George S. A. Shaker (BASc, MASc, PhD, SM-IEEE) joined Spark Tech Labs at its founding, where he has held the roles of Principal Scientist and Head of Research. He is also an adjunct professor with University of Waterloo and the director of the Wireless Sensors and Devices Lab. George was an NSERC scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. He also held multiple roles with RIM's (BlackBerry).Dr. Shaker has authored/coauthored 100+ publications and 25+ patents/patent applications. George was an invited speaker at several international events, including Keynote talks at the IEEE LAPC, the IEEE iThings, Ambient Intelligence, and short course lecturer at IEEE APS and IEEE IMS. He has served as a TPC member of IEEE MTT-IMS, IEEE APS, IEEE EuCAP, IEEE iWAT, IEEE EMC, and IEEE WF-IoT. George has received multiple recognitions and awards, including the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (sole winner in the area of Electromagnetics across Canada, 2007-10, first UW student to receive the scholarship in EM), the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2007, 2010), the European School of Antennas Grant at IMST-GmbH (2007), the IEEE AP-S Best Paper Award (2009, 3, first @ UW), the IEEE AP-S Honorable Mention Paper Award (Twice, 2008, 2011), the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Graduate Research Award (2008/2009, first @ UW), NSERC CGS-FSS (2009/2010, sole winner from UW Engineering), the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship (2009, first UW student to receive the fellowship), and the Electronic Components and Technology Best of Session Paper Award (2010). Two paper he co-authored in IEEE Sensors were among the top 25 downloaded papers on IEEEXplore for several consecutive months (2012/2017). He was the supervisor of the team winning the third best design at IEEE APS 2016, APS 2017 HM paper award, 2018 CVS Best Paper, and two IEEE APS Research Awards.