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Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory

* Administrative Director

Fady Alajaji
Mathematics and Engineering
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6

Phone: (613) 533-2423
Email: fady@mast.queensu.ca

* Research Faculty

* Fady Alajaji

* Norman C. Beaulieu (Adjunct Prof., University of Alberta)

* L. Lorne Campbell (Emeritus)

* Saeed Gazor (Cross-appointed, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

* Navin Kashyap

* Tamás Linder

* Glen Takahara

* David J. Thomson (Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing)

* Serdar Yüksel

* Research Around the Lab

The Communications and Signal Processing Lab is affiliated with the Mathematics and Engineering program, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University. The Lab, which is located on the second floor of Jeffery Hall, is equipped with Unix Sun and Linux PC workstations, and signal processing apparatus. It is currently being used by graduate and senior undergraduate students pursuing research in information theory, communication theory and statistical signal processing. The purpose of the laboratory is to conduct research on the information theoretic analysis, design, implementation, and simulation of communication and signal processing systems, the stochastic modeling and performance analysis of communication networks, and the development of robust and efficient speech and image coding techniques for wireless multimedia applications. The Lab also houses Queen's Solar Radio Observatory whose objective is to investigate the harmonics emitted by the sun and the effects of solar flares on wireless communication.

The research projects of the Communications and Signal Processing Lab are funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Premier Research Excellence Award (PREA) of Ontario, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO), Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRIO), Queen's Chancellor Award, Queen's Advisory Research Committee (ARC), Queen's Start-Up grants and the Ontario Access to Opportunities Program (ATOP).

The ongoing research activities are in the following areas:

  • Information Theory

  • Source Coding Theory and Vector Quantization

  • Error Control Coding

  • Digital Transmission Theory

  • Joint Source-Channel Coding

  • Coding for Constrained Channels and Symbolic Dynamics

  • MIMO Channels and Space-Time Coding

  • Data Synchronization

  • Applications to Wireless Multimedia Communication

  • Statistical Communications and Signal Processing

  • Spread Spectrum Communications Systems

  • Stochastic Modeling of Communication Networks

  • Statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

  • Applied Probability Theory

  • Time Series and Spectral Estimation

  • Environmental Effects on Communications Systems

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    * Postdoctoral Fellows

    * András Antos, NATO-NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (September 2001 - July 2003)

    * Firouz Behnamfar, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (September 2004 - August 2006)

    * Hamid Behroozi, Province of Ontario MRI Postdoctoral Fellow (August 2007 - March 2010)

    * Manish Gupta (September 2005 - August 2006)

    * Andras György, NATO-NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2003 - June 2004)

    * Balázs Kégl, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2000 - January 2001)

    * Azadeh Moghtaderi, MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow (September 2010 - present)

    * Guang-Chong Zhu (January 2003 - August 2003)

    * Current Graduate Students

    * Ahmad Abou Saleh (M.A.Sc. 2011, Ph.D.)

    * Saeed Akhavan-Astaneh (Ph.D.)

    * Youness Aliyari Ghassabeh (Ph.D.)

    * Scott Amiss (M.Sc. 2004, Ph.D.)

    * Shahab Asoodeh (M.Sc.)

    * Ghady Azar (M.A.Sc.)

    * Wesley Burr (Ph.D.)

    * Alex Condello (M.Sc.)

    * Ryan Graham (M.Sc. Eng. 2005, Ph.D.)

    * Andrew Johnston (M.Sc.)

    * Karim Rahim (Ph.D.)

    * Naci Saldi (Ph.D.)

    * Nevroz Sen (M.Sc. Eng. 2009, Ph.D.)

    * Aaron Springford (Ph.D)

    * Steven Wu (M.A.Sc.)

