Committee and Contact Information for IHTC 2014

Conference General Chair   

    Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, BH Engineering System Ltd.

Conference Vice-Chair           

    Raed  Abdullah ,  Hydro Ottawa Ltd

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs

     Prof. Sawan  mohamad.sawan@polymtl.ca, P.Eng., FIEEE, FCAE, FEIC, O.Q., Professor and Canada Research Chair, Polytechnique Montreal Director, ReSMiQ Research Centre & Polystim Neurotech Lab

     Prof.  Pritpal  Singh, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University College of Engineering

Technical Program Committee  (TPC) Members

     Prof. Mohamed Sawan mohamad.sawan@polymtl.ca

     Sri Krishnan (Ryerson University, Toronto)

     Gary Kenward  (Dalhousie University, Halifax)

     Sreeraman Rajan sreeraman@ieee.org, (Ottawa Section)

     Xavier Fernando xavier@ieee.org, (Ryerson University)

     Rami Abielmona rabielmo@ieee.org, (Ottawa Section)

     Kouros Goodarzi krs@ieee.org

     Alfredo Herrera alfredo.herrera@ieee.org (Ericsson Canada Inc., Ottawa)

     Anader Benyamine anader.benyamin@ieee.org

     Prof. Witold Kinsner Witold.Kinsner@umanitoba.ca

     Prof. David Wright’s   Bio: http://www.telfer.uottawa.ca/en/professor-directory/professors/wright-david

     Prof.  Pritpal  Singh  (Panel Sessions ) Bio: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/media/facultyexperts/egrexperts/pritpal_singh.html

IEEE Canada President 

    Amir Aghdam, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

IEEE Canada Conference Advisory Committee Chair 

    Wahab Almuhtadi, Professor, Algonquin College, Ottawa Ontario

Student Paper Contest Chair

    Sawsan Abdul Majid (Ottawa Section)

Student Paper Contest Vice-Chair

    Alfredo Herrera (Ottawa Section)

Special Program and Workshop 

    Sri Priya Sundararajan  golusupriya@yahoo.com

Tutorial Chair  

    Roni Khazaka roni.khazaka@mcgill.ca

Finance Chair   

    Yousef Shayan yousef.shayan@ieee.org

Registration Chair 

     Preeti Raman praman@Bytematters.com

WIE Activities Chair

 

Zahra Ahmadian praman@Bytematters.com

 

LOC Chair and Secretary 

    Laurent Lamarre lamarre.laurent@ireq.ca  (Quebec Hydro)

Patronage/Exhibition Chair  

     Dr. Eric Karmouch  ekarmouch@ieee.org

Local Arrangements  Co-Chairs  

       Kian Jalaleddini  kian_ja@yahoo.com

Publications Chair   

    Gerard Dunphy g.dunphy@nl.rogers.com

Publicity Chair  

      Alexei Botchkarev (Ministry of Health, Toronto )

    Soon Wan  GWan@vicr.com  (Boston Section)                                 

    Verona Wong vwong@ieee.org  (Vancouver Section)

Fund Raising   

       Amir Aghdam (Montreal Section)

     Ferial El-Hawary  (Halifax ,N.S.)

     Raed  Abdullah   (Ottawa Section)                     

Media, Video,  Photos 

    Glenn Mcknight  (Toronto, Ontario)

Volunteers Committee Chairs         

     Wolfram Lunscher wlunscher@gmail.com  (Ottawa Section)

     Salam Benchikh

WebSite   

   Janet Davis janet.davis@ieee.org (Ottawa Section)

  Vincent Zhang ahszzzc@gmail.com    e

Advisory Committee Members

     Paul Kostek, Seattle

     Mike Becker, Seattle

     Kieth Moore, Aizona

     Wan Gim (soon), Boston

     Ed Perkins, Portland, Oregon

     Mike Andrews , Arizona

     Lewis Terman, N.Y.