Halim Boutayeb

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About Halim Boutayeb

Halim Boutayeb () received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur (B.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the École Supérieur d’Ingénieur de Rennes, France, in and the French D.E.A.(M.Sc.) degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in and 2003, respectively. From March 2004 to December 2006, he was with INRS-EMT, Montréal, QC, Canada. From Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2011, he was a Researcher with the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. He was also Coordinator and a member of the Centre de Recherche en Électronique Radiofréquence (CREER), which was a strategic cluster that provided a unique platform for putting together 35 Canadian researchers in the field of applied electromagnetics and RF technologies. From Jan. 2012 to May 2020, he was a Research and Development Staff Member with the Huawei Technologies Company Ltd, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Since June 2020, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Quebec, Gatineau, Canada. He has authored or coauthored more than 220 journal and conference papers. Since 2003, he has been a Reviewer for a number of scientific journals and conferences. He holds 25 patents. His main fields of interest are antennas, microwaves circuits, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, artificial materials, radars, local positioning systems, biomedical engineering, and phased arrays. Dr. Boutayeb is a Senior Member of the Professional Engineers of Quebec. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member of the Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2006 and as a Steering Committee member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2012. He was a recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (2004–2006), the Best Paper Award of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (2004), and five Gold Huawei Medal Awards (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019).