Leslie Ann Rusch (born 1958)[1] is an American and Canadian electrical engineer whose research interests include optical communication, edge computing, spread spectrum techniques, flexible antenna arrays, and wireless brain implants.[2] She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Université Laval in Quebec City, where she holds a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud and the NSERC/Huawei Industrial Research Chair in Fibre Optic Communications Systems.[3]