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Dr. Wayne D. Grover, P.Eng.

2008 summit award® recipients

The Alberta Ingenuity Fund
Research Excellence Award

 

Dr. WAYNE D. GROVER, P.ENG.

 

The award recognizes professionals in academia or industry who have conducted innovative research in engineering, geology or geophysics that has been successfully applied to improve our economic and social well-being.

Dr. Wayne Grover, P.Eng., has been active for 30 years as an inventor, researcher and educator in telecommunications R&D. For the last 20 years, he has been internationally recognized as a leading expert in survivable broadband networks. Dr. Grover has several landmark papers and inventions to his credit and a reputation for insightful and original work. He is known for his vision of self-healing mesh networks, and more recently as inventor and main proponent of the p-cycles concept.

Dr. Grover holds a B.Eng. from Carleton University, Ottawa, an M.Sc. from the University of Essex, U.K., and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta. Early in his career he worked in radio telescope development at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory and served in the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserves) as a military engineer. He also worked for Bell-Northern Research and was a Sessional Lecturer at Carleton University.

In 1986 he joined the senior management of TRLabs and was instrumental in its early growth from a startup to the 240-person, five-location, multinational research consortium that it is today. He currently serves as TRLabs’ Chief Scientist for the Network Systems research group and he is also a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Engineering.

To date, Dr. Grover has produced 33 patented inventions (five pending), 73 journal publications, five book chapters and more than 150 technical reports, seminars and peer-reviewed conference papers. His book, Mesh-based Survivable Networks: Options for Optical, MPLS, SONET and ATM Networking, was published by Prentice-Hall in 2003. His work is highly cited in the fields of fibre optic systems design, high-speed synchronization, digital subscriber loop transmission and self-healing networks. He is widely recognized as a founding inventor in the field of self-healing and self-organizing transport networks, and he has recently invented a new survivability concept, especially for application in IP or WDM networks, which promises the best of both ring and mesh architectures. Dr. Grover is currently working on his second book, which will be on the topic of p-cycles for network survivability.

Honours, Awards and Distinctions

  • Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer, North Carolina, U.S. (2008)

  • Plenary Speaker, INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Washington (2008)

  • Most Innovative Paper Award, DRCN International Workshop, Italy (2005)

  • Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Broadnets Conference, Boston (2004)

  • NSERC Discovery Grant Holder (2004;1999)

  • E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship, NSERC (2001-2002)

  • W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award, IEEE (1999)

  • Canada Outstanding Engineer Award, IEEE Canada (1999)

  • Martha Cook-Piper Research Prize, U of A (1999)

  • ASTECH Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award (1999)

  • Smart City Award, City of Edmonton (1998)

  • McCalla Research Professor in Engineering, U of A (1996-1997)

  • TRLabs Technology Commercialization Award (1996; 1991)

Professional Affiliations and Activities

  • Associate Editor, Transactions on Reliability Engineering, IEEE (2008-present)

  • Associate Editor, Communications Letters, IEEE (2006-present)

  • Guest Professor, Institute for Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich (2006)

  • Examiner, APEGGA Technical Examinations (2005-present)

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Optical Networking, Optical Society of America (2004-2006)

  • Conference General Chair, Design of Reliable Communication Networks, Banff (2003)

  • Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada (2002)

  • Fellow, IEEE (2002)

  • Board of Editors, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer-Science (1995-present)

  • Member, APEGGA (1987-present)