Track Chairs

L. Shafai completed the B.Sc. degree at the University of Tehran in 1963 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of Toronto, in 1966 and 1969, all in Electrical Engineering. In November 1969, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba as a sessional lecturer, Assistant Professor 1970, Associate Professor 1973, and Professor 1979. Since 1975, he has made special effort to link the University research to the industrial development, by assisting industries in the development of new products or establishing new technologies. To enhance the University of Manitoba contact with industry, in 1985 he assisted in establishing "The Institute for Technology Development", and was its Director until 1987, when he became the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department. His assistance to industry was instrumental in establishing an Industrial Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics at the University of Manitoba in 1989, which he held until July 1994.

He has been a participant in nearly all Antennas and Propagation symposia and participates in the review committees. He is a member of URSI Commission B and was its chairman during 1985-88. In 1986, he established the symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM, at the University of Manitoba that is currently held every two years. He has been the recipient of numerous awards. In 1978, his contribution to the design of a small ground station for the Hermes satellite was selected as the 3rd Meritorious Industrial Design. In 1984, he received the Professional Engineers Merit Award and in 1985, "The Thinker" Award from Canadian Patents and Development Corporation. From the University of Manitoba, he received the "Research Awards" in 1983, 1987, and 1989, the Outreach Award in 1987 and the Sigma Xi, Senior Scientist Award in 1989. In 1990 he received the Maxwell Premium Award from IEE (London) and in 1993 and 1994 the Distinguished Achievement Awards from Corporate Higher Education Forum. He is a Fellow of IEEE since 1988.

Peter MacLaren is Vice President Business Development, in the Wireless Networks organization of Nortel (Northern Telecom). In this position he is responsible for nurturing new business initiatives such as Wireless Multimedia, facilitating strategic and operating planning, and managing standards, spectrum and regulatory activities globally. Peter is an engineer by training and has worked in various capacities in Nortel over the last 23 years. For most of the last 6 years he has been directly involved in the planning of Nortel's successful growth to become the number 3 global wireless infrastructure supplier.

Fumiyuki Adachi received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. In electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (now, NTT) and conducted various researches related to digital cellular mobile communications. Since 1992, he has been with NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (NTT DoCoMo), where he is now a senior executive research engineer in the Research & Development Department, and continues to work in the area of wideband wireless communication systems. Currently, he is leading a research group on wideband CDMA for IMT2000. The topics of his research include: wideband/broadband CDMA, spreading code design, Rake and space diversity reception techniques, adaptive antenna array, and bandwidth efficient modulation and channel coding techniques. During the academic year of 1984/85, Dr. Adachi was a United Kingdom SERC Visiting Research Fellow in Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Liverpool University. Since 1997, he is a visiting professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE

Vehicular Technology Transactions best paper of the year award in 1980 and again in 1990. He was also a co-recipient of the IEICE Transactions best paper of the year award, Japan, in 1997.

Peter J. McLane was born in Vancouver, BC, Caada, on July 6, 1941. He received the B.A.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 1965, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 1969. He held a Ford Foundation Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and a National Research Council of Canada Scholarship at the University of Toronto.

From 1966 to 1967, he was a Junior Research Officer with the National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont.. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., in 1969 as Assistant Professor, and since 1977 he has held the rank of Professor. His research interests are in signal processing for digital communication systems. Usually, this involves computer-aided analysis, but lately he has been performing experimental work involving DSP implementation. He is a former research Trust Leader in Mobile and Satellite Systems for the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRIO) and formerly a Major Project Leader in Mobile and Personal Communications for the Canadian Institute of Telecommunications Research (CITR). He is a joint author of Introduction to Trellis-Coded Modulation with Applications (Macmillan, 1991).

Dr. McLane is the chair of the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory committee. He is a former Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and former Editor of The IEEE Transactions on Communications. In addition, he was co-editor of issues in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications and the IEEE Communications Magazine. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and is listed in American Men and Women in Science. In 1994, he was a joint recipient of the Stentor Telecommunications Research Award.

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