Professor Qammer H. Abbasi
James Watt School of Engineering
622, James Watt South Building,
University Avenue, G12 8QQ, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Qammer H. Abbasi is a Professor of Applied Electromagnetics & Sensing with the James Watt School of Engineering, executive director for Communication Sensing and Imaging Hub and School theme lead for Connecting People priority at University of Glasgow, UK. He has grant portfolio of £12m+ and contributed to 450+ leading international technical journal and peer reviewed conference papers (including nature portfolio) and 11 books and received several recognitions for his research including URSI Young Scientist Awards 2019, UK exceptional talent endorsement by Royal Academy of Engineering, Sensor Young Scientist Award 2021, World Class Professor by Indonesian Ministry 2022, National talent pool award by Pakistan, International Young Scientist Award by NSFC China, University Research Excellence Award, Research Culture award commendation 2021 and University Wide Teaching Excellence Award 2022 at Glasgow, 11 best paper awards, Best chapter award 2021 as chair from IEEE APS and IEEE MTT both, Named one of the top 100 influential voices in 5G as per the June 2022 report "Who is Who in 5G?" by Analytica as few examples. In addition, his work received media coverage by Analog IC tips, Microwaves & RF newsletters, Vertical news, BBC news, Scotland TV, Fiercewireless, and many other media houses around the world.

Prof. Abbasi is Fellow of European Alliance of Innovation, Industrial Fellow for Royal Academy of Engineering (2022-2023), Fellow of Royal society of Arts, Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Senior member of IEEE. He is an Associate editor for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE open journal of Antenna and Propagation and Scientific reports. He is/was a committee member for IEEE APS Young professional, Sub-committee chair for IEEE YP Ambassador program, IEEE 1906.1.1 standard on nano communication, IEEE APS/SC WG P145, IET Antenna & Propagation and healthcare network and Union of Radio Science Commission B UK representative. Prof. Abbasi has been a member of the technical program committees of several IEEE flagship conferences and technical reviewer for several IEEE and top notch journals and acted as TPC chair and executive chair for 4th, 5th and 6th international UCET conference 2019, 2020, 2021 in addition to EAI Bodynets 2021 General Chair, local organising chair IEEE WCNC2023, EUCAP 2024 and ICC2026. His research interests include antennas for 5G/6G, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, nano-scale EM communication, wearable and implantable sensors, Joint Sensing and Communication and Terahertz.

Titles of talks:

• A next wave of Wireless Communication is Here: How 6G will Evolve and its Enablers?
• Reconfigurable intelligent Surfaces and their applications in real life
• Nano-scale Electromagnetic based Communication for Future Healthcare
• Contactless Sustainable Healthcare for all using radio frequency sensing
• How to get maximum from the supervision for both supervisor and supervisee (for general audience)