Annual AGM iMERIT Meeting May 27, 2021

Program
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. Jason Gu, iMERIT’s Principal Investigator
Dr. John Newhook, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
9:15 a.m. Keynote Presentation
Shelley Hessian, executive director of Start-Up Yard at COVE
(Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship)
Starting an Ocean Tech Company – Tips and Resources
9:45 a.m. Trainee presentations
PhD students
- Muhammad Asad: Development of Composite State Convergence Schemes for Teleportation Systems
- Brendan Smith: Passive Acoustic Detection and Monitoring of Hydrothermal Vents
- Saad Alhadlaq: Rogue Waves in the Oceans and Optical Fibres
- Xiaoyao (Jason) Feng: Electromagnetic and Acoustic Time-Reversal for Source Reconstruction
- Abolfazl Zokaei: Efficient Implementation of 400Gbps Optical Communication FEC Soft-Input Hamming Decoder
- Mohammad Mousavi: Arrival Time and Angle Fluctuations of the Sea-Surface Forward Scattering
- Emre Cilkaya: Numerical Simulation of Underwater Radiated Noise By Propeller
- Ahmed Al-Qallaf: Design of Onchip Optimal SC DC/DC Converter for Powering Underwater Transmitters
15-minute break
Masters students
- Brad Chevarie: Advanced Control Methodologies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Josiane Ostiguy: The PAGE Method for Acoustic Intensity Estimation
- Mark Henderson
- Marina Antipina: Soundscape Modelling and Validation for the Port of Sept-Îles, Quebec
- Hamed Bozorgi: 2D Laser and 3D Camera Data Integration and Filtering for Human Trajectory Tracking
- Christopher Bayley: Mapping Non-Stationary Phenomena in Complex Environments
- Erin Wetter: Multi-Agent Target Tracking with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Axel Belgarde: Split-beam Sonar
- Cesar Rodriguez: Tethered Payload Stabilization using an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Undergraduate student
- Graham Ching: Using Human Bio-signals to Control and Train a Robotic Wheelchair