Lakehead University<\/a>\u2019s new vice-president of research and innovation.<\/p>\nDr. Langis Roy began his five-year appointment on Aug. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n
In a news release, the university said Roy will oversee its research and economic development portfolio, champion industry and expert engagement, work with faculty to secure research funding, create a new strategic research plan, and advance the national and global reputation of Lakehead research and scholarship.<\/p>\n
Roy has more than 20 years of academic and leadership experience, including academic appointments at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, and Ontario Tech University.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s additionally had visiting appointments at institutions in Finland and France, including the XLIM Institute at Universit\u00e9 de Limoges in 2024, and was involved in the Oshawa\/Durham node of the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN).<\/p>\n
\u201cWith more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and three patents in radio-frequency system-on-package designs, Dr. Roy\u2019s interdisciplinary research spans microwave components, wireless sensor and power harvesting technologies, and next-generation system integration with applications in 5G\/6G, autonomous vehicles, biomedical monitoring, and more,\u201d Lakehead said in the release.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis recent work focuses on AI-assisted design and control, and he co-leads the France-Canada GRACE (Generative Reconfigurable Adaptive Communications Electronics) consortium.\u201d<\/p>\n
Describing Lakehead as \u201cahead of the curve in terms of sustainability mindset and community engagement,\u201d Langis said he was looking forward to joining the university.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the rise of AI not only accelerating the pace of discovery but also democratizing business entrepreneurship, the possibilities for growing Lakehead\u2019s research and innovation enterprise are limitless,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘With the rise of AI not only accelerating the pace of discovery but also democratizing business entrepreneurship, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,49,48,137,61847,61845,61846],"class_list":["post-109063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-lakehead-university","tag-lakehead-universitydr-langis-roy","tag-vp-of-research-and-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}