alumni

Graduate Students:

Yunxia Chen, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. degree in Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (2002)

Graduated in 2003. Currently she is with Cisco Networks, California.

Email: yunxia@ece.ualberta.ca

Yunxia Chen
Ali Alavi, M.Sc. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Fair
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics), Sharif University Of Technology, Iran (2002)

Graduated in 2004. Currently he is with AMD, Toronto.

Email: aalavi@ualberta.ca

Ali Alavi
Laleh Najafizadeh, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 1999
M.Sc. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2003

Currently she is with Georgia Institute of Technology.

Email: laleh@ece.ualberta.ca

Laleh Najafizadeh
Tao Cui, M.Sc. Student
B.Eng. Degree from the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in 2003.

Graduated in 2005. Currently he is with California Institute of Technology.

Email: taocui@ece.ualberta.ca

Tao Cui
Saeed Fouladi Fard, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. Faculty of Telecommunication, Tehran, Iran, 2000
M.Sc. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

Research interests: MIMO & CDMA.

Email: saeed@ece.ualberta.ca

Fouladi Fard
Dung Ngoc Dao, Ph.D. Student
B.Eng in Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, 1995.
Six years with Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN).
M.Sc in Telecommunications, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2002.

Research Interests: OFDM, MIMO, Error Control Coding.
Hobbies: Tennis, Traveling.

Graduated in 2006. Currently he is with Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK.

Email: dndung@ece.ualberta.ca

Dung Ngoc Dao
Saeed Kaviani, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Communications), Sharif University Of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2003)

Research Interests: Communication Theory, Coding Theory, Wireless Communications

Graduated in 2006. Currently he is with Professor Witold A. Krzymień.

Email: saeedk@ece.ualberta.ca

Saeed Kaviani
Nancy (Xinwei) Deng, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,China,2005

Research Interests: Communication theory,Wireless communications,MIMO systems

Graduated in 2007. Currently she is with Shusaku Yamamoto.

Email: nancyd@ece.ualberta.ca

Nancy (Xinwei) Deng
Yue Wu, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (2000)
M.Sc. Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (2003)

Research Interests: Space-time Coding, MIMO system.

Graduated in 2007.

Email: yuewu@ece.ualberta.ca

Yue Wu
Mahdi Hajiaghayi, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Communication), Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2005)

Research Interests: Wireless Communication, MIMO Systems,Computer and Data Networks

Graduated in 2007. He is currently a PhD student at University of Toronto

Email: mahdih@ualberta.ca

Mahdi Hajiaghayi
Mehtaz Sharmin, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh
University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Bangladesh(2004).

Research Interests: Wireless Communications, MIMO system, DSP.

Graduated in 2007.

Email: msharmin@ualberta.ca

Mehtaz Sharmin
Luqing Wang, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. (Jilin University, China, 1992),
Computer Analyst (1992-2000),
M.Sc. ( University of Alberta, Canada, 2002)

Research Interests: OFDM/DMT, PAR Reduction, Equalization, Digital Signal Processing

Graduated in 2007. He is currently with SMART Technologies, Calgary.

Email: wlq@ece.ualberta.ca

Luqing Wang
Khoa Tran Phan, M.Sc. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Sergiy Vorobyov
B.Sc. 2005, The University of New South Wales, Australia.

Research Interests: wireless communications and networking

Graduated in 2008. Currently he is with California Institute of Technology.

Email: khoa@ece.ualberta.ca

Khoa Tran Phan
Tyler Nechiporenko, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 2007
16-Month Internship SED Systems, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, May 2005 - Aug. 2006

Research Interests: Cooperative Communications, Adaptive Transmission Techniques, Cognitive Radio, and Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduated in 2008.

Email: nechiporenko@ieee.org

Tyler Nechiporenko
Yu Fu, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Witold A. Krzymień
B.Sc in the Dept. of Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 1999.
Communication Engineer, China Unicom, China (1999-2000)
M.Eng/Research Scholar in National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2002
R & D Engineer in MRD Technologies, Singapore (2002-2003)

Research interest: Wireless Communications, Communication Theory, Error Control Coding

Graduated in March, 2009. She is currently with Nortel Networks, Ottawa.

