Wael Jaafar

Wael Jaafar (S’08, M’14, SM’20) is an Associate Professor at the Software and IT Engineering Department of École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, since September 2022. He holds a Master's and a PhD degrees from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. Between 2019 and 2022, Dr. Jaafar was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University. From 2014 to 2018, he pursued a career in the telecommunications industry, where he has been involved in designing telecommunication solutions for projects across Canada and abroad. During his career, Dr. Jaafar was a visiting researcher at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2019, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2013, and UQAM, Montreal, Canada, in 2007. He received several prestigious grants, including the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander-Graham Bell scholarship, the Fonds de recherche du Québec–Nature et technologies (FRQNT) scholarship, and best paper awards at CIoT 2024, IEEE ISCC 2023, and IEEE ICC 2021. His research interests include wireless communications, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, resource allocation, edge caching and computing, and machine learning for communication and networks.