William D. Bishop, PEng (He/Him)

William (Bill) Bishop is the Director of Admissions for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In this role, Bill is responsible for directing the Engineering Admissions Team working in the Engineering Undergraduate Office. This team processes all applicants to undergraduate engineering programs. This team also handles all transfers into first year undergraduate engineering programs.

William Bishop is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In this capacity, he teaches undergraduate courses in the areas of engineering design, digital design, and embedded systems. His research interests include engineering education, configurable computing, parallel and distributed systems, hardware and software co-design, embedded systems, and multimedia processing.

William Bishop has received recognition for his teaching, research, and service. For his service to the Faculty of Engineering, he received the Unsung Hero Award in 2024. He received an Outstanding Performance Award in 2009, 2013, and 2020. For his teaching, he has twice received the James A. Field Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 and 2011. He was recognized with a Ontario Volunteer Service Award in 2019 for 15 years of service with the Waterloo Wellington Science and Engineering Fair. He currently holds memberships with Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a member of the Computer, Aerospace, and Education Societies of the IEEE.

• Engineering admissions
• Engineering education
• Configurable computing
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Hardware / software co-design
• Embedded systems
• Image processing
• Multimedia systems and applications

My research explores the application of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to general-purpose computing. My research has examined the use of FPGAs for image processing and enhancement, multimedia processing, and co-processing. I also have research interests in the field of parallel and distributed systems as well as the field of engineering education.

As a senior co-op student, I was employed for 8 months in 1992 and 1993 by Atlantis Aerospace to work on several large software development projects. At Atlantis Aerospace, I developed the core simulation engine for their A320 Airbus flight training devices and their Boeing 747 flight training devices. I was also involved in the development of graphics algorithms for the display units., Prior to working at Atlantis Aerospace, I was employed for 8 months in 1992 and 1991 by Motorola Corporation to work on software for their dispatch systems. I developed code to implement new features and correct bugs in existing features. I was also involved in the port of their product from a VAX VMS platform to an IBM OS/2 platform.

• 2003, Doctorate Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• 1996, Master of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• 1994, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering / Management Science Option, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• 2006, James A. Field Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2009, Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2011, James A. Field Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2013, Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2019, Ontario Volunteer Service Award, Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair, Government of Ontario
• 2020, Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2024, Unsung Hero Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo

• 2018- Director of Admissions, Faculty of Engineering

• Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
• Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE)
• Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• ECE 124 - Digital Circuits and Systems
  • Taught in 2023
• ECE 224 - Embedded Microprocessor Systems
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• ECE 327 - Digital Hardware Systems
  • Taught in 2022, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Wong, Alexander and Bishop, William, Robust edge detection based on non-local contribution of local frequency characteristics, Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on, 119, 2008
• Wong, Alexander and Bishop, William, Deblocking of block-transform compressed images using phase-adaptive shifted thresholding, Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on, 97, 2008
• Wong, Alexander and Bishop, William, Backwards Compatible, Multi-Level Regions-of-Interest (ROI) Image Encryption Architecture with Biometric Authentication., SIGMAP, 324, 2007
• Wong, Alexander and Bishop, William, An efficient, parallel multi-key encryption of compressed video streams, The proceedings of International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, , 2006
• Wong, Alexander and Bishop, William, Expert knowledge based automatic regions-of-interest (ROI) selection in scanned documents for digital image encryption, Computer and Robot Vision, 2006. The 3rd Canadian Conference on, 51, 2006
• W. Bishop, The Assessment of Leadership Outcomes in Capstone Projects Using Anonymous Peer Feedback, Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Annual Conference 2013, , 2013