2010

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000

• Dr. Sri Krishnan will be the International Program Chair for 2011 Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference
• Yashodhan Athavale awarded Best Paper Award.More news in http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20100812_RN_watersec.html
• Sri Krishnan delivers tutorial talk in the IEEE ICME conference.
• Sri Krishnan awarded two NSERC Engage Research Grants.
• Shengkun (Victor) Xie joins SAR lab as a MITACS Elevate Post-doctoral Fellow. Click here for more news.
• Sri Krishnan appointed as NSERC Representative of Ryerson University.
• Muhammad Farhat Kaleem awarded OGS Scholarship.
• Elisabeth Baratin joins SAR lab as a Visiting Student from INPG, Grenoble, France.
• SAR work profiled in 2010 Intersections -- Ryerson Research Magazine. Click here to view.
• Sri Krishnan delivers tutorial talk and participates in expert panel discussion in the 2010 Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference.
• Sri Krishnan is a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Time-frequency Applications in Multimedia for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

2009

• As we enter a new academic year we have many of the SAR people moving into the next stages of their career, and would like to wish them all the best for success:
  
  - Dr. Karthi Umapathy has joined the Department of ELCE at Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor.
  - Dr. Yunfeng Wu will join Xiamen University as an Associate Professor.
  - Mehrnaz Shokrollahi will pursue a PhD in SAR at Ryerson University.
  - Elnaz Shokrollahi will pursue a PhD at the University of Toronto.
  - Peyman Shokrollahi will pursue a PhD at the University of Toronto.
  - Oto Janousek has returned to the Czech Republic to continue doctoral studies.
  - Golafsoun Ameri will pursue MASc in Medical Physics at Ryerson University.
  - Navid Zohouri and Angela Ip will commence the 2nd year of the BME at Ryerson University.
  
  
• Sri Krishnan is appointed as Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs for the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science.
• Golafsoun Ameri is awarded NSERC USRA to work in the area of multiscale biomedical modeling.
• All nine papers are submitted by SAR to IEEE EMBC 2009 and World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering are accepted.
• Oto Janousek joins SAR lab as a visiting PhD student from Brno, Czech Republic.
• Andrea Nia Quing joins SAR lab as a visiting PhD student from Beijing, China.
• Sri Krishnan is listed in the 100th edition of Canada's Who's Who.

2008

• Sri Krishnan delivers the plenary speech in the 2008 Biosignals Conference held in Bruno, Czech Republic.
• Sri Krishnan and Karthi Umapathy organize a half-day workshop in the IEEE EMBC 2008 Conference in Vancouver.
• Elnaz Shokrollahi and Talieh Seyed receive OGS scholarships. Behnaz Ghoraani receives OGSST.
• Claire Winter and Alexandre join SAR as visiting research students from Grenoble Institute of Technology, France.
• Golafsoun Ameri is awarded NSERC USRA to work in the area of short-time biomedical signal analysis.
• Sri Krishnan is the General Chair of the 2008 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Sri Krishnan as the inaugural program director for biomedical engineering develops and implements the B.Eng. program in Biomedical Engineering.This is the first such program in Canada.
• Sri Krishnan receives IEEE Toronto Section Outstanding services award for his contributions in the successful staging of IEEE CCECE 2008 and his activities with the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter.

2007

• Sri Krishnan alongwith Dr. Nanthakumar from Toronto General Hospital and Dr. Dorian from St. Michael's Hospital are awarded strategic grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
• Sri Krishnan is awarded the prestigious Canada Research Chair position in Biomedical Signal Analysis. He is also a receipient of the infrastructure for Signal Analysis Research laboratory from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
• Sri Krishnan receives funding from Biodiscovery Toronto to work in the area of auditory scene analysis.
• Dr. Karthi Umapathy was one of the twenty-four outstanding new researchers and distinguished practitioners who have been appointed as Ryerson University's first postdoctoral fellows and research associates. The year-long appointments represent a major step forward in Ryerson achieving its research goals and are funded by a four-year, $3-million program to strengthen the University's research capacity. For more info, please click here.
• Mo Aram's MASc thesis work on using Wavelets for Improving Position Location of Stationary Vechicles in Urban Canyon has been awarded Ryerson's NSERC Innovation Challenge Award, and is now being considered at National Competition.
• Elnaz Shokrollahi and Peyman Shokrollahi are awarded the NSERC USRA to conduct research in Electrogram Signal Analysis for Detecting Ventricular Fibrillation, and Multichannel Signal Analysis for Sleep Disease Diagnosis respectively.
• Sri Krishnan is awarded the National Engineering Award (Young Engineer's Achievement Award) from Engineers Canada. The award recognized Sri Krishnan's contributions as an educator, researcher and administrator. The full article was published in the May 25, 2007 Globe and Mail.
• SAR group welcomes two research students from Grenoble, France: Julien Bonnel and Mathieu Parvaix to conduct their diploma thesis research in SAR.
• Toronto Star quoted the work by K. Umapathy and S. Krishnan on "Modified local discriminant bases analyses of knee signals" as one of the 25 great ideas in 2006. The work was published in 2006 March issue of the IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering.

