Vijay K. Bhargava received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1970, 1972 and 1974 respectively.

Vijay has held regular/visiting appointments at the Indian Institute of Science, University of Waterloo, Concordia University, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, UNIDO, NTT Wireless Communications Labs, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Indonesia, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Currently he is a Professor at the University of Victoria and holds a Canada Research Chair in broadband wireless communications.

Vijay served as the Founder and President of Binary Communications Inc. (1983-2000). He has provided consulting services to several companies and government agencies. He is a co-author of Digital Communications by Satellite (New York: Wiley 1981) and a coeditor of Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications (IEEE Press 1994). He serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

A Fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Vijay has been honoured many times by his colleagues. Amongst these awards are the IEEE Centennial Medal, A.F. Bulgin Premium of IEE, U.K., the John B. Stirling Award of the EIC, the Applied Science and Engineering Gold Medal from the Science Council of British Columbia, IEEE Canada's McNaughton Gold Medal, IEEE Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award, the IEEE Harden Pratt Award, the IEEE Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Graduate Teaching Award.

Vijay is very active in the IEEE and has served as the President of the Information Theory Society, Vice President for Regional Activities Board, Director of Region 7, Montreal Section Chair and Victoria Section Chair.