Rafik A. Goubran - Professor, Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Design

• Degrees: B.Sc. (Cairo), M.Sc. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Carleton)
• Phone: 613-520-2600 x 5747
• Email: goubran@sce.carleton.ca
• Office: 3010 MC

Research

Digital signal processing and its applications in biomedical engineering, sensors, smart homes, and speech processing; echo and noise cancellation, pattern recognition, and classification.

Application

Patient monitoring using non-intrusive sensors (pressure-sensitive mats); environmental sensors (RFID and electronic noses); smart-phone based sensors (accelerometers); wearable sensors (ECG, skin conductance, breathing monitors); heart and lung sound analysis; thermal cameras; smart hearing aids; speech quality enhancement; broadband and stereophonic VoIP; and smart multimedia VoIP terminals.

Activities

• Co-Leader and Research Scientist for TAFETA – Elisabeth Bruyere Research Institute (2005-2011)
• TPC Member of IEEE-MeMeA-2011 and IEEE-I2MTC-2011
• Co-Chair of IEEE-WARM-2010 and IEEE-MeMeA-2010
• Chair of the Council on Ontario Deans of Engineering – CODE (2009-2011)

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