Dr. Oussama Damen

Biography

Mohamed Oussama Damen is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has an extensive background in research positions at multiple academic institutions including École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Alberta. Since June 2004, he has been associated with the University of Waterloo, where he also served as the Nortel Networks Associate Chair in Advanced Telecommunications from April 2005 to April 2010. His current research interests encompass coding theory, particularly with regard to lattices and coding-decoding algorithms, cross-layer optimization, multiple-input multiple-output space-time communications, multiuser detection, and wireless communications. Dr. Damen has received several prestigious awards, including the University of Waterloo ECE Research Excellence Award in 2007, the Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario from 2007 to 2010, and a Junior Research Fellowship from the French Research Ministry from 1996 to 1999. He has published numerous articles in journals and is a senior member of IEEE.

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