ECE Celebrates…
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”
Professor Emeritus Walter M. Wonham
Appointed an Honorary Professor of the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) in Nanjing, China. Wonham has been a faculty member in Systems Control since 1970. He has authored two books, published over 100 research articles and supervised over 60 master’s and doctoral candidates.
Professor Ervin Sejdić
Elected to the 2022 cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (Read story)
Alumnus Joshua San Miguel
Winner of the ISCA 2022 Best Paper Award (with Abhishek Bhattacharyya and Abhijith Somashekhar) from ACM Sigarch for “NvMR: Non-Volatile Memory Renaming for Intermittent Computing”
Professor Peter Lehn
Winner of the 2022 P.D. Ziogas Electric Power Award from IEEE Canada “for contributions to the design, analysis and application of power electronic systems”
ECE PhD candidate Christopher Lucasius
Winner of the Abstract Competition Certificate at the 2022 AIMed Global Summit
Professor Andreas Veneris
Winner of a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2022 for co-authoring “LMPTs: Eliminating Storage Bottlenecks for Processing Blockchain Transactions”
Alumna Pirathayini Srikantha
Awarded the 2022 Engineering Medal for the Young Professional by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) for her achievements in power engineering and her excellence in the field and community
Professor Amr Helmy
Selected for a second term as one of six Distinguished Lecturers for the Photonics Society to represent the photonics field within IEEE. The selection considers the impact in his field of research and public speaking acumen and is based on his work on nanophotonics and hybrid plasmonics for CMOS classical and quantum connectivity, as well as the noise/loss resilience of practical quantum enhanced LIDAR systems
Professor Wei Yu and former ECE postdoctoral fellow Liang Liu
Winners of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for “Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO-Part I: Device Activity Detection and Channel Estimation”
Alumnus Kaiming Shen
Winner of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (supervised by Professor Wei Yu) for “Fractional Programming for Communication Systems-Part I: Power Control and Beamforming”
ECE PhD candidate Shashwat Sharma
Winner of a Best Student Paper Award (supervised by Professor Piero Triverio) from the 2022 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for “A Broadband Potential-Based Boundary Element Method for Modeling Electromagnetic Scattering from Dielectrics and Conductors”
Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo
Named among the most productive and impactful authors of publications on quantum cryptography (Read story)
Professor Emeritus Keigo Iizuka
For his book Engineering Optics, which BookAuthority ranks as number three in the top 100 optics books, based on recommendations by thought leaders and experts.
Zachary Jager LaPointe and Joshua Aikohi Pius (both Year 4 ECE)
Winners of the University of Toronto Student Leadership Award (UTSLA) (Read story)
Professor Ervin Sejdić
Winner of Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) project funding for ‘Computational biomarkers indicative of swallowing and gait functional declines’ (Read story)
Professor Nicolas Papernot
Winner of the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship on the area of ‘Computer Science’ (Read story)
Professor Piero Triverio and ECE PhD candidate Shashwat Sharma
Winner of 2021 Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
ECE PhD candidate Mohammad Yaghini
Winner of a 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship in the area of ‘Security and Privacy’
Professors Tony Chan Carusone and Joyce Poon
Named Fellows of the IEEE (Read story)
2021Professor Ted Sargent and alumnus Alex Ip (ECE PhD 1T5)
Advisors for U of T Engineering team that won global XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award (Read story)
Professor Vaughn Betz
Elected a 2022 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (Read story)
Sarah Sameh Hassaballa (Year 2 CompE)
One of two inaugural recipients of the CGI Scholarship for the Advancement of Black Women in Engineering (Read story)
Professor Micah Stickel
Winner of the 2021 Teaching Award from Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) (Read story)
Mai Ali (ECE PhD candidate)
Winner of an Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology (IBET) Momentum Fellowships (Read story)
Alumnus Shengxiang Ji
Awarded the Governor General’s Silver Medal for academic excellence (Read story)
Adam Gierlach and Dana Kokoska
Named 2021 ‘Grads to Watch’ (Read story)
Professors Konstantinos Plataniotis and Elvino Sousa
Elected as 2021 Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (Read story)
Alumnus Mingyang Wei
Awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence (Read story)
Professor Margaret Chapman
Winner of the Leon O. Chua Award, Berkeley EECS: “for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science”.
ECE MEng candidates Patrick Bampanga and Atul Manmohan
Winners of the CIGRE Next-Generation Network (NGN) award, ‘Best CIGRE Young Members Paper’ (2020 Virtual CIGRE Canada Conference & Expo)
2019Professor Wei Yu and Raymond Liu
Winners of the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, given to those who enlarge the field of communications engineering, for the long-term impact of their 2006 paper “Dual Methods for Nonconvex Spectrum Optimization of Multicarrier Systems”