Dr. El-Sheimy is a Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Geomatics Multi-Sensor Systems at the University of Calgary. He and his team have made important impacts on geomatics systems for navigation and GIS applications, such as real-time mapping of forest fire fighting and integrating GPS with inertial navigation systems. His work is widely used by industry, which is the ultimate test for research. His team has developed the first software for tracking pipeline integrity monitoring gauges, the first commercial software for integrated navigation systems based on GPS, and one of the first smartphone location applications for emergency and search and rescue applications.