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 was for 10 years (2006-2016) a Canada Research Chair holder in “Optics in Information and Communication Technologies”. He is currently a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Université de Moncton. He is OSA senior member, IEEE senior member and a registered professional engineer in New-Brunswick. He is among others editor in chief and founder of CIT-Review and associate editor of the IEEE Canadian Review. He also served as Guest editor in several journal. His research interests are in optical telecommunications, Wireless Communications, diffraction, fiber components, RFID, information processing, IoT, data protection, COVID-19, and Deep learning.