McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering  
Dr. Steve Hranilovic
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Steve Hranilovic received his B.A.Sc. degree with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1997 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1999 and 2003 respectively.

He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. During 2010-2011 he spent his research leave as Senior Member, Technical Staff in Advanced Technology for Research in Motion, Waterloo, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of free-space and wired optical communications, digital communication algorithms, and electronic and photonic implementation of coding and communication algorithms. He is the author of the book Wireless Optical Communications Systems (New York:Springer, 2004).

Dr. Hranilovic is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and was awarded the Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2006. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of optical wireless communications.