Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) – Next Generation Communication Technologies (NGCT)

The Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) program, which is supported by the Government of Canada, attracts the best global talent to Canada to lead breakthroughs in science, technology and innovation priority areas. CERC in next-generation communication technology (CERC-NGCT) is the FIRST and ONLY at Memorial University. CERC-NGCT’s mission is to seamlessly integrate the digital, physical and biological worlds to develop a “wireless without limit” connectivity that can create sustainable next-generation communications technologies that will have a potential impact on Canada. 

Trung Q. Duong (Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of EIC, and Fellow of AAIA) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and a Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He has received the two prestigious awards from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), including: 1) RAEng Research Chair (2020) and 2) RAEng Research Fellow (2015). In 2017, he was awarded the Newton Prize from the UK government. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (IF=34.4 and CiteScore=80) His current research interests include:

  • Wireless communications: ISAC, ISTN, URLLC, Near-Field, Digital Twin, Semantic Communications
  • Physical layer security and privacy,
  • Machine learning and realtime optimisation,
  • Multidisciplinary research: Disaster Management, Smart Agriculture, Healthcare, Air-Quality, Finance, Climate Change, and Pharmacy.

As a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I), he has secured research grants added up to $54M+ (CAD). Since 2007, he has published more than 600 books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers in these topics. He has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2013, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016, 2019, 2022, IEEE Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 2017, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2019, 2023, 2024, and IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) 2023, 2024. He is listed as one of most-cited authors across all scientific fields by Scopus (all-time career).

  • Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (2025-present)
  • Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021 – present)
  • Editor of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (2022 – 2024)
  • Editor of IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology (2021 – 2024)
  • Executive Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2020 – 2023)
  • Editor of IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications (2016 – 2022)
  • Editor of IEEE Trans on Communications (2015 – 2020)
  • Editor, Senior Editor, Lead Senior Editor, Executive Editor of IEEE Communications Letter (2013 – 2022)

He has 21,000+ citations with a h-index of 80 (Google Scholar). His citation profile in Google Scholar and in Web of Science ISI and in Scopus

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