Thursday, July 6, 2023
Professor En-Hui Yang, has been awarded the 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research for his contributions to source coding theory and its commercialization in Canada.
The Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) presents the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research (CATR) biennially, recognizing distinguished contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the field of telecommunications.
Professor Yang is an internationally renowned researcher in the area of data compression and information theory. He holds a Canada Research Chair in information theory and is a past winner of a Premier's Research Excellence Award and the prestigious 2021 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award.