Credentials B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Cairo University, Cairo) 1979 B.Sc. Applied Mathematics (Ain Shams Univ. Cairo) 1981 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (University of Toronto) 1982 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Toronto) 1986 |
Michel Fattouche
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Brief Biography Dr. Michel Fattouche is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary and Chief Technical Officer of the company Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. His research work has led to 16 patents issued. Based on his patents in W-OFDM (Wide-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) he co-founded Wi-LAN Inc. in 1993. Through Wi-LAN’s efforts, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allowed OFDM technology over the 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM band for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards, better known as the Wi-Fi standard. More recently, the IEEE announced that its "WirelessMAN" Standard 802.16a would incorporate Wi-LAN's patented W-OFDM technology as well as the Wi-MAX standard. Another technology developed and patented by a group led by Dr. Fattouche in Wi-LAN Inc., MC-DSSS (MultiCode-Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) is central to CDMA applications, the main technology currently used by more Cell phone systems in North America than any other technology. MC-DSSS is also core to the Bluetooth V.3, Wireless USB and MIMO technologies. Based on his patents on Super-Resolution, Dr. Fattouche also co-founded Cell-Loc Inc. in 1995 (which became Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. in 2003), the developer of a family of network-based wireless location products that enable location-sensitive services of people and assets using a small portable device. The Advanced Beacon is a device that can be concealed easily and conveniently on objects to be tracked, and can last for over 2 years on 2-AA batteries. Several networks have been deployed in Canada and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Advanced Beacon is currently manufactured in large volume in Manaus, Brazil, and is capable of two-way telemetry. More recently in 2005, Dr. Fattouche was involved in creating Electronic Dietary Foods Inc., a company specializing in manufacturing electronic foods for weight-loss purpose as well as for longevity purpose using patented Radio Frequency (RF) technology. Dr. Fattouche has been named “Calgarian of the Year” by Business in Calgary magazine in 2000, “Prairies Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000 for Communications and Technology as part of the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Program, and “Professor of the Year” by the Student Union for Teaching Excellence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1999. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geophysicist of Alberta and is one of the top 100 inventors in Alberta in the 20th Century. |
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