Dr. Claude D Amours

Biography

Claude D'Amours received a B.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in communications in 1990 and an M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from the University of Ottawa. His master's thesis was titled 'Differential Coherent RAKE Receivers for DS-CDMA in Frequency-Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels.' He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1995, with a thesis entitled 'Hybrid DS/FH-CDMA Systems Employing FSK Based Modulation Schemes.' D'Amours began his career as a systems engineer at Calian Communication Systems Ltd. in Kanata, Ontario, before joining the Communications Research Centre as a systems engineer upon completing his Ph.D. In 1995, he accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada. He moved to the University of Ottawa in July 1999, where he became an Associate Professor in 2005 and has been serving as Vice Dean Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Engineering since March 2007. D'Amours has received the Faculty of Engineering’s John V Marsh Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and the University of Ottawa Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. His research interests include wireless communications with special interest in digital communications, coding, modulation, multiple access, information theory, and encryption. He performs extensive research on code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, focusing on advanced spreading allocation techniques for DS-CDMA and MIMO-CDMA systems.

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