Prof Mounir Hamdi

Mounir Hamdi received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisiana in 1985, and the MS and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987 and 1991, respectively.

He has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1991, where he is now head of the Department, Director of the Master of Science in Information Technology, and Director of the High-Speed Networking research Lab. In 1999 to 2000 he held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, USA, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. His general area of research is in high-speed wired/wireless networking in which he has published more than 250 research publications, received numerous research grants, and graduated more 30 PhD/Master students. In addition, he has frequently consulted for companies in the USA, Europe and Asia on high-performance Internet routers and switches as well as high-speed wireless LANs.

Dr. Hamdi is/was on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Magazine, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Parallel Computing. He was a guest editor of three special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine and two special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications. He has chaired/Co-chaired more than 10 IEEE international conferences and workshops including The IEEE International High Performance Switching and Routing Conference, the IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC Optical networking workshop, the IEEE ICC High-speed Access Workshop, and the IEEE IPPS HiNets Workshop. He is/was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Transmissions, Access and Optical Systems, and Vice-Chair of the Optical Networking Technical Committee, as well as member of the ComSoc technical activities council. He is/was on the technical program committees of more than 150 international conferences and workshops. In particular, He has been on the technical program committees of 16 consecutive IEEE ICC/GLOBECOM conferences between 1995 and 2008. He has been a frequent keynote speaker to International conferences and workshops. In addition to his commitment to research and professional service, he is also a dedicated teacher. He received the best 10 lecturers award, the distinguished engineering teaching appreciation award from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and various grants targeted towards the improvement of teaching methodologies. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.