Professor Vijay K. Bhargava
Vijay K. Bhargava received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1970, 1972 and 1974 respectively. Vijay has held regular/visiting appointments at the Indian Institute of Science, University of Waterloo, Concordia University, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, UNIDO, NTT Wireless Communications Labs, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Indonesia, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University and the University of Victoria. Currently he is a professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia.
Vijay served as the Founder and President of "Binary Communications Inc." (1983-2000). He has provided consulting services to several companies and government agencies. He is a co-author (with D. Haccoun, R. Matyas and P. Nuspl) of "Digital Communications by Satellite" (New York: Wiley 1981), a co-editor (with S. Wicker) of "Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications" (IEEE Press 1994) and a co-editor (with V. Poor, V. Tarokh and S. Yoon) of "Communications, Information and Network Security" (Kluwer: 2003) and a co-editor (with E. Hossain) of “Cognitive Wireless Communications Networks” (Springer: 2007). He has served as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Communications. In January 2007, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
A Fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Vijay has been honoured many times by his colleagues and has received numerous awards. Vijay is very active in the IEEE and has served as the President of the Information Theory Society, Vice President for Regional Activities Board, Director of Region 7, Montreal Section Chair and Victoria Section Chair. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was nominated by the IEEE BoD as a candidate for the office of President-Elect in 1996, 2002 and 2003. His current research interest is adaptive wireless access system design for cognitive radio networks.
