York University’s Jimmy Huang is one of 24 elected 2026 fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) in recognition of his excellence in engineering and contributions to the field.
Huang is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Big Data Analytics. His research focuses on advancing information retrieval, AI and natural language processing through probabilistic modelling and machine learning, with emphasis on real-world applications.
He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, as well as the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Science.
As founding director of the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Research Lab, Huang has helped shape the direction of AI research, including early systematic evaluations of large language models.
He was recently awarded the President’s Research Excellence Award at York. Since joining York in 2003, he has earned multiple fellowships and awards including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Research, the Petro Canada Young Innovators Award and the LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity and Scholarship (Established Researcher).
The EIC is a not-for-profit founded in 1887 that serves as a coalition of 15 Canadian engineering societies with a mission to advance education, offer professional development and recognize excellence in engineering.