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By Maria Lironi
A UVic engineering professor is bringing triple prestige to the university by not only being a UVic alumnus and professor, but also the recipient of its 34th Canada Research Chair.
Dr. Aaron Gulliver, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the new Canada Research Chair in Advanced Wireless Communications. As a tier-one recipient Gulliver is considered one of the “stars of today” and his award will provide him with funding for seven years and can be renewed indefinitely. The position is jointly funded by the Canada Research Chairs Program ($1.4 million) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation ($166,651).
“Wireless technology has evolved because people are inherently mobile and have a need to interact and participate in a community regardless of where they are,” says Gulliver. “Wired systems have advanced to the point where very high-speed multimedia services are available in the home and elsewhere, and it is natural that mobile users demand similar service levels. This demand for better wireless services, faster, cheaper, more reliable and secure, requires new efficient, high-capacity communications systems.”
Gulliver’s research will focus on the development of key enabling technologies for these new wireless systems. “The wired world is becoming the wireless world,” adds Gulliver. Before long, he says, the nest of wires that link the average home entertainment system will be a thing of the past.
Gulliver completed his doctorate in electrical engineering at UVic in 1989 and joined the faculty 10 years later. In the intervening decade he was a faculty member at Carleton University and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
In 2000, he was awarded a research fellowship by the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute. In 2002 he won the Faculty of Engineering’s Award for Teaching Excellence and was made a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
The author or co-author of over 300 published papers, Gulliver is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. For more information visit www.ece.uvic.ca/~agullive.
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