Consultant, Advisor, Mentor, LT Consulting

Lawrence Tse has contributed to the development of integrated circuits and communication systems by advancing design, development, product engineering and testing, and technical management of this R&D. As a visionary leader with a track record of inspiring innovation, Tse understands the intricacies of developing technologies from concept to prototype and into production. He has shown the vision to assemble talent from around the world to create successful engineering teams, expanding engineering R&D within the corporate environment. Tse has been awarded more than 40 US patents in the ...

Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer En, University of Alberta

Professor Tellambura is a world-class researcher in the field of wireless communication systems. He has made sustained and fundamental contributions on design, modeling and analysis of 3G, 4G and emerging wireless standards. At national level, he has served on many science and engineering panels and, internationally, editorships on prestigious journals on wireless technology. He has trained over 50 highly qualified wireless engineers who now serve the global wireless industry and academia. He has authored over 500 journal and conference publications with more than 11500 citations and a Google ...

Professor, McMaster University

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 ...

Full Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Carleton University

Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a world-renowned academic, inventor, and researcher in wireless communications. His collaboration with the Canadian and international industry on 4G and 5G wireless networks resulted in 27 granted patents in key technologies. He is best known for his visionary and pioneering work on relaying technology which resulted in several seminal publications with thousands of citations; this technology was adopted in various standards including 4G LTE and 5G. He received several awards for his research, teaching, and service. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Engineering ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan

For contributions to the development of new electronic technologies and processes enhancing the export of Canadian products, the training of many successful graduate students, and especially for key-role in the growth of a new Canadian high tech company, Vecima Networks; Vecima has grown from a 3-person basement startup to a $150 Million publicly listed company in exporting Canadian designed and manufactured electronic and software products to the international telecommunications marketplace. Successful products include new technologies to deliver broadband data over wireless networks, and ...

University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo

En-hui Yang is an international leader in source coding, a branch of information theory dealing with how to efficiently encode information for transmission, storage, and processing. A recipient of many awards including the 2007 Ernest C. Manning Award of Distinction and an IEEE Fellow, he has made profound contributions to communication engineering by introducing new fundamental source coding theory, solving long-standing open problems in source coding, inventing state-of-the-art lossless and lossy multimedia coding algorithms, co-founding SlipStream Data Inc., now a subsidiary of Research in ...

Professor, University of Toronto

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 ...

Professor & Chair, Western University

Dr. Shami is a renowned global leader in the fields of telecommunications network planning, orchestration, and optimization, as well as smart cyber-physical systems. His pioneering contributions to these areas have been integrated into the products of major international companies. Dr. Shami is also an outstanding academic leader and educator, serving as the Acting Associate Dean Research and led the development of the pioneering interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence System Engineering (AISE) program at Western Engineering. He has trained over 65 graduate students and has authored over ...

Le professeur Terreault  s'est distingué pas son apport à la recherche-développement industrielle au Canada, par ses contributions techniques, son leadership, et par la fondation et gestion de trois laboratoires affiliés à Bell Canada et à Bell Northern Research. Il a reçu plusieurs prix et distinctions pendant sa carrière pour ses services. 

Dr. Liang Song is a world-class engineer and entrepreneur in smart wireless systems, an emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation wireless systems. Due to his contributions in both L2 cognitive multi-hop wireless networks and distributed AI, large-scale and ubiquitous smart infrastructure can be possible, by interconnecting smart terminals with data sensing, wireless communications, and processing. His work represented Canada in 5G telecommunications, impacting all cellular subscribers; and is leading the development of global smart infrastructure. Dr. Song has ...

Anne Sado is not just a prominent leader in business and academia; she is a dedicated leader in the community, whose ideas, energy and integrity extend her influence across the public and private sectors and make her an outstanding role model for young women. Trained as an engineer at the University of Toronto, Anne Sado had a successful 25 year career at Bell Canada before her appointment as President of George Brown College in 2004. In this role, she is spearheading initiatives that are transforming post-secondary education in Ontario. Ms. Sado received the Ontario Professional Engineers ...

Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation (NSF)

David is passionate about innovation and has led pioneering research enabling software-defined networking and software radio. He has worked in academia, as a faculty member at MIT; in government, at DARPA; in industry at Intel, Amazon/A9.com, Microsoft and VMware; and as a partner at New Venture Partners and co-founder of Vericom Systems Ltd. Dr. Tennenhouse has championed a wide range of technologies, including networking, distributed computing, blockchain/digital assets, computer architecture, storage, machine learning, robotics and nano/bio-technology. David holds a BASc and MASc in ...

Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair, Western University

Professor Xianbin Wang, Canada Research Chair (CRC) and IEEE Fellow, is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and for his world-leading innovations in improving efficiency and security of wireless communications. As a passionate inventor, he holds 26 granted and pending patents, with over 20 of them as the first or sole inventor. His inventions have extensive technical scope, dealing with the most critical and complex issues in wireless communications, communications security, and localization technologies. Many of his ...

