Janaka Ruwanpura, introduced as a Top 25 Canadian Immigrant by the Prime Minister in 2022, is an internationally-renowned award-winning scholar, leader, consultant, and entrepreneur in construction automation and productivity. Janaka, former Canada Research Chair in Project Management Systems, now serves as the University of Calgary’s Vice-Provost International and Associate Vice-President Research. He is also the President of JYR Consultants and i-Booth, Inc., A member of the US National Academy of Construction and a fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, his outstanding ...

Professor Russell’s ground-breaking applied science and engineering research has made profound impacts on air quality policies. His work is featured in multiple US National Academy reports. His key scientific advances set the foundation for air quality policies and modeling approaches now adopted globally. His award-winning research relates pollutants and health that has led to our important understanding of clean air in health. Policies driven by his work have directly benefited the world including Canada from the adoption of effective controls that decreases locally-generated and long range ...

Alan D. Russell, holder of the Chair in Computer Integrated Design and Construction at UBC, is a world-renowned expert in economic modeling and risk analysis of large engineering projects with special emphasis on public-private partnerships. His REPCON Construction Management System has been used on over $2 billion worth of notable projects in Canada, the U.S. and Hong Kong. As an academic he was responsible for creating the construction engineering and management concentrations at both Concordia University and UBC. He is a Fellow of the CSCE as well as recipient of both the E. Whitman Wright ...

Dr. Yong Rui is a world-renowned technology leader in both scientific research and turning research into products. A Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, SPIE, CCF and CAAI, and a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Rui contributes significantly to multimedia search and analysis, computer vision, machine learning and their applications. As the Corporate CTO of Lenovo Group and a former leader of Microsoft Research Asia, he holds 62 patents and has shipped commercial products to tens of millions of users worldwide. Rui has been collaborating with Canadian universities including Ottawa and Ryerson for ...

Professor Harry Ruda (Stanley Meek Chair in Nanotechnology, FRSC, FIET, FInstP, FIMMM) is one of the world's leading nanotechnologists, with a uniquely innovative and creative approach to science. He is recognized as an international leader in the synthesis, characterization and engineering of semiconductor nanostructures, with seminal contributions as early as the 1980s. Highlights include a first theory for electron transport in low dimensional heterostructures, a new approach for the fabrication of semiconductor nanowires, original contributions to understanding surface states in ...

aafgsgs

Kerry Rowe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (former Vice Principal Research 2000-2010) at Queen's University, is an educator, researcher and practitioner who is an internationally recognized authority on contaminant migration in soils, landfill design and geosynthetics. His fundamental and applied contributions to mathematical modeling, forensics and design technologies are used by consultants, universities and governments worldwide. As an educator and engineer, he has received awards for excellence in teaching, for excellence in research ...

Ian Rowe, now retired, has demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation and research management in academe, government and industry - particularly in support of the Canadian resource, environment and space industries. He helped to found and later led the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech), an Ontario Centre of Excellence. His effective contributions to education and training of young engineers were recognized - D.Eng. (Hon) - Ryerson University, 2002, for, 'excellence in science and engineering, service, discovery and application, leadership, innovation, vision, ...

David Ross is one of the most successful business and technology leaders in the history of the National Capital region. He has achieved international recognition for his contributions to the research, design, production, and commercialization of innovative solutions for the video production industry. Under his leadership, Ross Video has rapidly commercialized its various technologies in more than 140 countries and the International Space Station. David Ross has been recognized by prestigious awards: Best Business, CEO of the Year; Exporter of the Year (Ottawa Chamber of Commerce); Technology ...

Catherine Rosenberg is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet.In April 2018, she became the Cisco Research Chair in 5G Systems.She is an all round researcher, with significant contributions in industry and academia, in modeling and design of communication networks. Particularly, she is a world expert in wireless and satellite networking. She holds several US patents on her work on satellite networking. Her significant contributions to research and education as well as her technical leadership ...