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   Mar 22th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.

   Feb 21th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.

   Feb 13th
    2012
Successful PhD thesis defense
Rafael has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots"

   Feb 7th
    2012
NSERC IRDF Fellowship awarded
Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Jan 11th
    2012
OCE First Job awarded
First Job fellowship awarded by the Ontario Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Aug 23th
    2011
MITACS Accelerate Fellowship awarded
The research project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been awarded a MITACS Accelerate PhD fellowship.

 June 5th
     2011
Conference paper accepted
The paper "An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011).

 
News
 


    		• 2012, April 1st: Associate Editor for "Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an International Journal".




    		• 2012, March 22th: The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for publication at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.




    		• 2012, March 18th: Reviewer for the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2012), Maui, Hawaii.




    		• 2012, February 21th: The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for publication at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.




    		• 2012, February 13th: The doctoral dissertation entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots" has been successfully defended and passed with distinction. It is nominated to the Best Thesis Award of the University of Ottawa.




    		• 2012, February 7th: Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.




    		• 2012, January 31st: Reviewer for the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems.




    		• 2012, January 11th: First Job Award by the Ontario Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.




    		• 2011, December 22nd: Reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications.




    		• 2011, December 3rd: TPC member for the IEEE WCCI 2012 Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Security, Surveillance and Defence (CISSD 2012).




    		• 2011, November 25th: Submission Chair for the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2012 - Spring) in Hangzhou, China.




    		• 2011, November 15th: TPC member for the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012).




    		• 2011, November 1st: TPC member for the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2012).




    		• 2011, October 4th: TPC member for the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN 2012).




    		• 2011, August 24th: Reviewer for the European Transactions on Telecommunications.




    		• 2011, August 23th: MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship awarded to the research project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks".




    		• 2011, August 6th: Reviewer for the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.




    		• 2011, August 5th: Publication Chair of the 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2012), Belgrade, Serbia.




    		• 2011, July 18th: Local Arrangement Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2012), Ottawa, Canada.




    		• 2011, July 18th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B.




    		• 2011, July 8th: Enrolled at the TalentBridge program of the Ottawa Centre for Regional Innovation.




    		• 2011, July 5th: Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences.




    		• 2011, June 27th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.




    		• 2011, June 17th: Part-time teacher for CSI 1308A "Introduction to Computing Concepts", Fall 2011.




    		• 2011, June 6th: The paper "Servicing Wireless Sensor Networks by Mobile Robots" has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Communications Magazine.




    		• 2011, June 5th: The paper "An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011)




    		• 2011, May 20th: Reviewer for 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2011)




    		• 2011, May 12th: IEEE CIS "Walter Karplus" Graduate Student Research Grant awarded to the research project "A Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Approach to the Scalable Replacement of Damaged Sensors by a Team of Mobile Robots"




    		• 2011, May 12th: Thesis proposal defended.




    		• 2011, May 12th: Travel grant awarded by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Ottawa to attend the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)




    		• 2011, April 30th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.




    		• 2011, March 26th: Reviewer for 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2011).




    		• 2011, March 19th: The paper "Fault Identification with Binary Adaptive Fireflies in Parallel and Distributed Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.




    		• 2010, December 10th: The paper "Carrier-based Focused Coverage Formation in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.




    		• 2010, December 9th: The paper "Reliable Fault Detection in Diagnosable Systems with Dynamic Mesh Optimization" has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics.




    		• 2010, November 27th: Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science.




    		• 2010, November 17th: Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences.




    		• 2010, November 15th: MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship awarded to the project "Risk-Driven Coverage Formation for Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks"




    		• 2010, October 28th: Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.




    		• 2010, October 16th: Proceedings Chair for the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011).




    		• 2010, October 16th: Proceedings Chair for the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011).



    • 2010, October 1st: Reviewer for the International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability.




    • 2010, September 4th: Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science.




    • 2010, August 26th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.




    • 2010, August 24th: Reviewer for Revista Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Antioquía.






    • 2010, August 13th: Reviewer for Pattern Recognition.




    • 2010, August 11th: Part-time teacher for CSI 1308A "Introduction to Computing Concepts"




    • 2010, July 29th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B.




    • 2010, July 6th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.




    • 2010, June 9th: An IEEE CIS Student Travel Grant has been awarded for participation at the 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010).




    • 2010, May 12th: Visiting Scholar at Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium.




    • 2010, April 27th: Reviewer for the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010).




    • 2010, April 9th: Reviewer for IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium.




    • 2010, March 26th: Reviewer for 1st International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Web (SSW 2010).




    • 2010, March 15th: The papers "A Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Fault Diagnosis in Parallel and Distributed Systems" and "The One-Commodity Traveling Salesman Problem with Selective Pickup and Delivery: an Ant Colony Approach" have been accepted for presentation at the 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence.




    • 2010, March 1st: Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Decision Support Systems.




    • 2010, February 25th: The paper "Carrier-based Coverage Augmentation in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been accepted for publication at the 7th Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks 2010 (WWASN 2010).




    • 2010, February 22th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B.




    • 2010, February 16th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.




    • 2010, February 15th: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.




    • 2010, February 6th: Reviewer for International Journal of Computers and Applications.




    		• 2010, February 5th: Rafael was aired by CBC Radio on his participation at the Poster Competition.




    • 2010, February 4th: The poster "Artificial Ant Colonies for Coverage Repair in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" deserved the 1st Prize Poster Presentation Award for the Computer Science Department at the Engineering Faculty Day, University of Ottawa.




    • 2010, January 1st: Rafael joined IEEE and Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) as a graduate student member.




    • 2009, December 28th: Reviewer for 5th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2010).




    • 2009, December 21th: Rafael completed the course requirements for his PhD degree with a GPA of 9.67 / 10.




    • 2009, September 18th: Rafael passed the comprehensive examination required for his PhD degree.




    		• 2009, April 15th: The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) was granted, as an international student, for the period May 2009 - April 2010.
     


    		• 2009, April 15th: The Excellence Scholarship from University of Ottawa was granted for the period May 2009 - April 2010.
     


    		• 2008, September 25th: The International Tuition Fee Scholarship from University of Ottawa was granted for the duration of the doctoral studies.
       
     
     
     
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