Dr. Sergey Loyka
Current Address School of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Phone: +1.613.5625800
Ext.6481 Web: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~sloyka/ Email:
October 1992 - February
1995 Ph.D. Degree in Radio Engineering.
Effective Antenna Selectivity in Dispersed Spatial Groups of Radio Systems. September 1986 - June 1992 Minsk Radioengineering
Institute, M.Sc.
Degree with honours in Radio Engineering. Research in
the field of System Selectivity Characteristics of Phased Array Antennas. Summary of Positions Held Since May 2009 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of
Ottawa, Canada Professor (tenured). Modeling, performance
analysis and design of wireless networks (including cognitive radio).
Relaying in wireless communications. MIMO systems. Convex optimization for
digital/wireless communications. Fundamental physical limits in wireless
communications. Since May 2005 Associate Professor (tenured). Analytical and numerical techniques for the
performance analysis of the BLAST algorithm. MIMO channel capacity analysis.
Wireless propagation channel modeling and simulation. Efficient numerical
techniques for wireless system simulation in fading channels. Fundamental
limits in wireless communications. September 2001 –
April 2005 Assistant Professor (tenure-track). February 2000 –
August 2001 Laboratory of Communications and Integrated
Microelectronics (LACIME), École de Technologie Supérieure
(ÉTS), Research
Fellow. Performance analysis of multi-antenna
(MIMO/BLAST) architecture over correlated fading channels. Development of
matrix wireless channel models. Adaptive
MIMO architecture. Propagation modeling for microwave airborne
communication links. Nonlinear numerical modeling
and simulation of RF/microwave circuits for wireless design. July 1999 - January 2000 Laboratory of Electromagnetic Compatibility
(EMC), Senior Research
Scientist. Nonlinear numerical modeling and simulation of RF/microwave circuits
and systems for wireless
communication system design. Development of CAD/CAE
tools. Performance analysis of the multi-antenna BLAST architecture over
correlated fading channels. Nov.1998 – July 1999 Laboratory
of Electromagnetism and Acoustic (LEMA), Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology- Invited Scientist.
Nonlinear numerical modeling and simulation of RF and
microwave circuits and systems. The influence of
electromagnetic environment on operation of smart antennas - modeling and simulation techniques. Development of
CAD/CAE tools. Experimental work (models’ validation). Channel capacity
of Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST) architecture in arbitrary multipath
environment. June 1995-October 1998 EMC Laboratory, BSUIR, Senior
Research Scientist and Principal Project Engineer (team leader) of an international project on the development of
sophisticated software for analysis and prediction of electromagnetic
compatibility and interference in avionics and ground radio and electronic
systems. Research in EMC/EMI in RF/microwave systems, computer-aided modeling
and simulation of RF circuits/systems, nonlinear analysis of active array
antennas in interference electromagnetic environment, performance of
self-phased arrays under conditions of multipath propagation and their
application to mobile communications; the problem of energy-momentum
conservation in general relativity in terms of Grobner
basis. January 1992 - May 1995 Independent Consultant and Research Associate (part
time, EMC Lab, BSUIR). Consulting
graduate students and local industry in the fields of modeling, simulation
and design of analog/digital and RF circuits/systems, control system,
including diploma projects. Research in the radio spectrum used by and the
spectrum efficiency of communication systems; the antenna’s role in
EMC/EMI of radio systems. Two-signal (IMP) testing of microwave receivers.
Fabrication, debugging and troubleshooting of TV receiver circuits. October 1989 - December
1991 Laboratory of Advanced Radio Receivers, Minsk Radioengineering Institute, Research
Engineer (part time). Research in the
field of reliability of fault-tolerant semiconductor memory, in particular: a
fault-tolerant VLSI memory reliability in terms of Markov stochastical
processes, increase in VLSI memory reliability and methods of reliability
analysis of VLSI memory with correction of single and double errors.
Fabrication, debugging and troubleshooting of RF circuits. July 1988 - September 1989 Military Communications Department RF
Technician (communications systems).
Repairing, debugging and troubleshooting communications systems and
subsystems. Awards International
Union of Radio Science (URSI) awards for young scientists (1996, 1997, 1998,
1999 and 2002), Scholarship of the Swiss Government for postdoctoral study in
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne, Switzerland
(1998-1999), IEEE grant for young scientists (1998), Ph.D. student grant of
the Soros Foundation (International Science
Foundation) for achievements in research (1995), Financial support grant of
the Fund of Fundamental Research of the Republic of Belarus (1994), and
financial support grants of the Intellectual Fund of the Republic of Belarus
(1994 and 1995). The third award in the USSR mathematical competition (1987),
the first award in the Belarus mathematical competition (1988) and the Belarus
electrical engineering competition (1988), and third award in the Belarus
mathematical competition (1987); a number of awards from the Scientific
Society of Minsk Radioengineering Institute. 2009 CRC + Mitacs
Inc. 2007 NSERC Discovery (5 years) 2005 IOF CFI 2004 Univ. of Ottawa 2004 CFI + OIT 2002 NSERC Discovery (5 years) 2002 NSERC Strategic (3 years) 2001 University of Ottawa 2001 CMC Electronics Inc. 2000 CMC Electronics Inc. 1998 Swiss Government 1998 Chinese Government 1997 Chinese Government 1996 Chinese Government Professional Memberships Member of the Radio
Communications Committee (RCC) and the Wireless Communications Technical
Committee (WTC) of the IEEE Communications Society, TPC track chair of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), TPC member of the IEEE Wireless
Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’08,07,06,05,04), of the
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom
`10, `09,’07,’05), of the IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC’09, 05, declined invitation of ICC’08), of the European
Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2006,
declined invitation of EuCAP’07), of the European Electromagnetics
(EuroEM’08), of the International Wireless Communications & Mobile
Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006), of the 12th International Conference on
Telecommunications (ICT 2005), and of the Queens Biannual Symposium on
Communications; session chair for numerous conferences. Senior Member of the
IEEE, a reviewer for numerous IEEE/IEE periodicals and conferences, and for
NSERC. P.Eng. Publications Over
150 scientific and technical publications, including over 40 articles in
refereed journals, over 60 papers in international peer-reviewed conferences
and 3 patents. Teaching Undergraduate: Introduction
to Communication Systems, Microwave Circuits, Linear Systems (multivariate,
state-space). Graduate: Introduction to convex optimization (engineering
applications), Introduction to Mobile Communications, Smart Antennas. Languages English (fluent), French
(elementary), Russian (native), Belarussian (native) Personal
History Citizenship: Belarus,
Canada. Born in 1969, in Minsk, Belarus. |