2006

• A. Ramalingam, and S. Krishnan, “Gaussian mixture modeling of short-time Fourier transform features for audio fingerprinting,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Forens. Security, vol. 1, pp. 457-463, Dec. 2006.
• Sri Krishnan has been nominated as the General Chair of the 21st Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering to be held in Niagara Falls, May 4-7, 2008.
• Sri Krishnan receives the South Asian Community Achiever award (sponsored by Desi News - Grants) from Premier Dalton McGunity.
• April Khademi is awarded the 2006 Governor General Gold Medal for outstanding graduate research work and for her extra-curricular contributions to the University life. This is the second Gold medal won by a SAR student in the past four years.
• Karthi Umapathy wins "Best Presentation" from the SAR 2006 Seminar Series.
• April Khademi is awarded prestigious NSERC-CGS D3 funding for Doctoral studies in the area of biomedical image analysis.
• Dr. Krishnan's novel research in time-frequency processing of Vibroarthographic (VAG) knee signals for the detection of arthritis and other degenerative knee diseases receives honorable mention from Ryerson University.  For more information, click here to read the article entitled, "Computer program can accurately detect knee disorders."
• Article on Dr. Krishnan's New Pioneer Award in Science and Technology is posted on Ryerson's homepage.  Click here to read article entitled, "Scientist lauded for biomedical research."
• Tahir Jaffar and Elnaz Shokoralli are awarded the NSERC USRA to engage in SAR research.
• Danoush Hosseinzadeh has been selected as one of the two nominees to represent Ryerson in the national NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards competition.  His project focuses on the improvement of online security using keystroke recognition.  For more information, please refer here for the article on Ryerson's website.
• Amir Faizi receives the NSERC CGS-M, for masters studies in signal processing.
• SAR members Mo Aram, April Khademi, Mahsa Kowsari, Amir Faizi, Aiden Morrison, and Baice Li are each recipients of a 2006 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
• SAR members April Khademi and Mahsa Koswari receive the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award for the School of Graduate Studies and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, respectively.
• Mention of Dr. Krishnan's New Pioneer Award is published in the Toronto Star.  Click here for article. 
• Dr. Krishnan has been selected to become the recipient of the 2006 New Pioneers Award in Science and Technology Category and will be honoured at the prestigious Gala Awards Ceremony and Dinner on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The New Pioneers Awards (NPA) are awarded annually through Skills for Change.  Click here for pictures of the Awards Ceremony.

2005

• SAR research is featured in "IMPACT," a biannual publication by the Office of Associate Vice President, Ryerson University.  View article here.
• Sri Krishnan receives the Certificate of Appreciation from six IEEE Societies for his notable and outstanding contributions to the IEEE and the Engineering Profession in his role as the Chapter Chair for IEEE Signals and Applications Chapter of Toronto Section. Click here to view.
• Chaired by Sri Krishnan, the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AESS) Chapter receives the 2004-2005 Outstanding Chapter award.  More...
• Sri Krishnan is awarded the "2004/2005 Faculty Research Excellence Award" from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ryerson University. 
• Research Work in Arterial Pulse Analysis receives honorable mention on its impact on industry and economy from the CEO of Ontario Centers of Excellence.
• Research work in Multimedia Security and Retrieval receives honorable mention in the Micronet newsletter.  Micronet Newsletter-March05 (page 3)
• Karthi Umapathy is awarded the prestigious NSERC CGS award. This is the highest scholarship given to a graduate student by NSERC.
• Danoush Hosseinzadeh, April Khademi, and Karthi Umapathy each receive the OGS award.
• Congratulations to Danoush Hosseinzadeh for winning the "2005 SAR Presentation Awards."
• Amir Faizi and Mahsa Kowsari are awarded the NSERC USRA for undergraduate summer research in SAR group.
• Sri Krishnan is awarded a NSERC Discovery grant to continue research in time-frequency signal processing.
• Sri Krishnan and Alagan Anpalagan are awarded NSERC Intellutual Property Management funding for their research on Multipath Mitigation techniques in GPS systems.
• The industrial partner of SAR group receives CITO Accelerator funding for business development.
• Sri Krishnan receives a Summer Ryerson RA award.

