Dr. Mingjian Zuo is an internationally renowned expert in reliability analysis and engineering asset management. His major contributions include realistic reliability models, effective algorithms for early fault detection and diagnosis, and optimal predictive maintenance tools. He has published 230 peer-reviewed papers in top journals and four research monographs and delivered dozens of keynote speeches worldwide. His research output has provided effective tools and methodology for reliability enhancement and reduction of the operating/maintenance costs of engineering assets used in all ...

Weihua Zhuang is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. She is an internationally recognized expert in radio resource allocation and service quality provisioning for broadband wireless communications. Her pioneering work on channel precoding, mobile user location, Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver modeling and analysis, and radio resource management has enabled advances in engineering design and industrial products. Her outstanding achievements have been recognized by ...

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. Zhang is an internationally renowned geomatics engineering professor, researcher, and inventor in the field of advanced geomatics image processing. In addition to his substantial list of research publications and international recognition, Dr. Zhang and his team have worked successfully to transform award-winning research into viable products that are helping transform satellite mapping and image surveillance processes and move them into mainstream use and onto smartphones. His work is widely cited in literature, and results of his collaborative research are now embedded in products ...

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 ...

Dr. Chris Zhang has made outstanding contributions to systems design, control or operation management technology, and robotics. His work pays particular attention to integrated design and control of dynamic systems for high performance with resilience. This has led to the improvement of disaster management practice and development of highly-resilient robots used for rescue during natural disasters. He has trained a large number of highly qualified personnel and is widely recognized as an excellent educator, having received the University of Saskatchewan's Distinguished Graduate Supervisor ...

Dr. Q.J. Zhang, Professor, Carleton University, advanced the theory and practice of active and passive computer-aided design with innovations in linear and nonlinear device modeling and circuit optimization for which he received the IEEE Fellowship. His contributions to sensitivity analysis, design optimization, and knowledge-, neural network- and electromagnetics-based modeling of microwave devices and circuits allowed radio-frequency and microwave designers to conquer prohibitive design tasks. His innovations have globally impacted commercial and military design technologies for satellite ...

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 ...

David Zhang is widely recognized as a world leading expert and a pioneer in biometrics engineering for his extraordinary accomplishments. He initiated and made profound contributions to several research areas, including palmprint authentication, and medical biometrics sensors and systems. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics for seven consecutive years (2014-2020). He has an H-index of 120 and is ranked about 80 among Top 1,000 Scientists internationally in Computer Science/Electronics. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of ...

University of Toronto Professor Safwat Zaky has a long record of exemplary service as a leader in engineering education. He recently completed a six-year term as Vice-Provost, Planning and Budget, during which he introduced a new, more transparent budget model which changed academic and financial planning in the University in a fundamental way. Professor Zaky served as Chair of U of T's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1993-2003, spearheading a major curriculum redevelopment in response to changes in the field. He has published over 70 refereed scientific papers in ...