May 2022: Prof. Dobre becomes Interim Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University April 2022: Prof. Dobre is inducted as Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association March 2022: Ahmed Al-Habob defends his PhD thesis June 2021: Prof. Dobre is inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering April 2021: Media Interview: Light Readings, 5G evolution outlook beyond 2025 Dec. 2020: Prof. Dobre receives the IEEE ComSoc WICE Outstanding Mentorship Award Sept. 2020: Best paper award at IEEE PIMRC 2020, UK, for the paper entitled "Energy-efficient spatially-correlated data aggregation using unmanned aerial" Aug. 2020: Ming Zeng receives the David Dunsiger Award for Excellence at Memorial University May 2020: Ibrahim Al-Nahhal defends his PhD thesis (pass with distinction) May 2020: Sunish Kumar defends his PhD thesis Feb. 2020: Ranning Wang defends his Master’s thesis Jan. 2020: Prof. Dobre is elevated at the rank of IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the theory and practice of signal intelligence and emerging wireless technologies” Jan. 2020: Mohamed Selim Elsayed and Dr. Ahmad El-Banna join our research group Dec. 2019: Xiang Lin defends his PhD thesis (pass with distinction) Dec. 2019: Ming Zeng defends his PhD thesis (pass with distinction) Dec. 2019: Best paper award at IEEE Gobecom 2019, USA, for the paper entitled “Simultaneous multiuser beam training using adaptive hierarchical codebook for mmWave massive MIMO” Aug. 2019: Prof. Dobre receives the Inspiring Member of the Year Award, Honorable mention, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Aug. 2019: Prof. Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University) visits our group and gives a talk on “RF-powered cognitive Rrdio networks with ambient backscatter communications” May 2019: Best paper award at IEEE ICC 2019, China, for the paper entitled "Secure downlink massive MIMO NOMA network in the presence of a multiple-antenna eavesdropper" April 2019: Best paper award at IEEE WCNC 2019, Morocco, for the paper entitled "Optimal interference management, power control and routing in multihop D2D cellular systems" Jan. 2019: Mr. Dimitry Dyanov visits our group and gives a talk on “Downhole communications technologies: Overview” Jan. 2019: Dr. Oktay Ureten (Allen Vanguard) visits our group and gives a talk on “Research topics for advanced RCIED jamming” Jan. 2019: Prof. Dobre becomes a Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE ComSoc Dec. 2018: Prof. Dobre receives the IEEE ComSoc WICE Outstanding Service Award Dec. 2018: Prof. Dobre gives an invited talk at the International Workshop on Advances in Information Coding and Wireless Communications, China Nov. 2018: Prof. Dobre delivers a plenary talk on 5G and beyond at the IEEE Latincom, Mexico Apr. 2018: Prof. Dobre becomes Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada Feb. 2018: Dr. Phong N. Nguyen joins our group Feb. 2018: Ahmed A. Al-Habob joins our group Dec. 2017: Prof. Dobre invited as panelist (Research and Innovation) at IEEE Globecom 2017 Oct. 2017: Mostafa Mohammadkarimi defends his PhD thesis (pass with distinction) Sept. 2017: Dr. Ruiqin Zhao joins our group as a visiting professor from Nortwestern Polytechnical University, China Aug. 2017: Somayeh Kafaie defends her PhD thesis (pass with distinction) Aug. 2017: Prof. Dobre gives a keynote on 5G at INISCOM, August 2017, Vietnam Aug. 2017: Ali Esswie succesfully defends his Master's thesis June 2017: Best paper award at IWCMC 2017, Spain for the paper entitled "Distributed energy and resource management for full-duplex dense small cells for 5G" June 2017: Maxence Lannuzel and Celt Boudehenn join our group as visiting master's students from UBO, France June 2017: Yi Zhang successfully defends her PhD thesis Feb. 2017: Prof. Dobre serves as Section Co-chair, NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Committee Jan. 2017: Dr. Adam Noel visits the lab and gives a seminar on "Using molecular communication to understand and improve chemical signaling" Dec. 2016: Prof. Dobre invited as panelist (Trends in Communications) at IEEE Globecom 2016 Nov. 2016: Prof. Francois Gagnon visits the lab and gives a seminar on "Low latency and highly secure protocols for critical communications" Oct. 2016: Survey on power-domain NOMA Oct. 2016: Dr. Stanley Johnson and Ms. Suchita Yadav join our group July 2016: Tina Yacoub joins our group as a visiting Ph.D. student from UBO, France June 2016: Prof. Dobre appointed Research Chair, Wireless (Subsea) Commun. May 2016: Ali Esswie, Ming Zeng, and Ibrahim Alnahhal join our group May 2016: Learn about our research on optical communications Mar. 2016: Prof. Dobre chairs the IEEE ComSoc WICE Workshop on Signal Processing and Communications Jan. 2016: Survey on signal identification/ classification in MIMO scenarios available in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Jan. 2016: Prof. Dobre appointed EiC of IEEE Communications Letters Jan. 2016: Prof. Dobre appointed Chair of IEEE ComSoc WICE Dec. 2015: Prof. Dobre is the recipient of the 2015 President's Award for Outstanding Research Dec. 2015: Yahia A. Eldemerdash defends his Ph.D. thesis (pass with distinction) July 2015: Prof. Dobre chairs the Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) Apr. 2015: Prof. Dobre gives a keynote at CrownCom, Cognitive Radio for 5G Networks workshop Apr. 2015: Prof. Dobre participates in CrownCom panel Visison and Key Technologies for 5G Networks