Synchromedia | Laboratory for multimedia communication in telepresence

Recent Publications

A Survey on Metrics and Measurement Tools for Sustainable Distributed Cloud Networks
Efficient Provisioning of Security Service Function Chaining Using Network Security Defense Patterns
LCA and decision making: when and how to use consequential LCA; 62nd LCA forum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 9 September 2016
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringSmart City 360°Micro Service Cloud Computing Pattern for Next Generation Networks

Job offers

5 PhD positions in image processing

12 PhD & MSc offers in cloud computing (NEW)

Research Assistant/Associate offer in cloud computing and networking (NEW)

Announcements

2015/12/30 Professor Mohamed Cheriet is recipient of IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award

Professor Cheriet is the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Established in 1994, the J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award is presented to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for sharing their technical and professional abilities through teaching (in industry, government or an institution of higher learning) and in doing so have made an outstanding contribution to engineering education.

1 year 25 weeks ago

2015/10/12 Mohamed Fekih Ahmed awarded "prix d'excellence pour le meilleur mémoire de Maitrise"

Mohamed Fekih Ahmed was awarded the great prize excellence for the best Master of memory of Ecole de Technologie Superieur.

1 year 37 weeks ago

2013/03/13 Prof. Mohamed Cheriet awarded Prix d'excellence in research of ETS

Professor Mohamed was awarded the great Prize of Excellent Researcher of Ecole de Technologie Superieur for his outstanding contribution in pattern recognition, artificial, cloud computing and green ICT fields. The award had been presented by Claude Bernard, Dean of Research and Development of ETS on Wednesday April 13th..

4 years 15 weeks ago

2013/01/27 Synchromedia kiosk at Research Open House at ETS

4 years 21 weeks ago

2012/08/30 Opening PhD position in cloud middleware.

The Synchromedia lab at Ecole de Technologie Superieur (University of Quebec) is seeking for a PhD candidate in the area of cloud middleware.

4 years 43 weeks ago

Meryem ELBAHAM

Research interest:

Cloud computing,data visualization ;telecommunication,networking

Thesis Title: Telco cloud data visualization

Short Biography:

Meryem ELBAHAM received her diploma of Engineering degree in Telecommunication and Network in 2013 from"Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées" in ELjadida,Morocco.She joined Synchromedia team as a Master's student.She is working on Telco cloud data visualization.

Samy ZEMMOURI

Research interest:

Virtualization, Networking, Telecommunication, Software-Defined Networking, Energy-Aware Routing

Thesis Title: Energy-aware software-defined routing

Short Biography:

Samy Zemmouri graduated in july of 2013 from "Université des sciences et de la technologie Houari-Boumediene" in Algers, Algeria. He received a master degree in Telecommunications, Networks and Multimedia. He started his master at "École de technologie supérieure" in Winter 2014. After two sessions of courses, he joined Synchromedia team in september of 2014.

Arash MORATTAB

Research interest:

Computer Networks, Web Technologies, Software engineering, Computer Algorithms, Embedded Systems, Security Issues & Ethical Hacking

Thesis Title: Software platform for energy efficiency in Telco Cloud

Short Biography:

Arash Morattab is a computer geek who is currently working in Synchromedia laboratory in ETS university in Montreal. He started programming and experiencing computer stuffs early in his life. He received B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran in 2013. His B.Sc. thesis title was: “Implementing TCP/IP in MinSoC”.
Now, he is a studying Master of Software Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Cheriet with the thesis titled: "Software platform for energy efficiency in Telco Cloud" which is part of the Telco Cloud project.

Haifa SASSI

Research interest:

Cloud Computing, virtualization, telecommunication networking, software defined WAN (SD-WAN).

Thesis Title: Enabiling large-scale cloud service by software defined WAN

Short Biography:

Haifa received her B.Eng degree in telecommunication engineering at the « École supérieure des communicationsde Tunis (Sup’com) » in 2015. She started her master at « École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) » in Fall 2015, within Synchromedia laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Cheriet. She is working on virtualization, cloud computing and software defined WAN.

Achraf LABIDI

Research interest:

Cloud computing, Networks, Web Technologies, Internet security, Virtualization, Embedded Systems, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence

Thesis Title: Resource sharing in cloud

Short Biography:

Achraf graduated as a computer science engineer in july 2015 from ENICarthage (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Carthage) in Tunis, Tunisia, he also received his license in Networks and services in 2012. Achraf started his master at ÉTS (École de Technologie Supérieure) in Fall 2015. He joined Synchromedia laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Cheriet. Actually he is working on new sharing technics in cloud computing, intelligence and machine learning paradigms, and virtualization.

