UBC engineering professors Panos Nasiopoulos, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Tarek Sayed and Dharma Wijewickreme have been inducted Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in recognition of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.
ECE professor Panos Nasiopoulos is the Director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC and the Inaugural Holder of the Dolby Professorship in Digital Multimedia. Before joining UBC, he was the President of Daikin US (founder of DVD) and Executive VP of Sonic. He was voted as one of the most influential DVD executives in the world, and recognized as a leading authority on DVD and multimedia. Dr. Nasiopoulos is a registered Professional Engineer in BC and an active member of the Standards Council of Canada, MPEG and IEEE.
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Four UBC engineers inducted Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering