
Mohamed Youssef is currently conducting research toward his PhD degree between the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary. Mr.Youssef is a member at the Mobile Multi-Sensor System (MMSS) research group and ECE Telecommunications Research Lab at the University of Calgary. His research interests include OFDM, MIMO, Cooperative Communication (Virtual MIMO), and Wireless Location. Since 2005, Mr.Youssef has focused his PhD research in cooperative communication and localization for WSN. Mr.Youssef is a recipient of several awards from the University of Calgary, Bell Labs., (Advanced Multimedia Communication Research Group, NJ, USA), Cisco (Egypt), University of New Brunswick, Kuwait University, and the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information (Egypt).
Mr.Youssef has industrial experience with Crossbow (CA, USA), Lucent Technologies (Egypt), Cisco (Egypt, Kuwait, and UAE), POLYCOM (Kuwait, UAE), Cell-Loc Inc. (AB, Canada), and Huawei Technologies (Egypt). In addition, Mr.Youssef presented several short courses and tutorials at Modern Science and Art (MSA) University (Cairo, Egypt), Cairo University (Cairo, Egypt), Kuwait University (Kuwait), University of Calgary (AB, Canada), and IEEE/ACM conferences in communication systems, wireless location, and WSN. Mr.Youssef worked as a research assistant and a communication laboratory engineer at Kuwait University. Prior to that, he worked as a teaching assistant at MSA University in Egypt. Mr.Youssef holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Communication Engineering from Zagazig University, Egypt (2000) and Kuwait University (2005) respectively. His M.Sc. research is in Multi-Band UWB communication systems.