Prof. Shahid Mumtaz

Prof. Shahid Mumtaz , PhD, CEng, FIET, SMIEEE

Professor United Kingdom

Prof. Shahid Mumtaz is a Full Professor at Nottingham Trent University with over 15 years of experience in wireless industry and academia. He is an IET Fellow, IEEE ComSoc/VTS/IAS Distinguished Speaker, and ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Biography

Prof. Shahid Mumtaz is a Full Professor at Nottingham Trent University (since 2023) and a leading researcher in 5G/6G wireless technologies using AI/ML and Digital Twin (VR/XR) tools. He has served as Senior 5G Consultant for Huawei and InterDigital, and has over 15 years of wireless industry and academic experience.

He has authored 4 technical books, 12 book chapters, and over 300 papers (200+ in journals/transactions and 90+ in conferences), along with 4 patents and 2 standards contributions. His research has garnered over 12,000 citations with an h-index of 60.

Prof. Mumtaz serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Journal of Quantum Communication (which he founded) and the Alexandria Engineering Journal (Elsevier), and as Associate Editor of several IEEE journals including IEEE Communications Magazine. He has been Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc Green Communications and Computing (Europe/Africa Region) and Vice-Chair of IEEE Standard P1932.1.

He has secured approximately 6 million euros in research funding and has supervised numerous PhD and Master students. He is an IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, IEEE ComSoc/VTS/IAS Distinguished Lecturer, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Young Professional Award (2019).

Research Statement

My research focuses on 5G/6G wireless technologies using AI/ML and Digital Twin (VR/XR) tools, with emphasis on innovation bridging industry and academia. Key areas include next-generation wireless communications, Internet of Things, machine learning for communications, and energy-efficient network design.

Education

2011

PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

University of Aveiro, Portugal

2006

MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Academic Positions

2023 - Present

Full Professor

Nottingham Trent University

Senior 5G Consultant

Huawei

Senior 5G Consultant

InterDigital

Visiting Researcher

Bell Labs

Antwerp, Belgium

2005 - 2006

Research Engineer

Ericsson / Huawei Research Labs

Sweden

2002 - 2003

System Engineer

Pak Telecom

Awards & Recognition 6

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2020

IEEE IAS Distinguished Lecturer

Lectureship

IEEE Industry Applications Society

2019

Best Paper Award – IWCMC 2019

Best Paper Award

IEEE

Paper: Task Offloading for Vehicular Fog Computing under Information Uncertainty: A Matching-Learning Approach. IEEE 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Tangier, Morocco.

2019

IEEE ComSoc Young Professional Award 2019

Research Award

IEEE Communications Society

2018

Best Paper Award – IEEE ComSoc CSIM 2018

Best Paper Award

IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on CSIM

Paper: When Mobile Crowd Sensing Meets UAV: Energy-Efficient Task Assignment and Route Planning

2017

NSFC Research Fund for International Young Scientists

Research Award

National Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

IET Fellow

Fellowship

IET - Institution of Engineering and Technology

Research Projects 17

EU Projects

2023–2026

6G-SENSES

In Progress Technical Manager

6G Sensing Initiative

SNS-JU · €400K

2022–2025

6G-XR

In Progress PI

6G eXperimental Research infrastructure to enable next-generation XR services

SNS-JU Phase 1 · €350K

5GENESIS

Finished Co-PI

5th Generation End-to-end Network, Experimentation, System Integration, and Showcasing

5G-PPP · €300K

SPEED-5G

Finished Co-PI

Quality of Service Provision and Capacity Expansion through Extended-DSA for 5G

EU · €300K

CoDiv

Finished Researcher

Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing Cooperative Diversity

EU · €400K

FUTON

Finished Researcher

Fibre-Optic Networks for Distributed Extendible Heterogeneous Radio Architectures and Service Provisioning

EU · €300K

ORACLE

Finished Researcher

Opportunistic Radio Communications in Unlicensed Environments

EU · €300K

C2Power

Finished Researcher

Cognitive Radio and Cooperative Strategies for Power Saving in Multi-standard Wireless Devices

EU · €300K

WHERE2

Finished Researcher

Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimator - Phase 2

EU · €300K

Greenet

Finished Researcher

Analysis, Design and Optimization of Energy in Efficient Wireless Communication Systems and Networks

FP7 · €600K

ROMEO

Finished Researcher

Remote Collaborative Real-Time Multimedia Experience over the Future Internet

EU · €300K

International Projects

2024–2025

UK-Indian 6G

In Progress PI

Open RAN for Next-Gen 6G Communications Using AI-based Quantum Computing

British Council · €60K

FCT (Portuguese) Projects

2021–2023

BATS-FCT

Finished PI

Intelligent and Sustainable Aerial-Terrestrial IoT Networks

FCT · €250K

5G-BMW

In Progress PI

5G-mmWave Broadband Communication

FCT · €50K

GreenT

Finished Researcher

GreenT

FCT · €200K

Mobilia

Finished Researcher

Mobilia

FCT · €100K

SmartVision

Finished Researcher

SmartVision

FCT · €400K

Publications 93

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