Dr. Ching Y. Suen has built one of the world's strongest research centres in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence. He is a prolific writer who has authored and edited 14 books and more than 500 papers on subjects ranging from computer vision and expert systems, to computational linguistics. His research results have created many new frontiers for both academic and industrial scientists. His new concept of pulling the decision power of multiple experts to recognize totally unconstrained handwritten characters has revolutionalized the field of Optical Character Recognition leading to much better performance than before. Dr. Suen has served as editorin-chief of two journal, and associate editor of 6 prestigious journals, president of 2 professional societies, and founder and Chairman of 10 national and international conferences.

SUISSA, Samy - Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University Professor Suissa is an internationally renowned pharmacoepidemiologist who studies the real-world safety of medications. His landmark studies, showing that inhaled corticosteroids prevent asthma deaths, profoundly altered asthma management and lowered asthma mortality worldwide. His work on oral contraceptives and hormone therapy in women, and on Parkinson’s disease, led to safer clinical practice. He heads the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), involving over 60 Canadian scientists.

Professeur Suissa est un pharmaco-épidémiologiste reconnu mondialement. Ces études qui ont démontré que les corticostéroïdes inhalés préviennent la mortalité dans l'asthme, ont profondément transformé son traitement, réduisant cette mortalité mondialement. Ses recherches en santé des femmes, contraceptifs oraux et l'hormonothérapie postménopausique, et sur la maladie de Parkinson, ont façonné une pratique clinique sécuritaire. Il dirige le Réseau canadien pour l'étude observationnelle des médicaments (RCEOM), impliquant plus de 60 chercheurs.

Membre fondatrice du groupe automatiste et signataire de leur manifeste Refus global en 1948, Françoise Sullivan a fait sa marque d’abord comme danseuse et chorégraphe, plus tard en sculpture, en photographie et en performance, et, dans les vingt dernières années, en peinture. Des rétrospectives de ses œuvres ont eu lieu au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (1993), et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2003). Lauréate du Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas en 1987, elle détient des diplômes honorifiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal et de l’Université York. Elle fut lauréate du Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et en arts médiatiques de 2005. Signataire du manifeste Refus global en 1948, Françoise Sullivan fut une des fondatrices de la danse moderne à Montréal. Après s’être imposée comme sculpteure, comme photographe et dans les arts de la performance dans les années 1960 et 1970, elle s’est tournée vers la peinture, créant des œuvres de grand format où elle explore les relations entre couleurs et luminosité.

LONG As the premier biographer of Canadian women writers, an inspiring teacher of Canadian literature, an important (and prolific) anthologist, a noted scholar of contemporary poetry and a prize-winning writer of it herself, Rosemary Sullivan has been a major figure in the promulgation as well as the creation of Canadian writing. She has lectured on our literature and read from her own work around the world, but en route she has nurtured an entire generation of young writers. As such public activity testifies, this is no ivory-tower academic; this is an engaged and engaging public intellectual, and an impressive and effective ambassador for Canada and for Canadian literature abroad as well as at home. SHORT Biographer of Canadian women writers, important anthologist, noted scholar of contemporary poetry and prize-winning writer herself, Rosemary Sullivan is a major figure in the promulgation and creation of Canadian writing. She has nurtured an entire generation of young writers. She is an engaged and engaging public intellectual, and an impressive and effective ambassador for Canada and for Canadian literature.

SUN, Yu – Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto Yu Sun is an international leader in the field of micro/nano robotics. He spearheaded robotic cell manipulation and has made breakthroughs in clinical cell surgery and manipulation/measurement of cells, intracellular structures, and tissues for disease therapeutics, diagnostics, and drug screen. He has also contributed significantly to advances in cellular mechanobiology and the mechanics of nanomaterials via the development of enabling micro-nano instrumentation technologies.

Yu Sun est un leader international dans le domaine de la micro/nano robotique. Il a été le fer de lance de la manipulation des cellules robotiques et a fait des découvertes capitales dans le domaine de la chirurgie cellulaire clinique et de la manipulation et de la mesure des cellules, des structures intracellulaires et des tissus pour le traitement de maladies, le diagnostic et le dépistage des drogues. Il a également contribué de manière significative aux progrès de la mécanobiologie cellulaire et de la mécanique des nanomatériaux par le développement de techniques des instruments de mesure à l’échelle micro-nano.

