Ekram Hossain (http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~ekram) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Victoria, Canada, in 2001. Dr. Hossain's current research interests include radio resource management in small cell networks, cognitive radio systems, and network economics. He has authored/edited several books in these areas. Dr. Hossain currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, an Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Cognitive Radio Series and IEEE Wireless Communications. Also, he serves on the IEEE Press Editorial Board. Previously, he served as the Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the area of "Resource Management and Multiple Access'' from 2009-2011 and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing from 2007-2012.

Dr. Hossain has won several research awards including the University of Manitoba Merit Award in 2010 (for Research and Scholarly Activities), the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize Paper Award, and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2012 (WCNC'12) Best Paper Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Hossain is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Manitoba, Canada.