Muhammad Ali Imran
Professor
University of Surrey
UK
University of Surrey
Biography
Muhammad Ali Imran received his M.Sc. (Distinction) and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College London, UK, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He is currently a Reader (an academic rank in the UK between Associate and Full Professor) in the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) at the University of Surrey, UK. In this role, he is leading a number of multimillion international research projects encompassing the areas of energy efficiency, fundamental performance limits, sensor networks and self-organising cellular networks. He is also leading the new physical layer work area for 5G innovation centre at Surrey (the 5G innovation centre and an outdoor cellular test bed is being developed at Surrey University with a recent grant of above £35m). He has a global collaborative research network spanning both academia and key industrial players in the field of wireless communications. He has supervised 17 successful PhD graduates and published over 150 peer-reviewed research papers including more than 20 IEEE Journals. His research interests include the derivation of information theoretic performance limits, energy efficient design of cellular system and learning/self-organising techniques for optimisation of cellular system operation. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. He has been awarded the 2014 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize.
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