I have been involved in ten departmental roles, details of which are provided in this section. Other minor duties, often shared with colleagues, include the moderation of exam papers and exam scripts of international partner universities, the assessment of undergraduate and MSc projects, the regular appraisal of PhD candidates and the internal evaluation of PhD dissertations.
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Duties include chairing postgraduate teaching committee meetings and student-staff committee meetings, overseeing the delivery of MSc programmes, participating in faculty meetings and standing academic committee meetings, and monitoring extension requests and plagiarism cases.
(9/2022-present)
Postgraduate Examinations Officer
Responsible for conducting the examination process of MSc programmes, analysing exam marks, organising departmental examination boards, and participating in university-wide examination boards.
(9/2022-present)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Key activities include to: develop and implement teaching and learning strategies, manage teaching assistants, participate in faculty meetings and university strategic reviews, lead the annual courses review event, lead widening participation activities, and oversee international partner programmes.
(1 year, 8/2020-07/2021)
Year 2 Undergraduate Tutor
Duties focus on the day-to-day running of the 2nd year BSc/MSci programmes in Computer Science, Computer Science with Design and Software Engineering, including the allocation of 3rd year projects at the end of Year 2.
(2 years, 8/2018-7/2020)
MSc Director - Wireless Communication Systems
Responsible for the promotion and day-to-day running of the MSc degree progamme in Wireless Communication Systems.
(1 year, 9/2017-8/2018)
Curriculum Delivery Officer (QA)
The main duty of this post is to maintain curriculum quality assurance and, in particular, monitor the peer observation and teaching processes, update the student handbook, contribute to the accreditation process, and participate in industrial advisory board meetings.
(1 year, 9/2017-8/2018)
Plagiarism Officer
This role involves the consideration of alleged offences committed by undergraduate and postgraduate students, the determination of the severity of each offence based on the institutional plagiarism framework and the initiation of disciplinary actions.
(3 years, 9/2013-8/2015, 9/2016-08/2017)
Member of TACT
The Timely Assessment Calibration Team (TACT) monitors the marking of coursework elements and aspires to
maintain a high coursework return rate within the department.
(1 year, 9/2016-08/2017)
Part I Examinations Officer
Responsible for maintaining the quality and conduct of the examination process of 1st-year undergraduate modules (Part I), coordinating the preparation and moderation of exam papers, collating and analysing the marks, organising internal examination boards and participating in Part I university-wide examination boards.
(3 years, 9/2011-8/2014)
Co-organiser of Lecture Series
Responsible for inviting distinguished guest speakers and organising regular talks for the members of the department.
(1 year, 9/2010-8/2011)
- Yuri Tavares dos Passos, “Congestion Control of Robotic Swarms in the Common Target Area Problem: Theory and Algorithms”, Supervisor: Dr L. S. Marcolino, Aug. 2023
- Binbin Su, “Resource Allocation Optimization for Future Wireless Communication Systems”, Supervisor: Prof. Q. Ni, Sep. 2020
- Yi Yuan, “Resource Allocation and Secure Communication Design in Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer Systems”, Supervisor: Prof. Z. Ding, Jan. 2018
- Arooj M. Siddiqui, “Design and Performance Analysis of Energy Harvesting Communications Systems”, Supervisors: Dr L. Musavian and Prof. Q. Ni, May 2017
- Ivan Manuylov, “Automated Quality of Service Assessment in Heterogeneous Networks”, Supervisor: Prof. G. Markarian, May 2014
- Laura Crane, “Investigating the Role of Context in Mobile Access to Virtual Learning Environments”, Supervisor: Dr P. Benachour, Feb. 2014
- Nikolay Petrov, “Sequential Monte-Carlo Methods for Extended and Group Object Tracking”, Supervisor: Dr M. Mihaylova, Jan. 2013
- Sohail Razzaq, “Routing and Mission Planning in Autonomous Systems”, Supervisor: Prof. C. Xydeas, Aug. 2012
“Signal Processing and Coding Techniques for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Wireless Machine-Type Communications”
Sahar Allahkaram
“Investigation of Non-Binary Trellis Codes Designed for Impulsive Noise Environments”
Wael Shalan Abd Alaziz
“Performance Analysis for Industrial Wireless Networks”
Nemanja Zdravković
“Iterative Decoding combined with Physical Layer Network Coding on Impulsive Noise Channels”
Yuanyi Zhao
“Short Codes for Telecommand Space Link”
Nicola Maturo
“Cross Layer Design and Evaluation of Raptor Codes for Reliable and Efficient Multimedia Content Transmission over WLANs”
Berna Bulut
“Towards Cooperative Routing in Underwater and Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks”
Sheeraz Ahmed
“Novel LDPC Coding and Decoding Strategies: Design, Analysis and Algorithms”
Jingjing Liu
“Novel Traffic-based Energy Dependent Optimization to Increase the Lifetime and Performance of Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks”
Qasim Raza Iqbal
