{"id":58330,"date":"2019-07-24T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=58330"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:51:18","slug":"profs-lenore-fahrig-and-shikharesh-majumdar-appointed-as-chancellors-professors","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/profs-lenore-fahrig-and-shikharesh-majumdar-appointed-as-chancellors-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Profs. Lenore Fahrig and Shikharesh Majumdar Appointed as Chancellor\u2019s Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Profs. Lenore Fahrig and Shikharesh Majumdar Appointed as Chancellor\u2019s Professors\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Carleton University Profs. Lenore Fahrig and Shikharesh Majumdar were recently appointed as Chancellor\u2019s Professors, a rank reserved for highly esteemed faculty members whose research activities have been, and continue to be, of outstanding merit with substantial international impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Jerry Tomberlin said both Fahrig and Majumdar\u2019s research records are impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are pleased to recognize Professors Lenore Fahrig and Shikharesh Majumdar\u2019s contributions within their disciplines with this prestigious appointment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rank of Chancellor\u2019s Professor is effective for a five-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prof. Lenore Fahrig<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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While Prof. Lenore Fahrig (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science) was a master\u2019s student at Carleton, she did not expect that she would return a few years later as a faculty member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from Carleton with a master\u2019s degree in biology, she went on to complete a PhD degree at the University of Toronto and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia before working at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Newfoundland and returning to Carleton\u2019s Biology department as a faculty member in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fahrig, who has supervised dozens of master\u2019s and PhD students and mentored many post-doctoral fellows throughout her career, researches landscape spatial patterning and its effects on wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have always been a lover of nature and I learned early on about environmental issues we were facing,\u201d said Fahrig, who vividly remembers a reading assignment in a third-year ecology course that represented a turning point in her career. The paper introduced the idea of computer simulation models related to environment and ecology, a topic that captivated her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur environment is so complex and the idea that some of these issues could be figured out through ecological modelling was fascinating to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fahrig is a highly respected scholar who has published over 40 papers and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Current Landscape Ecology Reports<\/em> journal over the last five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, the Royal Society of Canada named her a Fellow and in 2018 awarded her the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for her contributions towards the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am incredibly pleased with this honour,\u201d said Fahrig. \u201cIt is very rewarding to know that my work is being noticed. Carleton has been a great place to build my academic and research career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar joined Carleton\u2019s Department of Systems and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Design in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing an undergraduate degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering and a post-graduate diploma in computer science (hardware) in India, he did graduate studies in electrical engineering in Italy before coming to Canada to complete his master\u2019s and PhD degrees in computer science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joining Carleton, Majumdar worked in emerging technologies in the telecommunications field. This work fuelled his interest in examining new technologies and systems to learn about their behaviours and build mechanisms to optimize their performance. His current research centers on resource management in the context of cloud computing, sensor-based smart systems and big data analytics platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majumdar\u2019s research has had a profound impact on his field. In the last five years, he has published over 45 papers in reputed journals and international conferences. He has delivered several keynote addresses and invited presentations around the world, and supervised over 100 undergraduate and graduate students\u2019 theses and research projects throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert in the field of resource management in parallel and distributed systems, he has served as the area editor for Elsevier\u2019s Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory <\/em>journal for eight years. He has won multiple international awards is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He currently serves as a member of the core faculty team associated with Carleton\u2019s Canada-India Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am humbled by this recognition as Chancellor\u2019s Professor,\u201d said Majumdar. \u201cI would like to thank the university, the Dean of Engineering and Design, the Provost and the President for honouring me with this designation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am grateful for this recognition of my research activities and the impact it is making on the outside world. I would like to continue serving the research community and Carleton in making further contributions to the research excellence of the university.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carleton University Profs. Lenore Fahrig and Shikharesh Majumdar were recently appointed as Chancellor\u2019s Professors, a rank reserved for highly esteemed faculty members whose research activities have been, and continue to be, of outstanding merit with substantial international impact. Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Jerry Tomberlin said both Fahrig and Majumdar\u2019s research records are impressive. \u201cWe are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":58332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[19],"cu_story_tag":[1918,1919],"class_list":["post-58330","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-technology-innovation","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-engineering-and-design","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-science"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/58330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/58330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97313,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/58330\/revisions\/97313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=58330"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=58330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}