Besma Smida

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Biography

Besma Smida is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She previously held academic appointments at Purdue University Northwest and Harvard University. Her research focuses on wireless communications, and she served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society from 2021 to 2023. She has been recognized by the IEEE Communications Society in its Women in Engineering in Communications series and was named among the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G.” She was also honored with the INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine’s “100 Inspiring Women in STEM” Award in 2015. Her additional honors include the Academic Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada (2007), the NSF CAREER Award (2015), and the IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award (2021).