Hussein T. Mouftah

Hussein T. Mouftah joined the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) of the University of Ottawa in 2002 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Professor, where he became a University Distinguished Professor in 2006. He has been 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 (became Nortel Networks). He served IEEE ComSoc as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE 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). He has been a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000-07). Currently he serves IEEE Canada (Region 7) as Chair of the Awards and Recognition Committee. He is the author or coauthor of 6 books, 32 book chapters and more than 950 technical papers, 10 patents and 140 industrial reports. He is the joint holder of 12 Best Paper and/or Outstanding Paper Awards. He has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the 2008 ORION Leadership Award of Merit, the 2007 Royal Society of Canada Thomas W. Eadie Medal, the 2007-2008 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, the 2006 IEEE Canada McNaughton Gold Medal, the 2006 EIC Julian Smith Medal, the 2004 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the U of O Faculty of Engineering, the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ontario Innovation Trust. Dr. Mouftah is a Fellow of the IEEE (1990), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada RSC: The Academy of Science (2008).