WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM

Symposium Co-Chairs
Robert Schober, Leading Chair, University of British Columbia (rschober@ece.ubc.ca)
Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland (licheng@mun.ca)
Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas (wuj@uark.edu)
Alberto Zanella, National Research Council (CNR) (alberto.zanella@ieiit.cnr.it)

ق	Robert Schoberق(M'01, SM'07) received Diplom (Univ.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001-2002, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since May 2002, he has been with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, where he is now a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Wireless Communications. His research interests include wireless communications, communication theory, and signal processing. Dr. Schober received the 2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, and the 2007 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition, he received best paper awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), IEEE ICUWB 2006, the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications 2002, and European Wireless 2000. Dr. Schober is the area editor for Modulation and Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and he served as a guest editor for a 2005 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Differential and Noncoherent Wireless Communications. He has also served on the Technical Program Committees of numerous international conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
ق	Cheng Liق(S'99, M'03, SM'07) received his B. Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, in 2004. He has been with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, since 2003, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, wireless communications and mobile computing, switching and routing, and broadband communication networks. He is an editorial board member of Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and an Associate Editor of Wiley Security and Communication Networks. He is a guest editor of the Wiley Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing special issue on Underwater Sensor Networks. He has served as Symposium Co-Chair of the International Conference on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (IWCMC'08) WLANs and WPANs Symposium, Create-Net/IEEE CHINACOM'08 Network and Information Security Symposium, and CHINACOM'07 Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE WCNC. He is a principal investigator of a $3.2 million dollar (Canadian) 5-year (2006-2011) multidisciplinary research project on Ocean Network Seafloor Instrumentation (ONSFI), funded by Atlantic Innovations Funds (AIF) of Canada. He is the grant holder of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada research project on Multicasting in Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (2007-2012). Dr. Li is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Computer Society.
	Jingxian Wuق(S'02-M'06) receivedقhis B.S. (EE) degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 1998, M.S. (EE) degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001, and Ph.D. (EE) degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia, MO, USA, in 2005. Dr. Wu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA. His research interests mainly focus on the physical layer of wireless communication systems, including multicarrier communications, space-time coding, channel estimation and equalization, and spread spectrum communications. Dr. Wu is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Since 2006, he has served as a Technical Program Committee member for a number of international conferences, including the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2006, 2007, the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007, 2008, and the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2007, 2008.
ق	Alberto Zanellaق(S'99-M'00) receivedقhis Dr. Ing. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the University of Ferrara in 1996 and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2000. In 2001, he joined the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Centro Studi per l'Informatica e le Telecomunicazioni (CNR-CSITE) (now a section of Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IEIIT-CNR)) as a Researcher. From 2001, he has been a Professor of signal theory, electrical communications, telecommunication systems, telecommunications and multimedia communications with the University of Bologna and Ferrara. He participates in several national and international projects. From 2004 to 2007, he participatedقin the Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM), funded by European Union within the Information Society Technologies, where he was responsible for the work packages WPI7.1 and WP7.2. From 2006 to 2007, he participated to the network of excellence "CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments" (CRUISE). Since 2008, heقis involved in the network of excellence NEWCOM++, where he is responsible for the work package WPI.4. His research interests include cellular and mobile radio systems, multiple-antenna systems and cooperative diversity. He currently serves as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was in the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Conference. He was also TPC co-chair of the first COST2100 workshop, entitled "MIMO and cooperative comunications".