Biography - Jean-Yves Chouinard
Jean-Yves Chouinard received the B.Sc.A.,
M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Laval University
in 1979, 1984 and 1987 respectively. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Northern
Telecom in Montreal, where he was involved in the line-up and testing of
the DRS-8 digital microwave radio system. From 1987 to 1988, he was at
the Space and Radio Communication Division of the Centre National d'Études
des Télécommunications (CNET) in France, as a postdoctoral
fellow working on the GSM mobile radio subsystem. In 1988, he joined the
University of Ottawa, where he is currently Professor at the School of
Information Technology and Engineering (SITE). In 1993, he was invited
to give a short course on "Secure Communications and Data Encryption" as
a guest lecturer at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST),
in Irbid, Jordan. From 1996 to 1997, he was an invited professor
at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
(ENST) in Paris, France, where he conducted research projects and gave
short courses on communication theory and applications. His research interests
are wideband mobile and indoor wireless communications, digital channel
modelling, error control coding and digital modulation techniques for avanced
television systems. He is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du
Québec (OIQ), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), and the Canadian Society for Electrical and Computer Engineering
(CSECE). He a director of the Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT).
Last modified: January 23, 2002