Tarik Taleb

Tarik Taleb is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. From October 2005 till March 2006, he was working as Research Fellow with the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received his B.E. degree in information engineering with distinction, M.E and Ph.D. degrees in computer sciences from GSIS, Tohoku University, in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively. His research interests lie in the field of wireless networking, intervehicular communications, satellite and space communications, congestion control protocols, network management, handoff and mobility management, and network security. His recent research has also focused on on-demand media transmission in multicast environments. Dr. Taleb is on the editorial board of the IEEE Wireless Communications. He also serves as Secretary of the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) (since 2006). He has been on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and WCNC, and chaired some of their sessions. He has acted as reviewer for many IEEE conferences and several IEEE and Elsevier prestigious journals. He is a recipient of the 2007 Funai Foundation Science Promotion Award (April 2007), the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Young Author Award (December 2006), the Niwa Yasujirou Memorial Award (February 2005), and the Young Researcher's Encouragement Award from the Japan chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) (October 2003). Dr. Taleb is an IEEE Member.

Biography Updated on 3 February 2008