Wagdi (Fred) Habashi of McGill University is an international authority in the field of Computational Fluid Aerodynamics. His skills and methods are called upon by national and multinational companies in the area of aerodynamic design of aircraft, gas turbines and in the in-flight icing certification of airplanes, as well in accident reconstruction. He has extensively consulted for industry, has created three spin-off companies and is a co-founder of the Canadian Society of Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has received numerous scientific and industrial awards in Aerospace and Supercomputing and holds the J.-Armand Bombardier Chair of Multi-disciplinary CFD at McGill.