Born and raised in Montreal, I received my B.Eng in Electrical Engineering in December 2001 from McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thereafter I lived in Fukuoka, Japan for 8 months before attending Harvard for my Master's and Ph.D. degrees under the supervision of Vahid Tarokh. During the course of my studies I was a research intern at Intel and Mitusbishi Electric Research Labs. In June 2007 I obtained my Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a thesis entitled ``Information Theoretic Limits of Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Networks.'' From July 2007 - June 2008 I was a lecturer/post-doc at Harvard University, where I co-taught AM21a and AM21b. I am thrilled to be joining the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor in January 2009. My research interests lie in multi-user information theory, cognitive radio channels, cooperation in wireless networks.