Shahid Mumtaz is currently working as Senior Research Scientist and Technical Manager at Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal under 4Tell group. Prior to his current position, he worked as Research Intern at Ericsson and Huawei Research Labs in 2005 at Karlskrona, Sweden. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) Karlskrona, Sweden and University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Dr Shahid MSc and PhD were funded by Swedish government and FCT Portugal.
He has been involved in several EC R&D Projects ((5GPP - Speed-5G), CoDIV, FUTON, C2POWER, GREENET, GREEN-T, ORCALE, ROMEO, FP6, and FP7) in the field of green communication and next generation wireless systems. In EC projects, he holds the position of technical manager, where he oversees the project from a scientific and technical side, managing all details of each work packages which gives the maximum impact of the project’s results for further development of commercial solutions. He has been also involved in two Portuguese funded projects (SmartVision & Mobilia) in the area of networking coding and development of system level simulator for 5G wireless system. Dr Shahid has several years of experience in 3GPP radio systems research with experience in HSPA/LTE/LTE-A and strong track-record in relevant technology field, especially physical layer technologies, LTE cell planning and optimization, protocol stack and system architecture. Dr Shahid research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to 3GPP networks (i.e., LTE-A user plan & control plan protocol stack, NAS and EPC), 5G related technologies, green communications, cognitive radio, cooperative networking, radio resource management, cross-layer design, Backhaul/fronthaul, heterogeneous networks, M2M and D2D communication, and baseband digital signal processing.
Dr. Shahid has more than 60 publications in international conferences, journal papers and book chapters. He is serving as a Vice-Chair of IEEE 5G Standardization. In 2012, Shahid was awarded an "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) to pursue research in communication networks for one year at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is also editor of two books and served as guest editor for special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and IEEE Communication Magazine. Recently, he is appointed as permanent associate technical editor for IEEE Communication Magazine and Elsevier Journal of Digital Communication and Network. He has been on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and VTC, and chaired some of their symposia. He was the workshop chair in many conference and recipient of the 2006 IITA Scholarship, South Korea. Dr. Shahid is a IEEE member.
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2003; the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Blekinge, Sweden, in 2006; and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 2014. Since April 2014, he has been a Senior Research Engineer with the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal.
He is the author of several publications, including conferences, journals, and a book chapter. His research activities include fifth-generation (5G), energy-efficient wireless communication, radio resource management for green cellular networks, and coordinated scheduling.
Linglong Dai received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2003, the M.S. degree (with the highest honors) from the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree (with the highest honors) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, and then since July 2013, became an Assistant Professor with the same Department. His research interests are in wireless communications with the emphasis on OFDM, MIMO, synchronization, channel estimation, multiple access techniques, and wireless positioning. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers.
Dr. Dai has received IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award in 2015 (IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Best Paper Award), IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2014, URSI Young Scientists Award in 2014, National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2013, IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2013, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing in 2012, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Tsinghua University in 2011. He currently serves as a co-chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) “Signal processing techniques in 5G communication systems” of IEEE ComSoc.
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Valerio Frascolla obtained the MSc and the PhD in electrical engineering from Ancona University, Italy, where he worked as research fellow till 2006, when he moved to Germany to join Comneon as concept engineer, focusing on SW architectures for mobile phones and attending 3GPP CT1 and CT Plenary standardization bodies. In 2010 he joined Infineon Technologies as funding and research project manager, focusing on design and requirement management of wireless platforms. Since 2011 he is the European responsible person for funding activities and innovation manager at Intel Mobile Communications, based in Munich, Germany.
Dr. Frascolla is an experienced project and program manager, obtained the CSM and CSPO certifications in 2013, has been contributing in different roles to several European and national funded projects and acts as facilitator of innovation using agile methodologies. He has a track record of technical excellence, being author of several papers, invited speaker, conference chairman and member of numerous TPC. His research interests are in Hw/Sw co-design, 5G wireless communications and low-power system design.
Syed Ali Hassan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA in 2011. He received his MS Mathematics from Georgia Tech in 2011 and MS Electrical Engineering from University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2007. He was awarded BE degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2004. His broader area of research is signal processing for communications with a focus on cooperative communications for wireless networks, stochastic modeling, estimation and detection theory, and smart grid communications.
Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, where he is the director of Information Processing and Transmission (IPT) Lab, which focuses on various aspects of theoretical communications. He also held industry positions, in Cisco Systems Inc. CA., USA, and Center for Advanced Research in Engineering, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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