Email: yufu@ece.ualberta.ca

Yu Fu
Duy (Danny) Ngo, M.Sc. Student
B.Eng. Telecommunications Engineering (with First-class Honours and the University Medal), University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), 2007

Alberta Ingenuity Fund Student Scholar (2007-2012)
iCORE Graduate Student Scholar (2007-2012)

Research Interests: Mathematical Optimization and its application in Communications, Dynamic Radio Resource Allocation, Dynamic Spectrum Access

Graduated in July, 2009.

Email: trongduy@ece.ualberta.ca

Duy (Danny) Ngo
Prasanna Kalansuriya, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. Engineering, Dept. of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (08/2005)
Design Engineer at Electroteks Global Networks Pte Ltd, Sri Lanka (10/2005 - 05/2007)
Lecturer at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (06/2007 - 12/2007)
M.Sc. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2009.

Research Interests: Communication Theory, Signal Processing

Graduated in August, 2009.

Email: kalansur@ece.ualberta.ca

Prasanna Kalansuriya
Alireza Ghaderipoor, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1999.
M.Sc. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2002.

Research interests: Space-Time Coding, MIMO Systems, CDMA, Wireless Communications

Graduated in October, 2009. He is currently with Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) at Stanford University.

Email: ghaderi@ece.ualberta.ca

Alireza Ghaderipoor
Xiaowen Gong, M.Sc. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Sergiy Vorobyov
B.Sc. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2008

Research interests: Wireless Communications and Networking, Cognitive Radio Networks, Opportunistic Spectrum Access

Graduated in July, 2010.

Email: xgong2@ece.ualberta.ca

Xiaowen Gong
Wei Zhang, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. degree in Shandong University (2000)
M.Sc. degree in Shandong University (2004)

Research interest: Communication theory,Broadband wireless communications.

Graduated in April, 2011.

Email: wzhang@ece.ualberta.ca

Wei Zhang
Gongpu (David) Wang, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. in Anhui University, Hefei, China, 2001
M.Sc. in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2004

Research interests: Wireless Communication Theory, Channel Estimation, Signal Detection, Synchronization Techniques

Graduated in August, 2011. He is currently with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.

Email: gongpu@ece.ualberta.ca

Gongpu (David) Wang
Madushanka Soysa, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering , University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2009)

Research interests: Communication theory, Coding theory

Graduated in August, 2011. He is currently with University of California, San Diego.

Email: soysa@ualberta.ca

Madushanka Soysa

PDF and Research Associates:

Wen Chen, Research Associate
Ph.D. (U Electro-Commun., Japan, 1999)
M.Sc. (Wuhan University, China, 1993)
B.Sc. (Wuhan University, China, 1990)
Research Assistant (Academia Sinica, 1993-1995)

Research Interests: DSP and OFDM

Currently he is a professor with Shanghai Jiaotong University, and a member of its Wireless Network Transmission Laboratory

Email: wenchen@ece.ualberta.ca

Wen Chen
Zhongshan Zhang, Post-Doctoral Fellow
B.Sc. in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 1998.
M.Sc. in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2001.
Ph.D. in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2004.

Research interest: Communication Theory, Synchronization Technologies, Detection and Estimation, Multicarrier Communications and Broadband Wireless Communications.

Currently he is a Professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.

Email: zszhang@ece.ualberta.ca

Zhongshan Zhang
Hossein Bagheri, Post-Doctoral Fellow
- cosupervised with Dr. Masoud Ardakani
BSc (University of Tehran, Iran, 2002)
MSc (Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2005)
PhD (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2010)
Summer-Internship (Qualcomm, USA, 2009 )

Research interests:

  • Cooperative communications, cognitive radio, interference and relay channels
  • Turbo Convolutional/Block (product) Codes
  • Signal Processing in Communications especially in Multicarrier Systems (OFDM and DMT): DVBT standard, DSL systems
  • IEEE 802.16j (WiMAX), LTE physical layer issues

Currently he is a Research Engineer with Huawei Technologies, Chicago, USA.

Email: bagheri2@ualberta.ca

Hossein Bagheri

Summer Students:

Brendan Crowley, Undergraduate Student
Award: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award

Email: crowley@ualberta.ca

Brendan Crowley
Bo Dong, Undergraduate Student