IEEE CJECE Advisory Board

Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi has more than 21 years of university and college teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has more than 27 year experience in telecommunication and electrical engineering industries including R & D. Currently, he is a professor and coordinator of Algonquin College–Carleton University Joint Degree Program “Bachelor of Information Technology – Photonics and Laser Technology–BIT-PLT”. He is also the R&D Coordinator at the Algonquin College Faculty of Technology and Trades.

He played a major role as a Member of the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan Advisory Team, Algonquin College. Prior to Algonquin College, Dr. Almuhtadi worked with Nortel as a Team Leader and Senior Verification and System Engineer in Optical Networks Verification, Optical Solutions R &D. Dr. Almuhtadi proves remarkable leadership with his strong background in high technology and engineering industry as an innovative educator and researcher, helped the College to become a polytechnic institution. He is the founder of the applied research pillar at Algonquin College that led to get $10.5M funded from various Canadian agencies (NSERC/OCE/IC/CIDA/NCIT/ORDCF/PRECARN). He is the founder and designer of a complete leading-edge Optophotonics Lab, with Optical Transport Network-OTN 0.15-100 Gb/s ($5M project).

Dr. Almuhtadi is one of the founders of the new “Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks-CENGN,” with $65M funding. He received several recognition awards from IEEE, academia and industry, to name few: IEEE Leadership Award 2010, IEEE Canada W.R. Service Award, Algonquin College Laurent Isabelle Award 2009 for Teaching Excellence, and NISOD 2006 Award), 2015 EIC Canadian Pacific Railway Medal.

Ekram Hossain (IEEE Fellow) has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba since 2010. Currently he serves as an Associate Chair of Graduate Studies of the Department. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC). He was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to spectrum management and resource allocation in cognitive and cellular radio networks. Also, in 2016, he was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.

He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (in 1995) and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (in 1997) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (in 2001) from University of Victoria, Canada. He has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications, 51,000+ citations (in Google Scholar), and an h-index of 116. He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly-Cited Researcher in Computer Science since 2017. He held visiting appointments in Sweden, Singapore, Japan, India, and the UAE. He won the 2024 IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award with the following citation: for exceptional contributions to education and training in wireless communications and networks, and the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Education Award with the citation for contributions to teaching and education in wireless communications and networking.

Dr. Hossain won several research awards including the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, University of Manitoba Merit Award in 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (for Research and Scholarly Activities), 2011 IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize Paper Award, and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2012 (WCNC'12) Best Paper Award. He serves as an International Advisor for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded BEST NEST Center in the USA and the Chair of the External Advisory Board of INESC INOV-Lab in Portugal.

Dr. Hossain has an extensive record of service within the within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2012-2015, 2019-2020) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2017-2020). He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press from 2018-2021 and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2012-2016). Also, he served as the Area Editor  for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2009-2011), and an Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications—Cognitive Radio Series  (2011-2014) and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2007-2012). He served as the Director of Online Content (2022-2023) and the Director of Magazines (2020-2021) of the IEEE Communications Society. He is the Director-Elect/President-Elect of IEEE Region 7/Canada (2026-2027) and an elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (2025-2027). He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Dr. Tom Murad, Country Lead of Engineering & Technology at Siemens Mobility - Canada, a member of Engineering Order of Honour - Professional Engineers Ontario “PEO", is a respected Technology leader, thinker, an award-winning Educator and distinguished speaker on the topics of: Engineering, Technology and Technical talents / skills development and education. An advocate of Innovation and creativity specifically in the Areas of Digitalization, Smart Infrastructure and Industrie 4.0

In 2010 , he Joined Siemens in Canada, prior to his current role he was the Country Lead of Engineering, Technology & Academics for Siemens Canada as well as the founder of the Siemens Canada Engineering and Technology Academy "SCETA", that he established and directed since October 2014. Before that, he was the Head of the “Expert House” and Engineering Director for Siemens Canada’s Industry sector since 2010.

Prior to joining Siemens, Tom was the Senior VP and COO of AZZ- Blenkhorn & Sawle for many Years with an extensive career in Professional Engineering and Executive Management of Innovative Technical Operations including Academic and R&D work in Electrical power, Industrial Controls and Automation. He is also serving as a member of various advisory Boards of Directors in the Industry and Academia.

Dr. Murad holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics), and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Power Electronics and Industrial Controls from Loughborough University of Technology in the UK, with a Leadership Program Certificate from Schulich Business School, York University in Ontario, Canada.

Abdallah Shami (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University, London, ON, Canada, where he also serves as the Director of the Optimized Computing and Communications (OC2) Laboratory. He is the Chair of the IEEE Region 7 Publications and Communications Committee. Dr. Shami's contributions to the field have been widely recognized by research and professional communities. He received several prestigious honors, including the Tanner Industry Leadership Award from IEEE Canada, the Information Infrastructure and Networking Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Communications Society’s Information Infrastructure and Networking Technical Committee, and the M.B. Broughton Canada Merit Medal from IEEE Canada in recognition of his leadership and dedicated service to IEEE Canada.

Dr. Shami has chaired leading international conferences and key symposia/workshops at flagship IEEE events. He previously served as the elected Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications Software and as Chair of the IEEE London (Ontario) Section. He has served or currently serves as an Editor or Associate Editor for several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, among others. Dr. Shami is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).