General Chair
Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS
Executive Chair
Wahab Almuhtadi, Professor, Algonquin College
GITC Advisor
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney
GIMS Advisor
Rolland Vida, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Technical Program Committee
TPC Chair
Sonia Aissa, INRS, University of Quebec
TPC Co-Chairs
Robert Schober, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Matthew Valenti, West Viginia University
Selected Areas in Communications
SAC: Big Data: Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway
SAC: Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage: Suayb Arslan, MEF University, Turkey
SAC: e-Health: Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur, India
SAC: Full-Duplex Communications: Taneli Riihonen, Tampere University, Finland
SAC: Machine Learning for Communications: Marios Kountouris, EURECOM, France
SAC: Machine Learning for Communications: Fernando Perez-Cruz, Swiss Data Science Center, Switzerland
SAC: Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications: Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada
SAC: Satellite & Space Communications: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
SAC: Smart Grid Communications: György Dán , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SAC: Social Networks: Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
SAC: Quantum Communications & Computing: Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy
Symposium on Cognitive Radio & AI-Enabled Networks
Minghua Xia, Sun Yat-sen University , China
Qiang Ni, Lancaster University, UK
Symposium on Communication & Information System Security
Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis University, Russia
Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Ayman Kayssi, American University of Beirut , Lebanon
Symposium on Communication QoS, Reliability, & Modeling
Chikara Ohta, Kobe University, Japan
Christos Verikoukis, CTTC (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia), Spain
Imad Elhajj, American University of Beirut , Lebanon
Symposium on Communications Software and Multimedia
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Adlen Ksentini, EURECOM, France
Symposium on Communication Theory
Elza Erkip, NYU, USA
Achilleas Anastasopoulos, University of Michigan, USA
Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi, India
Symposium on Green Communication Systems & Networks
Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK
Feng Ye, University of Dayton, USA
Symposium on IoT & Sensor Networks
Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Ali Chehab, American University of Beirut , Lebanon
Mohamad Eid, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of La Rochelle, France
Symposium on Mobile & Wireless Networks
Tingting Yang, Dongguan University of Technology, China
Sharief Oteafy, Depaul University, USA
Hesham Elsawy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China
Symposium on Next-Generation Networking & Internet
Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece
Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
Ruidong Li, NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications and Technology), Japan
Symposium on Optical Networks & Systems
Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
Signal Processing for Communications
George Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Jing Yang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Shaodan Ma, University of Macau, Macau
Symposium on Wireless Communications
Jun Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Norman Beaulieu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Vasanthan Raghavan, Qualcomm, USA
Inkyu Lee, Korea University, Korea
Leila Musavian, Essex University, UK
Workshops Co-Chairs
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University
Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University
Abdelhamid Mellouk, Paris-Est Créteil University
Tutorials Co-Chairs
Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia
Wei Yu, University of Toronto
Publication Co-Chairs
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo
Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Student Travel Grants Co-Chairs
Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas
Yindi Jing, University of Alberta
Industry Forums and Exposition Committee
IF&E Co-Chairs
Bernard Bureau, VP - Architecture and Network Strategy, TELUS
Charles Despins, Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS)
Industry Forums and Content Co-Chairs
Denis Couillard, Director, Solutions Development, Ultra Communications, Canada
Rodney Wilson, Chief Technologist, Research Networks, CTO Group, Ciena
Patronage Co-Chairs
Said Mokbel, MTelecom Consulting, Canada
François Borrelli, Vice President Partnerships Development, Prompt
Exhibition Chair
Vincent Roy, Senior Director R&D, InterDigital
Keynotes Chair
Mahsa Pourazad, TELUS Strategy & Research/Adj. Prof. UBC
Operations Committee
Operations Chair
Raed Abdullah, Strategic Planning Engineer, Hydro Ottawa
Operations Co-Chair
Fabrice Labeau, Assoc. Professor, Assoc. Dean, McGill University
Finance Chair
Vahid Raissi-Dehkordi, Research Engineer, Natural Resources Canada
Local Arrangements Chair
Anader Benyamin-Seeyar, R&D, ISR Technologies, Montreal, QC, Canada
Publicity & Marketing Chair
Zhensheng Zhang, California, USA
AP Region - Publicity & Marketing Chair
Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
EMEA Region - Publicity & Marketing Chair
R Venkatesha Prasad, TUDelft, the Netherlands
LA Region - Publicity & Marketing Chair
Carlos Lozano-Garzon, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
NA Region - Publicity & Marketing Chair
Michael Lalonde, Co-Owner, Purecolo Inc.
Social Media Chair
Sana Abou-Shaaban, Government Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Conference Secretary
Eman Hammad, Researcher, University of Toronto, Canada
IEEE ComSoc Treasurer
Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Comsoc Senior Conference Planner
Melissa Torres, IEEE Communications Society
IEEE ComSoc Web Support
Tammy Hung, IEEE Communications Society
IEEE ComSoc Marketing
Trish Jaraicie, IEEE Communications Society
