Harry Leib

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About Harry Leib

Harry Leib received the B.Sc.(cum laude) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1977 and 1984 respectively. In 1987 he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. During 1977-1984 he was with the Israel Ministry of Defense, working in the Communication Systems area. After completing his Ph.D. studies, he was with the University of Toronto as a Post-doctoral Research Associate and as an Assistant Professor. Since September 1989 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, where he is now a Full Professor. He spent part of his Sabbatical leave at Bell Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada (1995-1996). During the other part of his Sabbatical leave (1996) he was a Visiting Professor in the Communications Lab of the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. At McGill, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of Communication Systems as well as Probability Theory, and directs the research of graduate students. His current research activities are in the areas of Digital Communications, Wireless Communication Systems, Detection, Estimation, and Information Theory. Dr. Leib was an Editor for the Transactions on Communications and an Associate Editor for the Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2001-2007. He has been a guest co-editor for special issues of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communication on “Differential and Noncoherent Wireless Communication” 2003-2005, and on “Spectrum and Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Communication Networks” 2012-2013.