Section Executive Committee

Kin Fun Li - Vice Chair

Kin Fun Li, PEng, SMIEEE, is the Director of Graduate Professional Program (Telecommunications and Information Security) at the University of Victoria, where he teaches both hardware and software courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He dedicates his time to teaching and research in computer architecture, and web search and mining. He is actively involved in the organization of many international conferences, including the biennial IEEE Pacific Rim in Victoria. Li also supports and participates in numerous international activities to promote the engineering profession and education.

Michael McGuire - Conference Chair

Michael McGuire, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. McGuire is an Associate Professor with the Digital Signal Processing Group. He works on applying digital signal processing algorithms to communications systems. He develops methods for networks to predict their future states to support better management of limited resources. He is also investigating physical layer security for wireless systems. After completing his Master’s degree at UVic, he was employed at Lucent Technologies for 2 years before completing his PhD at the University of Toronto.

Alexandra Branzan Albu - WIE Chair

Alexandra Branzan Albu is an associate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria (BC), Canada. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Politehnica University of Bucharest. Dr. Branzan Albu’s research focus is on computer vision. From a practical standpoint, her contributions to this field involve raising and solving research questions that are closely linked to societal needs such as environmental monitoring, medical imaging, rehabilitation, and aging-in-place. Due to the interdisciplinary and applied nature of the research problems under investigation, Alexandra has developed a number of industrial collaborations with companies such as Intel, SAP, Kongsberg-Mesotech, MTU Canada who have all provided funding for her research. Her research is also funded by the Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC Canada).

Tony Kroeker - Section Webmaster

Tony Kroeker graduated from UVic with a MASc in Computer Engineering. He is also a founder of a local startup Tutela Technologies, which specializes in crowd sourcing network measurement data from hundreds of millions of smartphones all over the world. He specializes in distributed systems, software architecture, and data analysis.