Fady Alajaji is a professor of Mathematics and Engineering at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He received a B.E. degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 1988, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.In 2001, he was a recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award from the Province of Ontario in recognition for his research in “the theory and practice of joint source-channel coding in telecommunication systems.” His research interests include information theory, applied probability, joint source-channel coding, error control coding, data compression and digital communications.
