Michal Okoniewski

Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk, is a fellow of IEEE and is a Professor for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Michal is a renowned expert in applied electrodynamics and RF/antenna engineering, with a proven history of developing leading-edge scientific solutions for the electronic, medical and energy industries.

Michal has pioneered the field of hardware acceleration of computational electromagnetics, authoring over 350 technical publications and patents. His GPU accelerated FDTD solver, for example, revolutionized the engineering of electronic devices and are being applied to the energy industry for the production of heavy oils in unconventional reservoirs.