Dr. Walaa Hamouda

Professor, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Teir I Concordia University

Research Chair in Wireless Communications and Networking 

Address: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
EV. 5.127, Concordia University,
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.Montreal, Quรฉbec
Canada H3G 1M8
e-mail: walaa.hamouda@concordia.ca
ph: +1 (514) 848-2424 ext. 4138
Fax: +1 (514) 848-2802

  • Walaa Hamouda received his B.Sc (Telecommunications & Electronics) from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada in 1998 and 2002, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1994 to 1996, he worked as a system engineer for Siemens R&D, Cairo, Egypt.
  • During his Ph.D study, Dr. Hamouda received many fellowships and scholarships including Ontario Graduate scholarships (OGS) and Queen’s graduate fellowship, Queen’s graduate award, IEEE Student Conference Award (ICC2001), and outstanding-engineering award (Siemens).
  • In July 2002, Dr. Hamouda joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University as an assistant professor where he is now a Full Professor.
  • From Sept. 2008-May 2009, he was the Associate Chair for Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University.
  • His current research interests are Wireless communications, 6G technologies, mm-wave communications, massive/cell-free MIMO systems, C-RAN, machine-to-machine communications, IoT, AI for wireless Communications, machine learning, edge computing, quantum computing