A faculty member of Waterloo’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department has been named a 2021 fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the country’s longest-standing engineering society.
Karim Karim was recognized for his “excellence in engineering and services to the profession and to society.”
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Along with serving as an ECE professor, he is executive director of the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, a researcher in the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology and director of Silicon Thin Film Applied Research at the University of Waterloo.
Karim Karim is a new fellow of the Engineering Institue of Canada
Karim is the founder and CTO of KA Imaging, a Waterloo spinoff company. KA Imaging recently initiated a clinical trial at Kitchener's Grand River Hospital to image lung cancer patients with one of its products.
He will be honoured as a fellow at the next EIC Gala scheduled for spring 2022.