Keynote speakers

Towards 6G: Advances in Wireless Communications and Signal Processing

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Biography

Professor of Communication Systems in the University of Glasgow, Dean of Graduate Studies and Transnational Engineering Education, Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging (CSI) hub and Director of Centre of Educational Development and Innovation. I have previously served as the Head of Autonomous Systems and Connectivity research division at James Watt School of Engineering and as Visiting Professor for Ajman University UAE. I also serve as an affiliate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA and 5G Innovation centre, University of Surrey, UK.

I have led a number of multimillion-funded international research projects and led the "new physical layer" work area for 5G innovation centre at Surrey (2011 - 2016). I have a global collaborative research network spanning both academia and key industrial players in the field of wireless communications. I have supervised 60+ successful PhD graduates and published over 1000 peer-reviewed research papers including more than 600 published in IEEE venues. Link  to Prof. Muhammad Imran's webpage.

Micro-LEDs for optical wireless communication and digital lighting

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Biography

Professor Martin D. Dawson FRS FRSE FIEEE FOSA FInstP is a physicist known for his work on lasers and compound semiconductors. He is Director of Research in the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics, which he helped establish 28 years ago, and he was also appointed inaugural Head and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (Fh-CAP), the UK's only Fraunhofer research centre, in 2012. Martin has over 35 years’ experience of applied research gained in academia and industry in the UK and USA and he has been involved in the formation and technical development of a number of spin-out businesses, most recently including mLED and Neuro-VLC. He gave the Rank Prize Lecture in 2014 and the Edwards Lecture in 2023 and he has received awards including Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics; Aron Kessel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society; Nick Holonyak Jr Award from Optica/OSA; Global Solid State Lighting Award of Outstanding Achievement from ISA; Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Photonics Society. He and his group have twice been awarded the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award (2019 and 2022). He and his colleagues' contributions were recognised in the award of the 2023 Queen's Anniversary Prize to the University of Strathclyde for 'Excellence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Photonics'. Link  to Prof. Martin Dawson's webpage.