For over thirty years Dr. Bob Walker has been a leader in defence science and technology in Canada and internationally. In his early career, his highly innovative approaches to acoustic signal processing kept the Canadian Navy and Air Force at the forefront of submarine detection. As a senior manager and now CEO of Defence Research and Development Canada, he has led the development and implementation of new scientific programs, nationally and internationally, that have advanced knowledge and stimulated engineering and technology development in the areas of defence and public security in this ...

Jim Wallace is a professor and former Chair in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. An internationally recognized researcher in the area of alternative fuel use in internal combustion engines, he has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge in this field. Professor Wallace's innovative research on natural gas and hydrogen led to his election as a Fellow of SAE for advancing the use of alternative fuels for emissions reductions. He is also a Fellow of CSME and EIC. An outstanding educator, Professor Wallace has won U of T's ...

Robert Walsh is a technological entrepreneur, who built Walsh Automation; a leader in industrial automation. He has also developed Forensic Technology Inc, whose Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) products have revolutionized the way in which ballistics examinations are conducted around the world today. IBIS is the first fully automated and integrated system able to capture, store, retrieve and perform searches on bullets, bullet fragments and cartridge cases. providing law enforcement agencies in 80 countries, with an extremely valuable tool for criminal investigations.

Dr. Haijiang Wang has over 30 years of practice in electrochemical engineering in prominent positions as a Senior Research Scientist at Ballard Power Systems, a Principal Research Officer at the NRC, and now, as Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He has made substantive contributions to the advancement and commercialization of modern fuel cell technology through his industrial, government, and academic work, and has been recognized by his peers as a world-renowned fuel cell expert. Through his efforts, Dr. Wang has helped to keep Canada a world-leader in ...

Dr. Lihui Wang, a registered Professional Engineer and active on the world stage, is an internationally renowned scholar in manufacturing research and education. With rich multi-national experience in Canada, China, Japan and now Sweden, he has been promoting Canada beyond the borders. His contributions to manufacturing science include a novel algorithm that enables adaptive mesh generation for dynamic finite element analysis, and methods for improving the responsiveness and dynamism of manufacturing operations under uncertainty conditions. He has been recognized with honors and awards, ...

Dr. Quan Wang is a Professor in Mechanical and Civil Engineering . He has made outstanding contributions in applications of nano-materials in composites and medical devices. He is also a world leading expert in smart materials and structures and their applications in energy harvesting, structural health monitoring and repair. He has published more than 200 research papers in internationally referred journals and conference proceedings. He has played various active roles in, and contributed to, the smart materials and nano-technology research and education. He is now a fellow of ASME, ASCE, ...

Professor Xianbin Wang, Canada Research Chair (CRC) and IEEE Fellow, is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and for his world-leading innovations in improving efficiency and security of wireless communications. As a passionate inventor, he holds 26 granted and pending patents, with over 20 of them as the first or sole inventor. His inventions have extensive technical scope, dealing with the most critical and complex issues in wireless communications, communications security, and localization technologies. Many of his ...

Zhen (Jane) Wang is an internationally renowned researcher in statistical signal processing theory and its applications. Her work covers a broad research spectrum that is multidisciplinary in nature. She has invented powerful methodologies for a wide range of real-life problems, especially for anti-collusion digital media fingerprinting, brain connectivity network inference, and deep learning-based medical image analytics. A key component of Dr. Wang's success has been her ability to forge important multidisciplinary collaborations, particularly with medical researchers, through which she ...

Dr. Wang is known for his pioneering and seminal contributions to the discovery and development of nanogenerators for self-powered systems and large-scale blue energy, which represent an unprecedented and innovative technology for harvesting energy from the environment and biological systems, for applications in personal electronics, internet of things, sensor networks, biomedical devices, environmental monitoring and security devices. His innovations also provide a revolutionary approach for harvesting large scale energy from tidal and ocean waves, aimed at solving the future energy needs of ...

Zhou Wang is a Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He is one of the world's most cited authors in the field of visual perception-based image quality assessment, processing, and compression. His work on the Structural Similarity (SSIM) algorithm created a paradigm change in the field and is widely used for video quality assurance throughout the global media delivery industry. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a recipient of NSERC's Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a member of RSC's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a winner of a ...