Biography

I was born in Joliette (PQ), Canada, in 1961. I received the B.Ing. Degree in Engineering Physics and the M.Sc. Degree in Physics from the University of Montreal in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. From 1990 to 1999, I was with INRS, University of Quebec, where I held the positions of Assistant and then Associate Professor. In 1999, I joined McGill University, Montreal, as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I served as Associate Chairman of Graduate Studies in the Department from 2004 to 2007 and I am now a Full Professor.

My research interests focus on the investigation of new computational algorithms for the digital processing of information bearing signals and overlap many sub-areas of statistical signal processing, including: detection and estimation, sensor array processing, adaptive filtering, multirate systems, and applications thereof to broadband voice and data communications. Over the years, I have supervised many graduate students in these areas and co-authored several papers, including key works on subspace tracking, speech enhancement, time delay estimation and spread sources localization.

My research has been funded by the main government agencies in Canada and Quebec, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), and PROMPT-Quebec, as well as by major industrial sponsors, including Nortel Networks, InterDigital, Bell Canada and Microsemi (formerly Zarlink). I regularly serve as a reviewer for scientific journals and granting agencies worldwide. I have been an Associate or Guest Editor for several journals and I am often asked to to serve on the Technical Program Committees of major conferences.

Editorship

  • Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on “Security Challenges and Issues in Cognitive Radio Networks,” July 2013 – June 2014
  • IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2010-2012)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2006-2008)
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2005-2007)
  • Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal onApplied Signal Processing, Special Issue on "Advances in subspace-based techniques for signal processing and communications,” Jan. 2007

Conference Committees 

  • Publicity Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Fall, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2016.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE 9th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2016.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, IEEE Int. Conf on Communications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Workshop on Localization for Indoors, Outdoors, and Emerging Networks, IEEE Globecom, San Diego, California, Dec. 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Regular Track, IEEE Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Cellular Networks Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Fall, Boston, U.S.A., Sept. 2015
  • Co-Chair, Int. Workshop on Device-to-Device Communication for Cellular and Wireless Networks, held jointly with IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, London, U.K., June 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Spectrum Efficient Management, Sensing and Cognitive Radio Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Spring, Glasgow, Scotland, May 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf., New Orleans, U.S.A., March 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf., Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014.
  • Session Chair, MA8b3: Adaptive and Robust Methods, 47th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A., Nov. 2013.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2013.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Wireless Access Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Fall, Las Vegas, U.S.A., Sept. 2013.
  • Session Chair, Topics in Wireless Communications - I, IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2012.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Wireless Multiple Access Techniques Track, IEEE Int. Conf. on Vehicular Technology – Fall , Quebec City, Quebec, Sept. 2012.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Transmission Technologies Track, IEEE, Int. Conf. on Vehicular Technology – Spring, Yokohama, Japan, May 2012.
  • Co-Chair, Wide Area Cellular Communications Track, IEEE Int. Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 2011.
  • Session Chair, Diversity Techniques - I, IEEE Int. Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Wireless Communications Symposium, IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Communications and Networking Symposium, IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Eng., Niagara Falls, Ontario, May 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Communications and Networking Symposium, IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Eng., St-John’s, Newfoundland, May 2009.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time Processing Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Fall, Calgary, Alberta, Sept. 2008.
  • Co-Chair, Signal and Multi-media Processing Symposium, and Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Eng., Niagara, Ontario, May 2008
  • Session Chair, Audio, Music and Speech Processing, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, China, July 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 9th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montreal, Quebec, June 2005.
  • Co-Chair, Antenna and Propagation Track, and Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. – Fall, Los Angeles, USA, Sept. 2004
  • Registration Chair, Organizing Committee, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
  • Session Chair, Antennas and Array, Iasted Int. Conf. on Wireless and Optical Communications, Banf, Alberta, July 2002.
  • Session Chair, Array Signal Processing, and Technical Program Committee Member, EUSIPCO 2000, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2000.
  • Session Chair, Digital Signal Processing – I, IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Eng., Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 1995.