2024
Professor Baochun Li
Winner of the 2024 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award "for contributions to the fundamental theory and practical systems of network coding, cloud security, and resource scheduling in distributed systems"
Professor Li Qian
Recipient of a 2024 Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonic Technologies
Professor Vaughn Betz
Elected as an 2023 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow “for contributions to the architecture and computer-aided design of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)”
Professor Steve Mann
Elected as a 2024 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to wearable and immersive computing technologies” (Read the story)
Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo
Elected as a 2024 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the theory and practice of quantum cryptography" (Read the story)
Professor Baochun Li
Elected as a 2024 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (Read the story)
2023
Dr. Pavel Cheben, Adjunct Professor
Elected as a 2023 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the national academy of engineering in the U.K.
Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo
Winner of the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award "for establishing the theoretical and experimental foundation for practical quantum cryptography and quantum network"
Dr. William Chisholm, Adjunct Lecturer
Received the 2022 IEEE Dielectrics and Insulation Society Caixin Sun and Stan Grzybowski Lifetime Achievement Award (PDF, p.17) "for contributions to overhead high voltage line reliability and safety."
Professors Natalie Enright Jerger and Andreas Moshovos
Co-authored paper "Cnvlutin: Ineffectual-Neuron-Free Deep Neural Network Computing" (2016) selected as part of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture's 50th Retrospective collection of "significant and memorable papers"
Professor Baochun Li
Elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering as "an internationally renowned researcher and technology innovator in multimedia systems, networking, cloud computing, and distributed systems"
Professor George Eleftheriades
Elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering as "a pioneer in the field of metamaterials and metasurfaces"
Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo
Winner of the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics, "in recognition of his outstanding impact on the field of Quantum communication in terms of practical implementations, laying the groundwork for commercial products for the Quantum internet"
Professor Natalie Enright Jerger
Named a 2023 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
Professor Frank Kschischang
Winner of 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal “for contributions to the theory and practice of error correcting codes and optical communications”
Professor Jason Anderson
Named a 2023 IEEE Fellow "for contributions to high-level synthesis and low-power FPGAs"
Alumnus Yongle Zhang
Winner of the 2022 Dennis M. Ritchie Thesis Award for 'Automating Failure Diagnosis for Distributed Systems' (supervised by Professor Ding Yuan)
Professor Li Qian
Named a 2023 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) for "outstanding experimental contributions to fiber-based quantum photonics and quantum communication"