Wagdi Habashi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at McGill University in Montreal and directs its Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He has held successive Industrial Research Chairs, singly and in cooperation, with Bombardier (aircraft), Bell (helicopters), CAE (simulators) Lockheed Martin (hypersonic transport), and Silicon Graphics (High Performance Computing).
Professor Habashi holds a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from Cornell and has over 500 scientific publications, a third of them with industry.
Dr. Habashi established Newmerical Technologies International (NTI), developer of the FENSAP-ICE In-Flight Icing Simulation System and commercialized since 2015 by Ansys worldwide. Following this, Professor Habashi started CERTIF-ICE, specializing in in-flight icing certification, and responsible for the successful natural icing campaigns, in Canada, of China’s COMAC’s ARJ21 (turbofan) and AVIC’s Y-12F (turboprop).
Habashi is a Knight of the Order of Québec, a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Pratt & Whitney Canada.
He is the recipient of a multitude of scientific and industrial awards among them the Steacie, Killam, Floyd, McCurdy and several others.