Members in the Spotlight
IEEE Canada members receive EIC Honours Awards
The Engineering Institute of Canada announced the 2017 recipients of its honours, awards and fellowships. The senior awards of EIC are the highest distinctions made by the Institute and are awarded to members of its technical societies.
Two IEEE Canada members are among the five to receive the senior medals:
SIR JOHN KENNEDY MEDAL
For outstanding service to the profession, or noteworthy contributions
to the science of engineering, or to the benefit of the Institute
Cristina Amon, FIEEE (Toronto Section)
JOHN B. STIRLING MEDAL
For leadership and distinguished service at the national level within the Institute and/or its Member Societies
Jean Zu, AMIEEE (Toronto Section)
In addition, three IEEE Canada members are among twenty engineers are inducted as Fellows of EIC for their exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada:
Wahab Almuhtadi, SMIEEE (Ottawa Section)
Jens Bornemann, FIEEE (Victoria Section)
John Wood, MIEEE (Victoria Section)
IEEE Fellows 2017
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 2017 IEEE Fellows from Canada are:
Raviraj Adve
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
for development of signal processing techniques for airborne radar
Kankar Bhattacharya
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services
Robert Boyd
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to the fields of nonlinear optics and photonics
Hossam Hassanein
Queens University
Kingston, ON, Canada
for contributions to protocols, architectures and analysis of multi-hop wireless networks
Juri Jatskevich
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
for contributions to modeling of electric machines and switching converters
Jin Jiang
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
for contributions to methodology, design, and evaluation of engineering systems safety
Amir Khandani
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in network information theory
Witold Krzymien
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
for contributions to radio resource management for cellular systems and networks
Xiaodong Lin
University of Ontario Institute of Technology- Canada
Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions in secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications
Jiangchuan Liu
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
for contributions to multimedia communications and content distribution over the Internet
David Lowther
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
for contributions to, and industrial applications of computer aided design in electromagnetics
Panos Nasiopoulos
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
for leadership in DVD authoring and digital multimedia technologies
Yang Shi
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
for contributions to networked and distributed control systems
Shervin Shirmohammadi
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements
Sorin Voinigescu
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to silicon and silicon-germanium microwave and millimeter-wave devices and integrated circuits
Xianbin Wang
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
for contributions to OFDM systems and distributed transmission technologies
Zhen Wang
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
for contributions to statistical signal processing for multimedia security and brain data analytics
Halim Yanikomeroglu
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada
for contributions to wireless access architectures in cellular networks
Zuo-Guang Ye
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
for contributions to piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials for high-performance electromechanical transducers
Dr. David H Jacobson received dedication of the book authored by Nobel Laureates
Dr David H Jacobson, Life Fellow IEEE, along with Dr. Peter Whittle of University of Cambridge who extended some of Jacobson's earlier work, received dedication of the book "Uncertainty Within Economic Models" written by Lars Peter Hansen (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2013) and Thomas Sargent (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2011). From Jacobson's 1973 paper "Optimal Stochastic Linear Systems with Exponential Performance Criteria and Their Relation to Deterministic Differential Games", the Nobel-Laureate authors state "we learned much from reading and studying carefully your work as it provided a tractable way to address problems of considerable importance in economics".
