Systems
design
engineering
(SYDE)
faculty
member
John
Yeow is
the
recipient
of
the
2021
IEEE
NTC
Distinguished
Service
Award
by
the
IEEE
Nanotechnology
Technical
Council.The
award
recognizes
Yeow's contributions
to
the
council,
which
include
serving
as
an
editor-in-chief
of
IEEE
Nanotechnology Magazine. The
publication
features
articles
on
the
latest
nanotechnology
research
and
developments. 
Yeow, who is the director of the Advanced Micro and Nano Devices Lab and a Waterloo University Research Chair, focuses his research on developing nanodevices and highly selective sensors that will help create new medical instruments for diagnosing and treating disease.
His company, ARTsensing Inc, commercialized the world’s first transparent and flexible radiation detector that measures ionizing radiation delivered to cancer patients during treatment, an invention based on his work.
John Yeow