Professional Activities

Editorialships:

• Member, Editorial Board, Physical Communication - Elsevier (Since January 2010)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (since July 2009)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (August 2005 - January 2010)
• Associate Editor, WIreless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (August 2004 - August 2008)

Member, Executive Committees:

• Co-Chair, IEEE Globecom 2011: Communications Theory Symposium, Houston, Texas, November 2011.
• Co-Chair, IEEE VTC2010-Fall: Transmission Technologies Track, September 2010, Ottawa, Canada
• Publications Chair, IEEE ICT 2010, Doha, Qatar, April 2010.
• Tutorials Chair, IEEE VTC2006-Fall , Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2006.
• Technical Co-chair, MIMO Symposium, IEEE WirelessCom Conference, Hawaii, USA May 2005.
• Chair, IEEE Montreal Communications Chapter, September 2004 - August 2005.

Instructor, Technical Tutorials:

• Coding for Cooperative Communications (with T. M. Duman, Arizona State University)
  
  • IEEE Globecom 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov./Dec. 2009. (Half Day)

• Synchronization for WCDMA
  • IEEE Globecom 2005, St. Louis, MS, Nov./Dec. 2005. (Full Day)

• Coding for MIMO Systems (with T. M. Duman, Arizona State University)
  
  • IEEE WCNC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, March 2008. (Half Day)
  • IEEE ISSPIT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 2007.(Half Day)
  • IEEE VTC-Fall 2006, Montreal, Canada.(Half Day)
  • IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.(Half Day)
  • IEEE ICC 2005, Seoul, Korea. (Full Day)
  • IEEE PIMRC 2004, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2004.(Full Day)
  • IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, GA, March 2004. (Half Day)
  • IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA, Nov./Dec. 2003. (Half Day)       

• The Theory and Practice of MIMO: Promises and Realities (with G. Giannakis (Minnesota), A. Goldsmith (Stanford), S. A. Jafar (UC Irvine), N. Jindal (Minnesota), R. A. Valenzuela (Bell Labs), S. Vishwanath (UT Austin), and S. Zhou (Connecticut))
  • IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, Texas, Nov./Dec. 2004. (Full Day)
    

Member, Technical Program Committee:    

• IEEE Globecom 2010: Communications Theory Symposium, Miami, Florida, November 2010.
• IEEE Globecom 2009: Wireless Communications Symposium, Hunulolo, Hawaii, Nov./Dec. 2009.
• Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2009), May 2009, Ottawa, Canada
• IEEE VTC2008-Fall, Calgary, Canada, September 2008.
• IEEE CCECE 2008, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008.
• IEEE Globecom 2007: Communication Theory Symposium, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2007.
• IEEE PIMRC 2005, Berlin, Germany, September 2005.
• IEEE ICC 2005: Communication Theory Symposium, Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
• IEEE PIMRC 2004, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2004.
• IEEE ICC 2004: Wireless Communications and Wireless Networking Symposia, Paris, France, June 2004.
• IEEE VTC2004-Spring, Milan, Italy, May 2004.
• IEEE PIMRC 2003, Beijing, China, September, 2003.
• IEEE VTC2003-Fall, Orlando, Florida, October, 2003.   

• Space Shift Keying Modulation for MIMO Channels, EE Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar, May 2008.
• MIMO Systems: Promises and Realities, InterDigital Inc., Montreal, Canada, July 26, 2007.
• Coding for MIMO Communication Systems, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Elctronics (ISSSE 2007), Montreal, Canada, July/August 2007.
• Coding for MIMO Communications Systems, SYTACom Research Workshop, University of Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 2007.
• Concatenated Coding and Equalization for Nonlinear Channels with Memory, INRS-Telecomm, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, March 14, 2003.
• Performance Analysis of Space-Time Codes Over Quasi-Static Fading Channels with Antenna Selection, IEEE Communications Section, Montreal, Canada, November 12, 2002 (given at Concordia University, Montreal).

Session Chair:

• IEEE CCECE 2007, Vancouver, Canada, April 2007
  • CDMA
• IEEE PIMRC 2004, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2004.
  • MIMO (1)
  • Coding, modulation and equalization (2)
    

Reviewer for:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEE Electronics Letters
• Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN)
• Internationa Journal of Communication Systems
• Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal
• Various IEEE Conferences