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

1. Muhammad Asad: Development of Composite State Convergence Schemes for Teleportation Systems
2. Brendan Smith: Passive Acoustic Detection and Monitoring of Hydrothermal Vents
3. Saad Alhadlaq: Rogue Waves in the Oceans and Optical Fibres
4. Xiaoyao (Jason) Feng: Electromagnetic and Acoustic Time-Reversal for Source Reconstruction
5. Abolfazl Zokaei: Efficient Implementation of 400Gbps Optical Communication FEC Soft-Input Hamming Decoder
6. Mohammad Mousavi: Arrival Time and Angle Fluctuations of the Sea-Surface Forward Scattering
7. Emre Cilkaya: Numerical Simulation of Underwater Radiated Noise By Propeller
8. 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

1. Graham Ching: Using Human Bio-signals to Control and Train a Robotic Wheelchair