Amir Khandani, an electrical and computer engineering professor was awarded $75,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for his work on infrastructure for 5G wireless cellular networks and the Internet of Things.
Khandani, the Canada Research Chair in Wireless Systems, was one of
Khandani is developing pioneering two-way wireless technology offering exceptional voice and data services. Although two-way wireless systems were once widely considered an impossibility due to a large amount of self-interference, Khandani has shown that not only are they feasible, they have the ability to revolutionize the communications industry.
The timing couldn’t be better for his research into two-way wireless technology, which allows data to move back and forth simultaneously. As well as the CFI funding, He was recently awarded $520,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and $3.4m in an Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) towards the project he’s leading to support 5G networks. With 50 billion smart devices estimated to be online by 2020, Khandani is working on new techniques to double the rate of information exchanged over the same bandwidth, in addition to enhancing wireless security. Read more about Khandani's research.
The John R. Evans Leaders Fund was developed to help Canadian universities attract and retain top research talent.
“The CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund is about remarkable people, and the latest recipients of this fund are no exception,” said Gilles Patry, president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. “By equipping world-class researchers with state-of-the-art tools, Canada remains a global competitor in areas that matter to people in communities around the country.”