Faculty members

Samar Abdi   Assistant Professor
		Embedded System Design, Multi-core Systems, System-on-Chip Modeling, Formal Methods

Anjali Agarwal   Professor
		Communication protocols; Issues of real-time and multimedia communication over internet

Amir G. Aghdam   Associate Professor
		Decentralized large-scale systems; Digital control; Adaptive control; DSL communication networks

M. Omair Ahmad   Professor and Tier I Concordia Research Chair
		Algorithms and architectures for image processing; Digital signal processing; VLSI circuit design

Otmane Ait Mohamed   Associate Professor
		Hardware specification and verification; Formal methods; VLSI design automation

Asim J. Al-Khalili   Professor
		ASIC design; VLSI architecture; VLSI circuits; VLSI design automation; Digital design and synthesis

Aishy Amer   Associate Professor
		Video and image processing; Multimedia; Video quality enhancement; Noise estimation and reduction; Video representation; Video segmentation, object segmentation, object tracking; Motion estimation; Video surveillance; Advanced TV-systems and other real-time video applications

Glenn Cowan   Assistant Professor
		Analog & Mixed-signal VLSI circuit design for signal processing and communication; Device variability; Circuit design in presence of device variability; Design of adaptive VLSI circuits

Ahmed K. Elhakeem   Professor
		Congestion/admission/routing strategies for ATM wireless; Hybrid CDMA/TDMA techniques for wireless access networks; Hybrid IP/CO techniques on SONET platforms; New multiuser receiver techniques for hybrid CDMA networks; QOS control for multihop CDMA systems with adaptive antennas; Virtual matched filtering for acquisition of hybrid concatenated short SS codes

Ali Ghrayeb   Professor
		Digital communications; Wireless communications; Error correcting coding; Turbo and space-time coding; Equalization; Communications and signal processing for data transmission and storage

Scott Gleason   Assistant Professor
		Global navigation satellite systems; Satellite mission design; Software defined radio; and Remote sensing

Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj   Associate Professor
		Object-oriented Software Engineering; Software Maintenance; Reverse Engineering; Program Comprehension; Software Visualization

Walaa Hamouda   Associate Professor
		Digital communications; Satellite and wireless communications; Adaptive antennas; Channel coding

Shahin Hashtrudi Zad   Associate Professor
		Control systems; Discrete-event systems; Fault diagnosis.

M. Zahangir Kabir   Associate Professor
		Electronic materials and devices; X-ray imaging detectors; Thin-film and nano-structured solar cells; Amorphous and polycrystalline semiconductors

Mojtaba Kahrizi   Professor
		MEMS; Micro/Nano systems; Photonic devices; VLSI technology

Nawwaf Kharma   Associate Professor
		Artificial Intelligence: Pattern recognition and machine learning; Artificial Life: Evolutionary computation and nature inspired computing; Real-World Application: Evolution of pattern and image processing software systems;

Ferhat Khendek   Professor and NSERC/Ericsson Senior Industrial Research Chair
		Real-time Software Engineering: Modelling, Design and Validation. Service Engineering for Next Generation Networks.

Kash Khorasani   Professor
		Nonlinear, adaptive and robust control; Flexible joint and link robot manipulators; Modelling and control of large scale systems; Neural networks; Real-time systems; Singular perturbation analysis; Virtual reality and haptic interfaces

Ahmed A. Kishk   Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 1
		Dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, small antennas, microwave sensors, RFID antennas for readers and tags, Multi-function antennas, microwave cicuits, EBG, artificial magnetic conductors, soft and hard surfaces, phased array antennas, and computer aided design for antennas. Design of millimeter frequency antennas; Feeds for parabolic reflectors.

Luiz A.C. Lopes   Associate Professor
		Power electronics; High power converters; Distributed generation

William E. Lynch   Associate Professor
		Image compression Image processing Signal processing Video compression

Mustafa K. Mehmet Ali   Professor
		Network architectures for wireless and wired communication networks and their performance modelling.

Robert Paknys   Professor
		Antennas, electromagnetic scattering and diffraction.

Pragasen Pillay   Professor and NSERC/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair
		Interests are in modeling, analysis, design and control of electric machines, electric motor drive systems, traction motors for electric and hybrid electric vehicles, renewable energy including wind, biomass and solar energy, energy storage, energy efficiency and conservation, sustainability issues in power and energy engineering.

Dongyu Qiu   Associate Professor
		Peer to peer networks; Network performance analysis; Wireless networks

Venkat Ramachandran   Professor
		Multidimensional signal processing; Two-dimensional analog and digital filters

Rabin Raut   Professor
		VLSI/Analog VLSI

Luis Rodrigues   Associate Professor
		Control systems; Avionics; Aerospace

Abdel R. Sebak   Professor
		Phased array antennas; Applied electromagnetics; EM scattering; RCS, EMC/EMI, EM Theory; Antennas; Computational electromagnetics

Yousef R. Shayan   Professor
		Digital communications; Error control coding; Wireless communication systems

M. Reza Soleymani   Professor
		Communications networks; Digital communications; Information theory and coding; Wireless and satellite communications

M.N.S. Swamy   Research Professor and Tier I Concordia Research Chair
		Signal processing; Image processing

Sofiène Tahar   Professor
		Hardware specification and verification; Formal methods; VLSI design automation; Communications hardware and protocols

Christopher W. Trueman   Professor
		Aircraft and ship antennas; Broadcast antennas; Cellular phone antennas; Computational electromagnetics; Electromagnetic compatibility; Finite difference time-domain method; Handset and human head interactions; Radar cross-section of aircraft and ships

Pouya Valizadeh   Assistant Professor
		Solid state microwave devices, Micro/nano-electronics, III-V electronics, Noise in semiconductor devices, Polarization in semiconductor devices, Reliability of electronic devices, MEMS technology

Chunyan Wang   Professor
		Analog-mixed VLSI design and implementation; Large scale CMOS optical sensor integration

Sheldon Williamson   Associate Professor
		Power electronics and motor drives; Electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles; Renewable energy systems.

(John) Xiupu Zhang   Professor
		Photonics, Fiber-optic communications, Wireless communications, and Quantum dot semiconductor lasers, high-power and broadband photodiodes and broadband optical receivers

Wei-Ping Zhu   Professor
		Speech and audio processing, Advanced signal processing for wireless communications, OFDM/MIMO systems, MIMO relay networks, cooperative communication.