No one who is a professor and receives his support from the larger community can rightly be unmindful of his obligations to it. He must speak to the higher values of all insofar as he is qualified and able to do so. John Archibald Wheeler

The great Gottfried Ungerboeck ... and I	The great Alexander von Humboldt ... and I

I received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2003, I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia at which I am a Full Professor. My research interests are fairly broad in the areas of communications, signal processing, detection, estimation, and learning.

Awards and Honours

• 2020 Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Communication Society Smart Grid Communications Technical Committee,
• 2015 TC-PLC Inter-disciplinary Research and Application Award,
• 2015 TC-PLC Outstanding Service Award,
• Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society 2012-2013,
• UBC Charles A. McDowell Award of Excellence in Research in 2010,
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2009,
• UBC Killam Research Prize in 2008,
• Dissertation Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG) in 2003.

Best Paper Awards (most of them jointly)

• 2018 IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC) Best Paper Award,
• 2017 IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC) Best Paper Award,
• 2011 IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC) Best Paper Award,
• 2010 Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG),
• 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC, Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications) Best Paper Award,
• 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB) Best Paper Award,
• Eurasip Signal Processing Journal Best Paper Award 2005,
• Best Student Paper Award at the International Zurich Seminar 2002,
• Best Student Paper Award at the European Wireless Conference 2000.

Associate Editor for

• the IEEE Communications Letters (past)
• the IEEE Transactions on Communication (past)
• the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (past)
• the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (present)
• the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (past)
• the ELSEVIER International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE) (past)
• the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (past)

Guest-Editor for

• the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Special Issue on Pervasive, Efficient, and Smart Signal Processing for IoT,
• the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Comminications, Special Issue on Localisation, Communication and Networking with VLC,
• the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, Special Issue on Power Line Communications and its Integration with the Networking Ecosystem (July 2016),
• the IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic Issue Visible Light Communications - The Road to Standardization and Commercialization (first issue December 2013, second issue July 2014),
• the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, Special Issue on Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation,
• the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications Series on Smart Grid Communications (first issue July 2012, second issue July 2013),
• the IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic Issue on Power Line Communications for Automation Networks and Smart Grid (December 2011),
• the ELSEVIER International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE), Special Issue on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Johannes Huber (August 2011),
• the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Special Issue on Power Line Communications (vol. 2007),
• and the ELSEVIER PhysicalCommunication Journal Special Issue on Advances in Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications (December 2009).

I have served as

• Member of the Awards and Nominations Committee of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications (TC-PLC), from April 2015 to March 2020,
• Member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee since January 2018,
• Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) since January 2016,
• General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Conference (SmartGridComm 2013),
• Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Emerging Technical Subcommittee on Smart Grid Communications from March 2013 to November 2017,
• Voting member of the IEEE ComSoc Standardization Programs Development Board from January 2012 to December 2013,
• Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications from March 2010 to March 2014,
• Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications from March 2010 to April 2014,
• Secretary of the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee from January 2009 to December 2010,
• Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications from November 2004 to March 2010,
• General Chair of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2009),
• and General Chair of the 2005 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC 2005).

TPC/Symposium/Track Co-Chair of

• the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Tutorials,
• the 2019 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks Track,
• the 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Recent Results Track,
• the 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC),
• the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications - Communications for the Smart Grid,
• the 2016 IEEE International Symposium in Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC),
• the 2013 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring) Cooperative Communication, Distributed MIMO and Relaying Track,
• the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Smart Grid Communication Networks Symposium,
• the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Selected Areas in Communications Symposium (Smart Grid),
• the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, The Whole Picture: Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control Symposium,
• the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC),
• the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Standardization, Interoperability and Coexistence Symposium,
• the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Communication Theory Symposium,
• the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC),
• 2006 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), General Symposium,
• and the 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), MIMO Symposium.

I have been a TPC member for numerous international conferences.

I am a co-editor of the comprehensive book Power Line Communications, now available in its 2nd edition .