Professor Baochun Li of electrical and computer engineering, and Professor Yu Sun of mechanical and industrial engineering and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, are the 2009 recipients of the celebrated McLean Award.
The McLean Award is funded jointly by a gift from U of T alumnus William McLean and U of T's Connaught Fund. The $100,000 award is presented each year to outstanding researchers within 12 years of their PhD who are conducting work in physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering sciences or statistics, and help attract promising graduate students and post-fellows to the University of Toronto.
Li holds the Bell University Laboratories Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering. His research includes large-scale multimedia systems, peer-to-peer networks and applications of network coding and wireless networks, and bridges the gap between 'supply' and 'demand' of resources. He has authored more than 150 publications, including 32 publications in refereed journals, 113 publications in refereed conference proceedings and one book chapter. Li is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and in 2000 he received the association's Communications Society's Leonard G. Abraham Award in the Field of Communications Systems.
