Rami Abielmona

Biography

Dr. Rami Abielmona is the Vice-President of Research & Engineering at Larus Technologies Corporation, and is responsible for all research and development of software, hardware, and products, as well as the management and direction of the research team. Dr. Abielmona joined Larus in 2007 to lead the integration of software engineering corporate knowledge with research in sensor networking, multi-sensor data fusion and computationally intelligent computing architectures, resulting in the innovative Larus Total::Insight product, which is a patented Decision Support System.

Dr. Abielmona received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and electrical engineering, from the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, where he currently serves as an Adjunct Professor. He was a CMC Success Story in 2005 for his Ph.D. research. He received the NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellowship (IR&DF) in 2007 and the IEEE MGA Achievement Award in 2008. He was one of the recipients of the Ottawa Business Journal (OBJ) Top 40 Under 40 Award in 2011. He was also named as the Part-Time Professor of the Year at both the Faculty of Engineering and the University of Ottawa in 2012. Recently, he was awarded the IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2014. He also became a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario in 2008, as well as a Senior Member of the IEEE in 2011.

He is currently the Past Chair of the IEEE Ottawa Section, the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Security, Surveillance and Defense Applications Task Force and the Chair of the local IEEE Computer Society chapter.