The Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA) program has been designed to help gifted young researchers increase the pace of their research by attracting graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or research associates to their groups. Two rounds of competition completed in 1999 attracted over 460 applications from researchers at Ontario universities, hospitals, medical research institutes and other not-for-profit research institutions. The PREA board recommended that awards be made to 128 researchers over the first two rounds of competition completed in 1999.
Professor Ioannis
Lambadaris received a PREA award for his work in developing solutions
for guaranteed Internet Protocol network services. This research will advance
the development of new network architectures to improve services such as
congestion control and multicasting. The amount of the award is $150 K
for 5 years ($100 K from the Ontario government and $50 K from the industry
and University).