Dr. Abatzoglou has demonstrated achievements with a very high level of impact in pedagogy, academic management and in industry. His main contributions to academia consist of a restructuring of the chemical engineering program and creating the biotech engineering program. As director, the department has seen a dramatic increase in faculty and enrollment. He is recognized as the most popular teacher by students. He developed a very high level research program in collaboration with industry and holds a Chair in pharmaceutical engineering with Pfizer. He is co-founder of two university spin-offs, ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Professor Baher Abdulhai conducts leading-edge research at the University of Toronto to reduce traffic congestion in smart cities. His achievements include the establishment and leadership of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre and the iCity Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems, and the invention of traffic signal control systems which have been licensed by major technology firms. Dr. Abdulhai's record of service includes the Board of the Ontario Transit Authority and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in ITS. He is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Prof. Abolmaesumi is an outstanding and innovative researcher with an international reputation for his contributions to cancer imaging and image-guided interventions. His work covers medical image analysis, from theory to practice in computer-aided diagnosis and therapy systems. His innovations in ultrasound imaging are used globally at leading research institutions. He has mobilized an international network of interdisciplinary researchers and industry on development of new biomedical engineering solutions with direct impact on patient care.

Professor and Dean of Applied Science (Retired), University of British Columbia

Tyseer Aboulnasr is an Electrical Engineering professor retired from University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dr Aboulnasr received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Cairo University, Egypt, M.Sc.and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; all in Electrical Engineering. She was Dean of the Faculty of Applied University of British Columbia from 2008-2011 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa from 1998-2004. Dr. Aboulnasr received the Ottawa-Carleton YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Education) in 1999 and was elected Fellow of the ...

Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta

Dr. AbouRizk has significantly advanced the field of construction engineering, particularly construction simulation modeling and analysis. He is internationally acknowledged as a leader in project planning, risk analysis and uncertainty modeling. He is also recognized for his ability to transfer research and development into construction practice. He has published more than 300 papers and supervised over 100 graduate students while also balancing his academic endeavors by active consulting on projects focusing on risk analysis and assessment of management systems. He has received wide ...

Co-Founder/CEO, Alstari Corporation

Dr. Suhayya Abu-Hakima is a serial entrepreneur in Artificial Intelligence who has advanced the field over a 40 year period. She has hundreds of published papers and speeches about AI, security, messaging and entrepreneurship. She published a lessons learned book in 2024 about her two AI startups and two successful exits to NASDAQ companies. Her 48 patents are cited by Google Scholar over 2700 times by companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM, Ford, and Blackberry. She has won numerous personal and company awards for her 3 startups. She is vested in the order of Ontario for her work in ...

Electric Power Management Consultant, Market Intelligence & Data Analysis Corporation

Paul Acchione was the 2013-14 President and Chair of Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. The Society benefited from Paul's experience and determination to establish itself as a public policy advisor. He is instrumental in expanding the role of engineers as public policy advisers. He successfully raised the profile of engineers in Ontario and continues to encourage engineers to contribute to public policy development. His leadership contributes to public recognition of the value of engineers to society. He believes engineers offer unique and valuable skills and experience that are ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Barry Adams has had an outstanding academic career, first at McGill University and then at the University of Toronto where he served as both Chair of Environmental Engineering and Chair of the department of Civil Engineering. He has consulted widely in Canada and abroad on water resources and environmental engineering studies. Dr. Adams has supervised over 50 graduate students and has a prolific record of contributions to scholarly and professional organizations. He has developed a variety of sophisticated models that have been used to examine situations of engineering importance that ...

Vice-President, Sustainability and Innovation, Mercer International

Bill Adams has made outstanding and lasting contributions to engineering practice in Canada's pulp industry, most notably in establishing technologies to produce renewable energy from biomass and innovations to enhance pulp quality for high value products. He has also provided skilled and highly respected leadership in forest industry sustainability, both in technical matters and in interactions with the various stakeholders of Canada's forest resource. In addition to these contributions to Canada, the nominee has generously donated his time and exemplary engineering skills to furthering ...

Dr. Agar has distinguished himself as an outstanding engineer, researcher, business leader and consultant. As a founding member and the previous chief technical officer of O'Connor Associates Environmental Inc., Dr. Agar has continued to push back the boundaries of geo-environmental science and engineering for almost 3 decades. His pioneering work as a co-inventor of soil gas vapour extraction technology revolutionized the approach and cost-effectiveness of remediation in sites contaminated with volatile organics. He is a recognized expert who has freely shared his state of the art ...

Dr. Agnew has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo for over 25 years. He has also been conducting research in the areas of networks, cryptography and computer security for many years. As a result of this work, Dr. Agnew and two colleagues founded Certicom Corporation in 1985. Since that time, Certicom has grown to $100M company employing 170 people and is traded on the TSX. Certicom has risen to be the world leader in Elliptic Curve based cryptographic systems, which are critical for the security of wireless and low power networks. Dr. Agnew has ...

Professor, INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Dr. Sonia Aïssa, Professor at INRS, Univ. du Québec, is highly esteemed as a leading researcher who contributed extensively in expanding Canadian impact in the field of wireless communications worldwide. Her pioneering work on cognitive radio, multi-antenna systems, cross-layer design and resource management has been highly influential and enabled advances in engineering design. She is widely published and is known as an extraordinary mentor of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Her contributions influence professional practice, also through important governance and organizational ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Professor D. Grant Allen is Chair of the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, a recent Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the former Director of the University of Toronto's Pulp and Paper Centre. Considered a leading expert on biofiltration, Professor Allen is conducting ground-breaking research on the use of advanced biotechnology to reduce the environmental impact of the pulp and paper and other industries. He has served as President of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and has a distinguished record of ...

