Catherine Rosenberg
University Research Chair and Professor, ECE Dept, University of Waterloo
Inria International Research Chair (2025-2030)
Elected Fellow of IEEE in 2011
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2013
cath at uwaterloo.ca
Main Activities
Member of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Committee, Oct. 2024 – Aug. 2025.
President of the Recruiting Committee (Young Scientists) for INRIA, Center of Lyon, 2024.
Member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, Oct. 2021 – Aug. 2024.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE, from 1 January 2016 through 31 December 2021.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMT-Atlantique, a set of Engineering Schools in France since 2020.
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the CominLabs “LabEx”, a French multi-university research center in ICT, Sept 2019 – present.
Member of the International Committee evaluating INRIA (The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, more than 2000 researchers) research projects in Networking, March 2020.
Member of the ACM Sigcomm 2020 Dissertation Award committee.
External member of the hiring committee for three CRC 2, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, Sept. 2019.
Member of the International Committee evaluating INRIA (The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, more than 2000 researchers) on behalf of HCERES (The High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education), Paris, Dec 2018-May 2019.
President of the International Committee evaluating CONNECT, a multi-university research center in ICT, on behalf of SFI (Science Foundation Ireland), Dublin, Dec. 2018 to April 2019.
External member of the recruiting committee for a Full Professor position, University of Avignon, May 2018.
Chair of the External Review Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Nov. 29-30th 2017.
President of the Recruiting Committee (CR2, Young Scientists) for INRIA, Center of Rennes, 2017.
Member of the Site Visit committee for the interim evaluation of CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications, May 2017.
Member of the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Committee, Oct. 2016 – Dec 2020.
Member, International Evaluation Panel for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) for the “Instituts de Convergence”, July 2016 – Dec 2016.
President of the Site Visit Committee for the evaluation of the NSERC/Huawei Industrial Research Chair, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Nov. 2015.
President, Scientific Advisory Board, French Technological Research Institute B<>COM dedicated to digital technologies, 2014 - 2021.
Member, Electrical & Electronic Engineering Panel of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 2014.
President, Scientific Board of Orange (formerly France-Telecom, one of the largest research-oriented telecommunication operators in the world), January 2013 to July 2015.
Member, NSERC’s Advisory Committee on University-Industry Grants (ACUIG), May 2010 to June 2013.
Member, Scientific Board of the France-Telecom (Orange) Group, Feb. 2007 to Dec. 2012.
Chair, Wireless Sector Committee of the Natural Resources and Applied Sciences (NRAS) Endowment Research Program, Province of British Columbia, April 2010.