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Commun. Theory Symp., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Commun. Theory Symp., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Global Inform. Infrastr. and Net. Symp. (GIIS), Argostoli, Greece
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Commun. Theory Symp., Madrid, Spain
Int. Symp. on Wireless Comm. Syst. (ISWCS), Berlin, Germany
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Commun. Theory Symp., Taipei, Taiwan
Int. Symp. on Wireless Comm. Syst. (ISWCS), Oulu, Finland
Int. Conf. on Adv. Comp. Tools for Eng. Appl. (ACTEA), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Hanoi, Vietnam
Global Inform. Infrastr. and Net. Symp. (GIIS), Thessaloniki, Greece
Int. Symp. on Wireless Comm. Syst. (ISWCS), Lisbon, Portugal
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Toronto, Canada
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Limassol, Cyprus
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Thessaloniki, Greece
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Nanjing, China
European Wireless, Workshop on Coding Techniques for 5G Networks, Budapest, Hungary
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Glasgow, UK
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Lisbon, Portugal
IEEE Wireless Comm. & Net. Conf. (WCNC), Workshop on New Advances in Physical Layer Net. Coding, Shanghai, China
Int. Symp. on Commun. Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Newcastle, UK
Reviewer for the following book publisher:
- Springer, “Signals and Communication Technology” series
Regular reviewer for the following journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- IEEE Communications Letters
- IET Electronics Letters
- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
- Elsevier Physical Communication
- Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems
IEEE Int. Symp. on Inform. Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece
IEEE GLOBECOM, Commun. Theory Symp., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Florence, Italy
IEEE GLOBECOM, Commun. Theory Symp., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IEEE Int. Symp. on Inform. Theory (ISIT), Espoo, Finland
Global Inform. Infrastr. and Net. Symp. (GIIS), Argostoli, Greece
IEEE GLOBECOM, Commun. Theory Symp., Madrid, Spain
Int. Symp. on Wireless Comm. Syst. (ISWCS), Berlin, Germany
IEEE Int. Symp. on Inform. Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Australia
IEEE Wireless Comm. and Net. Conf. (WCNC), Nanjing, China
IEEE GLOBECOM, Commun. Theory Symp., Taipei, Taiwan
Int. Conf. on Adv. Comp. Tools for Eng. Appl. (ACTEA), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon
European Wireless, Aarhus, Denmark
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Hanoi, Vietnam
Global Inform. Infrastr. and Net. Symp. (GIIS), Thessaloniki, Greece
Int. Symp. on Wireless Comm. Syst. (ISWCS), Lisbon, Portugal
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Limassol, Cyprus
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Sydney, Australia
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Thessaloniki, Greece
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Nanjing, China
European Wireless, Workshop on Coding Techniques for 5G Networks, Budapest, Hungary
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Lisbon, Portugal
IEEE Int. Conf. on Commun. (ICC), Budapest, Hungary
IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, USA
IEEE MASCOTS, Singapore
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Budapest, Hungary
IEEE GLOBECOM, Workshop on Mobile Computing & Emerging Commun. Networks, Miami, USA
Int. Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CrownCom), Cannes, France
Int. Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT), Doha, Qatar
IEEE Int. Conf. on Commun. (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa
IEEE Int. Conf. on Ultra-Wideband, Hannover, Germany
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Calgary, Canada
IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Singapore
IEEE Int. Conf. on Commun. (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey
- Full Member of the Peer Review College of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) since Feb. 2018. Associate Member in the period Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2018
- Member of Working Group 1 (WG1) on Trustworthy 6G of COST Action CA22168 - Physical Layer Security for Trustworthy and Resilient 6G Systems, 2023-2027
- Member of the UK Management Committee of COST Action IC1104 - Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q), 2011-2016
- Guest editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Network Coding, Q1 of 2016
- Chairperson, Session on Satellite Commun. (3E) and Session on Veh. Coop. and Control (6F), IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, Jun. 2022
- Chairperson, Session on Coding I (T1-2), IEEE Int. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun. (PIMRC), Bologna, Italy, Sep. 2018
- Chairperson, Session on Coop. Commun. (3A) and Session on Perf. Eval. (1I), IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Vancouver, Canada, Sep. 2014
- External foreign expert, Technical Review Panel, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022
- Research outputs evaluator, National Research Foundation of South Africa, 2010