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Professor Raed A. Abd-Alhameed

Ammar H. Ali

Ammar received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Communication engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq in 2001 and an M.Sc. in Communication

Raed is Professor of Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency Engineering at the University of Bradford. Currently, he is the leader of Radio Frequency and Computational Electromagnetics research Group and head of RF measurements,

Network Planning and Management from the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2009. He has been a research student in the Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics research group within the Electronics, Communications and Information Systems Engineering (ECISE), University of Bradford since 2014. His research focuses on beam steering antenna design. He has worked in several telecommunication companies, which gave him practical experience besides his theoretical knowledge in the telecommunications field.

in the School of Engineering and Informatics, Bradford University. He is Principal Investigator for several funded projects from EPSRC, EU, TSB, RDP, SIP and has led several successful Knowledge Transfer Programmes (KTPs) for Pace Plc, Yorkshire water Plc, Seven Technologies Group, WiMAC Ltd, ITEG Ltd. and Harvard Engineering Ltd. He has published over 400 academic journal and conference papers and is co-author of three books and several book chapters. Prof. Abd-Alhameed is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Member of IEEE and a Chartered Engineer in the UK.

Professor Yim Fun Hu

Costas Kyriacou

Professor Yim Fun Hu is Professor of Wireless Communications Engineering at the University of Bradford since 2005. She is the leader of the Communications and Networks Research Unit and the head of the Future Ubiquitous Networks

Costas Kyriacou graduated with an Honours degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Leeds Beckett (Metropolitan) University in 1995. In 1979, he joined British Telecom and gained an in-depth

Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics of the same university. Prof. Hu has received considerable funding support through participation in and contributions to many flagship projects funded by the EU, European Space Agency, UK research funding councils, Innovate UK and industry. Her major research is in mobile, wireless and satellite communication networks and applications in vehicular communications networks (aircraft and trains), Internet of Things and digital health. Prof. Hu has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and international conferences, and co-authored one book, edited two books and contributed to five book chapters. Prof. Hu is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

knowledge of analogue and digital transmission equipment, which includes RF, optical and various multiplexing systems. In January 1997, he joined Yorkshire Cable Communications, where he was responsible for the testing/evaluation of a variety of RF and optical products and providing a support role for the network and the headend staff. Whilst at Telewest/ Virgin Media, as CPE Hardware Development Manager and Engineer, his responsibilities were for all aspects of testing, test development, product/system evaluation and design with recommendations, laboratory manager and principle authority in the RF, optical and CPE hardware discipline. This included a variety of hardware CPE, wireless gateway products and test developments. He now works for Thales as a hardware engineer.

Mark B. Child

Mark B. Child was born in Halifax, England, in 1967. He received a BSc (Hons) in Physics from Lancaster University in 1990 and an MSc in

BTS filters and antennas at Filtronic plc. From 2008 to 2015, he was a research engineer and part-time lecturer with the electromagnetics and antennas group at Bradford University. His research interests include electromagnetism and microwave engineering, with reference to the theory, design and computer modelling of filters and small antennas.

Radiation Physics from St. Andrew’s University in 1994. From 1998 to 2007, he was a senior development engineer involved with

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