Elise Fear

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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]

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Education and career

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

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

  1. 1 2 Milne, Margaret (2002), "Improving the detection of breast cancer" (PDF), UVic KnowlEDGE, 3 (1), University of Victoria, retrieved 2025-04-16
  2. ↑ Biondi, Colleen (27 March 2023), "Dr. Elise Fear is Making Waves", Leap Magazine, Alberta Cancer Foundation, retrieved 2025-04-16
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Elise Fear", UCalgary Profiles, University of Calgary, retrieved 2025-04-16
  4. 1 2 "EIC Fellow: Elise Fear" (PDF), 2024 Award Citations, Engineering Institute of Canada, retrieved 2025-04-16
  5. ↑ "Elise Fear, University of Calgary, Wave View Imaging", ASTech Awards, Technology Alberta, 2023, retrieved 2025-04-16
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