Director
Hossam S. Hassanein, PhD, FIEEE
Hossam S. Hassanein is with the School of Computing at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, working in broadband, wireless and variable topology networks architecture, protocols, control, and performance evaluation. Dr. Hassanein obtained his Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 1990. He is the School of Computing's Director and the founder and director of the Queen’s Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL).
Dr. Hassanein has over 600 publications in reputable journals, conferences and workshops in computer networks and performance evaluation. He has delivered several keynote and invited talks and tutorials at premier international venues, including: Unconventional Computing 2007, IEEE ICC 2008, IEEE CCNC 2009, IEEE GCC 2009, IEEE GIIS 2009, ACM MSWIM 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, ANT 2010, INFOS 2010, ANT 2011, CUSA League Data Conference 2011, Q2SWinet 2011, ICNC 2012, INFOS 2012, ICCIT 2012, IWCMC 2012, IEEE ISPS 2013, ANT 2013, ICC 2014, Cyber C 2014, FIT 2014, LCN-P2MNET 2016, ADHOCNETS 2017, Wireless Days 2018, IEEE GIIS 2018, IEEE LCN Workshop (ON-MOVE) 2018, ITCE 2019, ICCSPA 2019, ICCSPA 2020, ISNCC 2020, and ICNC 2020.
Dr. Hassanein has organized and served on the program committee of many international conferences and workshops. He also serves as an associate editor of several International Journals. Since 2011, Dr. Hassanein has been an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2008 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE) and a former Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN).
Dr. Hassanein is the recipient of the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) Champions of Innovation Research Award in 2003, the IEEE Communications Society Communications Software 2016 Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to routing and deployment planning algorithms in wireless sensor networks, and the 2020 IEEE IoT, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee Technical Achievement and Recognition Award for significant contributions to technological advancement of the Internet of Things, ad hoc networks and sensing systems.
Dr. Hassanein has also received numerous best paper awards: IEEE Wireless Communications and Network (2007), IEEE Global Communication Conference (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, and 2021), IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (2009), IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (2009), International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (2010), Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (2011, 2012), International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (2012), International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (2013), IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (2015), and International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (2018).
Dr. Hassanein has over 600 publications in reputable journals, conferences and workshops in computer networks and performance evaluation. He has delivered several keynote and invited talks and tutorials at premier international venues, including: Unconventional Computing 2007, IEEE ICC 2008, IEEE CCNC 2009, IEEE GCC 2009, IEEE GIIS 2009, ACM MSWIM 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, ANT 2010, INFOS 2010, ANT 2011, CUSA League Data Conference 2011, Q2SWinet 2011, ICNC 2012, INFOS 2012, ICCIT 2012, IWCMC 2012, IEEE ISPS 2013, ANT 2013, ICC 2014, Cyber C 2014, FIT 2014, LCN-P2MNET 2016, ADHOCNETS 2017, Wireless Days 2018, IEEE GIIS 2018, IEEE LCN Workshop (ON-MOVE) 2018, ITCE 2019, ICCSPA 2019, ICCSPA 2020, ISNCC 2020, and ICNC 2020.
Dr. Hassanein has organized and served on the program committee of many international conferences and workshops. He also serves as an associate editor of several International Journals. Since 2011, Dr. Hassanein has been an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2008 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE) and a former Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN).
Dr. Hassanein is the recipient of the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) Champions of Innovation Research Award in 2003, the IEEE Communications Society Communications Software 2016 Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to routing and deployment planning algorithms in wireless sensor networks, and the 2020 IEEE IoT, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee Technical Achievement and Recognition Award for significant contributions to technological advancement of the Internet of Things, ad hoc networks and sensing systems.
Dr. Hassanein has also received numerous best paper awards: IEEE Wireless Communications and Network (2007), IEEE Global Communication Conference (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, and 2021), IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (2009), IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (2009), International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (2010), Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (2011, 2012), International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (2012), International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (2013), IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (2015), and International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (2018).
