2015 Excellence Award for Pr. Nabki

Award of Excellence 2015

On February 11, the Faculty of Science awarded its 2015 Excellence Awards. Professors Frédéric Nabki, from the Department of Computer Science, received the Research Prize – Relève.

Career in electrical engineering

Frédéric Nabki has a bachelor’s degree (2003) and a doctorate in electrical engineering (2010) from McGill University. He has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science since 2008, where he teaches microelectronic engineering. Since there was no graduate program in this area at UQAM, Frédéric Nabki participated, from the start of his career, in the establishment, in collaboration with the École de technologie supérieure, of a extension of a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a management agreement for doctoral students in engineering, which was carried out in 2012. His research work has so far led to 12 patent applications (several granted), 61 peer-reviewed communications and two book chapters. A member of the Center for Research on Nanomaterials and Energy (NanoQAM), the professor is also one of the founding members of the Center for Institutional Research in the Design and Manufacturing of Microsystems (CoFaMic), of which he is deputy director.

Microsystems research

Frédéric Nabki also participated in the establishment of an important infrastructure by obtaining a grant from the Canada Innovation Fund (CFI) of $ 515,000 in 2011. This grant allowed him to build a test and manufacturing laboratory microsystems unique in Montreal, whose equipment is currently used by several researchers. On the industrial side, the professor has collaborated on several research and development projects with private companies, including NexPlasmaGen, Bombardier and AEPONyX. With AEPONyx, a Quebec telecommunications equipment manufacturer, Frédéric Nabki has developed a new generation of silicon photonics chip, the technology for which has been the subject of a license and royalty agreement ratified by the company and UQAM, by through Aligo and Transfer-plus. In collaboration with his colleague, Professor Ricardo Izquierdo, Frédéric Nabki is currently participating in a research project funded by Mitacs, an organization which supports collaborative projects between university researchers and companies in order to improve their products or accelerate them. development. Entitled “Defense Research and Development Canada – Valcartier”, the project concerns micro-thrusters for satellites intended for the aerospace field.