Ke Wu (born 9 December 1962) is a professor and researcher in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. He currently works at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, and is a Tier-I

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in radio-frequency (RF) and millimetre-wave engineering. He is active in the following areas of research: microwave and millimeter wave (components, devices, receiver/transmitter); characterization and measurement of dielectric materials; fast electronics (fast logic circuits, interconnects); superconductors (circuits, applications); numerical modeling (CAD, electromagnetic fields); and optoelectronics (photonics components, broadband transmission).

Career

Wu is the director of the Poly-Grames Research Center, founding director of the Canadian university-industry consortium, Facility for Advanced Millimetre-wave Engineering and the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec. He was elected an

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Fellow in 2001. In 2020, the ''

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'' published an article stating that Wu is also a researcher at several universities in China, with at least one position being full-time; the ''National Post'' also noted that he had in 2011 been a delegate to the

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s United front (China), united front system. Its members adv ...

(CPPCC), and an advisor to the

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of the

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United Front Work Department The United Front Work Department (UFWD) is a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with " united front work". It gathers intelligence on, manages relations with, and attempts to gain influence over ...

. Wu subsequently objected to suggestions that he had a parallel academic career in China, calling them "absolute nonsense", and stated that his students would often add his name to other projects exaggerating his role in order to obtain funding. He also said that his role with the CPPCC had been as an "observer".

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Poly-Grames Research Centre
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Ke 1962 births People from Liyang Chinese electronics engineers Canadian electronics engineers Fellows of the IEEE Canadian electrical engineers Living people Canada Research Chairs Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering Canadian people of Chinese descent Engineers from Jiangsu Educators from Changzhou