2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award: 2017 Recipient
Tom Chau (EngSci 9T2, ECE MASc 9T4)
A double graduate of U of T Engineering, Tom Chau is a leader, innovator and community champion. He is currently the vice president of research at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, director of the Bloorview Research Institute, the Raymond Chang Foundation Chair in Access Innovations, and a full professor in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) at the University of Toronto. In addition to his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, he also holds his doctorate from the University of Waterloo in the area of pattern analysis and machine intelligence and received post-doctoral training in pediatric rehabilitation engineering as a Duncan Gordon Fellow. From 2004 to 2014, he held a Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation Engineering. He was graduate coordinator of the Master of Health Science Program in Clinical Engineering from 2006 to 2011 and was the leader of the NSERC CREATE: Academic Rehabilitation Engineering doctoral training program from 2009 to 2015, both at the University of Toronto. Chau’s contributions to pediatric rehabilitation are world renowned with numerous significant awards and accolades to recognize his great achievements. Chau is also an extremely active and dedicated volunteer both within his profession and his community.