Dr. Imran Hayee
has joined ECE department as an associate professor starting
from Fall 2004. His area of expertise is communication systems
in general and optical fiber communication in particular. He
completed his Ph. D. from Communications Sciences Institute of
University of Southern California, Los Angeles in Dec 1998.
After completing his Ph. D., he worked in Forward Looking Work
Group of Tyco Submarine Systems, formerly known as Bell
Laboratories, in New Jersey for two years performing research on
techniques to improve system performance of trans-oceanic
optical fiber communications systems. For the last 3 and half
years, he has worked in Research and Development Organizations
of two startup companies (Corvis Corporation and Opvista)
developing state-of-the-art telecommunications products. Here at
University of Minnesota Duluth, he would like to continue his
research work on optical fiber communications systems and all
optical networks. Dr. Hayee holds a dozen US patents
(issued and pending) and has published 30
papers in distinguished journals and conferences.