Norman C. Beaulieu

Who is Norman C. Beaulieu?

Norman Charles Joseph Beaulieu is a Canadian engineer and professor in the ECE department of the University of Alberta. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1980, 1983, and 1986, respectively. He was a Queen’s National Scholar Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, from September 1986 to June 1988, an Associate Professor from July 1988 to June 1993, and a Professor from July 1993 to August 2000. In September 2000, he became the iCORE Research Chair in Broadband wireless communications at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and in January 2001, the Canada Research Chair in Broadband Wireless Communications. His current research interests include broadband digital communications systems, ultrawide bandwidth systems, fading channel modeling and simulation, diversity systems, interference prediction and cancellation, importance sampling and semi-analytical methods, decision-feedback equalization, and space-time coding.