Biography

Mario Bkassiny received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering with High Distinction and the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Lebanese American University in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2013.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA. He worked as a research assistant at the Communication and Information Sciences Laboratory (CISL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico from 2009 to 2013.

He served as a technical program committee (TPC) co-chair of the Workshop on Wideband Cognitive Radio Communication and Networks (WCRCN) at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2013). He is a TPC member of the Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sensing track at the IEEE VTC-Fall 2015 conference. He served as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Antennas and RF Front Ends for Cognitive Radio in the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

His research interests are in:

• Cognitive Radios

• Wireless Communications

• Signal Detection Theory

• Machine Learning

• Bayesian Classification Methods

• Spectrum Sensing and Cyclostationary Detection

• Distributed Learning and Reasoning

• Cooperative Communications

• MIMO Free-Space Optical Communications