2004

• Shahrzad Esmaili, Arunan Ramalingam and Sri Krishnan are awarded the Best Paper Award in the Annual Micornet Workshop held in Aylmer, Quebec, for their paper entitled, "Multimedia Watermarking and Retrieval using Advanced DSP techniques."
• Danoush Hosseinzadeh and April Khademi are awarded the Overall Best Paper Award at the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE), for their paper entitled, "Source and Channel Coding Techniques for Faithful Transmission of Digital Mammograms."
• Shahrzad Esmaili earns a departmental nomination for the Governor General Gold Medal.
• Shahrzad Esmaili wins the prestigious NSERC PGS studies for Doctoral Studies in Audio Signal Processing.
• Danoush Hosseinzadeh is awarded the prestigious OGS award. April Khademi wins the OGSST award.
• Sri Krishnan receives the CITO Tech Readiness funding for research in the Prototyping of Arterial Pulse Sensor.
• Sri Krishnan receives the Micronet Research funding for research in Multimedia Fingerprinting Techniques. 
• Danoush Hosseinzadh is awarded NSERC USRA for undergraduate summer research in SAR group.
• Research Work in Multimedia Watermarking receives honorable mention in IEEE Canadian Review.
• Sri Krishnan receives a Summer Ryerson RA award.

2003

• Sri Krishnan wins the prestigious CITO Research Grant to work in the area of arterial pulse analysis.
• SAR Research on monitoring hypertension and stress receives honourable mention in the online business newsletter (itbusiness.ca).
• Shahrzad Esmaili and Sri Krishnan are awarded the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering held in Montreal, for their paper entitled, "A novel approach for digital audio watermarking."
• Serhat Erkucuk receives the Governor General Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievements and Co-curricular Activities.
• Karthi Umapathy wins the prestigious NSERC PGS award for his Doctoral Studies in SAR group.
• Lam Le and Jiming Yang receive NSERC USRA awards to work in SAR research group.
• Sri Krishnan receives Micronet research funding for his work on Digital Audio Watermarking and Retrieval.
• Sri Krishnan receives a summer Ryerson RA award.
• SAR Research Featured in the Significant Innovations portion of Micronet newsletter.  For more information, go to http://www.micronetrd.ca/Innovations/innovations02-03.pdf  (page 29)

2002

• Serhat Erkucuk receives the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center award for innovative research ideas on using Chirp and Hough Radon Transform for Robust Watermarking  Applications. This award was presented at the International Conference for Multimedia and Expo held in Switzerland.
• Sri Krishnan receives Micronet research funding for work on audio retrieval, coding, and watermarking.
• Sri Krishnan receives NSERC Intelluctual Property Management funding to prototype the high definition audio coding technique.
• Sevim Kilinc wins NSERC USRA award to work in SAR group.
• SAR Research is featured in the Significant Innovations portion of Micronet newsletter.  For more information, go to  http://www.micronetrd.ca/Innovations/innovations01-02.pdf  (page 30)

2001

• Sri Krishnan receives Micronet research funding for his work on high definition audio coding and implementation of psychoacoustics models.
• Sri Krishnan receives a summer Ryerson RA award.
• SAR Research Featured in the Significant Innovations portion of Micronet newsletter.   For more information, go to http://www.micronetrd.ca/Innovations/innovations00-01.pdf (page 40)

2000

• Sri Krishnan receives 5 year NSERC Discovery grant to work in the fundamental area of Adaptive Time-frequency Analysis.
• Sri Krishnan receives Micronet precompetitive research funding for conducting research in Digital Audio Processing for Multimedia Applications.
• Sri Krishnan receives a summer Ryerson RA award.