Dr. Telex Ngatched

Telex M. N. Ngatched received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree in electronics from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, in 1992 and 1993, respectively, the MscEng (Cum Laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 2002, and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 2006. From July 2006 to December 2007, he was with the University of KwaZulu-Natal as Postdoctoral Fellow, from 2008 to 2012 with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, as a Research Associate, and from 2012 to 2022 with Memorial University. He joined McMaster University in January 2023, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

His research interests include 5G and 6G enabling technologies, optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and radio frequency communications, artificial intelligence and machine learning for communications, and underwater communications.

Dr. Ngatched serves as an Area Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, and an Editor of the IEEE Communications Society On-Line Content. He was the publication chair of the IEEE CWIT 2015, the Managing Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Communications Magazine, an Associate Editor with the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society and IEEE Communications Letters, the co-chair at many IEEE conferences including VTC2023-Fall, VTC20222-Spring, VTC-2021-Spring, and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member and session chair for many prominent IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, VTC, and PIMRC. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in 2019. He is a Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) registered with the Professional Engineers Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada.

• BSc University of Yaoundé, Cameroon
• MSc University of Yaoundé, Cameroon
• MScEng University of Natal, South Africa
• PhD University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Grenfell Campus Research Award for the year 2020.
• Best Paper Award at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2019.
• Fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Uganda to work with Kabale University on Curriculum Co-Development for new Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 2016.
• The South African Sugar Miller’s Association Award for the best lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2007. • P. Eng.