Professor Ha Nguyen (1973-2022) BEng, MEng, PhD

The University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering is saddened by the passing of Professor Ha Hoang Nguyen on September 4, 2022. Professor Nguyen was a much-loved colleague and an exceptional individual who was also a creative and talented researcher with an international reach. You may read his obituary here. 

• Low-power wireless sensor networks (transmission techniques, routing, localization and tracking)
• Wireless communications for the Internet of Things
• Full-duplex communications
• New multicarrier communications
• Cooperative and relay communications
• Diversity techniques (space, time, frequency, code)
• Channel coding, coded modulation, iterative decoding and detection
• Estimation and detection
• Digital signal processing for communications

Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing

Ha Nguyen received his BEng degree from the Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1995, his MEng degree from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1997, and his PhD degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, in 2001, all in electrical engineering.

He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, in 2001 and became a full Professor in 2007. He held the position of NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Low-Power Wireless Access for Sensor Networks. His research interests fell into broad areas of Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, and Statistical Signal Processing.

Dr. Nguyen was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters during 2007-2011 and 2011-2016, respectively. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was a Co-chair for the Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time Processing Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conferences (Fall 2010, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Fall 2012, Quebec, QC, Canada), Lead Co-chair for the Wireless Access Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conferences (Fall 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada), Lead Co-chair for the Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communication Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (Fall 2016, Montreal, QC, Canada), and Technical Program Co-chair for Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (2015, St. John's NL, Canada).

He coauthored, with Ed Shwedyk, of the textbook "A First Course in Digital Communications" (published by Cambridge University Press). Dr. Nguyen was appointed a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and was a Registered Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).