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, ...

David Wilkinson is internationally recognized as a researcher specializing in the effect of thermomechanical processing on the properties of metals and alloys, the incorporation of damage into models of deformation and ductile fracture and the creep behaviour of structural materials. He has authored over 200 scientific publications specializing in the mechanical behaviour of both metals and ceramics, as well as an undergraduate textbook published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Wilkinson was the founding Director of the McMaster Center for Automotive Materials and PI of the Initiative for ...

Professor Max Wong, McMaster University, is a leader in the research of signal processing. His research ranges from development of fundamental theory and algorithms in signal processing to applications and designs of signal processors in communication, radar, and sonar systems. His research in sensor array processing brought high resolution processing methods into practical use in non-ideal noise environments. His more recent work pioneered the application of convex optimization techniques to signal processor designs and made great impacts in line and wireless communications. Author of over ...

Dr. Xiao has made significant contribution to polymer and pulp & paper science and engineering. His research on multidisciplinary areas is unique and enables his to develop various cutting edge technologies that have remarkable benefit to papermaking, polymer and packaging industries. The various functional polymers and nanoparticle systems Dr. Xiao developed not only addressed the issues related to industrial demands from a fundamental point of view, but also are implementable and feasible for commercialization. Apart from the excellent track record of research in terms of the number and ...

Dr. John Vlachopoulos, of McMaster University, is a world leader in polymer processing. He is the author/co-author of some 300 publications in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, in the thermo-mechanical processing of polymers. He is the author of a 815 page textbook entitled "Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics" downloadable for free from www.researchgate.com and co-editor of two other books. He has converted several algorithms, used in his publications, into user friendly software packages and licensed them to over 500 corporations in 30 countries, through a ...

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 ...

Wei Yu has made influential contributions to the field of information theory and communication engineering. His theoretical research addressed fundamental limits of information transmission in communication networks. He proposed dynamic spectrum management methods that have been used in millions of digital subscriber lines worldwide and also contributed significantly to the capacity analysis and optimization techniques for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication channels. Dr. Yu has been named a highly cited researcher. He is a Fellow of the Institute of ...

A Professor of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility at UBC, Carlos Ventura has achieved world renown as a structural engineer. He is a well-recognized international consultant on vibration problems of structures and on seismic risk studies, and is recognized as a leader of earthquake engineering in Canada. He has accomplished global outreach to practicing engineers, including Technical Advisor to the United Nations and to the World Bank. His humanitarian work is far-reaching-he volunteers on a number of non-profit projects to aid ...

David Wilkinson of UBC has made major sustained contributions to the commercialization of fuel cells and other electrochemical devices (electrolysis,batteries, capacitors, electrodialysis, etc), while at the same time advancing the basic understanding of electrochemical transfer reactions. His incisive research and talented leadership have resulted in closing the gaps in performance, reliability, durability and cost of fuel cells and batteries, particularly polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. He is internationally recognized as a leader in electrochemical engineering and fuel cell ...

Dr. Adriaan van Heiningen is recognized internationally as a pre-eminent authority in chemical reaction engineering related to manufacture of chemical papermaking pulps, bleaching of these pulps, related chemical recovery processes and the forest biorefinery. His ground-breaking fundamental research has led to profound changes in the pulp manufacturing industry and its environmental impact. He is recognized internationally as the leading proponent of the Integrated Forest Bio-Refinery for producing biofuels and biomaterials. In Atlantic Canada, he is recognized as the founding director of the ...