Xavier Fernando is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada. He has (co)authored over 200 research articles, three books, many book chapters and holds three patents. He is the Director of the TMU Intelligent Computing and Communication Lab that has received total research funding of over $5 Million since 2008. His area of research is wireless/optical communications, IoT and application of machine learning and artificial intelligence.      His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including, number of IEEE awards, Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. TMU nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in which was a finalist.   He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE IOT Journal and IEEE the Consumer Technology Magazine. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 100 invited talks. He has chaired the IEEE Toronto Section (2012-13) and IEEE Canada Central Area (2016-17) serving the IEEE Region-7 Board.   He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was the General Chair for the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014. He was a Member of Board of Governors of Ryerson University during 2011-12.