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Adjunct Senior Lecturer Muhammad Waqas

Muhammad is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering.

Background

Muhammad Waqas is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Muhammad Waqas received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Major in Wireless Communications) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. From Oct. 2019 to Mar. 2022, he was a Research Associate at the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.

Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, London, UK. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Australia. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, Bahrain.

His current research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communication, vehicular networks, Fog/Mobile Edge Computing, Internet of Things and Machine Learning. He has more than 100 research publications in reputed Journals and Conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems and guest editor of Applied Sciences - MDPI. He is recognised as a Global Talent in the area of Wireless Communications by UK Research and Innovation and a Professional Member of Engineer Australia. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Professional Member of ACM, an IEEE Young Professional, a Member of the Pakistan Engineering Council and an approved supervisor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Professional associations

  • Senior IEEE member
  • Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Young Professional IEEE, Professional Member ACM
  • Approved PhD Supervisor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
  • Associate Editor: International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue “Blockchain and 6G Trustworthy Networking”, Applied Sciences, MDPI
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue “Joint Sensing and Communication for Edge Computing Networks, AETiC
  • Speaker: Seminar at the University of Bahrain on the Topic of “The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Next Generation Wireless Communications/Network Security
  • Invited Speaker: The 11th International Conference on Computer and Communications Management, Nagoya, Japan, August 4-6, 2023
  • Invited Speaker, ICE CUBE, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021
  • Distinguish Speaker: ICE CUBE Conference, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021
  • Session Chair: International Conf. on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, China, 2020
  • Session Chair: International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies, Bahrain, 2022

Awards and recognition

  • 2021: Best Teacher Award, GIK Institute
  • 2021: Best Research Paper Award: Asia Symposium on Signal Processing, China
  • 2015 - 2019: Chinese Government Scholarship for PhD Studies

Research areas and interests

  • Wireless Communication
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Fog Computing / Mobile Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Information Theoretic Security
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