Dr. En-Hui Yang, an electrical and computer engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in information theory, is the 2023 recipient of the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research, an elite biennial award presented by the Canadian Society of Information Technology. He is the third University of Waterloo recipient since the award was established three decades ago.
Dr. En-Hui Yang is the 2023 recipient of the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research as presented by the Canadian Society of Information Technology.
Yang is a globally recognized researcher in information theory, data compression and information security with over 200 patents.
In addition to founding BicDroid Inc., he co-founded Slipstream Data Inc. (now a subsidiary of BlackBerry) and is a director at the Multimedia Communications Laboratory. Products based on his inventions, and commercialized by SlipStream, received the 2006 Ontario Global Traders Provincial Award and have been deployed by over 2,200 service providers in more than 50 countries, servicing tens of millions of home and wireless subscribers daily.
His inventions are also part of the core technologies behind popular smartphones and Direct PC products used by tens of millions of people worldwide. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Yang received his award last night at CSIT’s 2023 Biennial Symposium on Communications in Montreal.