2011
CAE Fellow 2011
Congratulations to Professor Martin Levine for being named a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow on June 2nd in Vancouver (2011). CAE recognizes Professor Levine for being a pioneer of computer-based image processing techniques and computer vision.
2010
Congratulations to Professor Zetian Mi for receiving the Young Investigator Award from the 27th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference held in Breckenridge, Colorado on September 26-29, 2010. He received this award for contributions to the development of high-performance quantum dot lasers on GaAs, InP, and Si. The NAMBE Young Investigator Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of MBE or enabled by MBE by the age of 35 and show promise of future leadership in the field.
Congratulations to Dr. Dani Tannir and his supervisor, Prof. Roni Khazaka who has just won the best student paper award at the Nonlinear Theory and its Applications Conference (NOLTA 2010) for his paper entitled “Single-Tone Moments Based Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Intermodulation Distortion in RF Circuits”. September 5th, 2010 in Krakow, Poland.
Congratulations to Prof. Tho Le-Ngoc for being named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2010). The Society recognizes Professor Le-Ngoc for being an outstanding researcher who has made several pioneering contributions in developing and demonstrating advanced transmission and resource allocation techniques for broadband communications.
Congratulations go to Prof. Michael Rabbat and his PhD student Konstantinos Tsianos for receiving the Best Paper Award (Signal Processing and Information Theory Track) for their paper "Fast Decentralized Averaging via Multi-Scale Gossip". This paper was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) in June."
Congratulations to Miss Maryam Golshayan, a PhD student supervised by Professor Steve McFee, received the award for best poster presentation for her paper. Detailed announcement here.
The Royal Society of Canada 2010
Congratulations to Professor Tho Le-Ngoc for being named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2010). The Society recognizes Professor Le-Ngoc for being an outstanding researcher who has made several pioneering contributions in developing and demonstrating advanced transmission and resource allocation techniques for broadband communications.
A Featured Article Published
Congratulations to Prof. V. Chodavarapu, Prof. S. Musallam and their student Mr. M. Hajj-Hassan for having a featured article published in the Journal Micro Nano Letters.
Staff Awards of Excellence
Congratulations to Connie Rossi for winning the 2010 Staff Awards of Excellence in the Clerical category. This award recognizes excellence in job performance. Way to go Connie!!
2009
SIAM Fellow 2009
Congratulations to CIM Member Professor Peter Caines for being awarded a SIAM Fellow 2009. The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics honorific designation is conferred on members distinguished for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.
Founder and CEO of MXIC visits the ECE Department
Mr. Miin Wu, the founder and CEO of Macronix International Ltd. (MXIC), visited the ECE Department on October 5 together with Mr. Arthur Yang, the President of MXIC USA. They met with the Associate Chair of Operations, Prof. Benoit Boulet, and various members of the department.
Mr. Wu was with the Electronic Materials and Devices group in our department in the mid-70s, working with Prof. Clifford Champness, before starting his industrial career in the US and then in Taiwan. In his inspiring seminar on electronic memory, Mr. Wu described how he envisioned the technology and market trends, his philosophy on products development, and the life as an industrialist. Macronix International Ltd. is the world leader in masked ROM and one of the largest manufacturers of non-volatile memory chips.
National Innovation Challenge Award
Congratulations go out to Dr. Marc Boulé for receiving the national Innovation Challenge Award for his doctoral dissertation: "Assertion-Checker Synthesis for Hardware Verification, In-Circuit Debugging and On-Line Monitoring" under the supervision of Prof. Zeljko Zilic. The award is given by NSERC and sponsored by Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), to recognize the real-world applicability of the University research. Dr. Boulé, following his graduation from McGill, has a position at ETS.
IEEE 2009 MTT-S Microwave Prize Award
Former McGill Ph.D. student, Dr. Joshua D. Schwartz (currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT), James McGill Professor David V. Plant, and Associate Professor Jose Azaña of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (INRS-EMT) have been awarded the 2009 Microwave Prize from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
The prize is for their paper entitled "A fully electronic system for the time magnification of ultra-wideband signals", (J.D. Schwartz, J. Azaña, and D.V. Plant, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory and Tech., 55, 327-334, 2007). Established in 1954, the prize is given annually to recognize the authors of the most significant contribution by a published paper to the field of interest of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. The prize will be awarded at the 2009 IEEE International Microwave Symposium to be held in June, 2009 in Boston.
Thomas Szkopek appointed Canada Research Chair
Professor Thomas Szkopek is one of 3 McGill researchers newly appointed Canada Research Chairs. The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program was created in 2000 to establish 2,000 research professorships across the country, with the aim of making Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development.
Professor Szkopek’s research group is developing nanoscale electronic devices and materials.
IEEE Control Systems Society 2009
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
Professor Peter Caines has received the 2009 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Contol Systems Society; this award is given annually in recognition of distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. The lecture will be delivered and the award presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control to be held in Shanghai in December, 2009.