SUN, Xueliang – Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Western University Xueliang (Andy) Sun is recognized for his innovative solutions for critical and long standing problems in clean energy using nanotechnology and creative engineering. He has invented nanosynthesis processes for electrocatalysts in fuel cells and electrode materials in Li-ion batteries to revolutionarily reduce cost and increase life-time. His patented technologies have been successfully transferred to a number of Canadian companies and led to the recent start-up of a company. His discoveries have been published in top science and engineering journals and resulted in high citations.

Xueliang (Andy) Sun est reconnu pour ses solutions novatrices aux problèmes critiques et de longue date en matière d’énergie propre en utilisant la nanotechnologie et le génie créatif. Il a inventé des processus de nanosynthèse pour les électrocatalyseurs dans les piles à combustible et les matériaux d’électrode dans les piles Li-ion pour réduire révolutionnairement le coût et accroître la durée de vie. Ses technologies brevetées ont été transférées avec succès à un éventail d’entreprises canadiennes et ont entraîné le démarrage récent d’une entreprise. Ses découvertes ont été publiées dans les meilleures revues scientifiques et d’ingénierie et ont été cites à maintes reprises.

Dr. Kisha Supernant (Métis) is an internationally recognized Indigenous archaeologist. She is Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer, her research focuses on Indigenous archaeology, archaeological remote sensing, and heart-centered archaeological practice. She is at the forefront of supporting Indigenous communities locate unmarked graves around residential schools in Canada.

Dr. Kisha Supernant (métisse) est une archéologue autochtone de renommée internationale. Elle est professeure agrégée d’anthropologie et dirige l’Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology à l’Université de l’Alberta, en plus d’être une enseignante, chercheuse et écrivaine primée. Ses recherches portent sur l’archéologie autochtone, la télédétection et les pratiques archéologiques centrées sur le cœur. Elle aide également les communautés autochtones à retrouver leurs proches disparus dans les pensionnats indiens au Canada.

Rob Sutherland played a remarkable role in scientific leadership over the past thirty years. His work transformed the field of cognition and memory in animal models and humans by developing new ways of measuring cognition, new theories on the organization of long-term memory, and new understandings of loss and recovery of function after brain injury. His transdisciplinary approach led to many contributions that are transformative, most with very high impact.

Rob Sutherland est un leader scientifique remarquable depuis 30 ans. Il a transformé le domaine de la mémoire et cognition en innovant dans les mesures de la cognition, dans les théories sur l’organisation de la mémoire à long terme et dans la compréhension de la perte et de la récupération des fonctions après une lésion cérébrale. Son approche interdisciplinaire a ouvert la voie à des contributions transformatives très importantes.

Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton uses x-ray diffraction to study the time-dependent behaviour of materials. Using the new synchrotron x-ray sources, he has developed new methods to perform in-situ time-resolved measurements which probe matter on nanometer length scales and with millisecond time resolution. These measurements give unique insight into how such dynamics effects the every-day properties of materials. ------------------ Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton is an internationally renowned experimentalist who uses x-ray diffraction to study the behavior of non-equilibrium condensed matter. Using high intensity x-ray synchrotron radiation, he has developed techniques to perform time-resolved diffraction with millisecond time resolution to study the kinetics of phase transitions. He was also instrumental in developing and applying the important new technique of x-ray fluctuation spectroscopy. This technique exploits the unique properties of the coherent radiation from undulator sources, as well as recent developments in x-ray optics and detector technology to probe the structure of matter down to nanometer length scales and millisecond time resolutions.

Darko R. Suvin, Ph.D. Zagreb University, has taught and published in the fields of theatre arts, English, and comparative literature in Yugoslavia, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the United States, U.K., and Japan; he taught 1968-2000 at McGill University. His writings include 34 books (translated into eight languages), 14 edited volumes, and over 200 major articles. He has a major interest in modern dramaturgy (Brecht, Japanese theatre), utopian and science fiction, political epistemology, and ex-Yugoslavia; many items and full vita with publications in Croatoserbian are available on http://darkosuvin.com/ and https://independent.academia.edu/DarkoSuvin/Papers He has received the Pilgrim Award for "Metamorphoses of Science Fiction", Yale UP 1979, and the L.T. Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Utopian Studies. Recent titles: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, augmented edn., P. Lang, 2016; Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia, Brill, 2016, and Harvester P, 2017; Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southeast Europe, 2017; Communism, Poetry, Political Animal, 2020; Brecht’s Communist Manifesto Today. Aakar, 2020; Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols., P. Lang, 2021; Disputing the Deluge, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022; A Long Hope: The Prometheus Counter-Project.Ilha do desterro 76.2 (2023).