The Ninth IASTED International Conference on
Wireless and Optical Communications
~WOC 2009~
July 6 – 8, 2009
Banff, Alberta, Canada
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Behavior Modelling Power Amplifiers / Transmitters For Wireless and Satellite Communications
Biography of the Keynote Speaker
Fadhel Ghannouchi is currently a professor, iCORE/Canada Research Chair and Director of the iRadio Laboratory (www.iradio.ucalgary.ca) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He was with École Polytechnique de Montréal until 2005, where he taught microwave theory and techniques and RF communications systems since 1984. He has held several invited positions at several academic and research institutions in Europe, North America and Japan. Prof. Ghannouchi has provided consulting services to a number of microwave and wireless communications companies. His research interests are in the areas of RF and wireless communications, nonlinear modeling of microwave devices and communications systems, design of power- and spectrum-efficient microwave amplification systems, and design of SDR systems for wireless and satellite communications applications. His research has led to over 400 refereed publications, 7 US patents, and 3 patent applications. Dr. Ghannouchi is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
