IES Membership Impact Forum (IMPACT Forum)
Professor Regina Lee
York University
Talk: Wide Field-of-View Optical Imaging for Space Situational Awareness: Advancements from Stratospheric Balloon Missions
Bio
Dr. Regina S.K. Lee is a Professor of Space Engineering at York University and an accomplished researcher in space systems and microsystems technologies. Her research focuses on space situational awareness (SSA), particularly the development of wide field-of-view optical sensors for tracking resident space objects (RSOs), as well as microsystems technologies such as micro-thrusters and micro-spectrometers. She has supervised over 110 Highly Qualified Personnel (HQPs. Dr. Lee has received multiple awards, including the 2024 Lassonde Innovation Award for Graduate Mentorship. She has secured over $14 million in research funding, including major grants from NSERC, CSA, and CFI. Her administrative leadership includes serving as the Undergraduate Program Director for Space Engineering, Chair of Lassonde Faculty Council, Director of the York Microfabrication Facility, Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Studies, and Chair of the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering.
Dr. Fadia Sebaaly
Hydro-Québec Research Institute
Talk: Role of simulation: Hydro-Québec Research Institute activities and challenges
Bio
Fadia Sebaaly (Senior Member, IEEE) earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Lebanese University and the Faculty of Engineering-ESIB, Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. She received her Ph.D. with high distinction in 2016 from Saint Joseph University of Beirut and the Doctoral School of Science and Technology, Lebanon. During the summers of 2014 and 2015, she was a trainee at the Groupe de Recherche en Électronique de Puissance et Commande Industrielle, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada. From 2016 to 2020, she taught in the electrical engineering departments of several universities in Lebanon, including Saint Joseph University of Beirut. Between 2020 and 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at École de Technologie Supérieure and a senior researcher at SmartD Technologies, Canada. Since June 2022, she has been a researcher at Hydro-Québec’s Research Institute (IREQ) in the grid simulation department. She holds a patent and reviews for several IEEE journals, including Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Her research interests encompass power electronics multilevel converter topologies, real-time simulations, control techniques (predictive and sliding-mode controllers), modulation methods, motor drives, and renewable energy generation systems.
Professor Maryam Davoudpour
Humber Polytechnic, Chair of IEEE Toronto Section
Talk: Addressing Design and Reliability Challenges of Interconnect Architectures in E-Textiles for Bio-Potential Signal Acquisition
Bio
Dr. Maryam Davoudpour received the M.Sc and PhD degrees from the Moscow State Technical University of Bauman in Information Technology and Control Complex Systems. She also completed a NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. She is a member of the DMZ (Digital Media Zone) at Toronto Metropolitan University, ex-Ryerson University of Canada. Dr. Davoupour joined Humber Polytechnic in 2016. She has extensive industrial and academic experience, trained and supervised many students and has been involved in various successful R&D projects. Dr. Davoudpour is the recipient of the Research Excellence award of Humber College President’s Award 2020.
Dr. Davoudpour’s research interests are in the areas of Smart Wearable, E-textile, Bio-Sensors, Nonlinear Modeling, Knowledge-Based Expert Systems, Petri Nets, Modeling Context-Aware Systems, and Internet of Things. She is an active reviewer of various IEEE publications and conferences.
Dr. Davoudpour is currently the Chair of the WIE IEEE Canada(R7), and the past Chair of IEEE Toronto Section (2022-2025). In the past, she has served as the Vice Chair (2020-2022) and Secretary (2018-2020) of the IEEE Toronto Section. She was also the chair of various chapters including the IEEE Instrumentation, Measurement, Robotics and Automation chapter in Toronto since 2012. Dr. Davoudpour was selected as an Honorable Mention for the 2018 WIE Inspiring Member of the Year Award by the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC), for her inspirational leadership and outstanding contributions to the IEEE WIE and IEEE communities. The WIEC also selected the IEEE Toronto WIE Affinity Group as the recipient of an Honorable Mention for 2018, 2019, and 2021 WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award, during the time that she was a Chair.