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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
 Dr Norman C. Beaulieu

INTELLIGENT RF RADIO TECHNOLOGY
 Dr Fadhel Ghannouchi

WIRELESS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
 Dr Jim Haslett

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
 Dr Graham Jullien

WIRELESS LOCATION RESEARCH
 Dr Gérard Lachapelle

HIGH CAPACITY DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
 Dr Christian Schlegel

ALGORITHMIC NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
 Dr Hugh Williams

BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORKS, PROTOCOLS, APPLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCE
 Dr Carey Williamson

WIRELESS TRAFFIC MODELING
 Dr Carey Williamson



NANOENGINEERED ICT DEVICES
 Dr Michael Brett

THIN FILM ENGINEERING
 Dr Michael Brett

NANOSCALE ENGINEERING PHYSICS
Dr Mark Freeman

QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
 Dr Barry Sanders

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY AND COMMUNICATION
 Dr Wolfgang Tittel

 NANOSCALE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Dr Robert Wolkow



MULTIMEDIA
 Dr Anup Basu

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
 Dr Pierre Boulanger

INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
 Dr Sheelagh Carpendale and
Dr Saul Greenberg

BIOCOMPLEXITY AND INFORMATICS
 Dr Stuart Kauffman

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DECISION SUPPORT
 Dr Guenther Ruhe

HIGH PERFORMANCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 Dr Jonathan Schaeffer

APPLIED BIOINFORMATICS
 Dr Christoph Sensen

COMPUTER PROCESS CONTROL
Dr Sirish Shah

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 Dr Richard Sutton

INTELLIGENT SENSING SYSTEMS
 Dr Hong Zhang

 

Dr Fadhel Ghannouchi
Intelligent RF Radio Technology

Dr Ghannouchi has received an iCORE Professor grant of $1,508,000 over five years. Other contributions include industry cash ($650,000) and in-kind ($750,000), a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for Dr Ghannouchi, and student and laboratory support from TRLabs. Additional funding for the project comes from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, NSERC and the University of Calgary.

Research Program Overview
This laboratory will be devoted to advanced research and development activities in Intelligent RF Radio Technology applicable to broadband wireless communications systems. The main objective of the research is to investigate scientific and technical problems related to the characterization and modeling of transistors, amplifiers and transmitters in order to develop more spectrum-efficient and/or power-efficient transmitters for 3rd and 4th generation wireless applications.


Biographical Information
Dr Ghannouchi comes to Alberta from the University of Montreal. He is an outstanding professor, researcher and engineer, internationally known for his accomplishments in academia and technology development. He has published over 250 scientific or technical papers, written one textbook, holds seven US patents (two pending), trained more that 50 graduate and visiting students, developed at least five innovations, and founded a university spin-off company (AmpliX Inc.) that was acquired by Mitec Telecom in 2001. As CEO, he guided development of an innovative line of products for the satellite communications market. This product line is now manufactured by Mitec Telecom and sold worldwide. Dr Ghannouchi is part of a network of influential people in academia, and in the RF, microwave, digital signal processing, wireless and satellite communications sectors in Canada, the US, Japan and Europe.


Research Team
The Laboratory will be located at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Calgary. A new faculty member with expertise in digital signal processing, multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO), and broadband wireless communication systems will be hired. Post-doctoral and visiting researchers will play an important role in training students and conducting leading-edge research projects. These researchers will reinforce the international reputation of the lab and help to recruit top students from around the world. The number of graduate students is expected to jump from 10 to 30 by the end of the fifth year of the program.


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