fernando@torontomu.ca
Xavier Fernando is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada. He has (co)authored over 200 research articles, three books (one translated to Mandarin), many book chapters and holds three patents. He is working on the second edition of his 3rd book. He is the Director of the TMU Intelligent Computing and Communication Lab that has received total research funding of over $5 Million since 2008 from the industry and government. His area of research is application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to resolve various engineering and IoT challenges.
His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including, number of IEEE awards, Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. TMU nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in which was a finalist.
He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE IOT Journal and IEEE the Consumer Technology Magazine. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 75 invited talks all over the world. He has chaired the IEEE Toronto Section (2012-13) and IEEE Canada Central Area (2016-17) serving the IEEE Region-7 Board. Currently he serves as the IEEE Canada (Region-7) Vitality Coordinator.
He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was the General Chair for the IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2017 and IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014. He was a Member of Board of Governors of Ryerson University during 2011-12.
He is a program evaluator for ABET (USA). He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK in 2008 and MAPNET Fellow visiting Aston University, UK in 2014. His past students are very successful in academia and industry. He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary, Canada in 2001 and master's at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1994. He worked as an R&D Engineer for AT&T during 1994-97.