Emil M. Petriu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC).
Under a series of research grants and contracts from Canadian and Ontario funding agencies, the Canadian Space Agency, and industry, he developed bio-inspired random-pulse neural network hardware architectures, new tactile sensors and haptic human-computer interfaces, computer vision and multi-sensor fusion techniques for healthcare, security, industrial and space robotics applications. His current research interests include fuzzy systems, neural networks, biology inspired robotics, and symbiotic human-computer interaction.