CEO, Expert Strategies International, LLC

Dr. Veena Rawat has been a trailblazer for women in telecommunications. An engineer at Industry Canada in the 1970s, she rose through the ranks to become president of Communications Research Centre, Canada. She led national and international committees related to the management of radio frequency spectrum setting worldwide regulations and standards. In 2014 she was awarded ‘Officer of the Order of Canada’ “…for contributions to telecommunications engineering and leadership in establishing the global regulatory framework for radio spectrum management”. Throughout her career she sought to ...

Gedas Sakus, during his lengthy career with BNR/Nortel, has helped to position that organization as a leader in the international communications industry, particularly via his devotion to R/D. In addition, his contributions to education, through support of many university initiatives, and through his service on the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, has helped to expand national policies which support a well-educated and flexible engineering work force.

Founder & CEO, positron access solutions corp

Reginald Weiser of Positron has contributed significantly to the field of modern telecommunications. He is an imaginative entrepreneur and a revolutionary leader. Based on engineering knowledge and entrepreneurial know-how, he has created in Canada a group of technologically-based companies which employ approximately 550 people (including over 100 engineers), and serve customers world-wide with highly reliable products. He has been involved at a high level with organizations that promote the education and employment of engineers, as well the development of technologically based industries in ...

Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

Prof Ming Yu, former Chief Scientist and Director of R&D, COM DEV, has made major contributions to the advancement of computer-aided design and tuning of microwave filters and multiplexers. These are among his many contributions that have allowed Canada's COM DEV to remain as an international industry leader in aerospace electronic technologies. In 2016, COM DEV was acquired by Honeywell of USA. He has led the Advanced Technology Group, Cambridge, as the Chief Scientist and an Engineering Fellow. He published over 20 patents. He has authored or co-authored over 130 publications and ...

Senior Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager, Google DeepMind

Dr. Quan Wang is a Professor in Mechanical and Civil Engineering . He has made outstanding contributions in applications of nano-materials in composites and medical devices. He is also a world leading expert in smart materials and structures and their applications in energy harvesting, structural health monitoring and repair. He has published more than 200 research papers in internationally referred journals and conference proceedings. He has played various active roles in, and contributed to, the smart materials and nano-technology research and education. He is now a fellow of ASME, ASCE, ...

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Yu-Dong Yao is an internationally recognized expert in data link and access protocol designs for satellite and cellular networks. For over 25 years, he has made significant contributions to telecommunications systems, including developing advanced on-board processing technologies for the Canadian Department of Communications and the European Space Agency and data link protocols for the Globalstar satellite system. Dr. Yao holds 13 U.S. patents and published over 150 research papers. He served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2001-2005). He was elected an ...

CEO, Ross Video

David Ross is one of the most successful business and technology leaders in the history of the National Capital region. He has achieved international recognition for his contributions to the research, design, production, and commercialization of innovative solutions for the video production industry. Under his leadership, Ross Video has rapidly commercialized its various technologies in more than 140 countries and the International Space Station. David Ross has been recognized by prestigious awards: Best Business, CEO of the Year; Exporter of the Year (Ottawa Chamber of Commerce); Technology ...

Dr. Mallik's contributions to the telecommunications industry are through practical innovations and implementations in Internet Protocols, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization technologies, enabled 2G to 3G, 3G to 4G and now 4G to 5G migrations. He held executive positions at Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper, F5 in delivering multi-billion dollars products adopted by global telecommunications operators. He contributed to telecommunications standards, coauthored 2 books, 100+ publications and U.S. patents. He is visiting professor at King's College London. He serves on advisory ...

Director, Nortel

Dr. Wen Tong, Head of Communications Technologies Global Laboratories of Huawei, is a world recognized pioneer and leader in the research and development of wireless technologies, whose breakthroughs and innovations have shaped industry in the standardization of third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) global wireless standards and generated huge economical and societal impact as billions of people are benefiting daily from 3G/4G wireless networks by enjoying ubiquitous Internet access at unprecedented speeds. His technical contributions and leadership have been recognized with ...

Dr. Vincent Wong, Professor at the University of British Columbia, is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of wireless networking and energy systems. He has developed novel and practical resource allocation algorithms for wireless communications networks. He has designed innovative demand side management algorithms for smart grid and sustainable energy systems. His work is pioneering and instrumental in shaping the new and quickly evolving areas of wireless networking and energy systems. He has contributed more than 260 journal and conference publications and co-edited a book. ...

University Professor and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo

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 ...

Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital C, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Dr. Robert Schober has made outstanding contributions to the field of wireless communication. His single-antenna interference cancellation (SAlC) algorithm for the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) has been licensed to several companies and implemented in hundreds of millions of mobile phones. Over the last decade he has made several pioneering contributions to the theory, design and application of signal detection in fast fading channels, space-time coding, widely-linear processing, and ultra-wideband signaling.