Wael Jaafar
Scholar

Wael Jaafar

Google Scholar ID: VbNQmfQAAAAJ
Professor, Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Wireless communicationscachingcomputingmachine learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,512
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
34
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
57
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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; Best paper awards at CIoT 2024, IEEE ISCC 2023, and IEEE ICC 2021.
Research Experience
  • Pursued a career in the telecommunications industry from 2014 to 2018, involved in designing telecommunication solutions for projects across Canada and abroad; Visiting researcher at Khalifa University (2019), Keio University (2013), and UQAM (2007).
Education
  • Master's and PhD degrees from Polytechnique Montreal; NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University between 2019 and 2022.
Background
  • Research interests include wireless communications, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, resource allocation, edge caching and computing, machine learning for communication and networks, autonomous systems, and cybersecurity.