Ekram Hossain

Uni. Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, CA

Ekram Hossain (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor and the Associate Head (Graduate Studies) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a Member (Class of 2016) of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada. His current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization of next-generation (xG) cellular wireless networks, applied machine learning, and communication network economics. He was elevated to an IEEE Fellow, for contributions to spectrum management and resource allocation in cognitive and cellular radio networks. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2017-2023. He has won several research awards, including the 2017 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Survey Paper Award and the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize Paper Award. He won the “2024 IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Silver Medal Award” with the following citation: “for exceptional contributions to education and training in wireless communications and networks”. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Press (2018–2021) and the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2012–2016). He served as the Director of Magazines (2020-2021) and the Director of Online Content (2022-2023) for the IEEE Communications Society.