Muhammad Imran

Dr Muhammad Imran (IEEE Senior Member, 2012) [CoI, Surrey] is currently a Reader in Communications in the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS - formerly known as CCSR) at the University of Surrey, UK and an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He played a leading role in a number of multimillion-funded international research projects encompassing the areas of energy efficiency, fundamental performance limits, sensor networks and self-organising cellular networks. He was lead PI on EPSRC REDUCE grant (EP/I000232/1) and CI on India-UK ATC (EP/J016632/1), Informed RF grants (EP/N020391/1). He is also leading 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 21 successful PhD graduates and published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers including more than 20 IEEE Transaction papers. He has received 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, FEPS Learning and Teaching award 2014 and twice nominated for Tony Jean’s Inspirational Teaching award. 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 co-editor of the book “Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks” published by Springer. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK.