Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory: Research

Research

Annual Operating Budget (2006)

Achievements/Accomplishments

(May 2006) Mahmoud Taherzadeh (one of our PhD students) receives the CITO's Research Excellence Scholarships. CITO awards Research Excellence Scholarships in recognition of exceptional graduate students whose CITO-supported research has created new knowledge, technology or advancement in their field of study. Read more from the CITO website...

(November 2005) Nortel Networks Institute Research Excellence Awards were awarded to four graduate students in our lab. They will each receive a cash award of $250 for their excellence in research from the Nortel Networks Institute for Advanced Information Technology at the University of Waterloo. The winners are: Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali for "Standard Contribution in Sub-Channel Reuse for CQICH Fast Feedback Channels" Mahmoud Taherzadeh for "Standard Contribution in Sub-Channel Reuse for CQICH Fast Feedback Channels" Mehdi Ansari for "Standard Contribution in Unified MIMO Pre-Coding Based on Givens Rotation" Hadi Baligh for "Standard Contribution in Unified MIMO Pre-Coding Based on Givens Rotation"

(August 2004) Farzaneh Kohandani (one of our PhD students) receives the Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association Graduate Scholarship.

(June 2004) Hadi Baligh (one of our PhD students) receives the CITO Student Research Excellence Award.

(December 2002) Prof. Amir K. Khandani was awarded the "Certificate of Achievement" by Nortel Networks for the second year.

Ceremony Photos (click on each photo to see the larger version.)
From left to right in the picture: Sujeet K. Chaudhuri, Professor and Dean of Engineering, UW Amit Chakma, Vice-President, Academic & Provost, UW Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW Paul Guild, Vice-President, University Research, UW Tony Vannelli, Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UW Ric Holt, Prof. of Comp. Sci., Director of Nortel Networks Institute

From left to right in the picture: Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW Paul Guild, Vice-President, University Research, UW	From left to right in the picture: Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW Matthew Lok, Manager, Nortel Networks

(October 2001) Prof. Amir K. Khandani was awarded the "Certificate of Achievement" by Nortel Networks.

Ceremony Photos (click on each photo to see the larger version.)

From left to right in the picture: Paul Guild, Vice-President, University Research, UW Amit Chakma, Vice-President, Academic & Provost, UW Tony Vannelli, Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UW Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW David Johnston, University President, UW Ric Holt, Prof. of Comp. Sci., Director of Nortel Networks Institute Tom Brzustowski, President of NSERC

From left to right in the picture: Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW David Johnston, University President, UW	From left to right in the picture: Brian McFadden, President, Metropolitan Optical, Nortel Amir K. Khandani, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., UW

F. Lahouti and S. Nikneshan were two of the twelve students (selected among a large number of students in different areas of 6 major universities in the province of Ontario/Canada) receiving CITO award of "Tomorrow's Technology Leaders" and presenting article at CITO's Knowledge Network Conference - Beyond the Edge: Road Mapping Innovation, Ottawa, Canada, more about it on CITO...

(Nov. 1999) A project co-sponsored by CITO and Nortel Networks was documented as a "CITO Success Story", more about it on CITO...

Prof. Amir K. Khandani won the ITRC award for the "Increasing Awareness in Leading Edge Technologies".

Sponsors


	Bell Canada

	NSERC - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

	CITO - Communications and Information Technology Ontario

	Nortel

	Canada Research Chair Program

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