News

2012

• September 2012: Ahmed Abdelsadek joins NSL as a MSc student. Welcome aboard Ahmed!

• September 2012: Kiana Calagari joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Kiana!

• August 2012: Tamir Hegazy joins NSL as a post-doc fellow. Welcome aboard Tamir!

• August 2012: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

• July 2012: Kaushik Choudhary graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

• June 2012: Taher Dameh graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

2011

• December 2011: Fei Gao graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

• September 2011: Cameron Harvey graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. Congratulations! Abdullah and Masum join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

• June 2011: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded one of the prestigious NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS), which are granted to 123 researchers in all Science and Engineering disciplines in Canada (selected from more than 3,400 applicants in 2011).

• June 2011: Hamed Neshat graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Congratulations!

• April 2011: Farid Tabrizi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

• April 2011: Mohammad Alkurbi graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

2010

• December 2010: Shabnam Mirshokraie graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UBC as a PhD student. Congratulations!

• December 2010: Somsubhra Sharangi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

• October 2010: Our NSERC Strategic Project Grant application on Mobile Gaming and 3D Video Systems: Next Generation Services for Wireless Networks is accepted.

• October 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes an Associate Editor of the premier ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) journal.

• September 2010: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Naghmeh!

• September 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes program co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011) conference.

• August 2010: Yuanbin Shen graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

• July 2010: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to the associate professor rank and granted tenure.

• June 2010: Cong Ly graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

2009

• December 2009: Yi Liu graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Incognito Software Inc. in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

• December 2009: Greg Kowalski graduates (MSc) from NSL Congratulations!

• December 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the vice chair of the Distributed Multimedia track in the Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10) conference.

• November 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins the Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab in California as a senior researcher. Congratulations Dr. Hsu -- the first PhD graduate from our group.

• November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes a Senior Member of the IEEE.

• November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the Preservation Editor of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Web Magazine.

• November 2009: Farid and Fei join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

• October 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the program chair of NOSSDAV 2010.

• September 2009: Cameron Harvey and Hamed Sadeghi-Neshat join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

• September 2009: Kianoosh Mokhtarian graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Mobidia in Richmond, BC. Congratulations!

• July 2009: Our mobile TV research is also featured in the July issue of the ACM Tech News.

• June 2009: Our mobile TV research is featured on CTV British Columbia News: see article or local PDF.

• May 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu (NSL PhD student) is featured in SFU News.

• January 2009: Ahmed Hamza joins NSL as PhD student. Mohammad Alkurbi joins NSL as MSc-Project student. Welcome aboard.

2008

• December 2008: Our paper on Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks wins the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Innovations 2008 Conference.

• October 2008: Our Mobile TV Testbed wins the Best Technical Demonstration Award in ACM Multimedia 2008.

• September 2008: Cong Ly, Yuanbin Shen, and Shabnam Mirshokraie join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

• March 2008: This Wiki system has been launched.

• February 2008: Yi Liu joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Yi!

2007

• September 2007: Kianoosh Mokhtarian joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Kianoosh!

• December 2007: Behrooz Noorizadeh Graduates (MSc) from NSL joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. .

• July 2007: Hossein Ahmadi Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UIUC as PhD Student.

• April 2007: Majid Bagheri Graduates (MSc) from NSL and takes on a job in Iran.

2006

• November 2006: Osama Saleh Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. Congratulations Osama -- the first MSc graduate from our group.