Masood Ur Rehman

Proactive lecturer and researcher with 10+ years of experience in the field of wireless communications and antenna design.

Masood Ur Rehman received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 2004 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He worked at Queen Mary University of London as a postdoctoral research assistant till 2012 before joining the Centre for Wireless Research at University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer. He served briefly at the University of Essex and then moved to the James Watt School of Engineering at University of Glasgow in the capacity of an Assistant Professor in 2019. He currently works as an Associate Professor at University of Glasgow. His research interests include compact antenna design, radiowave propagation, satellite navigation system antennas in cluttered environment, electromagnetic wave interaction with human body, wireless sensor networks in healthcare and environmental monitoring, mmWave and nano communications for body-centric networks and D2D/H2H communications. He has worked on several projects supported by industrial partners and research councils. He has contributed to a patent and authored/co-authored 5 books, 8 book chapters and more than 170 technical articles in leading journals and peer reviewed conferences. Dr. Ur-Rehman is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IET and BioEM and part of the technical program committees and organizing committees of several international conferences, workshops, and special sessions. He is a committee member of IEEE APS/SC WG P145, IEEE APS Best Paper Award committee and Pearson's focus group on formative assessment. He is acting as an editor of PeerJ Computer Science, associate editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, IET Electronics Letters and Microwave & Optical Technology Letters, topic editor for MDPI Sensors, editorial advisor to CambridgeScholars Publishing, and lead guest editor of numerous special issues of renowned journals. He is vice-chair of IEEE APS/MTTS UKRI Chapetr and Scotland Joint Chapter and acted as Workshop Chair for Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond in IEEE VTC-S 2023, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, TPC chair for UCET2020 and BodyNets2021 conferences. He also serves as a reviewer for EPSRC and international funding bodies, book publishers, IEEE conferences and leading journals.