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Prof. Harry Leib Department of Electrical and Computer Eng. Tel. (514)-398-8938 harry.leib@mcgill.ca |
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BIOGRAPHY
Harry Leib was born in 1953. He received the
B.Sc. (cum laude) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa , Israel in 1977 and 1984 respectively.
In 1987 he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
From
1977 to 1984 he was with the Israel Ministry of Defense, working in the area of
Communication Systems. During his Ph.D. studies at the University of Toronto
(1984 - 87) he was a teaching and research assistant in the Department of
Electrical Engineering, working in the areas of Digital Communications and
Signal Processing. After completing his Ph.D. studies, he was with the
University of Toronto as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in
Telecommunications (September 1987 - December 1988) and as an Assistant
Professor (January 1989 - August 1989). Since September 1989 he has been with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in
Montreal, first as an Assistant Professor, then as an Associate Professor, and
now as a Full Professor.
He spent part of his Sabbatical leave of
absence at Bell Northern Research in Ottawa, Ont. Canada (Sept. 1995 - Feb.
1996) working in a CDMA related project. During the other part of his
Sabbatical leave of absence(Mar. 1996 - Aug., 1996) he was a Visiting Professor
in the Communications Lab / Institute of Radio Communications at the Helsinki
University of Technology in Espoo Finland, where he taught a condensed course on
channel coding and modulation and worked with graduate students in the
communications area. At McGill he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
Communications, and directs the research of graduate students. His current
research activities are in the areas of Digital Communications, Wireless
Communication Systems, and Information Theory.
Dr. Leib has been an Editor for Communication
and Information Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2000,
and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
during 2001-2007. During 2003-2005 he has been a guest co-editor for a special
issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication on Differential
and Noncoherent Wireless Communication.
Usa's Ph.D. defence happy ending April 3, 2009
COURSES
TAUGHT
Undergraduate
304-411
Communication Systems I
304-491
Communication Systems Lab
Graduate
304-509
Probability Theory and Random Processes II
304-511
Introduction to Digital Communication (Communication Systems Honours version)
304-521
Digital Communications I (Data Communications)
304-620 Information
Theory and Coding
304-621
Statistical Detection and Estimation (Statistical Communication Theory)