Sonia Aïssa

Sonia Aissa is a Professor of Telecommunications at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec.

Education and career

Aissa got her Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1998. Following graduation, she joined Institut national de la recherche scientifique's Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications. From 1996 to 1997, Aissa was a researcher at the Department of Electronics and Communications of Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. During those years, she also worked with the Wireless Systems Laboratories of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in Kanagawa, Japan. From 1998 to 2000, Aissa served as research associate within the same department and from 2000 to 2002 was an assistant professor and principal investigator with the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research. She then served as adjunct professor with Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and in 2006 became visiting professor at the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University.

Aissa served as a founding chair of the Montreal Chapter IEEE Women in Engineering Society from 2004 to 2007, following which, she became Technical Program Leading Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). She served on as such in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012, respectively, in between of which she also was PHY/MAC Program Chair for the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Aissa was a participant at the 2013 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, serving as its co-chair of Technical Program Committee for the duration of a season, before holding the same post at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GC) in 2014.

As an editor, Aissa served as guest editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking in 2006, and following it, served as an associate editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications. She then continue serving as associate editor for the Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal from 2007 to 2012, during which times she also was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Communications Magazine.

Since 2019, Aissa is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

External links

• Sonia Aïssa publications indexed by Google Scholar