En-hui Yang has been with the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada since June 1997, where he is now a Professor and Canada Research Chair in information theory and multimedia compression. He is the founding director of the Leitch-University of Waterloo multimedia communications lab, a co-founder of SlipStream Data Inc. (now a subsidiary of Research In Motion), and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

He served as a chair or co-chair for several IEEE International Symposiums and Canadian Workshops from 2003 to 2008. He also held a visiting professor position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, from September 2003 to June 2004, positions of research associate and visiting scientist at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, U.S.A., the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., from January 1993 to May 1997, and a faculty position (first as an assistant professor and then an associate professor) at Nankai University, Tianjin, China from 1991 to 1992.

Dr. Yang is an IEEE Fellow,a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada), and a recipient of many research awards in Canada.

His research Interests include Coding Theory, Communications, Shannon Theory, Source Coding.

Products based on his inventions and commercialized by Slip Stream received the 2006 Ontario Global Traders Provincial Award and were deployed by over 2200 Service Providers in more than 50 countries, servicing tens of millions of home and wireless subscribers worldwide every day. His inventions are also part of the core technologies behind popular smart phones and Direct PC products used by tens of millions people worldwide every day.