About Us
Our Mission
1. To contribute to the theory and practice of wireless communications system design with particular emphasis on propagation and channel modelling, electromagnetic compatibility, and development of low-profile antennas.
2. To support Canadian industry, government, and academia by addressing research problems of direct and immediate interest to them, often under the aegis of collaborative research agreements.
3. To train, through both research and course work, highly qualified personnel (HQP) in wireless communications systems design who will meet the staffing needs of Canadian industry, government, and academia.
4. To serve both the university and the community through participation in committees, editorial boards, and related bodies.
Our Facilities
The Radio Science Laboratory maintains a Research Office (MCLD 442), an Antennas and Propagation Lab (MCLD 500) and an Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab (MCLD 132).
Our major facilities include a mobile test van, a Ka-band satellite receiving terminal, roof-top antenna towers, a roof-top antenna range, a screen room and an anechoic chamber. Our well-equipped Antennas and Propagation Lab allows us to turn high performance spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, vector signal generators and vector signal analyzers into a variety of narrowband, wideband, UWB and MIMO channel sounders.
We thank the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Nokia Mobile Phones, Sierra Wireless, MDA Corporation, and Norsat International for their generous infrastructure support.
Our People
Dr. Nikola Stanchev, Post Doctoral Fellow
Arghavan Emami-Forooshani, PhD candidate
Wadah Muneer, PhD student
Nilofar Azizi, PhD student
Wang Huan, Visiting PhD Candidate (Harbin Engineering University, China)
Shahzad Bashir, PhD candidate (part-time, T-Mobile)
Kyle Sivertsen, MASc candidate
Claire Chuang, MASc candidate
Alex Corbett, MASc candidate
Robert White, MASc candidate
Jin Malm, MASc candidate (part-time, Nokia)
Boubacar Diallo, MASc candidate (part-time, BC Hydro)
Adam Stefanski, MASc candidate (part-time, Icron Technologies)
Sol Lancashire, MASc candidate (part-time, BC Hydro)