Jean Zu became Dean of Stevens Institute of Technologyon May 1, 2017after serving as the department chair for Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2009.Her research focuses on vibrations and dynamics, particularly in relation to automotive belts and serpentine belt drive systems, and has resulted in a number of extremely successful partnerships with automotive firms. Professor Zu has served as President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and as a member of the National Council of the Engineering Institute of Canada ...

Professor David Zingg is Director of the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), and holds the Canada Research Chair in Computational Aerodynamics and Environmentally Friendly Aircraft Design. He has made fundamental contributions in algorithms for computational fluid dynamics and aircraft design, as well as aerodynamic shape optimization. His research is highly cited and appears in the most prestigious journals in the field. In 2004 Professor Zingg was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue his current area of research, the aerodynamic design of novel aircraft ...

Shiping Zhu is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Department Chair of McMaster Chemical Engineering. He pioneered the reaction engineering research of controlled/living radical polymerization. He is a world leading expert and has made major contributions to understanding and development of advanced polymerization technologies and to establishing polymer structure-property relationships. His work emphasizes engineering fundamentals and problem solving, and is of high impact. He has trained over fifty highly qualified personnel and published over two hundred refereed journal papers. He is ...

Dr. Peiying Zhu is a visionary technical leader who has made fundamental contributions to the design and standardization of the current fourth-generation (4G) and the coming fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies at Nortel and Huawei Canada. She was the leading figure in driving the industry to adopt the MIMO-OFDM technology into the 4G standard. This achievement had created extraordinary impact not only in the direction of wireless industry but also on our daily lives. Dr. Zhu is a pioneer and a leading expert on 5G technologies. Her innovations have helped transform the wireless ...

Songnian Zhou, CEO & Chairman of Platform Computing Corp, is a software engineer of remarkable creativity and a successful entrepreneur. His pioneering research at Berkeley led the foundation of the Internet 'postal office'. He later broke ground in computing resource management in large distributed computing systems. His new system, Utopia, was adopted by Northern Telecom on over 1,000 computers with 30-40% productivity increase. In 1992 he co-founded Platform Computing with no venture capital funding and built it into a leading software company with 300 people and sales of $ 60M in more ...

Dr. Zhou has played a prominent role in developing and introducing new high-impact technologies to the pipeline industry through vision casting, collaboration, advocacy, and research. He has accomplished this through outstanding leadership of international collaborative organizations, including his service as Chair of the Technical Committee for the CSA Pipeline Standard. He has assembled and led large engineering teams that have achieved outstanding performance by applying new technology to mega infrastructure projects and systems. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the ...

Zhang is nominated due to his conceptual contribution of single-atom catalysis and innovative catalysts for biomass conversion. As one of the most-prominent scientists in heterogeneous catalysis worldwide, Zhang devoted to synthesize low cost metal catalysts for chemical production. The new concept of single-atom catalysis stimulates to discover next-generation of industrial catalysts and promote the understanding to an atomic level. His contributions to the biomass conversion, especially the unique process for cellulose conversion to EG, have evoked intense interests from both academia and ...

Dr. Jiujun Zhang is a Principal Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Founder/Chairman of The International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). In 2014 & 2015, Dr. Zhang was selected as the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in the world in the last 10 years, and also listed as one of the "3000 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" by Thomson Reuters. With more than 400 publications, including 230 referred journal papers (over 18000 citations and h-index 62), 11 edited and 4 authored books, 36 book chapters, 110 oral research ...

Alf Zeuner is a leader in innovation, entrepreneurship and manufacturing with a career developing advanced CNC control systems. As President and owner of AXYZ International, he developed systems based on microprocessor-based CNC controllers that disrupted the entire manufacturing industry, enabling a level playing field for smaller enterprises. Mr. Zeuner's made-in-Canada technology scaled domestically and internationally to an installed base of over 10,000 machines. He is a philanthropist whose work provides food security and basic jobs in priority urban areas in Hamilton, local "at risk" ...

Karim Zaghib has made a number of seminal contributions in materials for lithium ion and solid state batteries. His inventions are used in almost every lithium battery sold worldwide. His work has been recognized through multiple awards and distinctions internationally, including Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and several prizes for novel battery technologies. He was selected in 2015 and 2016 as a most influential mind by Thomson Reuters. He has also made distinct contributions to mentoring young engineers and scientists.