Professor Zhuo is internationally recognized for his numerous contributions that have revolutionized our understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain and memory. . He has published over a hundred original, peer-reviewed papers and his scientific articles have appeared regularly in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Neuroscience and Neuron. ------------------ ZHUO, Min –Department of Physiology, University of Toronto Professor Zhuo is internationally recognized for his numerous contributions that have revolutionized our understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain and memory. He is the first Michael Smith Chair in Neuroscience and Mental Health, and a CRC Chair Tier I in pain and cognition. He has published over a hundred original, peer-reviewed papers and his scientific articles have appeared regularly in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Neuroscience and Neuron. His research forms the basis for novel therapeutic approaches that will revolutionize the management of pain, addiction and mental illness.

Sandra Zilles has made numerous high-impact contributions to the field of Computational Learning Theory, an important branch of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the design and analysis of formal models and algorithms for learning abstract concepts from machine-readable data. Her primary focus has been on models of co-operative learning, which have applications in multi-agent systems and human-computer interaction, including preference elicitation and targeted advertising.

Sandra Zilles, titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada, a apporté de nombreuses contributions à effet élevé au domaine de la théorie de l’apprentissage informatique. Ses recherches sont axées sur les fondements théoriques de l’apprentissage automatique, une branche de l’intelligence artificielle. Son travail porte principalement sur des modèles d’apprentissage coopératif entre êtres humains et machines ou entre machines et machines, lesquels ont diverses applications permettant, entre autres, d’apprendre les préférences de l’utilisateur, d’aider à analyser les dossiers médicaux ou de développer des robots interactifs.

ZUCKER, Steven - Department of Computer Science, Biomedical Enginnering, Yale University Steven Zucker pioneered Canadian interdisciplinary vision science and is its most internationally influential scientist. His research spans computational vision and visual neuroscience, and his demonstration of how brains (and machines) solve real information processing tasks is pathbreaking. His introduction of differential geometry formalized vision algorithms. By abstracting biological function into mathematical structure, he predicted anatomical connections in the primate brain. Together his theories provide the new standard for vision science.

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LONG Dr. Francis Zwiers is a world leader in developing and implementing powerful statistical tools for the study and prediction of climate change. He has imaginatively used various statistical approaches to analyze and integrate climate observations and the results from simulations of the climate with comprehensive computer models. Most important have been his recent achievements in developing and applying statistical tools for the detection of climate change and its attribution to human activities. He is one of those rare scientists, whose fundamental research is being applied immediately in an area of global societal concern, namely determining and understanding changes in the climate that may be resulting from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. SHORT Francis Zwiers is a world leader in developing and implementing powerful statistical tools for the study and prediction of climate change. His research is being applied immediately in an area of global societal concern, namely understanding changes in the climate that may be resulting from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. SHORT

ÖZSU, M. Tamer – David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Tamer Özsu is considered a world leader and pioneer in distributed data management – a field he contributed to and shaped since its early days. He has written the classical textbook that is widely referenced and translated into Chinese and Portuguese. He has also made pioneering contributions to the application of database technology to non-traditional data types such as images, video, graphs and web data.

En matière de gestion de bases de données réparties, Tamer Özsu fait figure de chef de file et d’innovateur sur la scène mondiale. Il a façonné ce domaine depuis ses débuts et il y a largement contribué. Il est l’auteur du manuel de référence sur ce sujet, manuel qui a été traduit en chinois et en portugais. Il a également été l’un des fers de lance de l’utilisation de la technologie des bases de données à des types non conventionnels de données, tels que l’image, la vidéo, le graphe et les données Web.

Dr. David Aberle is one of the most respected anthropologists in North America for his scholarly creativity, diligence and rigour. At present Professor Emeritus in The University of British Columbia, where he has taught since 1967, Aberle received his doctorate from Columbia under the direction of the late Ruth Benedict. Among his first publications were classical contributions to Mongol studies, carried out through documentary research. He has since published some 65 studies, frequently cited, mostly on Navaho and Athapaskan field enquiries, which are fondamental points of reference for theoretical considerations of wider matters, such as kinship, lexical reconstruction, and millenarian movements, and his research continues.

An indefatigable scholar, as his work attests. His book "Jacobean Pageant or the Court of King James I" is a beautifully integrated structure in which the results of research are combined into a kind of monument. His "Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton" is a brilliant analysis of a relation that had long been obscure. He is now launched upon the sea of James I's papers, which extends to about a quarter of a million words. His nearly unrivalled knowledge of Jacobean sources makes him an ideal man for the task.