Wei Yu has made influential contributions to the field of information theory and communication engineering. His theoretical research addressed fundamental limits of information transmission in communication networks. He proposed dynamic spectrum management methods that have been used in millions of digital subscriber lines worldwide and also contributed significantly to the capacity analysis and optimization techniques for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication channels. Dr. Yu has been named a highly cited researcher. He is a Fellow of the Institute of ...

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 ...

Lieutenant-general Paul Wynnyk serves as Vice Chief of Defence Staff. In doing so, he has shown exemplary leadership and commitment representing Canada by leading or overseeing military missions in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, while earning the respect and accolades of Canadian allies and the troops under his command. He is an impressive role model for all engineers, not only those serving in the military, and is a wonderful public example of the value of engineers and engineering within the Canadian military.

Dr. F. Richard Yu is an internationally recognized research leader in mobile systems. His pioneering contributions have significantly impacted research and development in this area through over 600 highly-cited publications and 28 granted patents. His mobility management algorithms have been adopted in mobile systems standards. He is among the top 1% of highly cited researchers on Web of Science, demonstrating his worldwide influence. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, and EIC, an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the recipient of numerous ...

Prof Ming Yu, former Chief Scientist and Director of R&D, COM DEV, has made major contributions to the advancement of computer-aided design and tuning of microwave filters and multiplexers. These are among his many contributions that have allowed Canada's COM DEV to remain as an international industry leader in aerospace electronic technologies. In 2016, COM DEV was acquired by Honeywell of USA. He has led the Advanced Technology Group, Cambridge, as the Chief Scientist and an Engineering Fellow. He published over 20 patents. He has authored or co-authored over 130 publications and ...

For contributions to the development of new electronic technologies and processes enhancing the export of Canadian products, the training of many successful graduate students, and especially for key-role in the growth of a new Canadian high tech company, Vecima Networks; Vecima has grown from a 3-person basement startup to a $150 Million publicly listed company in exporting Canadian designed and manufactured electronic and software products to the international telecommunications marketplace. Successful products include new technologies to deliver broadband data over wireless networks, and ...

Dr. Gu Xu is recognized for his innovative solutions, bridgingfundamental science and creative engineering, to a number of critical and long standing problems, including the revelation of organic memorymechanism, and the elucidation of degradation in organic lightemitting devices that enabled their commercialization. In addition,hydrogen storage saturation was uncovered to clarify the controversy,and lateral structure of multiwall nanotubes was resolved by his novelX-ray imaging methods. The discoveries were mostly published byleading science and engineering journals, which were ...

Dr. John Yeow is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to the fields of microsystems and nanodevices research, particularly as they apply to medical and therapeutic instruments. His work has had a broad and seminal impact - from discovery to industrial innovation. He was the first to develop a 3-dimensional (3D) micromachine-based optical coherent tomographic (OCT) imaging system that acquired the world's first 3D-OCT images of the central nervous system of a fruit fly. This technology enabled the realization of a highly miniaturized catheter for early cancer diagnosis in human ...

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 ...

Dr. Q. M. Jonathan Wu is a University of Windsor Engineering Professor and a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair, first awarded in 2005 and renewed in 2012. He is a world-leading expert in the field of computer vision and machine learning with one book and 350 publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. His works have been cited more than 7,300 times. He has developed many novel methodologies and systems for a wide variety of real-world applications, ranging from machine vision systems for manufacturing automation, machine learning and sensor fusion for autonomous driving to big ...