    * Alumni

    * Haider Al-Lawati (M.Sc. Eng. 2007)

    * Razan Al-Nakhli (M.Sc. 2011)

    * Firouz Behnamfar (Ph.D. 2004)

    * Vladimir Bobko (M.Sc. Eng. 2005)

    * Adam Cohen (M.Sc. Eng. 2008)

    * Julian Cheng (M.Sc. Eng. 1997)

    * Marcus Cleary (M.Sc. 1997)

    * Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar (M.Sc. Eng. 2008)

    * Jing Gai (M.Sc. Eng. 2002)

    * Ben Gardiner (M.Sc. Eng. 2007)

    * Andrew Gibson (M.Sc. Eng. 2002)

    * Manuel Gil (M.Sc. 2011)

    * Andras György (M.Sc. Eng. 2000)

    * Eric Hart (M.Sc. 2008)

    * Huixia (Claire) He (Ph.D. 2008)

    * Patrick van Kooten (M.Sc. 2006)

    * Hongyan Kuai (M.Sc. 1999)

    * Christopher Leith (M.Sc. 1999, Ph.D. 2005)

    * Kyle LePage (Ph.D. 2009)

    * Richard A. Lodge (M.Sc. 1996)

    * Shan Lu (M.Sc. 2011)

    * Clifford Lui (M.Sc. Eng. 2001)

    * Akiko Manada (Ph.D. 2009)

    * Joanna Meadows (M.Sc. 1998)

    * Ya Meng (M.Sc. 2009)

    * Azadeh Moghtaderi (M.Sc. Eng. 2004, Ph.D. 2009)

    * Brendan Moore (M.Sc. Eng. 2009)

    * Ian Moore (Ph.D. 2009)

    * Saeed Moradi (M.Sc. Eng. 2007)

    * Daniel Nagy (Ph.D. 2006)

    * Ali Nazer (M.Sc. Eng. 1997)

    * Christopher Nicola (M.Sc. Eng. 2005)

    * Ziad Rached (M.Sc. 1998, Ph.D. 2002)

    * Timothy Ramsay (Ph.D. 2000)

    * Zahir Raza (M.Sc. Eng. 2002)

    * David Rolls (M.Sc. 1997, Ph.D. 2003)

    * Shant Sethian (M.Sc. Eng. 2005)

    * Jay Shah (M.Sc. Eng. 2004)

    * Shervin Shahidi (M.A.Sc. 2011)

    * Aaron So (M.Sc. Eng. 2003)

    * Cynthia Thomas (M.Sc. Eng. 2005)

    * Ka Sin Tong (M.Sc. Eng. 2003)

    * Anda Vulpoui (M.Sc. 2006)

    * Yadong Wang (Ph.D. 2007)

    * Alfred Weymouth (M.Sc. Eng. 2004)

    * Nick Whalen (M.Sc. Eng. 1998)

    * Xiaoyan Wu (M.Sc. 2008)

    * Libo Zhong (M.Sc. 2000, Ph.D. 2005)

    * Yangfan Zhong (M.Sc. Eng. 2003, Ph.D. 2008)

    * Guang-Chong Zhu (M.Sc. 1998, Ph.D. 2003)

    * Hanmei Zhu (M.Sc. 2002)

    * International Visiting Research Students:

    * Johannes (Karlsson) Kron (Ph.D., visitor from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2010)

    * Pedro Melo (M.Sc., visitor from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2011)

    * Eri Mikami (Ph.D., visitor from Tsuda College, Japan, 2004-05)

    * Ayca Ozcelikkale (Ph.D., visitor from Bilkent University, Turkey, 2010-11)

    * Shih-Wei Wang (Ph.D., visitor from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2010)

    * Chia-Lung Wu (Ph.D., visitor from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2005)

    * Ting-Yi Wu (Ph.D., visitor from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2010)

    * Ali A. Zaidi (Ph.D., visitor from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2010-2011)

    * Undergraduate Projects

    * Publication Archive

    * Mathematics & Engineering Communications Group

    * Electrical Engineering Communications Group

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    Last modified in September 2011.