Professor Brendan Frey, of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a 2009 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Up to six Steacie Fellowships are awarded annually to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising scientists and engineers who are faculty members of Canadian universities.

Brendan Frey is a Canada Research Chair in Information Processing and Machine Learning and his work in this area has received international recognition. He is the author of the book Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication and has published over 100 papers in such prestigious journals as Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nature Genetics and Science. His article entitled, “Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm,” is a key paper cited over 350 times. In 2007, Professor Frey was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40. In 2008 he was named an AAAS Fellow and he was recently named an IEEE Fellow.

“Professor Brendan Frey is an outstanding scholar in the field of machine learning,” said Cristina Amon, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. “We are grateful to NSERC and delighted that he is the recipient of the Steacie Fellowship, which will enable him to focus on leading edge research.”

NSERC will honour Professor Frey and the other Steacie Fellowship recipients at the Tribute to Research Excellence Celebration in Ottawa on Monday, March 16.

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