Dr. Yu-Dong Yao is an internationally recognized expert in data link and access protocol designs for satellite and cellular networks. For over 25 years, he has made significant contributions to telecommunications systems, including developing advanced on-board processing technologies for the Canadian Department of Communications and the European Space Agency and data link protocols for the Globalstar satellite system. Dr. Yao holds 13 U.S. patents and published over 150 research papers. He served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2001-2005). He was elected an ...

Dr. Yiyan Wu is a principal research scientist at Communications Research Centre Canada. He is highly respected world-wide in broadcasting industry for his research and standards development activities in digital TV/HDTV and broadband multimedia communications. His research works on OFDM, OFDMA, and SFN have been adopted in digital TV transmission, equalization and transmitter identification systems. Dr. Wu has been awarded numerous prestigious awards and honours for his outstanding achievements, including Fellow of the IEEE (2001), Emmy Award 2009, The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee ...

Bin Wu is an NSERC Industrial Research Chair and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. He is well recognized for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of power converter technologies and variable speed drives. He was one of the pioneers in developing large commercial electric drives in the megawatt range using current source converter technology. His research results have been used by Canadian companies, which has assisted them in achieving technical and commercial success in the global marketplace.

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 ...

Dr. Chengshan Xiao has made outstanding contributions to the fields of wireless communications and signal processing. His patented mobile speed estimation algorithm and robust channel equalization algorithm have been implemented into Nortel's base station radio products which saw massive production levels at the time. His wireless fading channel models and simulators have been widely adopted by academia and industry. He pioneered innovative designs of linear precoders for transceivers with finite alphabet signaling. His novel multiple input multiple output turbo equalization algorithms have ...

Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang is a world-class researcher and an influential entrepreneur. He has substantially impacted the development of multiple areas of research and industrial practices. His extensive research on signal and data processing theories, methods, and cross-disciplinary applications has significantly advanced the field. A widely recognized and respected leader in engineering communities, he provides exemplary service and has nurtured and inspired a generation of young engineers and researchers. His innovative technology-based business initiatives have fostered the development and ...

Paul Weiss explores the ultimate limits of miniaturization, designing, assembling, and operating the world's smallest switches and motors, including developing and applying both the tools to place single molecules and assemblies in controlled chemical environments, adding the chemical dimension to nanolithography and revolutionary new nanoscale analysis tools that enable the measurement of structure, function, and spectra with submolecular resolution. The journal he founded, ACS Nano, has, in only nine years, risen to 18th most cited in all fields. He has been honoured by many organizations, ...

Laurence T. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is a professor and W.F. James Research Chair at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes parallel, distributed and cloud computing, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and big data. He has published 200 papers in the above areas on top IEEE/ACM Transactions/Journals including 5 and 25 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly-cited ESI papers, respectively. He has been ...

Dr. Yi Zhang is a world-renowned expert in real-time power-system simulation. He has provided exceptional leadership as VP R&D and CTO of RTDS Technologies Inc., the world’s largest real-time simulator manufacturer. He has personally developed and directed the development of many key features that make real-time simulation relevant in today’s environment. These include advanced models for new converter topologies, renewable resources and interfaces to the communication layers that control modern large power-systems. He has served in many IEEE/CIGRE working groups and journal ...

En-hui Yang is an international leader in source coding, a branch of information theory dealing with how to efficiently encode information for transmission, storage, and processing. A recipient of many awards including the 2007 Ernest C. Manning Award of Distinction and an IEEE Fellow, he has made profound contributions to communication engineering by introducing new fundamental source coding theory, solving long-standing open problems in source coding, inventing state-of-the-art lossless and lossy multimedia coding algorithms, co-founding SlipStream Data Inc., now a subsidiary of Research in ...