Rim elfahem

Research interest:

Virtualization, Cloud computing, Ressource management and migration, vertical applications, networking

Thesis Title: Optimal virtualization of vertical cloud-based applications in Smart'Homes

Short Biography:

In 2015, Rim graduated as a Telecommunication engineer from the "Higher School of Telecommunications of Tunis" (Sup'Com). She started her master degree in École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS). She joined Synchromedia Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Cheriet in Fall 2015. Actually, she is working on optimization technics of vertical applications in the Cloud.

Sara Zhalehpour

Research interest:

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Audio-visual emotion recognition and human-computer interaction

Thesis Title: Word spotting in Historical Manuscripts

Short Biography:

She received her M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2014. She joined Synchromedia Lab in May 2016.

Antoine Langevin

Research interest:

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, energy disaggregation, embedded programming, PCB design.

Thesis Title: Energy monitoring system by energy disaggregation and detecting the electrical signature of the devices

Short Biography:

In 2016, Antoine graduated as an Electrical engineer from École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS). He started his master degree at École de Technologie Supérieure under the supervision of Prof. Ghyslain Gagnon and Prof. Mohamed Cheriet and he joined Synchromedia Laboratory in Summer 2016. Actually, he works on energy disaggregation to monitor home consumption.

Meriem Mechennef

Research interest:

Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Networking ,Telecommunication, Virtual resource management.

Thesis Title: Environmental optimization of virtual infrastructure

Short Biography:

I received my master degree in information and communication technologies (ICT) in June 2015 from "Université des sciences et de la technologie "Mohamed-Boudiaf" in ORAN, ALGERIA.
I Joined Synchromedia as a Master student in August 2016.

Mohamed Ghazi AMOR

Research interest:

IoT, Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Big Data

Thesis Title: Integrated IoT-Cloud platform

Short Biography:

Mohamed Ghazi Amor received his engineering degree in telecommunications from the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology. Following his passion for informatics, he enrolled in a master's degree in information technology at the ETS in Montreal.
His research interests include IoT, Cloud Computing and Big Data.

News

Professor Mohamed Cheriet is a new Fellow inducted at the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Submitted by ana.ca.r on Thu, 2017-05-04 12:47

Being a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering is one of the highest honors the profession can bestow upon an engineer. Professor Cheriet has been nominated by his peers (current Fellows of the Academy) because of his outstanding achievements in his profession and his considerable contribution to engineering in Canada.

Mohamed Cheriet is the recipient of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Fellow at ICPR'2016.

Submitted by saidakhazri on Thu, 2016-12-08 13:55

Mohamed Cheriet is the recipient of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Fellow at ICPR'2016.

ICPR: International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2016.
IAPR: International Association for Pattern Recognition 2016.

Saida Khazri is selected as a winner of the poster competition in the Montreal Summit on Innovation (SMI 2016 - QI-MEQ-ÉTS)

Submitted by saidakhazri on Wed, 2016-12-07 22:58

Saida Khazri is selected as a winner of the poster competition in Montreal Summit on Innovation (SMI 2016 - QI-MEQ-ÉTS) , with the "Smart orchestration of a cloud-based university residential campus" project on behalf of Smart Synchromedia Team.

2016/04/11 Intelligent Open Networking (IOPN) Awards 2016, Finalist Category 2: Best Proof of Concept combining intelligence with open networking

The Synchromedia Lab was a finalist in the Intelligent Open Networking (IOPN) Awards 2016, which recognizes solutions that combine intelligence and open networking. The laboratory was one of the three in Category 2: Best Proof of Concept combining intelligence with open networking. The winners were announced on the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.

1 year 10 weeks ago

2015/12/30 Professor Cheriet is the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award

The J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award is presented to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for sharing their technical and professional abilities through teaching (in industry, government or an institution of higher learning) and in doing so have made an outstanding contribution to engineering education.The award will be presented at the IEEE Canada Awards Ceremony on May 17, 2016, in Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Vancouver, BC.

1 year 25 weeks ago

2015/06/15 Our Paper on Word Descriptor for Fast Arabic Handwriting ...

2 years 1 week ago

2014/11/5 Top 10% award at ICIP 2014

The paper Context-dependent BLSTM Models. Application to Offline Handwriting Recognition by Y. Chherawala, P.P. Roy and M. Cheriet is among the Top 10% papers of ICIP 2014, based on the reviewer scores and recommendations.

2 years 33 weeks ago

2013/08/5 Our recent paper featured as key scientific article on Renewable Energy Global Innovations

Our recent publication on the modified GHG intensity (MGHG-INT) has been featured as a key scientific article on Renewable Energy Global Innovations (ISSN 2291-2460):

http://reginnovations.org/key-scientific-articles/a-modified-ghg-intensity-indicator-toward-a-sustainable-global-economy-based-on-a-carbon-border-tax-andemissions-trading/

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3 years 46 weeks ago