I am a Lecturer in Networks in the School of Engineering and Computing at University of the West Scotland (UWS), Paisley, Scotland where I am a member of Artificial Intelligence, Visual Communications and Network (AVCN) research group.  Before joining UWS in Fall 2016, I have worked as a Senior Researcher in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Canada where I served as a project manager for Carleton-Industry collaborative R&D projects and led the Teams of graduate and undergraduate researchers working on Drones-enabled communications for 5G networks. During my stay at Carleton University, most of my research has been sponsored by local industry partners and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In this role, I have also served as a Consultant for R&D at Communications Theory Lab, KAUST where I was responsible for providing his expertise for the development of FSO based sustainable fronthaul network for 5G communications. Previously, from July 2012 to July 2015, I worked as an Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Qatar where I was a Co-Lead PI of 1M $ project awarded by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) on heterogeneous networks. Prior to joining, TAMUQ in July 2012, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia where I received a collaborative research award from the KAUST Global Collaborative Research initiative for research project on cognitive radio enabled heterogeneous networks with University of Surrey. From September 2010 to December 2010, I was a Visiting Researcher at Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, UK.

My main research interests lie in design and development of heterogeneous networks for urban and rural coverage via unconventional aerial and regular architectures.  I am also interested in emerging 5G technologies IoT, AI, V2X and Smartgird. I have diversified experience in evaluation of cyber-physical systems from the perspective of resilience/reliability and energy/spectral efficiency. I have been also directly engaged in the development and standardization of IEEE DySPAN 1900.7 standard project. I have a track record of more than 100 technical journal and conference publications including many in the world’s most reputable journals in the areas of wireless communications, communication theory and green communications networks. I have also contributed to 7 books. I am co-editor of two edited books and co-author of an authored book on Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks published by Wiley John & Sons and endorsed by IEEE Press. For more details on my research activities, visit my Google Scholar and Research Gate profiles. Pre-prints of my recent research publications are avaiable at arXiv. 

I have been/am giving tutorials on emerging wireless communication systems at IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE NOF 2017, London, IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, IEEE ICUWB 2015, Montreal, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014/2015, Austin/San Diego, IEEE BlackSeaSom 2017/2015, Istanbul/Constanta and IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney. I have been/am also serving as a symposium/track Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE flagship ocnfernces such as GLOBECOM 2019, IEEE VTC-Fall 2019, EuCNC 2019. I am/have been also serving as Chair/Co-Chair of several workshops/special sessions such as GS5GW 2018, GRASNET 2017/2016, GreenICT 2015 and ReAP 2015 in IEEE flagship conferences, such as ICC, VTC and GlobalSIP. I have been also serving on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and WCNC. I am the founding organizer and technical Chair of IEEE Workshop Next Generation Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks - BackNets, collocated annually with IEEE flagship conferences since 2015. BackNets has now been considered as a successful consortium of key academic and industrial players to bridge the R&D gaps in in this area. I am an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and have served as a lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Access. I am also serving as an Editor for Elsevier Journal PHYCOM. I am serving as a Chair of IEEE ComSoc emerging technical initiative on backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking. I have been serving as an active member to several IEEE ComSoc technical committees. From January 2012 to January 2016, I served as an elected Secretary to the IEEE DySPAN 1900.7 working group.  I am a Senior Member of IEEE, an active member of IEEE ComSoc and IEEE Standard Association.

• Wireless communications and networks 

• 5G technologies and systems

• Smart grid networks and communications 

• Networked flying platforms 

• Smart cities 

• Internet of everything 

• Artificial Intelligence 

Research and Enterprise Projects:

I am leading follwoing research and enterprise projects: 

• Artificial Intelligence enabled autonomous 5G network and beyond, 2018-2021
  

• Reliable operation of distributed energy resources – towards microgrid resilience, 2017 - 2020

• Airborne self srganising networks, 2017-2019

• Toward AI-enabled smart learning in higher education, 2018-2021

• Remote condition monitoring for rail networks, 2018-

• Smart home monitoring using IoT, 2017-

• Cloud computing for image cluttering with MODO – KTP project, 2018-2020

Research Team:

PhD Students: (Director of Studies - first supervisor)

• Shahriair Al-Ahmed (2018-2021)

• Yusufu Gambo (2018-2021)

• Ifiok Anthony Umoren (2017-2020)

• Dong Wang (2016-2019)

MSc Students:

• Matthew Swinburne (2018)

• Tanveer Ahmed (2017-2018)

• Syeda Sanober Jaffery (2017-2018)

• Heather Brown (2017-2018)

Hons Students:

• Andrew Coper (2018-)

• Robert Mackiewicz (2018-)

• Greg Francis (2018-)

• Donald Carrol (2018-)

• Edgars Griga (2017-2018)

• Craig Torlay (2017-2018)

External visitors:

• Widad Belaoura (National Polytechnic School, Algeria) (2018)

• Romain Menguy (Aix-Marseille University, France) (2018)

• Muhammad Zainul Abideen (Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns, Glasgow) (2017)

Collaborations:

Since recently, I have been collaborating with several industrial and academic partners such as:  

Industrial partners:

• UK/EU: Express Communications Services, Toshiba Research Laboratory, T4i Engineering, BT, NATS, Picsel Technologies Ltd, NEC Germany, MODO.
• International: Huawei, Canada, TELUS, Canada, SIRADEL, Canada/France and Intel, USA.

Academic partners:

• UK/EU: University of Glasgow, University of York, University of Essex, University of Surrey, University of Leeds, Sheffield Hallam University, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 
• International: KAUST, Saudi Arabia, Qatar University, Qatar, Carleton University, Canada, York University, Canada and Texas A&M University, Qatar, LUMS, Pakistan, European Univeristy Cyprus, Cyprus. 

Funders:

Most of my research and development projects have been funded by national and international funding bodies such as:

• Innovate UK

• UWS VP Doctoral fund (competitive)

• NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)

• QNRF (Qatar National Research Fund) 

• KAUST GCR (Global Research Initiative)

I would like to collaborate with national and international companies with in following domain (but not limited):

• Information communication and technology 
• Cellular and mobile operators and vendors
• Device/sensor manufacturers
• Smart city (transportation, energy, buildings, healthcare)

I would like to collaborate and build prolific ties with the following types of national and international organization: 

• Ministries and Govt. bodies 
• Local Councils and social welfare bodies 
• National/international research labs/centrer
• Standardization and development organizations

• Smartphone Application development 

• Commercialisation and development

• Servitisation 

• Industry 4.0

• Smart teaching and learning approaches 

Prototype and real time implementation of UAV/Drone based wireless links for emerging applications including but not limited to:

• Smart city

• Disaster communications

• Smart transportation

• Cattle farming and agriculture

• COMP11062 Mobile Networks and Smartphone Applications (PG)
• COMP11067 Managing Information Security (PG)
• COMP11060 Emerging Topics in Smart Networks (PG)
• COMP09022 Data Communications and Networks (UG)