Four UBC professors named Engineering Institute of Canada Fellows
Four leading experts at the University of British Columbia are being recognized for excellence in engineering and their services to the profession and society by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).
Faculty of Applied Science members Dr. Julian Cheng, Dr. Peter Englezos, Dr. Kasun Hewage and Dr. Zheng Liu are among 21 engineers across Canada who will be inducted as 2025 EIC Fellows in the spring.
Dr. Julian Cheng, a professor of electrical engineering in UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering, is an expert in digital communications over wireless channels, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, spread spectrum communications, statistical signal processing for wireless applications, and optical wireless communications. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Dr. Peter Englezos, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the UBC Vancouver campus, with over 35 years of research experience in clathrate hydrates (ice-like crystals with guest molecules trapped inside “cages” of hydrogen-bonded water molecules). His work has contributed to applications like carbon dioxide capture, desalination, flow assurance, energy storage, and understanding how the earth’s methane hydrates can contribute to climate change.
Dr. Kasun Hewage is a professor and chair of the civil engineering program at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering, as well as the Associate Director of UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre. He is a recognized leader in life cycle management of built assets, green construction and smart energy planning, with his work informing the BC Energy Step Code, provincial policies on internationally transferred mitigation outcomes, FortisBC energy incentives, and municipal-level public transit electrification.
Dr. Zheng Liu, a professor in the School of Engineering, runs the Intelligent Sensing Diagnostics and Prognostics research lab which develops new sensing measurement technology, and works on signal and image processing, data analysis and data/information fusion to support decision making. His projects include translating infrared thermal images into more colour visible images to aid night perception, and developing data-driven predictive analytics for municipalities to manage their water infrastructure.
New Fellows will be inducted at the EIC gala on April 5, 2025.
The EIC was founded in 1887 and is now a federation of 14 Canadian engineering societies, made up of 30,000 Canadian engineers and engineering students.
