Prof. Qi Wang is a Full Professor in Next-Generation Smart Networks & Services with the School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences, the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Scotland, UK. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Beyond 5G Hub founded in 2015. He is a Voting Member of Europe’s 6G-IA (6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association). He has served as Board Member of the Technology Board of EU 5G-PPP (Fifth-Generation Public Private Partnership), and Member of Scotland’s AI Strategy - Developing AI & AI Enabled Services and Products Working Group. He is Academic Member of United Nations’ ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He has been the Lead Editor of two ITU-T standards ITU-T Y.3182 and ITU-T Y.3183. He is also a regular contributor to high-profile white papers (10+ co-authored) commissioned by European Commission on 5G, 6G, AI and related areas.

He is the Winner of multiple UK national awards e.g.,: Winner of UK Times Higher Education (THE) Awards (widely recognised as the “Oscars of higher education”) 2020 - Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year Award, and Winner of Scotland Centre for Engineering Education & Development (CeeD) Industries Awards - Innovation Award 2020.

His research interests include 5G/6G/IoT (Internet of Things) networking and applications, AI applications, and vertical use cases. He has over 230 publications, including 70 SCI-indexed journal papers. He is a Winner of multiple Best Paper Awards: Best Paper Award Winner of IEEE Consumer Electronic Society’s flagship conference ICCE (International Conference on Consumer Electronics) 2014 and IEEE ICCE2012, SOFTNETWORKING 2017, SIGMAP (International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications) 2014, and PETRA2023 (International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments), and Best Paper Award Finalist of the IEE 3G2003 (International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies).

As the Director of Studies (DoS, i.e., Primary Supervisor), he has successfully supervised 16 PhD students to have graduated in UK. He serves as an invited external PhD/research degree examiner for UK and European universities. He has been the Line Manager for 10+ postdoctoral research fellows and research assistants.

He has been a lead researcher in various nationally or internationally sponsored research projects, in collaboration with worldwide academic and industry partners. He has played various leading roles in numerous international and national projects with a total budget of nearly 100 million GBP. He was the Technical Co-Manager for EU Horizon 2020 funded projects SELFNET (7.0 million euros) and SliceNet (8.0 million euros), and UWS PI/Co-PI for a number of other funded projects such as EU Horizon 2020 projects 6G BRAINS (5.7 million euros), 5G INDUCE (6.0 million euros), and ARCADIAN-IoT (6.0 million euros), EU Horizon Europe projects INCODE (8.6 million euros), RIGOUROUS (5.3 million euros), and 6G-PATH (16.8 million euros), UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) projects "Enabler for Next-Generation Mobile Video Applications" and National Edge AI Hub (£12 million pounds), UK CENSIS (Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems) projects Smart RPAS, Smart Crane, NG-RPAS, and UKRI SIPF project Digital Dairy Value-Chain for South West Scotland & Cumbria (21 million pounds)  etc. 

https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/persons/qi-wang

Current research areas include wireless/mobile/softwarised/virtualised networks especially 5G, 6G, IoT, UAV and beyond, video/multimedia networking, and artificial intelligence. Recent and on-going projects have been funded by EU (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe), EPSRC, CENSIS, InnovateUK, UKRI, industries etc. in these areas.

Desired research direction will continue investigating innovative applications and exploitation of 5G/6G/IoT networking, AI and other state-of-the-art technologies for vertical businesses.

Target collaborative companies include national/internal telecommunication operators, service providers, vendors, and vertical businesses etc.

Target collaborative organisations include national/international standardisation bodies, innovation centres, public sectors, and research centres working on related areas.