Hussein T. Mouftah

Date of Birth: January 4, 1947
Marital Status: Married, 3 Children
Citizenship: Canadian
Address: 22 Hackett Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1V 0P8
Tel: (613) 565-9331
(613) 562-5800 Ext. 2173 (Office)
E-mail: MOUFTAH@SITE.UOTTAWA.CA
Fax: (613) 562-5664

Education
D.Sc. ——Laval Univ., Quebec——Electrical Engineering——1975
M.Sc. ——Univ. of Alexandria, Egypt——Computer Engineering ——1972
B.Sc. ——Univ. of Alexandria, Egypt—— Electrical Engineering——1969
(Communications Section)

Employment History
2002-/Canada Research Chair Professor (Tier 1)/ School of Information Technology & Engineering/ University of Ottawa, Ottawa

2002-/ Adjunct Professor/ Electrical & Computer Engineering/ Queen’s University, Kingston

2000-01/ Consultant (Sabbatical Leave)/ Disruptive Network Technology/ Nortel Networks, Ottawa

1998–02/ Associate Head/ Electrical & Computer Engineering/ Queen’s University, Kingston

1993-94/ Consultant (Sabbatical Leave)/ Traffic Management & Performance/ Bell-Northern Research, (Nortel Technology), Ottawa

1992-02/ Adjunct Professor/ SITE (Electrical Engineering)/ University of Ottawa, Ottawa

1990/ Visiting Expert/ Transportation Development Centre/ Ministry of Transportation, Montreal

1988-02/ Professor/ Electrical & Computer Engineering/ Queen’s University, Kingston

1986-87/ Consultant (Sabbatical Leave)/ Transport Network Control & Design for Testability/ Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa

1985/Associate Professor (Part-time)/ Electrical Engineering/ Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston

1982-88/ Associate Professor/ Electrical Engineering/ Queen’s University, Kingston

1979-82/ Assistant Professor/ Electrical Engineering/ Queen’s University, Kingston

1977-79/ Member of Scientific/ Staff Data Systems Planning/ Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa

1976-77/ Chief Engineer/ Adaptive Microelectronics Limited, Toronto

1976/ Senior Digital Systems Engineer/ Digital Systems/ Adaptive Microelectronics Limited, Toronto

1975-76/ Postdoctoral Fellow/ Electrical Engineering/ University of Toronto, Toronto

1973-75/ Teaching and Research Assistant/ Electrical Engineering and Information Science/ Laval University, Quebec

1969-72/ Instructor/ Computer Science and Automatic Control/ University of Alexandria, Egypt

Honors & Awards
HA19. Elected Fellow Engineering Institute of Canada (2005).
HA18. Joint holder of the Best Paper Award for a paper presented at IEEE ICC2005 Optical Networks Symposium (ICC2005), Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
HA17. Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society (2004).
HA16. George Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa (2004).
HA15. Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003).
HA14. Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, Ontario Innovation Trust, September 2002.
HA13. Canada Research Chair in Optical Networks, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (June 2002).
HA12. Joint holder of the Best Paper Award for a paper presented at the CSC 2002 Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS’02), San Diego, California, July 2002.
HA11. Joint holder of the Outstanding Paper Award for a paper presented at the IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR’2002), Kobe, Japan, May 2002.
HA10. Recipient of the IEEE Canada Outstanding Service Award (1995)
HA9. Joint holder of an Honourable Mention for the Frederick W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award for Best Paper in the IEEE Communications Magazine in 1993 (February, pp. 58-65).
HA8. Elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to Communication Systems Modeling (1990).
HA7. Holder of the Certificate of Appreciation from the Government of Canada Ministry of Transportation for valuable contributions as Visiting Expert at Transportation Development Centre (1990).
HA6. Recipient of the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
HA5. Joint holder of the Outstanding Paper Award for a paper presented at the IEEE Fourteenth International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (IEEE Computer Society, Proceedings ISMVL-84, pp. 120-124).
HA4. Senior Industrial Fellowship: From the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, to spend the sabbatical year (1993-94 and 1986-87) with Bell-Northern Research of Ottawa.
HA3. Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship: From the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (1976-77).
HP2. Postdoctoral Fellowship: From the Ministry of Education of Quebec (1975-76 and its renewal).
HP1. Scholarships: From the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education (1964-69).
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Professional Associations
2005- Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
2003- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
1990- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
1980-89 Senior Member, IEEE
1980- Member, Canadian Society of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1979- Member, Canadian Association of University Teachers
1975- Member, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
1975-80 Member, IEEE
1974-75 Student Member, IEEE
1974-75 Member, Canadian Information Processing Society