Karim Zaghib has made a number of seminal contributions in materials for lithium ion and solid state batteries. His inventions are used in almost every lithium battery sold worldwide. His work has been recognized through multiple awards and distinctions internationally, including Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and several prizes for novel battery technologies. He was selected in 2015 and 2016 as a most influential mind by Thomson Reuters. He has also made distinct contributions to mentoring young engineers and scientists.

Dr. Osmar Zaiane is Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the University of Alberta, and is a world-renowned researcher with high impact in artificial intelligence and data mining. Dr. Zaiane is actively involved in the community as an organizer and as an established and respected researcher. He demonstrated tremendous leadership directing the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute for more than 10 years, steering the research institute to international recognition. He developed data mining engineering systems advancing our knowledge. His work and contributions, already influential in the AI ...

University of Toronto Professor Safwat Zaky has a long record of exemplary service as a leader in engineering education. He recently completed a six-year term as Vice-Provost, Planning and Budget, during which he introduced a new, more transparent budget model which changed academic and financial planning in the University in a fundamental way. Professor Zaky served as Chair of U of T's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1993-2003, spearheading a major curriculum redevelopment in response to changes in the field. He has published over 70 refereed scientific papers in ...

Professor Ludo Zanzotto has been making contributions to engineering research and knowledge, particularly in the material science of asphalt, for almost 40 years. Modified asphalt materials with improved engineering properties have led to the increased service life of asphalt pavement. He has contributed to new specifications, materials and methodologies that have led to the improved competitiveness of Canadian products. As chairholder of the NSERC / John Lau Husky Energy Industrial Research Chair in Bituminous Materials, he has also established an internationally renowned research centre, ...

Dr. Hongbo Zeng is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. As a world-leading expert in interfacial science and engineering, he has made significant contributions to understanding how intermolecular and surface forces in polymers, colloids, emulsions, and bubbles determine their physicochemical properties and performance in various engineering processes. He has applied this knowledge to develop new functional materials and surfaces through tunable intermolecular interactions. Dr. Zeng has published about 500 peer-reviewed papers in top journals, one book ...

Alf Zeuner is a leader in innovation, entrepreneurship and manufacturing with a career developing advanced CNC control systems. As President and owner of AXYZ International, he developed systems based on microprocessor-based CNC controllers that disrupted the entire manufacturing industry, enabling a level playing field for smaller enterprises. Mr. Zeuner's made-in-Canada technology scaled domestically and internationally to an installed base of over 10,000 machines. He is a philanthropist whose work provides food security and basic jobs in priority urban areas in Hamilton, local "at risk" ...

Dr. Zhang is a well-accomplished educator and an internationally renowned expert in the areas of parallel robotic machines and their applications in manufacturing systems. His influential scientific contributions have led to novel robotic system designs and development of new comprehensive models for better understanding of globe stiffness and robotic calibrations. His research applications have tackled some of the world's most challenging problems in high dynamic performance manufacturing robotic systems. Additionally, Dr. Zhang has an outstanding track record in the successful training of ...

David Zhang is widely recognized as a world leading expert and a pioneer in biometrics engineering for his extraordinary accomplishments. He initiated and made profound contributions to several research areas, including palmprint authentication, and medical biometrics sensors and systems. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics for seven consecutive years (2014-2020). He has an H-index of 120 and is ranked about 80 among Top 1,000 Scientists internationally in Computer Science/Electronics. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of ...

As an NSERC Industrial Research Chair since 2003, Professor Zhang is a world leading expert in applying image processing to process monitoring and performance evaluation in oil sands mining, an industry of vital importance to Alberta and Canada's economy. In the international robotics community, Professor Zhang is well known for his seminal work in collective robotics mapping behaviors of social insects to control algorithms of robots, and an exceptional record of service . His outstanding contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards including IEEE Fellow and Millennium Medal ...

Dr. Jiujun Zhang is a Principal Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Founder/Chairman of The International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). In 2014 & 2015, Dr. Zhang was selected as the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in the world in the last 10 years, and also listed as one of the "3000 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" by Thomson Reuters. With more than 400 publications, including 230 referred journal papers (over 18000 citations and h-index 62), 11 edited and 4 authored books, 36 book chapters, 110 oral research ...