2000.
- "Telecommunication Networks, Past, Present and
Future," (Invited Speaker) International Millennium
Seminar in Electrical Engineering, IEEE Branch at Sharif
University of Technology, 2000.
- "Smart Antenna for Mobile Communications," (Invited
Speaker), in IEEE Branch at the University of Tehran,
1999.