Tamer Khattab received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2007, his M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering and his B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University. He joined Electrical Engineering at Qatar University (QU) in 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor and an affiliated Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Qatar Mobility Innovation Center (QMIC), an R&D center owned by QU and funded by Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). Between 2006 and 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC working on prototyping advanced Gigabit/sec wireless LAN baseband transceivers. During 2000-2003, he joined Nokia Siemens Networks Canada Inc.’s Network and Service Management R&D in Vancouver, BC, Canada, as a Member of the Technical Staff working on the development of core components for network and service management platforms. Between 1994 and 1999, he was with IBM WTC Egypt as a software development team lead working on the development of several client-server corporate tools for IBM labs. His research interests cover physical layer transmission techniques in optical and wireless networks, information-theoretic aspects of communication systems, and MAC layer protocol design and analysis. He serves as the founding chair of the Joint IEEE ComSoc & ITSoc Chapter in Qatar.
