Registration

Room: Foyer

Presentations

Morning Keynote Presentation

Wenwen Pei: Navigating Forward: Unleashing Potential with Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs)

Room: B2007

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Power and Alternate Energy I

Room: B2007
Session Chair: Robert Cove

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Title: CSF Building Energy Consumption Analysis and Cost Estimate of Electric Resistive Heating System
Presenter: Chamila J. Liyanage

Title: Soft Charging as a Black Start Strategies for Power Outage Restoration: Ensuring Grid Resilience
Presenter: Mohammad Sajid Akhter

Computer Vision and AI I

Room: B2007A
Session Chair: Jonathan Anderson

Presentations

Title: Artificial Intelligence Based Method For Radar Image Super Resolution
Presenter: Thakshila Thilakanayake

Title: Ultrasound-Based Gesture Recognition
Presenter: Xiaohang Zhao

Power and Alternative Energy II

Room: B2007B
Session Chair: Pedram Ghasemigoudarzi

Presentations

Title: Switched-Inductor A-source Converter
Presenter: Hafiz Muhammad Fahim Younis

Title: Super-Twisting Double Integral Sliding Mode Control for a Grid-Connected Three-Phase Inverter
Presenter: Abu Mr Sufyan

Remote Sensing I

Room: B1003
Session Chair: Murilo Silva

Presentations

Title: Magnetic Anomaly-Based Marine Mammal Detection in Challenging Ocean Environments
Presenter: Murilo T. Silva

Title: A Country-wide Wetland Benchmark Dataset for Canadian Ecozones using Sentinel-2 Imagery
Presenter: Hamid Jafarzadeh

Coffee Break & Morning Poster Presentations

Room: Foyer

Presentations

Title: Fault Prediction on Newfoundland's Wind turbines and Power grids
Presenter: Behrouz Barghisavar

Title: GRIG: Data-Efficient Generative Residual Image Inpainting
Presenter: Wanglong Lu

Title: Human grasp forecasting using exocentric video classification
Presenter: Kaijie Shi

Title: DSP Based Digital Controller Design and Implementation for Energy Systems
Presenter: Ahmed Talal Hashmat

Title: Prediction of Multiple Sclerosis using Brain Activation Patterns During Motor Tasks from fNIRS in Machine Learning Framework
Presenter: Sadman Saumik Islam

Title: Design Architecture for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Presenter: Grace O. Pearcey

Power and Alternative Energy III

Room: B2007
Session Chair: Xianta Jiang

Presentations

Title: Bidirectional Couple Inductor Based Buck Converter for Renewable Energy Applications
Presenter: Jamil Muhammad Khan

Title: Energy use analysis and simulation of MUN CSF Building using BEopt
Presenter: Wei He

Title: HVDC System for High Energy Storage System Using St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador as a Case Study
Presenter: Emmanuel Dela Akabuah

Computer Vision and AI II

Room: B2007A
Session Chair: Kevin Murrant

Presentations

Title: Creating ground truth datasets for computer vision using fiducial markers - a case study on artificial ice using AprilTags
Presenter: Madison L. Hayley

Title: Improved Simulated Viewing of Holographic Imagery
Presenter: Nicholas Wells

Title: Data Analytics for Greener Marine Operations: Towards a Fuel Optimization Decision Support System
Presenter: Caitlin E. Piercey

Title: A Unified CNN Approach for Visual Place Recognition and Loop Closure Detection
Presenter: Kusal B. Tennakoon

Power and Alternative Energy IV

Room: B2007B
Session Chair: Pedram Ghasemigoudarzi

Presentations

Title: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Power System for Port Hope Simpson, Labrador
Presenter: Micheal Olajide

Title: Evaluating Wind Power Outputs for Alternative Energy Prospects Across Canada
Presenter: Meysam Shirin Nezhad

Title: 4E Analysis of a Novel Compressed Air Energy Storage Based Integrated Energy System
Presenter: Mohammad Assareh

Title: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Power System for a Remote Natural Gas Pipeline Control Station
Presenter: Muhammad Waqas

Remote Sensing II

Room: B1003
Session Chair: Weimin Huang

Presentations

Title: RainViT: Rain Detection From X-band Shipborne Radar Images With Vision Transformer
Presenter: Zhiding Yang

Title: Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Multi-scale Neighborhood Attention Transformer
Presenter: Xin Qiao

Title: Assessment of Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Ocean Current Measurement by Shipborne Marine X-Band Radar
Presenter: Yi Li

Title: HF Radar Cross Sections of Surface Targets with Linear Velocity on the Ocean Surface
Presenter: Michael Royle

Luncheon Keynote Presentation

Marie-Chantal Ross: The Ocean: What is it? Why We Care? and What NRC is doing about it?

