Professor Hamed Al-Raweshidy
Professor - Wireless Networks And Communications Centre

Summary

Hamed Al-Raweshidy is professor of Communications Engineering and has been awarded BEng and MSc from University of Technology/Baghdad in 1977 and 1980 respectively. He completed his Post Graduate Diploma from Glasgow University/ Glasgow/ UK in 1987. He awarded his PhD in 1991 from Strathclyde University in Glasgow/UK. He was with Space and Astronomy Research Centre/Iraq, PerkinElmer/USA, Carl Zeiss/Germany, British Telecom/UK, Oxford University, Manchester Met.University and Kent University.

Professor Al-Raweshidy is currently the Director of the Wireless Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC) and Director of PG studies (ECE) at Brunel University, London, UK.

He published over 370 papers in International Journals and referred conferences. He is the editor of the first book in Radio over Fibre Technologies for Mobile Communications Networks. He has acted as Guest editor for the International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications. He is a member of several Journal Editorial Boards such as Journal of Wireless Personal Communications.

Professor Al-Raweshidy acts as a consultant and involved in projects with several companies and operators such as Vodafone (UK), Ericsson (Sweden), Andrew (USA), NEC (Japan), Nokia (Finland), Siemens (Germany), Franc Telecom (France), Thales (UK & France) and Tekmar (Italy). He is a principal investigator for several EPSRC projects and European project such as MAGNET EU project (IP) 2004-2008.

He is a member of several International Conference Advisory Committees and Technical Program Committees such as VTC, PIMRC, GLOBECOM, WPMC and IST. He has organised several Workshops on Wireless Technology in Europe and Japan. He is on the EPSRC peer Review College /UK and Review Panel for EU Commission, Hong Kong and Cyprus. He has been invited to deliver research lectures in Delft University (Holland), Chalmers University (Sweden), University of Valenciennes (France) and Aalborg University (Denmark). He is PhD external examiner for several British universities such as Oxford, UCL, Leeds, Kings College, Cardiff, New Castle, Strathclyde and Surrey.

He is a member of NETworld 2020 Network which is the top Technology Platform in Europe and it advise European Commission for research directions in communications for the next 10-15 years. He has been invited to give a lecture at EU Commission (Future Internet/2010), Photonics21/ 2010 in Brussels. In addition, he is represnting Brunel University London in WWRF. He was an external examinar for Wirless Communications MSc course for Kings College London / University of London. He is an external examinar for Queen Mary University of London and Bejing University of Posts & Telecommunications. He is a reviewer for several Governmental Agencies such as Cyprus, Greece, Holland, UK and Hong Kong.

His current research area are beyond  5G and 6G such as 6G Quantum and AI, RIS with Quantum and AI, Near and Far Edge, IoT with AI, Radio over Fibre for IoT with Quantum and AI, Off Loading and and Load Balancing with AI.

Qualifications

BEng(Hons) MSc PhD CEng FIEE SMIEEE, FRSA

Responsibility

Leader of Wireless Networks and Communications Group (WNCG),

Director of Post Graduate studies (EEE)

Co-Director - Intelligent Digital Economy and Society (IDEAS)