Prof. Hussein Mouftah

Hussein T. Mouftah joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa in 2002 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Professor (held it for three 7-year terms), where he became a University Distinguished Professor in 2006. He was with the ECE Dept. at Queen's University (1979-2002), where he was prior to his departure a Full Professor and the Department Associate Head. He has six years of industrial experience mainly at Bell Northern Research of Ottawa (Nortel Networks). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine (1995-97), IEEE ComSoc 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). He has been a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000-2007). He is the author or coauthor of 13 books, 77 book chapters and more than 1800 technical papers, 16 patents, 6 invention disclosures and 148 industrial reports. He is the joint holder of 25 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards. He has received numerous prestigious achievement awards/medals. Dr. Mouftah is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE (1990), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada RSC Academy of Science (2008).