January 17, 2014
Professor Wei Yu of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2014, with the citation “for contributions to optimization techniques for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communications.”
Professor Yu is being recognized for his significant theoretical, but also practically applicable, contributions to multiuser information theory. In the area of fixed-line communications, he has been an early proponent in dynamic spectrum management for digital subscriber lines (DSLs). Some of the concepts in Professor Yu’s work are now used on hundreds of millions of broadband-access DSL customers globally. In wireless communications, he has contributed to theoretical capacity analysis and optimization techniques for multiple-antenna communication systems.
“Congratulations to Professor Yu on this wonderful achievement,” said Professor Farid Najm, chair of the ECE department. “This is a well-deserved recognition of his career to date, and I wish him the best for continued success.”
Professor Yu joined the ECE department in 2002. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. He received an IEEE International Conference on Communications Best Paper Award in 2013, an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2008, and the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction, also in 2008.
IEEE is the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology and humanity. Its Board of Directors selects fewer than one-tenth of one per cent of its total voting members as Fellows each year, the highest grade of membership available. The grade of Fellow is conferred to those members “whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interests are deemed fitting of the prestigious grade elevation.”
Twenty-four faculty members in the ECE department, including Emeritus Professors, are IEEE Fellows. Professor Yu is the 25th.
More information:
Marit Mitchell
Senior Communications Officer
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; marit.mitchell@utoronto.ca