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2008 ORION Leadership Award of Merit Recipient
Dr. Hussein Mouftah
Dr. Hussein Mouftah, a world-renowned researcher and instructor, has made countless contributions to the better knowledge and understanding of advanced networks, including to the development of the Internet, and one of the few people who can claim to have contributed to the development of the Internet.
The Canada research chair in optical networks and distinguished professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Mouftah has been instrumental in the furthering of advanced networks, and has been a prolific source of information and teaching for the researchers and network engineers worldwide. As many of 200 well-trained researchers have had the benefit of Dr. Mouftah’s tutelage.
In his more than 30-year career as an academic and consultant to the telecommunications industry, Dr. Mouftah has made seminal contributions to the field of telecommunications networks, specifically in the areas of high-speed networks, optical networks, switching architectures, wireless cellular communications, ad hoc and sensor networks, network performance modeling, quality of service and traffic engineering for the next-generation Internet.
Dr. Mouftah has been a prolific researcher and has published five books and 29 book chapters and author or co-author more than 800 papers in high-impact journals and conference proceedings. His book “Optical Networks – Architecture and Survivability” has been adopted by well known schools worldwide for their courses on optical networking and is an influential book among engineers designing survivable metropolitan area networks.
Currently Dr. Mouftah is the principal investigator of a large project on Wireless Heterogeneous Sensor Networks in the e-Society (WiSense) being funded by the Ontario Research Excellence program of the Ministry of Research and Innovation. He leads a team of 15 professors from four Canadian universities and seven private-sector organizations on the project.
In 1990, in recognition of his extensive research contributions to communication systems modeling, he achieved the prestigious title of Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering). Dr. Mouftah is also a Fellow of the RSC (Royal Society of Canada), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. In recent years he has won numerous awards, most recently the RSC Thomas W. Eadie Medal for his contributions to Canadian and international telecommunications network research, in particular his work in the development of the Internet, and the University of Ottawa 2007-2008 Award for Excellence in Research.
He has taken a leadership role in the Communication Society (ComSoc) of the IEEE, and significantly contributed to numerous standards organizations. He was the first editor-in-chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine and later director of magazines of the IEEE ComSoc to come from outside the US. He has also served as member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the Awards Committee and Director of Education.
Dr. Mouftah has been the general chair or technical program chair on more than 30 well-known national and international conferencing on telecom networks and information systems and keynote speaker at more than 10 conferences on optical and wireless networks and next-generation Internet.
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