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Octavia A.
Dobre

Octavia A. Dobre is a Professor and Research Chair at Memorial University (Canada), which she joined in 2005. Octavia received the Dipl. Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest), Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. In 2000 she was the recipient of a Royal Society scholarship at Westminster University, UK, and in 2001 she held a Fulbright fellowship at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA.

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Research Statement

My current research pertains to 5G enabling technologies, such as NOMA and full duplex, IoT, blind signal identification (signal detection, separation, joint parameter estimation, and modulation and code classification), spatial modulation, physical layer security, resource allocation, cooperative communications, network coding, as well as optical and underwater communications.

Research Support

My research has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Research and Development Corporation (RDC), Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), Communications Research and Development Canada (CRC), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), D-TA Systems, ThinkRF, Allen Vanguard, EION Wireless, Agile Sensor Technologies, Altera Corporation, and Statoil.

Journal Publications

Journal Publications List

Conference Publications

Conference Publications List

Students

Postdoctoral Fellows & Research Associates
Graduate Students (Thesis-based Program)
Graduate Students (Project-based Program)
Undergraduate Students (Project-based Program)

Teaching

List of Courses Taught

Editorship

Editorship List



Conference Charing

Conference Charing List



Other Activities

Other Activities List

List of Awards

2018: Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
2017: Best Paper Award, IEEE WCMC, Valencia, Spain
2015: President's Award for Outstanding Research, MUN
2015: Outstanding Service Award, IEEE ComSoc SPCE Technical Committee
2014: Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision, Faculty of Engineering, MUN
2013: Dean's Outstanding Research Award, Faculty of Engineering, MUN
2013: Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2013: Visiting Professor, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
2008: Best Paper GOLD Award (Co-author), IEEE NECEC, Canada
2001-2002: Fulbright Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
2000: Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, Westminster University, UK
1993: Tempus European Scholarship, University of Leuven, Belgium

EIC Fellow 2018

IEEE Globecom 2017

IWCMC 2017

Optical Group 2017

Optical Group 2017

Optical Group 2017

Seminar MUN 2017

IEEE Globecom 2016

IEEE Globecom 2016

IEEE Globecom 2016

IEEE Globecom 2016

IEEE VTC 2016

Prof. Gagnon @MUN

AdCom IEEE IMS 2016

Optical Group 2015

D. Chang 2015

S. Kumar and X. Lin
2015

Y. Eldemerdash 2015

PhD Opponent
Sweden 2015

E. Beeder 2014

Princeton U.
WICE 2014

AWCL, W. Jerjawi
2014

IEEE ICC 2012

IEEE IMS 2012

Group Photo 2011

NECEC 2010

T. Rasheed
NECEC 2010

Q. Zhang
IEEE Globecom 2008

A. Punchihewa
IEEE Asilomar 2008

Open positions

Prof. Dobre currently has open positions for postdocs and Ph.D. students in the area of wireless communications. If you are genuinely interested in doing research, work hard and achieve good results, email your CV and transcripts, along with any publications you have co-authored to odobre@mun.ca.