Contact info

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Division of Biomedical Engineering

University of Saskatchewan
Office: ENG 3B54, Engineering Building
57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N5A9, Canada
Ph: 306-966-5474, Fax: 306-966-5407
Email: khan.wahid [--at--] usask.ca
Website: https://researchers.usask.ca/khan-wahid/

Brief Bio

Khan A. Wahid received his BSc degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2000. He received his M.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Calgary. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. He has been a Full Professor since 2017.

Dr Wahid has coauthored three book chapters and over 220 peer-reviewed journal and international conference papers in the field of Health informatics, wireless capsule endoscopy, wearable health monitoring, smart-health, internet-of-things and smart-city. He has three patents. His research on capsule endoscopy was featured in local and Canadian national media (CBC, CTV and Global). His work attracted funding from major Canadian and international agencies (NSERC, CFI, WED Canada, Grand Challenges, Government of Saskatchewan).

Dr Wahid has been serving on multidisciplinary review panel of several national funding programs including NSERC Discovery, I2I, New Frontiers in Research Fund, and MITACS. He has served on the technical program and advisory committee of numerous IEEE sponsored international conferences. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Saskatchewan.

Along with the Award of Innovation in 2016 for his patent, Dr Wahid received several prestigious awards. His doctoral research won the Most Distinguished Killam Scholarship and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2006.

[last updated: July 2022]