Amir Khandani is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Wireless Communications, and prior to that, he held a Tier I Canada Research Chair on Information Theory. He additionally holds the Senior Ciena-NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Network Information Theory of Optical Channels, prior to that, he held a Senior NSERC Industrial Research Chair jointly funded by Blackberry/NSERC, and prior to it, a Senior NSERC Industrial Research Chair jointly funded by Nortel/NSERC.