Members in the Spotlight
IEEE Canada members shine in NSERC 2015 Discovery Accelerator competition
Amongst this year's 125 successful applicants for the prestigious NSERC 2015 Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program, 17 are IEEE Canada members - an impressive representation given the broad scope of research funded.
Supporting all natural science fields and engineering disciplines, supplements are expected to "accelerate progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research programs." The awards for 2015 are valued at $120,000 over three years per recipient. They were announced on June 22.
Congratulations to the following members as they continue on with their top-notch research:
| Hamilton Section | Nicola Nicolici McMaster University Systematic and Structural Methods for Post-Silicon Validation |
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| Kingston Section | Juergen Dingel
Queen's University A toolkit for the analysis of models of real-time embedded software |
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| London Section | Arash Reyhani-Masoleh
University of Western Ontario Efficient and reliable computations for lightweight and/or high-performance cryptosystems: algorithms, architectures |
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| Newfoundland and Labrador Section | Eric Gill
Memorial University of Newfoundland Radio wave scattering from rough surfaces -- theory and application to ocean remote sensing with HF and marine radar |
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| North Saskatchewan Section | Chanchal Kumar Roy
University of Saskatchewan Change, similarity and redundancy in software |
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| Ottawa Section | Xiaoping (Peter) Liu Carleton University Towards realistic surgical simulation and training systems |
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| Quebec Section | Jean-Yves Chouinard
Université Laval Méthodes de transmission de l'information robustes et sécuritaires dans les réseaux coopératifs sans fil hyperdenses |
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| Toronto Section | Ben Liang University Of Toronto Integrated communication and computation resource management for mobile cloud computing Paul Milgram University Of Toronto Augmented visual displays for teleoperation |
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| Vancouver Section | Alan Hu University of British Columbia Automated formal verification at the hardware/software boundary Lukas Chrostowski University of British Columbia Silicon photonics integrated circuit design Jie Liang Simon Fraser University Advanced signal processing for mobile social media sharing Martin Ordonez University of British Columbia Renewable flex DC building-scale energy systems Meenakshinathan (Ash) Parameswaran Simon Fraser University Graphite-based electrochemical sensors for detecting bio molecules in low-cost medical diagnostic instruments Karthik Pattabiraman University of British Columbia Building error resilient software on next generation computing platforms |
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| Kitchener/Waterloo Section | Soo Jeon
University of Waterloo Multimodal sensory integration and control for interactive dexterous in-hand object manipulation |
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| Winnipeg Section | Shaahin Filizadeh
University Of Manitoba Novel paradigms for transient simulation of modern electric-power systems |
Podium presence for IEEE Canada at 2015 Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellows induction
Ten of the 50 new Fellows recently inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) are IEEE Canada members.
In a ceremony in Hamilton on June 4, CAE President Pierre Lortie paid tribute to the recipients' exemplary contributions and expressed "boundless anticipation as to how these new Fellows will build upon [their] good works and explore new and exciting areas of engineering and its impact on public policy."
Along with the Engineering Institute of Canada and five other engineering bodies, the Canadian Academy of Engineering is a member of the Canadian Engineering Leadership Forum. We salute all the 2015 CAE Fellows as outstanding Canadian engineers, and in particular the following of our own:
| Hamilton Section | Natalia K. Nikolova | |
| London Section | Charles X. Ling | |
| Montreal Section | Miguel Anjos
David Haccoun Innocent Kamwa Federico Rosei |
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| North Canada Section | Horacio J Marquez | |
| Ottawa Section | Wen Tong | |
| Vancouver Section | Ash Parameswaran | |
| Kitchener/Waterloo Section | Raouf Boutaba |
Prof. Dave Plant received a Commercialization Award from the ReMAP network
David Plant, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, received a Commercialization Award from the Refined Manufacturing Acceleration Process (ReMAP) network. ReMAP is a Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE) program.
The award was received for work done on developing next-generation optical modulators for high-speed optical communication applications using indium phosphide technology. The resulting modulators will provide smaller form factor packages at a lower cost, improving the scalability of 100Gb/s and future 400Gb/s systems.
