Elise Fear
Elise C. Fear is a Canadian electrical engineer whose research focuses on microwave imaging for the diagnosis of breast cancer.[1][2] She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary and co-founder of the spin-off company Wave View Imaging.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Fear graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in systems design engineering. She continued her studies in electrical engineering at the University of Victoria, where she received a master's degree in 1997 and completed a Ph.D. in 2001,[3] supervised by Maria Stuchly[1].
She came to the University of Calgary in 2002 as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, before continuing there as a faculty member. From 2013 to 2017 she held the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCORE Strategic Chair in Multimodality Imaging and Sensing,[3] and in 2018–2019 she held a Killam Annual Professorship.[4] In 2020, she co-founded Wave View Imaging.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Technology Alberta recognized Fear in 2023 with an Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Award in the category "Medical / Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals".[5]
Fear was inducted as a 2024 fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, through a nomination from IEEE Canada.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Milne, Margaret (2002), "Improving the detection of breast cancer" (PDF), UVic KnowlEDGE, 3 (1), University of Victoria, retrieved 2025-04-16
- ^ Biondi, Colleen (27 March 2023), "Dr. Elise Fear is Making Waves", Leap Magazine, Alberta Cancer Foundation, retrieved 2025-04-16
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Elise Fear", UCalgary Profiles, University of Calgary, retrieved 2025-04-16
- ^ a b "EIC Fellow: Elise Fear" (PDF), 2024 Award Citations, Engineering Institute of Canada, retrieved 2025-04-16
- ^ "Elise Fear, University of Calgary, Wave View Imaging", ASTech Awards, Technology Alberta, 2023, retrieved 2025-04-16
External links
[edit]- Elise Fear publications indexed by Google Scholar
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