Dr. Elise Fear

CHARDONNAY WITH A CUBE OF ICE

Elise Fear received the B.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1995, and the M.A.Sc. and PhD. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria (Canada) in 1997 and 2001, respectively.  Dr. Fear joined the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Caglary in 2002 and is currently Professor and Associate Head - Research.  She was the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCORE Strategic Chair in Multimodality Imaging and Sensing from 2013-2017. 

Dr. Fear’s work has been recognized with the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2007), the Killam Interdisciplinary Research Prize (2012), the Killam Annual Professorship (2018), and the ASTech Award for Innovation in Healthcare (2023).  Dr. Fear currently serves on the New Technology Directions Committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and has previously reviewed for multiple competitions for the National Institutes of Health.  Together with research engineer Jeremie Bourqui, Dr. Fear co-founded Wave View Imaging in 2020, a spin-off company aimed at commercializing medical microwave imaging.  Wave View Imaging was one of 3 Canadian companies selected for Pfizer’s Healthcare Hub program in 2023.