In order to promote, facilitate, and conduct intensely collaborative research and development in telecommunications research, in 1999 the NIT Research Program Committee initiated a program to fund new faculty members as the Institute's Associates. The NIT Associates program funds new faculty members who have innovative and significant research that fits in with the general mandate and scope of the Institute. In return, NIT Associates bring value to the Institute by contributing to the growth and visibility of the Institute research programs and to the Institute's reputation for excellence. New University of Toronto faculty apply for seed operating funding ($50,000 over two years). Given the current highly competitive nature of information technology and telecommunications research internationally, this funding for new faculty is critical in helping to attract and keep world-class researchers in Ontario.
To date, NIT has funded 15 Associates from across the University of Toronto:
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Raviraj Adve, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Practical Multiuser Detection Techniques for Smart Antennas
Stewart Aitchison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Angelos Bilas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cluster Computing: Server Infrastructure for Emerging Internet Applications and Services
Al-Amin Dhirani
Departments of Chemistry and Physics
Electro-Optic Properties of Single Molecules
George Eleftheriades, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Micromachined/Mems Components and Subsystems for Broadband Wireless Communications
Deepa Kundur, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Content-Based Security and Management of Data in Networked Multimedia Services
Eddie Law, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Design and Implementation of Photonic Switching Fabric System
Baochun Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Quality-of-Service Provisioning in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Teng Joon Lim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multi-User Detection and Turbo Decoding in Random Access Wireless Networks
Zheng-Hong Lu, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science
Silicon Nanostructures
Farid Najm, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Coordinated Science Laboratory
Development of Computer Aided Design Tools and Methodologies for Low Power, Reliable, and High Performance VLSI Circuits
Konstantinos Plataniotis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mobile Position Location in Third Generation Cellular Networks
Ted Sargent, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Photonic Polymers: New Synthesis, Structures, Devices, Mechanisms
Gregory Scholes, Department of Chemistry
Designing and Optimizing Materials for Spectral Processing Operations in All-optical Networks
Jianwen Zhu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Com-on-chip: A System-on-chip Infrastructure for Internet Appliance
