KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China PR

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Professor Letaief received the Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since 1993, he has been with HKUST where he is a Chair Professor and Head of the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department. He is also the Director of the Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology.
Dr. Letaief is an acknowledged authority in the area of wireless and mobile communications including broadband wireless data access, wideband CDMA, MIMO systems, OFDM, cross-layer design, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and beyond 3G systems. In these areas, he has published over 300 journal and conference papers and given invited talks as well as courses all over the world. He served as consultants for different organizations and he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He also served on the editorial board of other journals including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications-Wireless Series (as Editor-in-Chief). Professor Letaief has been involved in organizing a number of major international conferences and events, including the General Chair of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC’07; as well as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communication, ICC’08. He also served as the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications.
Prior to joining the telecommunications industry Mr. Nerandzic worked at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade where he held various teaching and research roles in areas of fixed and mobile networks.
In addition to his active research activities, Professor Letaief has also been a dedicated teacher committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship. He received the Mangoon Teaching Award from Purdue University in 1990; the Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award by the School of Engineering at HKUST (4 times); and the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (Highest university-wide teaching award).
He is a Fellow of IEEE, an elected member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, and an IEEE Distinguished lecturer.

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