Habib Hamam obtained the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in information processing from the Technical University of Munich, Germany 1988 and 1992, and the PhD degree in Physics and applications in telecommunications from Université de Rennes I conjointly with France Telecom Graduate School, France 1995. He also obtained a postdoctoral diploma, “Accreditation to Supervise Research in Signal Processing and Telecommunications”, from Université de Rennes I in 2004. He is currently a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Université de Moncton and a Canada Research Chair holder in “Optics in Information and Communication Technologies”. He is an IEEE senior member and a registered professional engineer in New-Brunswick. He is among others associate editor of the IEEE Canadian Review, member of the editorial boards of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - John Wiley & Sons- and of Journal of Computer Systems, Networking, and Communications - Hindawi Publishing Corporation. His research interests are in optical telecommunications,Wireless Communications, diffraction, fiber components, optics of the eye, RFID and E-Learning.