Tyseer Aboulnasr is an Electrical Engineering professor retired from University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dr Aboulnasr received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Cairo University, Egypt, M.Sc.and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; all in Electrical Engineering. She was Dean of the Faculty of Applied University of British Columbia from 2008-2011 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa from 1998-2004. Dr. Aboulnasr received the Ottawa-Carleton YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Education) in 1999 and was elected Fellow of the ...

Dr. Agnew has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo for over 25 years. He has also been conducting research in the areas of networks, cryptography and computer security for many years. As a result of this work, Dr. Agnew and two colleagues founded Certicom Corporation in 1985. Since that time, Certicom has grown to $100M company employing 170 people and is traded on the TSX. Certicom has risen to be the world leader in Elliptic Curve based cryptographic systems, which are critical for the security of wireless and low power networks. Dr. Agnew has ...

Dr. Sonia Aïssa, Professor at INRS, Univ. du Québec, is highly esteemed as a leading researcher who contributed extensively in expanding Canadian impact in the field of wireless communications worldwide. Her pioneering work on cognitive radio, multi-antenna systems, cross-layer design and resource management has been highly influential and enabled advances in engineering design. She is widely published and is known as an extraordinary mentor of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Her contributions influence professional practice, also through important governance and organizational ...

Norman Beaulieu is a world renown researcher in the analysis and modeling of wireless communications systems. Among a number of groundbreaking contributions on diverse fronts, international researchers use his ingenious mathematical method dubbed the "Beaulieu series" to calculate outage, coverage, interference and error rates in wireless communications systems. Dr. Beaulieu served as the only resident Canadian of the world's leading communications research journal, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, founded the iCORE Wireless Communications Laboratory, which has made Alberta a world ...

Gilbert Bennett is Executive Vice President - Power Development at Nalcor Energy where he leads the development of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric generation project. Gilbert is a member of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador and serves on the Canadian Hydropower Association's Board of Directors.

Vijay Bhargava has made fundamental research contributions in the field of cellular wireless communications. This research represents an evolution of his earlier pioneering research in error control coding and spread spectrum; error control coding devices designed by him are used by several industries and government agencies. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and has served on numerous committees for NSERC, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Canada Research Chairs Program and the Science Council of British Columbia. Vijay Bhargava was also Editor of the Canadian Journal ...

Prof. Ian Blake of the University of British Columbia has made significant contributions to the theory and implementation of elliptic curve cryptography and its commercialization, both within a large corporation and a small startup company. He has also contributed to theory and practice of error control codes in digital communication systems over a thirty-year period. He has a long record of service and leadership in an academic environment, having served as Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and been Director of two large institutes devoted to facilitating the ...

Jens Bornemann is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of microwave circuits, filters and antennas. He has more than 25 years of experience and a proven track record of extensive publications and industry interactions. His most significant contributions are innovations in numerical modeling and computer-aided design of waveguide components and planar structures. Especially his pioneering work in modal matching algorithms has been widely acclaimed by university researchers and industry, for yielding highly accurate, fast and powerful numerical tools for real-life design ...

Azzedine Boukerche is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. He earned an international reputation in the field of wireless networking, distributed and mobile computing areas, and for fundamental research contributions to performance evaluation of dynamic load balancing and data distribution management for large scale distributed simulation systems & design of novel localization and coverage protocols for wireless and mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. His research is widely recognized by his peers, and the results have been published in highly regarded IEE and ACM ...

Bill has owned, founded and funded numerous businesses in the high tech field, with particular interest in information systems and imaging. He is a pioneer in imaging, having been a principal and later Chairman of IMAX Corporation from 1970 to 1995. Under his and his partners' leadership, IMAX grew into a global entertainment company with production and distribution of over 100 films and 100 theatre operations in 18 countries. He was also a co-founder and former President of SCIEX Corporation, a provider of high-speed and ultra-trace analytical instrumentation with yearly sales exceeding $600 ...