Room: B2007

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Power and Alternative Energy V

Room: B2007
Session Chair: Robert Cove

Presentations

Title: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Power System for St. Brendan's, NL.
Presenter: Papa K Afful

Title: Fuzzy-Based Power Management of Wind Power Plants
Presenter: Mohammad Sajid Akhter

Title: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Power System for Black Tickle, Labrador
Presenter: Osilama T. Isah-Orbih

Computer Vision and AI III

Room: B2007A
Session Chair: Kevin Murrant & Robert Gash

Presentations

Title: Cogent: Code generation from statecharts for real-time reactive code
Presenter: Theodore S. Norvell

Title: Improved Projection-based Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Approach
Presenter: Nirasha Herath

Title: Defect Detection on Wind Turbine Blades Using Binary Segmentation Masks
Presenter: Syed Zeeshan Haider Rizvi

Circuits and Systems I

Room: B2007B
Session Chair: Eranga Fernando

Presentations

Title: Design and Analysis of Heatsink for EV Chargers
Presenter: Laith Issam Qunnis

Title: The Design of Advanced Charger for Electric Scooters
Presenter: Omar Qunees

Title: Optimization of In-motion Wireless Charging System of Electric Vehicles and its future prospect
Presenter: Bashu Kumar Das

Remote Sensing III

Room: B1003
Session Chair: Murilo Silva

Presentations

Title: On Radio Oceanography in Placentia Bay
Presenter: Joe Craig

Title: The Effect of Rain on Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) in Ocean Remote Sensing: A Review
Presenter: Jesse Chen

Title: Ocean Wave Parameter Estimation Using Microwave Scattering
Presenter: Masoud Torabi

Coffee Break

Room: Foyer

Presentations

Title: Learning to Pick Objects with a Compliant Tactile Module and Reinforcement Learning
Presenter: Vinicius Prado da Fonseca

Title: New Techniques for Charging EV batteries from PV Panel with Maximum Power Point Tacking (MPPT)
Presenter: Numan Ghafoor

Title: Advancements in Brushless DC Motor Control Systems for Sustainable Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Presenter: Behrouz Barghisavar

Title: A Comparative Study of Asymmetrical Inverters with Contrast to Symmetrical
Presenter: Ahmed Talal Hashmat

Title: Energy Management System of EV Chargers
Presenter: Kamran Mumtaz

Title: Investigating The Effectiveness of Simple Heuristic Features in Solving Sensor Orientation and Sensor Placement Problems in Human Activity Recognition Using A Single Smartphone Accelerometer
Presenter: Xianta Jiang

Power and Alternative Energy VI

Room: B2007
Session Chair: David Green

Presentations

Title: Design and Simulation a Solar Golf Cart for use in St. John's, Newfoundland
Presenter: Sahil Kumar Abhinav

Title: Optimizing Grid Stability and Peak Demand Reduction through Vehicle-to-Grid Services: Energy Lend-Lease Approach
Presenter: Burak Muhammetoglu

Title: Integrative Optimal Framework for Hybrid Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Sustainable Solutions for Pilley's Island, Newfoundland
Presenter: Sahil Kumar Abhinav

Computer Vision and AI IV

Room: B2007A
Session Chair: Jonathan Anderson

Presentations

Title: Analysis of Machine-Learning Facilitated LES for Flow Past a Sphere
Presenter: Hassanali Marefat

Title: Physics Informed Neural Network for Modelling of Drones
Presenter: Sondos Omar

Title: Inversion-Free Sparse Bayesian Learning for Compressed Sensing
Presenter: Yuhui Song

Title: A Novel Feature Extraction and Selection Approach for Discrimination of Ships and Icebergs in SAR Imagery
Presenter: Zahra Jafari

Other ECE Topics

Room: B2007B
Session Chair: Oscar De Silva

Presentations

Title: Mathematical Formulation to Maximize Renewable Energy Plants under the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) and Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Frameworks: A Comprehensive Approach
Presenter: Dipak Timalsina

Title: Dynamic Modelling and Analysis of a Hybrid Power system of Floating Solar PV System for an Offshore Aquaculture Site in Newfoundland
Presenter: Muhammad Nadeem Asgher

Title: A Case Study: Design, Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness of a Residential 20kW Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System
Presenter: Muhammad Kashif

Robotics and Control

Room: B1003
Session Chair: Eranga Fernando

Presentations

Title: Variable Sampling Time Model Predictive Controler for Obstacle Avoidance in Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Surface Vessels
Presenter: Eranga Fernando

Title: Tracking Control of a Four-joint Robotic Manipulator with Unknown Varying Load
Presenter: Mohammad Al Saaideh

Title: Improving Visual Inertial Lidar Odometry and Mapping using Object Detection
Presenter: Salaheldin Bilila

Title: Design and Characterization of a Variable Air-Gap Low-Energy based Reluctance Actuator Motion System
Presenter: Mohammad Al Saaideh

Closing Remarks and Award Presentations

Room: B2007

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