SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Jean Boutros received the M.S. degree in electrical
engineering in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in 1996, both from Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST, Telecom
ParisTech), Paris, France. From 1996 to 2006, he was with the Communications
and Electronics Department at ENST as an Associate Professor. Also, Dr Boutros
was a member of the research unit UMR-5141 of the French National Scientific Research
Center (CNRS). In 2007, Dr Boutros joined Texas A&M University at Qatar
(TAMUQ) as a full Professor in the electrical engineering program. Dr Boutros
has been a scientific consultant for Alcatel Space, Philips Research, and
Motorola Semiconductors, and member of the Digital Signal Processing team at
Juniper Networks Cable. His fields of interest are codes on graphs, iterative decoding,
joint source-channel coding, cooperative communications, space-time coding, security
and network coding for the physical layer, and lattice sphere packings.
EXTENDED BIOGRAPHY
After his studies at Ecole Supérieure des
Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB), Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Dr
Boutros entered the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications (ENST, Telecom ParisTech) in 1989, Paris,
France, where he received the electrical engineering degree in 1992 and the Ph.D.
degree in 1996. From 1996 to 2006, he was with the Communications and
Electronics Department at ENST as an Associate Professor. Until 2006 Dr Boutros
was a member of the research unit UMR-5141 of the French National Scientific
Research Center (CNRS). In July 2007, Joseph Boutros joined Texas A&M
University at Qatar as a Professor in the electrical engineering program.
His fields of interest are illustrated in his research, teaching,
and industrial contracts activities: Codes on graphs and their iterative
decoding including Turbo codes and Low-Density Parity-Check codes, high
spectral efficiency modulations for fading channels, lattice sphere packings,
joint detection for multiple access (CDMA) systems, space-time coding for
multiple antenna (MIMO) channels, adaptive modulation and coding, joint
equalization and decoding of mobile radio channels, Ultra-wideband
transmissions for indoor channels, joint source-channel coding for redundant
information sources, etc. His research is mainly performed under grants and
tight collaboration with private companies such as Mitsubishi Electric Europe, Motorola
Labs, France Telecom, Thales Communications, STMicroelectronics,
Alcatel-Lucent, and more recently Qatar Telecom (Qtel).
Dr Boutros had the "Maître de Conférences"
position at ENST until 2006 and also taught in other universities and
"Grandes Ecoles" in France. His graduate courses include:
communication theory, information theory, equalization, error-correcting codes
and spread spectrum techniques. Dr Boutros conducted 2nd and 3rd year student
projects at ENST (a 3-year curriculum) and also supervised foreign students
internships in the digital communications field. Currently, he is teaching
digital signal processing and wireless communications at Texas A&M
University at Qatar.
Dr Boutros is a member of the IEEE Communications society and the
IEEE Information Theory society. He is an active member in the technical
committees and the organization committees of numerous IEEE international
symposiums and international workshops, such as the International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT, e.g. ISIT’2004 in Chicago, ISIT’2007 in
Nice, ISIT’2010 in Austin, ISIT’2011 in Saint Petersburg) and the
Information Theory Workshop (ITW, e.g. ITW’2004 in San Antonio,
ITW’2008 in Porto, ITW’2009 in Taormina, ITW’2010 Dublin). He
was the organizer and the general co-chair of the 2003 IEEE Information Theory
Workshop that took place in Paris La Sorbonne in April 2003.
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Last update on January 30, 2011.