Muhammad Ali Imran

Professor Muhammad Ali Imran (M'03, SM'12) received his M.Sc. (Distinction) and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College London, UK, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He is a Professor in Communication Systems in University of Glasgow, Dean University of Glasgow UESTC, Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging (CSI) research group and Director of Glasgow UESTC Centre of Educational Development and Innovation. He is an affiliate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA; Adjunct Research Professor AIRC, Ajman University UAE and a visiting Professor at 5G Innovation centre, University of Surrey, UK.

He has led a number of multimillion-funded international research projects. He also led the new physical layer work area for 5G innovation centre at Surrey. He has a global collaborative research network spanning both academia and key industrial players in the field of wireless communications. He has supervised 40+ successful PhD graduates and published over 400 peer-reviewed research papers including more than 50 IEEE Transaction papers. He secured first rank in his B.Sc. and a distinction in his M.Sc. degree along with an award of excellence in recognition of his academic achievements conferred by the President of Pakistan. He has been awarded IEEE Comsoc’s Fred Ellersick award 2014, TAO’s best paper award in IEEE ICC 2019, FEPS Learning and Teaching award 2014, Sentinel of Science Award 2016, Research Culture Award 2020 and twice nominated for Tony Jean’s Inspirational Teaching award. The team led by him won the China-Scotland Academic Partnership of the Year Award for 2021. He has secured more than 7 best paper awards in international conferences. He is a shortlisted finalist for The Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014 for innovative teaching and VC’s learning and teaching award in University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of IET, a senior member of IEEE and a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK.

He has given an invited TEDx talk (2015) and more than 50 plenary talks, tutorials and seminars in international conferences, events and other institutions. He has taught on international short courses in USA and China. He is the co-founder of IEEE Workshop BackNets 2015 and chair of several tracks/workshops of international conferences including next genertion networks track of IEEE ICC2020 and Technical Programme Chair for IEEE WCNC 2023. He is the UK&RI Chair for the Backhaul/Fronthaul Networking & Communications Emerging Technologies Initiatives (ETI-BNC) of IEEE ComSoc.

He has been advising several academic consortia and government organisations internationally on academic as well as technology related policies: including Thailand, Singapore, Brazil, India, Pakistan, China, UAE and Qatar.

He has been an associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IET Communications Journal and currently serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Access. He has served as guest editor for many prestigious international journals including IEEE JSAC.