Today I successfully defended my Ph. D. thesis

Congrats to me! I can finally say that I am a Dr. or may be Dr.² to be more precise (because of my honorary Ph.D. degree from Nipissing University). It was an extremely tough year. I had to work more than full time (you figure out what that means) to be able to finish by the end of the year.

My supervisor asked me what is next and I told him that I have a lot of thoughts (not plans!) about what to do next. I do not want to think about it now. It is time to enjoy and celebrate this achievement. I will certainly make up my mind by early 2010.

If you ever think of embarking on a Ph. D. adventure at the University of Ottawa you may find the following presentation inspiring enough! Enjoy watching.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiIUhMXo4yo

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Comments (7)

#1 written by Ahmed Abu-Abed
about 2 years ago

Congrats Maher, this is a well deserved degree !

Suggest you squeeze a few more publications out of it since you have time for it now. Or better still, a write book applying this research to LTE terminals… my impression of the LTE industry is that it is till behind on the terminal side which needs low power and faster processing algorithms.
#2 written by Maher Arar
about 2 years ago

Thanks Ahmed. It is a good idea. I will take your suggestion into consideration.
#3 written by Dayanti
about 2 years ago

Enjoy this well-deserved satisfaction. All the best for the new year.
#4 written by Anis
about 2 years ago

Congrats..happy to hear that…i’m in my 2nd year PhD and looking into Lte and mimo as well…like ur blog!
#5 written by Maher Arar
about 2 years ago

@ Anis:

You have chosen the right research area. Make sure you check my latest post about useful tips for completing your PhD on time. I will be posting some useful MIMO turorials within the next few weeks. You may find them useful. Thanks for the complement on the web site.

Good luck and please come back.
#6 written by kafilu danbatta
about 2 months ago

Congrat and make more publications towars you professorshiop. Currently, i’m doing my phd research on lte and wimax resource allocation. Please advise me accordingly
#7 written by Maher Arar
about 2 months ago

You have chosen the right area to be in: There are still a lot to be done. It gets pretty interesting if you think of this problem in three dimensions: time, frequency and space (i.e. MIMO). The challenge is how to come up with close-to-optimum (according to a certain criterion) while maintaining an acceptable real-time performance using existing hardware.