Steve Hranilovic

Background

About Steve Hranilovic

Steve Hranilovic (S’94-M’03-SM’07-F’22) received the B.A.Sc. degree with honours in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1997 and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada in and 2003 respectively. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) where he currently serves as the Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. During 2010-2011 he spent his research leave as Senior Member, Technical Staff in Advanced Technology for Research in Motion, Waterloo, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of free-space and optical wireless communications, digital communication algorithms, and electronic and photonic implementation of coding and communication algorithms. He is the author of the book Wireless Optical Communication Systems (New York:Springer, 2004). Dr. Hranilovic is a Fellow of the and of Optica in recognition of his research impact. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. In 2016 the title of University Scholar was conferred upon him by McMaster University. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking and an Editor for the Transactions on Communications in the area of Optical Wireless Communications.