Esam Abdel-Raheem (M’97-SM’00) received his B.Sc.and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1984 and 1989, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Ain Shams University in 1997 as an Assistant Professor, and since 2003, he has been with the ECE Dept. at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada where he has been a Full Professor since 2014. He was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada from 2003 to 2009. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Senior Design Engineer at AMD in Sunnyvale, California. Dr. Abdel-Raheem’s research fields of interests are in digital signal/image/video processing, signal processing for communications, VLSI signal processing systems, and spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks. He has authored and co-authored about100 articles in refereed journal and conference publications, including one published U.S./EU/world patent. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario. He has served as the technical program co-chair for IEEE ISSPIT 2004, 2005 and IET 2009.