David Stephens is a world leader in Bayesian statistics and causal inference. In addition to designing efficient computational techniques and sophisticated analytical tools for static and dynamic data, he brought crucial statistical expertise to the resolution of major issues in biostatistical and health research. His work on causal inference has also led to insights in causal mechanisms of complex diseases and better treatment protocols.

David Stephens est un spécialiste mondialement reconnu en statistique bayésienne et en inférence causale. En plus d’avoir conçu des techniques de calcul efficaces et des outils sophistiqués pour l’analyse de données statiques et dynamiques, il a fourni une expertise statistique cruciale à la résolution de problèmes majeurs en biostatistique et en santé. Ses travaux sur l’inférence causale ont aussi permis de mieux comprendre les mécanismes causaux de maladies complexes et d’améliorer les protocoles de soins.

LONG Professor Fienberg has made fundamental and innovative contributions to: the statistical theory and methodology for the analysis of discrete data, a vast and earlier underdeveloped area of statistics, including geometrical representations for contingency tables and expansions of the role of loglinear models in the analysis of large sparse multiway tables, capture-recapture problems, social networks, and confidentiality-disclosure limitation; to conceptual insight on relationships between randomized experiments and sample surveys and censuses; and to diverse areas of application including biology, criminal justice, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and sociology. SHORT Stephen Fienberg has made fundamental and innovative contributions to statistical theory for the analysis of discrete data. His work includes geometrical representations for contingency tables, capture-recapture problems, and social networks with applications to diverse areas including biology, law, medicine, and public policy.

George Belliveau focuses his research on mobilizing knowledge through research-based theatre. Using his unique theatre-based methodology he has improved the emotional and psychological well-being of teachers, cancer patients, soldiers and their families. His theatre project with Canadian veterans Contact!Unload was recently performed for Prince Harry, as well as on Parliament Hill. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, six books, and performed his research over 100 times.

George Belliveau fait porter ses recherches sur l’utilisation du théâtre pour mobiliser des connaissances. Grâce à sa méthode originale, il a amélioré le bien-être émotionnel et psychologique d’enseignants, de patients atteints de cancer, d’anciens combattants et de leurs familles. Sa proposition théâtrale faisant appel à la participation d’anciens combattants canadiens a récemment fait l’objet d’une présentation devant le prince Harry et sur la colline du Parlement du Canada. George Belliveau a publié six ouvrages et plus de soixante-dix articles évalués par des pairs.

Professor Cook is recognized as one of the world's foremost contributors to the theory of computational complexity. The field is concerned with developing and analyzing algorithms for solving problems faster, and proving lower bounds for the time required to solve certain problems no matter what algorithm is used. Cook has shown that a large number of combinatorial problems can be classified into a group now called NP complete. For these problems no good algorithm now exists, and Cook showed that if a good algorithm exists for any one of the group, it does for them all. His work has already inspired over 100 papers by other researchers. Much of Cook's current work is centered around proving that no good algorithm exists for one (and thus all) of these problems. This question is now regarded as the most important question in the theory of computation, and a very important open question in mathematics generally.

Professor Hanessian has made splendid contributions to synthetic organic chemistry. He has been a pioneer in the investigation of the utility of carbohydrates and other chiral molecules in the synthesis of natural products. The concept of 'chiral templates' which he developed, and which has since been used by many research groups, has been applied ingeniously by Hanessian in the partial or complete syntheses of such challenging targets as spectinomycin. He has received major national and international awards, and is a sought-after speaker at major symposia and conferences around the world.

Dr. Alejandro G. Marangoni is a Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Aging at the University of Guelph, Canada. His work concentrates on the physical properties of food materials in foods, cosmetics and biolubricants, with particular emphasis on sustainability, preservation of biodiversity and health. With an H-index of 82, i-index of 380 and over 25,500 citations of his work, he has published over 400 refereed research articles, 90 book chapters, 18 books, and over 40 patents. He is the recipient of the 2013 AOCS Stephen Chang award, the 2014 IFT Chang Award in Lipid Science, the 2014 AOCS Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Award, the 2015 ISF Kaufmann Medal, the 2017 AOCS Alton E. Bailey Medal, and the 2019 European Lipid Technology Award from EuroFed Lipids. Marangoni is a fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Institute of Food Technologists and the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.). He is the Editor in Chief of both Current Opinion and Current Research in Food Science. Dr. Marangoni has also founded and commercialized 3 major technology platforms with global reach. Dr. Marangoni was honored as one of the 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians in 2012, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018, and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2021.

Dr. Scobie is a distinguished critic of Canadian literature, and is also a recipient of the Governor-General's award for poetry. Much of his work concentrates on areas where literature intersects with other forms of discourse, including Cubist painting, popular song, and the writings of the theoretician, Jacques Derrida. In five important book-length studies, Dr. Scobie deals with a wide range of Canadian authors, whom he places in an international context through a comprehensive vision of developments in modem culture since the 1920's. There is a strong coherence between his criticism and the eighteen volumes of poetry he has published to date. He is also an energetic and effective ambassador for Canadian literature, especially in Europe.