image: Professor Tiago H. Falk, human-machine systems specialist at INRS (Canada), elected 2025 IEEE Fellow
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Professor Tiago H. Falk, a researcher at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), is part of the IEEE Fellow Class of 2025. He was selected for his contributions to cognitive computing for adaptive and context-aware human-machine systems.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which has thousands of members, is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Its main objective is to encourage technological innovation and excellence.
“This is a great honour and a testament to the excellent, groundbreaking research done at INRS by the many students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting researchers that I have helped mentor over the past 15 years.”
Professor Tiago Falk, expert in secure and adaptive human-machine systems
The title of IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for certain IEEE members whose extraordinary achievements have significantly contributed to the advancement and application of engineering, science, and technology, bringing significant value to society. It is awarded each year to less than 0.1% of voting members. Tiago Falk thus joins other INRS professors named as a Fellow, including Sonia Aïssa, Tayeb Denidni, Long Le, and Roberto Morandotti.
As the director and founder of the MuSAE (Multisensory Signal Analysis and Enhancement) laboratory, Professor Falk and his team conduct research in secure, context-aware human-machine systems for both real and virtual immersive settings. He is helping develop the cognitive computing and human-machine interfaces needed to enable the next-generation metaverse and the Internet of Senses.
Professor Falk joined the INRS Énergie Materiaux Télécommunications Research Centre in 2010. The human-machine systems specialist is also the co-director of the INRS-UQO Joint Research Unit on Cybersecurity and Digital Trust, where he and his team are working on tools to help protect the privacy of users in the metaverse, overcome the vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and build trustworthy human-AI collaborative systems.
He was also named a 2025–2026 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, a Program designed to honour excellent speakers who have made significant contributions to the fields of systems, cybernetics, and human-machine systems and to enhance the technical programs of the SMC Society Chapters. Over the course of 2025, he will be giving two lectures to SMC Society Chapters located around the world: Human Factors Measurement “In-the-Wild”: From Everyday Settings to Multisensory Immersive Experiences and Trust in Human-AI System Interaction: It Takes Two to Tango.