Waterloo Engineering professor Slim Boumaiza will be honoured at Rideau Hall in Ottawa tonight for his research on wireless communications networks with two industry partners.
Boumaiza, an electrical and computer engineering professor who heads the Emerging Radio Systems Group (EmRG), is one of 20 scientists and engineers to be recognized at a ceremony attended by Governor General Julie Payette and other dignitaries. He will receive a $200,000 research grant as the winner in one of four Synergy Awards for Innovation categories sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for outstanding examples of industry-academia collaboration.
The award recognizes Boumaiza’s work with Ericsson Canada Inc. and Keysight Technologies Canada Inc. to find ways to build energy-efficient radio-communications systems that minimize the environmental impacts and operational costs of 4G infrastructure.
From left to right: John Ilowski, Ericsson Canada Inc., Charmaine Dean, Vice-President, University Research, Denis Jacques, Keysight Technologies Canada Inc., B. Mario Pinto, President, NSERC, and Slim Boumaiza, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrate Synergy Award for Innovation at Rideau Hall.
