He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. From 1992 to 1997, while studying for the B.A.Sc. degree, he worked in the areas of semiconductor device characterization and microelectronics for Nortel Networks and the VLSI Research Group, University of Waterloo. His research interests are in the areas of free-space and wired optical communications, digital communications 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. In 2006, he was awarded the Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award. He is currently the Chair of the joint IEEE Communications/Signal Processing/Information Theory Societies Chapter in the Hamilton Section.