Nader Alagha

Nader Alagha received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Since 2006, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technical Directorate, European Space Agency Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands. At ESTEC, he has been the technical lead of several research and development activities related to telecommunication systems development for broadband, broadcasting, and IoT applications from early design stages toward verifications and trials. He has contributed to several standardization technical groups, including DVB-S2(X) and DVB-RCS2 (as the Editor of the guidelines documents). He is also the ESA Technical Lead and a Coordinator of Satellite Network of Experts in collaboration with universities, research institutes, and industry partners. He is an Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Benelux Chapter on Communications and Vehicular Technology. He served as the Co-Chair of the International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) in 2018 and 2019 and has been serving as a member of the Steering Committee of ICSSC since 2021. He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (Wiley).