PRI Research Seminar Series on 29 August 2024 (Thursday): Optical Wireless Communications for IoT Applications

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Optical Wireless Communications for IoT Applications

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Future wireless communication networks (i.e., 6G and beyond) will seamlessly connect people, devices, and systems together, enabling the collection, preparation, processing, storing and decision making of large amounts of information. It is anticipated that such wireless networks will be used in smart environments, including homes/buildings/cities, manufacturing, agriculture, health care, transportation systems, etc., for improving productivity and the quality of life through the efficient and sustainable resources management and use. 6G will need the convergence of different wireless technologies, assisted by machine learning to solve flexibility and scalability issues. This talk will give an overview of the emerging integrated wireless technology focusing on optical sensing, positioning and data communication within the context of 6G wireless networks and beyond, using common spectrum, device, transmission and network infrastructure to improve both spectral and energy efficiencies.

_^Biography

Prof. Zabih GHASSEMLOOY is a Fellow of OPTICA; Fellow of IET; Senior Member of IEEE; Member of IAENG, CEng. Google Scholar: Citation of 23537, h-index of 65 and i10-index of 441. BSc (Hons.), Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK, (1981), MSc (1984), and PhD (1987) Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 joined Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK as a Lecturer becoming head of Communication and DSP Subject Group and funding Head of Optical Communications Research Group and a Professor (1997), 2004-14 Associate Dean for Research, School of Eng., School of Computer, Eng. and Information Sciences, and Faculty of Eng. & Env., Northumbria Univ., UK, and currently is the Head of Photonics Technology Laboratory and Optical Communications Research Group. A Research Fellow (2016-22) and a Distinguished Professor (2015-2022) at the Chinese Academy of Science. Visiting Professor at Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (2013-17), Huaqiao Univ., China (2017-18), Technical Univ. of Prague, Czech Rep. (2019), Technical Univ. of Graz, Austria (2018), and others. Vice-Chairs of EU Cost-Action IC1101 (2011-16) and Cost Action CA19111, 2020-24. IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25. Research interests: optical wireless communications (OWC), free space optics, visible light communications, optical camera communications, hybrid RF-OWC, with many funded research projects from UK Research Council, UK Space Agency, European Union (including 3 Marie Curie DT Network Programmes in the last 4 years), and industries in collaboration with international research centres. Over 1024 publications [437 journals (IEEE, IET, IoP, OPTICA, Elsevier, etc.), 8 books, 25 book chapters, 33 invited papers, and 3 White Papers on OWC] with a total download of over 120,000 at IEEE xplore. 16 awards and prizes (including best papers) and 115 keynote/invited talks. Supervised 13 Research Fellows and 76 PhDs. Founding Head of the European Collaborative Research Network since 2020. Chief Editor of International J. of Optics and Applications (2015-24), Associate Editor of several journals (IEEE, IET, etc.), Guest/Co-guest Editor of special issues (18 in total) on OWC in IEEE, IET, etc., and members of Editorial boards of many journals. Expert panel member of Research Organisations (UK (2003-16), Ireland (2002-03), Poland (2020-24), EU (2019-) and Germany (2009)), Vice-Chair of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-); Executive Committee Member of IEEE UK/RI Nano-technology Chapter (2024-); and Chair of IEEE Student-Branch at Northumbria University (2019-). 2004-06 was IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, Vice-Chair (2006-2008), Chair (2008-11), Chair of IET Northumbria Network (2011-15), Vice-Chair of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-21), and European Association for Signal Processing UK Liaison Officer (2008-15). Founding Chairman of the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communications Systems, Networks and DSP (1988-), West Asian Symposium on Optical and mmW Wireless Communications (2018-), and South American Colloquium on Visible Light Communications (2018-); Chair/vice-Chair of 16 international conferences; co-founder/organiser of 25 international events including Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in IEEE ICC (2015-16), colloquium on OWC in CSNDSP since 2004, and international Workshop on OWC since 2015. He is a member of international technical committee of many international conferences including IEEE ICC and Globecom.