I am very pleased to announce that Ms. Zahra Ahmadian has agreed to succeed Mr. Serhat Erkucuk as the Joint Communication Vice Chair starting July 2008. Serhat has done an excellent job and we will miss him. He is leaving Vancouver to take a leading role in a university overseas. We all wish him success in his new tenure.

Zahra Ahmadian received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ajman University of Science and Technology (AUST), UAE in 2005 and her M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2007. She is currently a PhD. student in Communication Theory research group at UBC. She was previously the chair of AUST IEEE student branch in 2005 and an active member of the ECE Graduate Student Association at UBC as the academic executive and treasurer. Her research interests are coding, concatenated codes, ultra-wideband, multiple access interference and propagation in multi-path channels. Please welcome Zahra and I am sure she will be a great addition to our tight community.