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Keynote Speaker

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Simon Haykin, Director of Cognitive Systems Laboratory, McMaster University, Canada as our keynote speaker. Dr. Haykin's talk will be entitled "Cognitive Tracking Radar".

Dr. Simon Haykin
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Dr. Simon Haykin, B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc. F.R.S.C., F.I.E.E.E.
University Professor, McMaster University
Hamilton, ON. Canada
Director of Cognitive Systems Laboratory

Education: Dr. Haykin received his B.Sc. (First-class Honours), Ph.D., and D.Sc., all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.

Accomplishments: Dr. Haykin is a pioneer in adaptive signal-processing with emphasis on applications in radar and communications, an area of research which has occupied much of his professional life.

In the mid 1980s, he shifted the thrust of his research effort in the direction of Neural Computation, which was re-emerging at that time. All along, he had the vision of revisiting the fields of radar and communications from a brand new perspective. That vision became a reality in the early years of this century with the publication of two seminal journal papers:

  • “Cognitive Radio: Brain-empowered Wireless communications”, which appeared in IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, Feb. 2005.
  • “Cognitive Radar: A Way of the Future”, which appeared in the IEEE J. Signal Processing, Feb. 2006.

Cognitive Radio and Cognitive Radar are two important parts of a much wider and multidisciplinary subject: Cognitive Dynamic Systems, research into which has become his passion.

Awards/Honors: Dr. Haykin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the recipient of the Henry Booker Medal from 2002, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences from ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1999, and many other medals and prizes.