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S. Alireza Banani, PhD

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Date of Birth: 12/01/1981

Citizenship: Canada / eligible for TN visa

Skill Highlights:

- Extensive industrial experience in LTE PHY and MAC layer of network design and analysis.

- Advance research experience in physical layer (PHY) of wireless communication systems with the focus on Heterogeneous networks, Coordinated multi-point networks, OFDM and MIMO systems.

- Professional expertise in digital signal processing (DSP), digital filter design, equalization, target tracking (e.g. Kalman filtering), adaptive filtering, estimation, detection and machine learning.

- Strong in algorithm development, mathematical modeling, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo simulations, nonlinear optimization, and Bayesian statistics.

- Strong communication and management skills: I have served as the session chair for various IEEE Conferences

- Professional programming with Matlab, C/C++, PSpice, Simulink, and Visual Basic

- Strong publication record (10 IEEE/IET journal articles, more than 20 international IEEE conference papers and 1 chapter book by Cambridge University Press).

Work Experience:

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Sep. 2012 – present

Employer: Telus Co. / University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

- Design and planning of access points / small cells in LTE cellular networks

- Development of DSP algorithms for coordinate multi-point (CoMP) networks.

- Development of an efficient system-level simulator for the evaluation of VoLTE, PTT and eMBMS services in LTE networks.

Senior Research Fellow May 2012 – Aug. 2012

Employer: Wireless and Networking Technologies laboratory,

CSIRO ICT centre, Marsfield, NSW, Australia

- Development of new DSP algorithms for adaptive modulation in multi-user MIMO systems.

Position: Research Associate Sep. 2007 – Feb. 2012

Employer: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

- Development of a new DSP algorithm for localisation and tracking in wireless networks

- Capacity maximization and adaptive coded modulation (ACM) in closed-loop MIMO systems

- Compensation of non-linear amplifiers in MIMO Systems.

- Channel estimation in various wireless communication systems including MIMO, and OFDM

Position: Research Assistant Oct. 2004 – Jul. 2007

Employer: Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

- multi-object target tracking, adaptive filtering, state iterative estimation (Kalman filtering,

particle filtering), estimation, detection and independent component analysis (ICA)

Position: Intern Feb. 2003 - Oct. 2003

Employer: Iran-Madar Co., Shiraz, Iran

- Design and construction of printed circuit boards, and PC board false detections and solution

Education:

Degree: PhD in Electrical Engineering (wireless communications) Sep. 2007 – Feb. 2012

University: School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Thesis: Towards increasing the capacity in MIMO wireless communication systems

GPA: 4.28 out of 4.33

Degree: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Oct. 2004 – Jul. 2007

University: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Thesis: Maneuvering target tracking in Glint noise using Particle filters and comparing with

other nonlinear state-estimators

GPA: 18.44 out of 20

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Oct. 1999 - Feb. 2004

University: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Thesis: Time-division multiplexing and demultiplexing of 4 voice channels using

microcontroller 8051

Most Recent Publications:

a. Book Chapter:

S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, Required number of small-cell access points in Heterogeneous wireless networks. In: A. Anpalagan, M. Bennis, and R. Vannithamby (editors), Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks, to be appeared in Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2014.

b. Articles Published in Refereed Journals/Conferences

1 - S. A. Banani, and R. S. Adve, "Analyzing the Impact of Inter Cooperation Region Interference in Coordinated Multi-Point Uplink Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, Jan. 2015.

2 - S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, "The Penalty for Random Deployment in Hexagonal Lattice Networks with Perturbed Interferers," in IEEE Global Comm. Workshop., Dec. 2014.

3 - S. A. Banani, and R. Adve, “The Density Penalty for Random Deployments in Uplink CoMP Networks,” in Proc. IEEE WCNC Conf., Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2014.

5- S. A. Banani, M. Najibi, M., and R. G. Vaughan, R. G. "Range-based localisation and\tracking in NLOS wireless channels with GSDM,” IET Communications, vol. 7, no. 18, pp. 2034-2043, Dec. 2013.

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