The The 6th Colloquium on Antennas, Wireless and Electromagnetics - CAWE event is just a couple of weeks away! This event will provide a look at some early stage research on antennas and propagation, 5G, IoT and related topics. 


We have an exciting line up of speakers for the event including:

Richard Rudd

Richard Rudd is a Director at Plum with a particular interest in the modelling, measurement and underlying physics of radiowave propagation. Richard has managed many studies that have led to the development of new propagation models, generally based on measurements made in-house. He has developed a range of experimental equipment ranging from wideband channel sounders and bi-static radar systems to long-term data loggers and software defined radio systems. Richard has been an active participant in ITU-R Study Group 3 for many years, is one of the authors of the IET textbook “Propagation of radiowaves” and has published many peer-reviewed papers.

 


Jonathan Spencer

Jon is the technical lead for Dstl’s Resilient Deployed Communications research project. Jon has worked in the field of defence communications for over 20 years, in government and industry - where he managed two successful product developments to deliver advanced networking capabilities to tactical network users.

 
Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin

Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin (Senior Member IEEE 13', Member IEEE 08', Member IET 11') obtained his first degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, in electrical and telecommunication engineering in 2003. He then received his  Master and PhD degree in 2005 and 2008, respectively, from the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr Kamarudin is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber (CEWIC), Cranfield Defence and Security, Cranfield University, UK since June 2017. Prior to this appointment, he was an Associate Professor at Wireless Communication Centre (WCC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is an author of a book chapter of a book entitled Antennas and Propagation for BodyCentric Wireless Communications and has published more than 215 technical papers in journals and proceedings including IEEE Transaction on Antenna and Propagation (TAP), IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letter (AWPL), IEEE Antenna Magazine, IEEE Access and Electronics Letters. His research interests include antenna design for 5G, wireless body communications, body communications (implantable antenna), RF and microwave communication systems, and antenna diversity.

 
Mohamed Samra

Mohamed Samra is a third year PhD student at Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education. He is enthusiastic about investigating different wireless technologies that would enable innovation and scalability of the railway industry. His master thesis was supervised by Thales to survey various alternatives for GSM-R as a base for the signalling system. A final proposed system combined RFID for train positioning and low power ZigBee module for the data transmission. Now, Mohamed is collaborating with QinetiQ to research a more promising technology which is TV Whitespace with a focus on its ability to enable track condition monitoring from in-service trains.

 




James Parker

James is currently working toward the completion of my PhD at Aberystwyth University. From 2010-14, he was a Mphys student at Aberystwyth studying Physics with Planetary and Space Physics. After this he started my PhD at Aberystwyth university in 2014 with his research focusing on the modelling of the ionosphere under the joint supervision of the university and QinetiQ. Alongside completing his PhD, he is employed as a Research Associate in a SMART partnership between the Aberystwyth University and QinetiQ. The project is to investigate and document the requirements of a National Spectrum Innovation and Experimentation Centre, N-SIEEC.

 




Ben Clark

Ben Clark is a researcher in the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, U.K. He is currently in the write-up stage of a Ph.D under the supervision of Dr James A. Flint, focusing on direction of arrival estimation with time-modulated arrays. Ben received an M.Eng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University in 2014. His research interests outside of the Ph.D include embedded sensor integration and signal processing.






Saqib Mahmood:

Saqib Mahmood is a telecommunication engineer. He just finished his second master’s in Mobile and satellite communications from university of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK. He received his first MSc degree in project management from the same university. After doing his bachelors in telecommunication engineering from NUML university, Islamabad, Pakistan. He worked as an Assistant Executive Engineer in one of the leading engineering-based manufacturing company in Pakistan named as National Radio Telecommunications Corporation (NRTC). He was also involved in delivering technical trainings (related to NRTC products) to the engineers of Military Industries Corporation (MIC) in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 



Anastasios Christodoulides

Anastasios Christodoulides received the BEng (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 2015 and the MSc degree in Radio Frequency and Microwave Engineering with industrial studies from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 2017. He is an IET member since 2012.

He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K. His research interests include adaptive multiband metamaterials for structural air vehicle antennas.





Evangelos Vassos

Evangelos Vassos received the B.Sc. degree (Ptychio) in physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2015, the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications engineering (radioelectrology) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2017. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Birmingham (UoB), U.K. His research interests include millimetre-wave metamaterials and tuning technologies along with developing millimetre-wave and terahertz metamaterial sensors.





Mark Hawkins

Mark has worked in RF and specifically mobile communications systems, focussing on the physical layer and air interface, in a R&D context for over ten years’. This has included leading significant research on UK Government programmes, and participating in international trials. Most recently Mark has championed QinetiQ’s involvement in 5G - leading QinetiQ’s contribution to the successful Worcestershire 5G Testbed as part of the DCMS Phase 1 Trials and Testbeds Programme. Mark is a QinetiQ Fellow, Chartered Physicist and has a first class Master of Physics Degree from Oxford University.





Sajid M. Asif

Sajid M. Asif received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Dakota State University, USA, in 2017. Currently, he is working as a post-doc researcher at the University of Sheffield, focusing on tunable antennas for 5G applications. His work appears in 42 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research interests include RF/microwave circuits, printed antennas, wireless sensors, and RF energy harvesting. He was the Vice-Chair and Chair of the IEEE Red River Valley section in 2015 and 2016, respectively. He is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE-AP-S Doctoral Research Award (2015) and the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship Award (2015–2016). He is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu.






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