Dr. Rami Abielmona
VP Research & Engineering
Larus Technologies Corporation
Ottawa, Ontario

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

The talk will present current research and development in sensor networking. We will discuss current applications of data fusion being developed at Larus Technologies Corporation. Fusion has been tackled from many different angles, and for various assorted applications. The underlying goal is the analysis of a refined state estimate for the process under observation. Using machine learning and data fusion techniques, we design tools for collaborative signal processing, tasking and querying as well as data aggregation and dissemination. We are developing a decision-support system that deals with data source fusion using a predictive modeling technique. The novel architecture is capable of providing assistance for decision makers, as well as tasking control sources to better cover the real-world environment in question. Some user applications of such an exploited technology are: object detection, classification and tracking, integrated views, state estimation and habitat monitoring. We will also outline some of the requirements and challenges faced by the sensor networking community, and discuss methods to advance the field altogether.

Dr. Rami Abielmona (S’00-M’02) is VP Research & Engineering at Larus Technologies Corporation. He received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and electrical engineering, from the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, where he still works as a Part-Time Professor. His research interests include sensor networking, multi-sensor data fusion and computationally intelligent computing architectures. He received the ”Best Student Poster Award” at the Knowledge Network Conference in 2002, and the ”Student Research Excellence Scholarship” by CITO in 2003. He was a CMC Success Story in 2005 for his Ph.D. research. He received the NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellowship (IR&DF) in 2007. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Educational Activities committee, the Vice-Chair of the local IEEE Computer Society chapter and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition committee. He also became a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario in 2008.