Carleton University
Wael Jaafar (S’08, M’14, SM'20) received the B.Eng. degree from the Higher School of Communication (SUPCOM), Tunis, Tunisia, in 2007, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He was a Visiting Research Intern with the Department of Computer Science, UQAM, Montreal, Canada, between February and April 2007, then a Visiting Researcher within Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, between March and June 2013, and a Visiting Researcher within Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, between November and December 2019. From 2014 to 2017, he has pursued a career in the telecommunications industry, where he has been involved in designing telecom solutions for projects across Canada and abroad. In 2018, he held Research Fellow and Lecturer positions within the Computer Science Department of UQAM, Montreal, Canada. Since December 2018, Dr. Jaafar joined the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University as an NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also the recipient of several prestigious grants, such as NSERC Alexandre Graham-Bell (BESC) Canada Graduate Scholarship and the FRQNT (Fonds de recherche du Québec–Nature et technologies) International Internship Scholarship. His current research interests include wireless communications, resource allocation, edge caching and computing and machine learning.