::Dr. Alagan Anpalagan, RRM&RAN Research Group Website::

Dr. Ashok Karmokar is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2007. He received his B.Sc. degree with distinction and M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1998 and 2002 respectively. From 1998 to 2002, he was with Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, where he served as a Lecturer and then promoted as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Dr. Karmokar is a recipient of numerous scholarships, awards and fellowships.

From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a Research Associate both at the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo on various exciting projects, such as, cross-layer optimization, inter-network cooperative optimization, femtocell architecture, interference management for wireless networks, and fault localization and scheduling in the backhaul transparent all optical network (AON). His current research interests include cross-layer adaptive transmission and optimization, resource allocation, decision making and packet scheduling techniques for wireless broadband networks, cognitive radio networks, cooperative relay networks, femtocell networks and sensor networks. He has interest in the applications of statistical signal processing, optimizations, decision and queuing theories as well.

Lamiaa Khalid is a Ph.D. candidate in RRM+RAN research group. She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, she was working as a full-time teacher assistant in the department of electrical engineering in October 6 University, Egypt. In September 2005, Lamiaa joined RRM+RAN research group as a research assistant and completed her M.A.Sc. degree in December 2007. Currently, she is working in the area of cognitive radio systems. Her Research interests are wireless and mobile communications and radio resource management, particularly adaptive modulation and coding and power adaptation in multi-user communication systems and cognitive radio systems.

Sen Senthuran received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2003. He holds a M.Eng. degree in Telecommunications from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and an M.Sc. degree in communication networks and services from Telecom & Management SudParis, France. Since September 2006, he is a research assistant with RRN+RAN research group, currently working towards his Ph.D. degree at the department of electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University. His research interests include resource allocation in OFCDM and cognitive radio systems.

Hamed Rasouli is a Ph.D. candidate in RRM+RAN research group. He received his B.Sc. with Distinction in Electrical Engineering – Telecommunications from University of Tehran, Iran in 2003 and completed his M.Sc. at Iran University of Science and Technology afterwards. His research interests include radio resource allocation and management in cooperative and cognitive radio wireless communication systems.

Kandasamy Illanko obtained his B.Sc. with Honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, following which he worked as an assistant lecturer in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at University of Peradeniya. During this time, he taught various electronics courses both at the introductory and advanced undergraduate levels. In 1987, he was awarded a commonwealth scholarship to pursue his M.A.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering at University of Toronto. He defended his master’s thesis titled “goal oriented synthesis of Boolean functions” under the supervision of Prof. S. J. Zaky in 1991. Illanko has worked in the industry (mainly in system level programming in the C language/Unix environment) for many years. He started his Ph.D. in September 2008. He is currently working in the area of wireless communications, in particular, in the physical layer under the guidance of Drs. Anpalagan and Androutsos.

Fatima Hussain has done her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (specializing in telecommunication) from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan. Following which, she worked as an Assistant Lecturer at University of Central Punjab, Pakistan. She then joined Bahria University; Islamabad, Pakistan as a Lecturer and at the same time completed her M.Eng. from UET Lahore, Pakistan. She taught various Electronics/Telecommunication courses to undergraduate classes and was managing various administrative responsibilities in Bahria University. Because of her extensive Teaching/Administrative experience she was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2008. She’s currently on a study leave from Bahria University, enrolled in M.A.Sc program and doing research under the supervision of Dr. Anpalagan. She is currently working in the area of Wireless Communications, in particular researching on Femtocells technology.

Richa Siddavaatam has completed UG Diploma in Electronics from S.N.D.T. University and BE degree from University Of Pune, both from India. She worked as systems engineer with Siemens AG. She has completed PG diploma in 'Wireless communications' from Humber college, Toronto. Thereafter, she worked as an RF Technician with 'Research In Motion', Waterloo. Her research interests includes wireless communication and mobile communication particularly Femtocells, Radio resource management and Green communication.

Prof. A. Anpalagan directs a research group working on radio resource management (RRM) and radio access & networking (RAN) areas within the WINCORE Lab. His current research interests include cognitive radio resource allocation and management, wireless cross layer design and optimization, collaborative communication, green communications technologies and QoE-aware femtocells. Dr. Anpalagan serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters (2010-) and Springer Wireless Personal Communications (2009-), and past Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2004-2009). He also served as EURASIP Guest Editor for two special issues in Radio Resource Management in 3G+ Systems (2006) and Fairness in Radio Resource Management for Wireless Networks (2008). Dr. Anpalagan served as TPC Co-Chair of: IEEE PIMRC’11 Track on Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management, IEEE IWCMC’11 Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks, IEEE CCECE’04/’08 and WirelessCom’05 Symposium on Radio Resource Management.