Women’s Impact in Technology and Innovation

Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci is a leading expert in AI-enabled networks. She is the chief cloud RAN AI\ML data scientist at Ericsson. She is also Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in AI-enabled next generation wireless networks, a tenured associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute, Toronto. At uOttawa, Dr. Erol-Kantarci is the founding director of the Networked Systems and Communications Research (NETCORE) laboratory. She has received numerous awards and distinctions. In 2019, she was named a N2Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications. She has delivered over 70 keynotes, plenary talks, tutorials and seminars around the globe and her publications have been cited more than 7,000 times.

Sawsan Abdul-Majid received an MSc and a PhD in electrical engineering from Varna University, Bulgaria. She then joined the Faculty of Engineering at Al Zawiya University in Libya as a professor. From 1999 to 2003 she worked as an optical engineer in Canada. From 2003 to 2008, she held faculty positions at the University of Technology (Baghdad, Iraq) and Koya University (Kurdistan, Iraq), where besides her faculty duties, she managed an international project to establish women, information and communication technology (WICT) centres at Iraqi universities. Since 2008, she has worked as a research associate / group manager at the Photonics Technology Laboratory (PTlab) at the University of Ottawa. She is a part-time professor at uOttawa and an IEEE senior member.