Yusuf Altintas, Professor at UBC, is internationally recognized as a leading engineering researcher in the field of machining. He has contributed significantly to literature, particularly his theory of kinematics and chatter vibration stability in milling. He has also published the book 'Manufacturing automation: Principles of Metal Cutting, Machine Tool Vibrations and CNC Design', Cambridge University Press 2000. He holds the prestigious NSERC/Pratt & Whitney Industrial research Chair in Virtual High-Performance Machining; he is the Fellow of ASME, SME and CIRP, and he is Founder and ...

Professor, McGill University

Professor Marco Amabili of McGill University is an international leader in education and research in mechanical engineering. His specialty is mechanical vibrations and fluid-structure interactions and his research has made tremendous progress in nonlinear vibrations of structural components. He is the author of a large number of highly-cited scientific contributions in prestigious journals and he is the sole author of two monographs published by Cambridge University Press. He serves in editorial positions in several top ranked scientific journals. Dr. Amabili was recognized by valued awards ...

Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto

Professor Cristina Amon is Dean of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Her research has advanced the scientific foundation of heat transfer enhancement by flow destabilization, and she has made pioneering contributions to concurrent thermal designs, innovation in electronics cooling and transient thermal management of wearable computers. She has served numerous professional societies with distinction, and demonstrated exceptional dedication to outreach and to diversity in engineering. While at Carnegie Mellon she developed two engineering outreach programs ...

Professor, Dalhousie University

Dr. Paul Amyotte, P.Eng., FEC, FEIC, FCSCE has excelled in all aspects of his engineering career, teaching, research, consulting and service to the profession. He has contributed significantly to the advancement of engineering and scientific knowledge in the areas of industrial safety and loss management. He is considered a global expert in the prevention and mitigation of dust explosions and as such, his knowledge is sought in many countries throughout the world. With three books and over 180 publications in his area of expertise, he has contributed significantly to safety in the industrial ...

Professor, McGill University

Jorge Angeles is best known for his contributions to the design and control of mechanical systems, with special focus in robotics. He is recognized as an international authority in the kinematics and dynamics of parallel robots. His design paradigm for cam mechanics at large broke ground in the area of mechanical transmissions, as it allows for force and motion transmission with minimum friction losses. Jorge Angeles is the holder of three international patents in the areas of mechanisms and robotics plus six books on mechanical systems.

Professor, University of Ottawa

An experienced entrepreneur herself, Dr. Anis has pioneered the concept of entrepreneurial design in engineering education. She has been the driving force behind transformational changes at the University of Ottawa: Courses on innovation and entrepreneurship for students; student competitions in design and entrepreneurship; increased participation of uOttawa Engineering students in pre-professional competitions at the international level; facilities and resources that support and foster innovation among students. Hanan also spearheaded the establishment of the student-run uOttawa Engineering ...

Miguel F. Anjos is a Professor at Polytechnique Montreal. He is renowned internationally for his research accomplishments in the field of mathematical optimization and its applications in engineering. He currently holds an Inria International Chair and the NSERC-Hydro-Quebec-Schneider Electric Senior Industrial Research Chair on Optimization for the Smart Grid. He earned degrees from McGill University, Stanford University, and the University of Waterloo. He was the Founding Academic Director of the Trottier Institute for Energy at Polytechnique, which promotes the search for sustainable ...

Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University

A tireless advocate for women in STEM, Prof. Arbel's research lies at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision and medical image analysis. She has built an internationally renowned, multidisciplinary research program where probabilistic machine learning models are developed to address a wide range of medical imaging problems. Her research has led to concrete improvements in patient care, including image analysis services that support multiple sclerosis clinical trials analysis for therapies being developed worldwide. Her work has been recognized through many awards and prizes, ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Using novel experimental techniques coupled with mathematical modeling, Professor Argyropoulos has established a comprehensive knowledge base pertaining to the thermo-chemical principles that govern in-situ and interfacial reactions during alloying of molten metals. From his studies of fluid flow phenomena, he has also pioneered the development of an innovative sensor to measure for the first time, the magnitude and direction of velocities in high temperature liquid metals. Recognized by international honours and awards, this distinguished researcher has made substantial and sustained ...

Professor and Sunstate Chair of Construction Management, Arizona State University

Dr. Samuel T. Ariaratnam is an internationally-renowned leader in horizontal directional drilling and trenchless engineering applications. His research in this area has created new technologies in construction engineering and applications of underground trenchless techniques. He has published over 300 technical reports and papers, has co-authored eight textbooks, and holds four patents. His contributions to engineering have been recognized by numerous organizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which awarded him the prestigious John O. Bickel Award and the Arthur ...

Dr. Soheil Asgarpour has over 30 years of diversified technical, business, and operations experience in the oil and gas industry marked by providing strong leadership: President of Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC), President of Innovative Oil & Gas Inc. and business leader of Oil Sands Development for Alberta Department of Energy, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Canadian 88 Energy Corp., Director of Corporate Strategic Planning for Gulf Canada Resources Limited (“Gulf”), Director of Exploitation for Gulf, and Chief Engineer of Gulf.Dr. Asgarpour ...

Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University

Named as one of the 25 top innovators in Quebec in 2009; contributor to Canadian and US government policies on energy; sought after for advice by governments and major industries; educator of over 30 high performing building engineering graduates now in universities, government and industry; widely published with over 150 journal papers and two books; pioneer of solar technologies and leader of innovative solar building demonstration projects; distinguished Canadian leader of research networks unifying top researchers, institutions, and industries - Dr. Athienitis is recognized as a major ...