Patrick Mitran received the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
electrical engineering, in 2001 and 2002, respectively, from McGill
University, Montreal, PQ, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree from the Division
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
in 2006. In 2005, he interned as a research scientist for Intel Corporation
in the Radio Communications Lab. In 2006-07 he was an applied
mathematics lecturer in the School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University. Since fall 2007, he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo at the rank of Assistant Professor.

Currently he is interested in the study of cooperation and cognition in
wireless networks from signal processing, coding theory an information
theory perspectives.