Lawrence Tse has contributed to the development of integrated circuits and communication systems by advancing design, development, product engineering and testing, and technical management of this R&D. As a visionary leader with a track record of inspiring innovation, Tse understands the intricacies of developing technologies from concept to prototype and into production. He has shown the vision to assemble talent from around the world to create successful engineering teams, expanding engineering R&D within the corporate environment. Tse has been awarded more than 40 US patents in the ...

Professor Fiorenzo Vetrone is a pioneer in the field of upconverting rare earth doped nanoparticles and published the first paper that launched this new field of research. His highly cited work is internationally regarded and has led to breakthroughs in unravelling the photophysics of upconversion at the nanoscale as well as opening doors to new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for cancer and other diseases. He has been bestowed numerous awards including the Rutherford Memorial Medal (Chemistry) from the Royal Society of Canada and the Keith Laidler Award for excellence in physical chemistry ...

Dr. Sridhar has established a remarkable record of sustained contributions of excellence to the Canadian resource industry through research and development on the metallurgical processing of materials, to the teaching and training of engineers, and to the activities of technical societies. With 28 patents and over 60 publications including two text books, Dr. Sridhar has been eminently successful in the generation of new knowledge and the development of innovative processes and products within the metallurgical sector. As confirmed by awards from industrial and professional organizations, Dr. ...

Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lorne Trottier has poured his passion for science into research, technological development and education in Quebec. In 1976, he co-founded Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., a company known for its innovative computer graphics products. Through his technical innovation and market sense, he has helped Matrox become a world-leading multinational company in the field of computer graphics, video and imaging. He is also unfailing in support of his alma mater, McGill University, in addition to supporting Polytechnique Montreal and the Montreal Science Centre. ...

Donna Strickland is the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018, for co-inventing chirped pulse amplification, the method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses. She has made pioneering contributions to photonics, laser physics and laser matter interactions over a sustained period of time. She has published over 80 key articles in international journals and her work has been cited over 9,000 times. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society since 2008 and served as its President in 2013. Dr. Strickland is also a Fellow of SPIE. Her scientific, technical and human ...

Dr. Adriaan van Heiningen is recognized internationally as a pre-eminent authority in chemical reaction engineering related to manufacture of chemical papermaking pulps, bleaching of these pulps, related chemical recovery processes and the forest biorefinery. His ground-breaking fundamental research has led to profound changes in the pulp manufacturing industry and its environmental impact. He is recognized internationally as the leading proponent of the Integrated Forest Bio-Refinery for producing biofuels and biomaterials. In Atlantic Canada, he is recognized as the founding director of the ...

Dr. Mallik's contributions to the telecommunications industry are through practical innovations and implementations in Internet Protocols, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization technologies, enabled 2G to 3G, 3G to 4G and now 4G to 5G migrations. He held executive positions at Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper, F5 in delivering multi-billion dollars products adopted by global telecommunications operators. He contributed to telecommunications standards, coauthored 2 books, 100+ publications and U.S. patents. He is visiting professor at King's College London. He serves on advisory ...

Professor Max Wong, McMaster University, is a leader in the research of signal processing. His research ranges from development of fundamental theory and algorithms in signal processing to applications and designs of signal processors in communication, radar, and sonar systems. His research in sensor array processing brought high resolution processing methods into practical use in non-ideal noise environments. His more recent work pioneered the application of convex optimization techniques to signal processor designs and made great impacts in line and wireless communications. Author of over ...

During his career of nearly 30 years in the field of energy, Thierry Vandal has made an outstanding contribution to the development of Quebec's energy resources. As the head of Hydro-Québec since 2005, he put forward a business strategy based on the development of renewable energy, in partnership with the First Nations, as well as on technological innovation and energy efficiency. The hydro-electric development part of the business, which fosters world knowledge and practices in this field, has, since the year 2000, represented investments and projects in progress amounting to $20B. This ...

The proposed candidate is a leader in the field of water research in Québec. In addition to his research and training activities, professor Villeneuve was in charge of one of the main water research centres in Canada for 17 years. His own research activities deal with mathematical modeling involving water discharge and the evolution of its quality. More recently, he conducted important work on the evolution and the condition of water infrastructures in Québec. His work dealt mostly with the hydrology of drainage basins, urban hydrology, groundwater hydraulics and analysis of water resource ...