Ahmed K. Elhakeem received the Ph.D. degree from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, in 1979.He spent the next two years working as a Visiting Professor in Egypt, after which he moved to Ottawa, Canada, in 1982. He assumed research and teaching positions in Carleton and Manitoba Universities and later moved to Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983, where he is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He has published numerous papers in IEEE and international journals in the areas of CDMA and networks, and contributed to many books. He is a well-known expert in these areas and serves as a consultant to various companies. His current research interests include cross layer design, interconnected wireless LANs, 4G, wideband networks, WCDMA code Acquisition , CDMA networks,  and  reconfigurable networks, He is a co-author of the book, Fundamentals of Telecommunications Networks (New-York: Wiley, 1994). He has chaired and organized numerous technical sessions in IEEE conferences, and was the Technical Program Chairman for IEEE Montech ’86 in Montreal, Canada. More recently, he was the Key Guest Editor for four issues of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTEC AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS on Code Division Multiple Access, namely CDMA I, II, III and IV, appearing in May ‘94, June ’94, October ’96 and December ’96. Dr. Elhakeem was the Communications chair of IEEE Montreal and TCCC Rep. to ICC ’99, He served as an associate editor for the IEEE Communications letters Journal (1996-1999),he is a professional engineer of Ontario and a senior member of IEEE, and IEICE. Dr Elhakeem has served as a consultant to many companies, to Communication Research Center and Industry Canada.  

Contact: ahmed@ece.concordia.ca