The Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Bioproducts at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ning Yan is an internationally renowned expert in converting biomass materials into bio-based chemicals and functional materials. She pioneered numerous bio-based platform technologies for using renewable biomaterials to produce sustainable bio-based adhesives, resins, polyols, foams, and other industrial products. Dr. Yan’s has more than 200 peer-reviewed journal publications and 8 patents. She has collaborated with academic, government and industry research partners around the world. She is an ...

Dr. Yang is a Principal Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada. He is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligent Association. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to Applied AI,including machine learning, hybrid reasoning, and intelligent systems. Inparticular, he developed a transformative AI-based PHM(prognostic and healthmanagement) technology for smart maintenance of complex systems, which has beenapplied to various industry sectors such as aerospace, railway, and energy, toimprove the reliability and availability of the complex systems. ...

En-hui Yang is an international leader in source coding, a branch of information theory dealing with how to efficiently encode information for transmission, storage, and processing. A recipient of many awards including the 2007 Ernest C. Manning Award of Distinction and an IEEE Fellow, he has made profound contributions to communication engineering by introducing new fundamental source coding theory, solving long-standing open problems in source coding, inventing state-of-the-art lossless and lossy multimedia coding algorithms, co-founding SlipStream Data Inc., now a subsidiary of Research in ...

Dr. Jun Yang is a Professor in Mechanical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of WIN 4.0 (Western's Industry 4.0 Network) at the University of Western Ontario. He is a world-leading expert in micro/nano-engineering, printed electronics and additive manufacturing, and has made numerous significant and original contributions. Dr. Yang has a remarkable entrepreneurial track record. He holds 10 granted and 16 pending patents, three licenses, and has founded a successful start-up company. His microlens fabrication technology was adopted by an industrial partner and has since been ...

Laurence T. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is a professor and W.F. James Research Chair at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes parallel, distributed and cloud computing, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and big data. He has published 200 papers in the above areas on top IEEE/ACM Transactions/Journals including 5 and 25 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly-cited ESI papers, respectively. He has been ...

Prof. Qiang Yang is an international leader in the engineering practice of large-scale artificial-intelligence and data-mining solutions for the benefit of our society. He leads in the area of transfer learning and federated learning to tackle small data, data silos, user privacy and data security problems in practice. He has developed open-source and industrial-strength systems for inclusive finance, health and ecommerce applications for millions of users and businesses worldwide. His work has made deep impact with large-scale AI and data mining engineering systems and applications, new ...

Dr. Ruilin Yang has had a long and extremely productive career conducting research in the fieldof explosive technologies. Following a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Queen's University,he joined ICI Canada (now Orica Inc., the world's largest provider of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems) at the level of scientist. He has steadily risen through the Orica organization, ultimately being promoted to 'Principal Research Fellow', the highest technical position existing in the Orica organization. His research work has had transformative impact on blasting technologies and ...

Prof. Yang is a preeminent leader in structural and earthquake engineering, acclaimed for his ground-breaking innovation in performance-based design, structural simulation and testing, robotic inspection and construction, and high performance, carbon-neutral and resilient infrastructure. He has led many large research projects, collaborated with many leading engineering firms worldwide and made significant impacts to the national and international codes. His exceptional leadership and mentorship have inspired and trained numerous highly qualified personnel. His outstanding achievements earned ...

Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a world-renowned academic, inventor, and researcher in wireless communications. His collaboration with the Canadian and international industry on 4G and 5G wireless networks resulted in 27 granted patents in key technologies. He is best known for his visionary and pioneering work on relaying technology which resulted in several seminal publications with thousands of citations; this technology was adopted in various standards including 4G LTE and 5G. He received several awards for his research, teaching, and service. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Engineering ...

A Professor and University Research Chair in the University of Ottawa, Dr. Jianping Yao has earned a strong reputation as a leader and outstanding researcher in Microwave Photonics. With over 300 refereed journal publications, Professor Yao has pioneered various developments in microwave photonics including the groundbreaking work in UWB over fiber technologies, photonic generation of arbitrary microwave waveforms, and advanced fiber Bragg grating techniques. Through his distinguished career, Professor Yao has supervised over 70 research students and engineers, established close collaboration ...