Patrick Mitran, PEng

Patrick Mitran is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Lecturer in applied mathematics with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

His current research interests include information theory and wireless communications, cross-layer design, and signal processing for 5G.

He was a recipient of the Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2011. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. From 2012 to 2016, he served as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. From 2016 to 2019, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY.

• Communication Systems, Information Systems, Cooperative and cognitive networks, Cognitive radio, Modulation, Coding theory, Resource allocation, Information theory, Network coding, Statistical signal processing, Beam forming, Wireless communications/networking, Connectivity and Internet of Things, IoT, Communications and Access

• 2006, Doctorate Engineering Science, Harvard University, United States
• 2002, Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Quebec
• 2001, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Quebec

• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Aug. 2016 – July 2019
• (Associate) Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications; Dec 2012 – July 2016

• ECE 203 - Probability Theory and Statistics 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023
• ECE 318 - Communication Systems
  • Taught in 2019
• ECE 612 - Information Theory
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Huo, Fei and Mitran, Patrick and Gong, Guang, Analysis and Validation of Active Eavesdropping Attacks in Passive FHSS RFID Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 1528, 2016
• Saffar, Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh and Khuzani, Masoud Badiei and Mitran, Patrick, Time-Asynchronous Gaussian Multiple Access Relay Channel with Correlated Sources, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 309, 2016
• Mitran, Patrick and Ochiai, Hideki, Parallel concatenated convolutional lattice codes with constrained states, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1081, 2015
• Alian, Ehsan Haj Mirza and Mitran, Patrick, Jitter-Robust Spectral Shaping in OFDM, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1282, 2015
• Motlagh, Meysam Shahrbaf and Khuzani, Masoud Badiei and Mitran, Patrick, On Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding In Energy Harvesting Communication Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 4433, 2015