Members in the Spotlight
IEEE Fellows 2015
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed 0.1% of the total voting Institute membership. The 2015 IEEE Fellows from Canada are:
Kingston Section
Randy Ellis
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
for contributions to image guided surgical technology
Kitchener-Waterloo Section
John Long
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
for the development of on-chip and silicon radio-frequency integrated circuits
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions to gigahertz to terahertz integrated antenna systems
Navid Zargari
Rockwell Automation Canada, Cambridge, ON, Canada
for contribution to medium voltage drive technologies and applications
Montreal Section
Sylvain Martel
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
for contributions to image guided surgical technology
North Saskatchewan Section
Safa Kasap
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
for contributions to photoconductive sensors for x-ray imaging
Ottawa Section
Safa Kasap
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to communication protocols for distributed mobile computing and wireless sensor networks
Ridha Touzi
Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to design and calibration of polarimetric synthetic aperature radar
Gaozhi Xiao
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to the development of safety and security monitoring instrumentation and measurement technologies
Southern Alberta Section
Grard Lachapelle
University of Calgary, Calgary, AL, Canada
for contributions to signal processing for global navigation satellite systems
Henry Leung
University of Calgary, Calgary, AL, Canada
for contributions to chaotic communications and nonlinear signal processing
Rasheek Rifaat
Jacobs Canada Inc., Calgary, AL, Canada
for contributions to protection of industrial power systems
Toronto Section
Deepa Kundur
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to signal processing techniques for multimedia and cyber security
Baochun Li
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to application-layer network protocols and network coding
Luis Marti
Hydro One Networks Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to modeling and simulation of electromagnetic transients
Richard Schreier
Analog Devices Incorporated, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to delta-sigma data converters
Yu Sun
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to automated manipulation of biological cells
Vancouver Section
Gregory Stewart
Honeywell International, Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada
for contributions to model-based control of industrial systems
Winnipeg Section
Ekram Hossain
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
for contributions to spectrum management and resource allocation in cognitive and cellular radio networks
Dr. Ashok Vijh awarded distinguished D.S. KOTHARI Visiting Professorship from INSA
Dr. Ashok Vijh, LIfe Fellow of IEEE, Montreal Section, was awarded the prestigious international Chair as The D.S. KOTHARI Visiting Professor for 2014/2015 by Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
Dr. Adam W. Skorek received the medal of appreciation from University of Québec
Dr. Adam W. Skorek, received recognition after a successful 3 years contribution as a Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Québec (2011-2014).
