University Research Chair and Professor, ECE Dept, University of Waterloo
Inria International Research Chair (2025-2030)
Elected Fellow of IEEE in 2011
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2013
cath at uwaterloo.ca
Dr. Rosenberg is an Emeritus Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo (UW). She has been the Cisco Research Chair in 5G Systems from April 2018 to December 2024 at UW. From June 2010 to June 2024, she held the Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet. She held a University Research Chair from Sept. 2004 till 2018 and from 2025 till her retirement.
In 2025, she was awarded an Inria International Research Chair (for five years) to work with the AGORA team at Inria Lyon. She also became an Adjunct Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 2025.
She was elected an IEEE Fellow for contributions to resource management in wireless and satellite networks on 2011 and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Dr. Rosenberg began her career at ALCATEL in France, and then at AT&T Bell Labs, USA. From 1988-1996, she was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada. In 1996, she joined Nortel Networks in the UK where she created and headed the R&D Department in Broadband Satellite Networking. In August 1999, Dr. Rosenberg became a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University where she co-founded in May 2002 the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA). She joined the University of Waterloo in September 2004 as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for a three-year term.
Dr. Rosenberg was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Orange Group (France-Telecom) from 2007 to mid 2015. She became its president from January 2013 to mid 2015. She also was the president of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French IRT (Research and Technology Institute) BCOM on multimedia and networking in 2014 till 2020. She was a member of the Scientific Advisory committee of the Laboratory of Excellence, Cominlabs, in Rennes, France till 2025. She was the president of the hiring committee for young researchers for Inria Lyon in 2024 and for Inria Rennes in 2022. She is currently a member of the SAB for the group of engineering schools, IMT-Atlantique, in France.
Her research expertise lies in wireless networks, multimedia, traffic engineering and energy systems.. Her work in wireless networks includes 5G/6G, IoT, Satellite, OPEN-RAN, and generally resource management. Her research in traffic engineering focuses on quality of service, network optimization and game theory and pricing. Prof. Rosenberg’s research in energy systems includes smart grid design, storage modeling, renewable integration, and data analysis. She has authored over 200 research papers and has been granted eight US patents. While at Waterloo, she has helped raised more than 10 million CAD of research funds from NSERC and industry. As an academic researcher, Dr. Rosenberg has worked with a lot of industries, including: Cisco, Rogers, Orange, Safran, Hydro One, IBM, Blackberry, General Motors, etc.
Dr. Rosenberg has been on the board of Syngene International Limited since 2000. Syngene is an international integrated research, development, and manufacturing organization providing scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nutrition, animal health, consumer goods, and specialty chemical companies. Syngene is a public company, based in Bangalore, India and comprises 5,200+ scientists. She is a member of the following Board Committees: Nomination and Remuneration, Science and Technology, Stakeholders & ESG, Corporate and Social Responsibility (Chairperson).
1986, Doctorate Computer Science, Universite de Paris XI (Orsay), France
1984, Master of Science Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles, United States
1983, Diploma d'Ingenieur Telecommunications, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, France (now IMT-Atlantique)