Xavier Fernando, SMIEEE, Ph. D. (Calgary), P. Eng. (Ontario)
Professor and Multimedia Stream Coordinator
Dr. Fernando (Ryerson Communications Lab) got approval for $259,120 from industry and NSERC CRD for developing wireless connectivity for electric vehicles in a smart grid environment, Jan. 2013
Dr. Fernando (Ryerson Communications Lab) got approval for $400,000 from industry and NSERC CRD for developing green communication networks in underground mines, Dec. 2012
Dr. Fernando is a Finalist for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award, 2012
IEEE Communications Magazine, Global Communications Newsletter, ‘ Distinguished Lecturer Tour of Xavier Fernando in South India’ October 2012
Dr. Fernando is selected as the IEEE Communications Society, Distinguished Lecturer, 2012.
Dr. Fernando receives the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science Service Excellence Award for the year 2011.
Ryersonian article Research versus Teaching, how Dr. Fernando balances both
CBC Radio news item on Fernando's research; saving miners' life
Dr. Fernando's students won a prize at the international design competition organized the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, 2011...(more)
Dr. Fernando in the Media Ryerson today, X-Journals, ACM, Newswise , NewsoDrome, Metals News, PhyOrg
Steering Committee Member of the International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum, India during October 11-12, 2012.Current Activities
Chair, IEEE Toronto Section
Member, IEEE COMSOC Education Board Working Group in Wireless Communications
Program Evaluator, ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), USA
Chair, IEEE Communications Society, Toronto Chapter - Received Chapter Achievement Award for 2008 from IEEE COMSOC, USA, Picture
Editorial Committee Member, IEEE COMSOC Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET) certification program
Associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, UK, http://www.inderscience.com/ijcnds/
Advisory Committee Member, International Journal on Trust Management in Computing and Communications (IJTMCC)
Steering Committee Member, ICACCI-2012 (International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics),Chennai, India, August 3-5, 2012
TPC Member, 14th IEEE International Conference
on Communication Technology, IEEE ICCT 2012, Chengdu,China
November 9-11, 2012
Member, Ryerson Board of Governors, 2009-2011
General Chair, 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009), September 26 - 27, 2009, Ryerson University, Toronto, http://www.tic-sth2009.org/PI of the $250,000 NSERC CRD research fund, May 2009
Co-PI of the $475,000 research fund from CPFR, March 2008
Tutorial Presenter, GLOBECOM, December 2009
Second Prize in the Student Paper Competition, T. Kuganeswaran, X. Fernando and L. Guan, Princeton University, NJ, April 09
Tutorial Presenter, Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton University, NJ, April 2009
Tutorials Chair, First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets'09) (http://www.adhocnets.org),
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK, 2008, invited lectures at Cambridge University and City University London
Tutorials Chair, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, Canada
Plenary Speaker and International Panel Member, International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking (ICSCN), Jan 4-6, 2008, Anna University, Chennai, India
Chair, First International Symposium on Microwaves and Photonics in Access Networks (MICPAN - www.micpan.org), Aug. 21, 2007, Ottawa, Canada (MICPAN is in conjunction with Access Nets 2007, August 22-23)
TPC Member: International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006-09), IEEE Communications Research and Services Conference (since inception), VTC (2006-09), Globecom (2006--09), IEEE WCNC 2010 (Sydney, Australia) and reviewer in many other conferences and journals
Member of IEEE COMSOC Technical Committees on:
(1) Personal Communication (TCPC);
(2) Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS);
(3) Power Line Communications (TCPLC);
(4) Optical Networks
