After four years of industrial experience mainly at Bell-Northern Research (BNR), Dr. Hussein T. Mouftah started his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University in 1979. In 1988 he became full professor there and from 1998 until 2002 he was Associate Head for the Department. In 2002 he has been a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Professor at the University of Ottawa School of Information Technology and Engineering where in 2006 he became a Distinguished University Professor. During his sabbatical leaves, he did consulting work for BNR and Nortel Networks (1986-87; 1993-94; and 2000-01). Dr. Mouftah has published over 850 technical papers, 6 books and 30 book chapters. To his credit he has 10 patents and 138 industrial reports. He has received research grants and contracts totalling close to $30 million and he has supervised more than 200 highly qualified personnel of which 88 are Master’s and 59 are PhD graduates and 22 are post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Mouftah has served the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Communications Society as Editor-in-Chief of the Communications Magazine (1995-97), Director of Magazines (1998-99), Chair of the Awards Committee (2002-03), Director of Education (2006-07), and Member of the Board of Governors (1997-99 and 2006-07). Also, he is the founding Chair of two of IEEE Communications Society’s Technical Committees (TCs): Optical Networking TC (2002-04) and Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks TC (2005-07). He has been a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000-07). Dr. Mouftah is the recipient of the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development from the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and of the 2002 Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ontario Innovation Trust. He has also received 8 Outstanding/Best Paper Awards (2 at ISCC’2008; ICC’2005; CITO Innovators Showcase’2004; IEEE Communications Magazine in 1993; SPECTS’2002; HPSR’2002; ISMVL’1984), the IEEE Canada Outstanding Service Award (1995), and the CSIM Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Communications Society (2006). In 2004 Dr. Mouftah received the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award and the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa. In 2006 he was honoured with the IEEE McNaughton Gold Medal and the Engineering Institute of Canada Julian Smith Medal. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Thomas W. Eadie Medal. Most recently, Dr. Mouftah received the University of Ottawa 2007-2008 Award for Excellence in Research and the ORION Leadership Award of Merit (2008). Dr. Mouftah is a Fellow of the IEEE (1990), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005) and Fellow RSC: The Academies of Canada (2008).

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