Director of Discipline for Electronic and Electrical Engineering Email W.Popoola@ed.ac.uk Telephone +44(0)131 6508232 Location 1.15B Alexander Graham Bell Building Personal Page http://www.optical-communications.eng.ed.ac.uk/ Social Media https://www.linkedin.com/in/wasiu-o-popoola-01460821/?originalSubdomain=uk https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=lDUls0kAAAAJ&hl=en Engineering Discipline Electronics and Electrical Engineering Research Institutes Imaging, Data and Communications Research Publications Biography Wasiu O. Popoola is a Professor of Communications Engineering and the current Director of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. From 2019-2024, he was a Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching leading the School's initiatives on Widening Participation & Outreach. In 2022, he was awarded RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for his work on ‘ethical LiFi’ research. He has published over 200 journal articles, conference papers, patent and several invited articles. He also co-authored the acclaimed book ‘Optical Wireless Communications: System and Channel Modeling with MATLAB’ and many other book chapters. His primary research interests are digital and optical communications, including VLC/LiFi, FSO, and fiber communications. One of his journal articles ranked No. 2 in terms of the number of full text downloads within IEEE Xplore, in 2008, from the hundreds of articles published by IET Optoelectronics, since 1980. Another article he co-authored with one of his Ph.D. students received the Best Poster Award at the 2016 IEEE ICSAE Conference. Popoola is a science communicator appearing in science festivals and on “BBC Radio 5live Science” programme in Oct. 2017. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access Journal, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Senior Member of IEEE . He was an invited speaker at various events including the IET Lunch and Learn Lecture 2024, Rank Prize Symposium 2024, IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2016 among others. Academic Qualifications BSc (First Class Hons), MSc (Distinction), PhD Professional Qualifications and Memberships Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA) Fellow IET (FIET) Senior Member IEEE Member IEEE Photonic Society Specialities Wireless Communication systems Optical Fibre Communications Free-Space Optical Communications Visible Light Communications