Biography

Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik is Professor and University Research Chair in the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottowa. El-Saddik studies leading-edge multimedia and new technologies reproducing the human sensory fields, particularly touch and smell, on which he has published extensively and received numerous grants, most recently from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. In 2010 El Saddik was elected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.