Alagan Anpalagan received the B.A.Sc. (Honours), M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1995, 1997 and 2001 respectively. Since August 2001, he has been with Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor where he co-founded WINCORE laboratory (with the financial support from CFI, OIT and Ryerson University) in 2002 and leads the WAN (Wireless Access and Networking) R&D group with 10 active members. He is currently Program Director, Graduate Studies, at Ryerson.

His research interests are in general, wireless communication, mobile networks and system performance analysis; and in particular, QoS-aware radio resource management, joint study of wireless physical/link layer characteristics and hybrid cellular/multihop network architecture. He has published more than 20 papers and articles in international conferences and journals in his research area. Prior to his academic career, he was a Technical Consultant at Bell Mobility working on 1xRTT system deployment studies in 2001 and in 1997 he was with Nortel Networks working on R&D projects in systems engineering. He also completed an industry internship at IBM Canada in 1993-94.

Dr. Anpalagan is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada and a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'04). He has served in many technical program committees of IEEE conferences including ICC'02-03, Globecom'03, WCNC'02 and VTC'02. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications. He became the chair of the IEEE Toronto Communications Chapter in October 2003, and the Section Chair in 2006.