Nationality Canadian Name Norman Beaulieu | Role Engineer Residence Canada | |
Born November 8, 1951 (age 72)
Vancouver, British Columbia ( 1951-11-08 ) Institutions Queen's University
University of Alberta Alma mater University of British Columbia (B.Sc.) - 1980
University of British Columbia (M.Sc.) - 1983
University of British Columbia (Ph.D.) - 1986 Doctoral students Adnan Abu-Dayya (1992)
David Walter Paranchych (1997)
Julian Zhishen Cheng (2003)
Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan (2005)
Kareem Emile Baddour (2006)
Yunfei Chen (2006)
Peng Tan (2006)
Bo Hu (2006)
Xiaodi Zhang (2007)
Sasan Haghani (2007)
Amirmasoud Rabiei (2008)
Pavel Loskot (2008)
Golnaz Farhadi (2009)
Somasundaram Niranjayan (2010)
David J. Young (2010)
Reza Nikjah (2010)
Hua Shao (2011) Known for Ultrawide bandwidth systems
Broadband digital communications systems Notable awards Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research, 2010
IEEE/Armstrong Foundation Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, 2007
J Gordin Kaplan Award of Excellence in Research, 2006
2005 Royal Society of Canada Thomas W. Eadie Medal
2004 K. Y. Lo Medal iCORE Research Chair in Broadband Wireless Communications Education University of British Columbia Fields Electrical engineering, Mathematician | ||
Norman Charles Joseph Beaulieu (born November 8, 1958 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian engineer and former professor in the ECE department of the University of Alberta. He received the B.Sc. (honors), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1980, 1983, and 1986, respectively. He was a Queen’s National Scholar Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from September 1986 to June 1988, an associate professor from July 1988 to June 1993, and a professor from July 1993 to August 2000. In September 2000, he became the iCORE Research Chair in Broadband wireless communications at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and in January 2001, the Canada Research Chair in Broadband Wireless Communications. His current research interests include broadband digital communications systems, ultrawide bandwidth systems, fading channel modeling and simulation, diversity systems, interference prediction and cancellation, importance sampling and semi-analytical methods, decision-feedback equalization, and space-time coding.
Beaulieu is a member of the IEEE Communication Theory Committee and served as its representative to the Technical Program Committee of the 1991 International Conference on Communications (ICC) and as co-representative to the Technical Program Committee of the 1993 ICC and the 1996 ICC. He was general chair of the Sixth Communication Theory Mini-Conference in association with GLOBECOM’97 and co-chair of the Canadian Workshop on Information Theory 1999.
He has been an editor for Wireless Communication Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Communications since January 1992, and was editor-in-chief from January 2000 to December 2003. He served as an associate editor for Wireless Communication Theory of the IEEE Communications Letters from November 1996 to August 2003. He served on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE from November 2000 to December 2006.
He was awarded the University of British Columbia Special University Prize in Applied Science in 1980 as the highest standing graduate in the faculty of Applied Science. He received the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) E.W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 1999. He was elected a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2001 and was awarded the Médaille K. Y. Lo Medal of the Institute in 2004. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and was awarded the Thomas W. Eadie Medal of the Society in 2005. He was also awarded the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation ASTech Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award in 2005. In 2006, he was elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is the 2006 recipient of the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research, the University of Alberta’s most prestigious research prize. Professor Beaulieu is the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award for 2007.