The Academic Future Networks Strategy Group is responsible for coordinating academic activity and inputs across the telecoms sector, both at lower technical readiness levels and fundamental research areas.
Led by the University of Bristol, the group comprises established leading academic researchers from across the UK’s research ecosystem-including from research centres such as 6G Futures, 6G Innovation Centre, FONRC and EPSRC Future Telecoms Capabilities Hubs. It will also receive input from Early Career Research Fellows in the most exciting areas of telecoms innovation.
Group outputs are fed into the UKTIN Telecoms R&D Future Capability Strategic Leadership Forum.
Group Members
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Group Chair
Prof. Maziar Nekovee
Professor of Telecoms and Mobile Technologies, Head of Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT, University of Sussex
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UKTIN Lead for UK Research Capability
Dimitra Simeonidou
Director of Smart Internet Lab, Co-Director of Bristol Digital Futures Institute - University of Bristol
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UKTIN Lead for Future Telecoms Capability
Dritan Kaleshi
Director of Technology – 5G, Co-Director of SONIC Labs - Digital Catapult
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Prof. Timothy O’Farrell
Chair in Wireless Communication, Sheffield University
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Prof. Alwyn Seeds
Professor of Optoelectronics, Head of Photonics Group at UCL
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Prof. Bruno Clerckx
Professor of Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Head of the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College
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Prof. Periklis Petropoulos
Professor of Optical Communications and Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, at the University of Southampton
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Prof. Martin Kuball
Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Bristol
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Syed Zaidi
Associate Professor, Leeds University
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Prof. Mahesh Marina
Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University
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Prof. Jianming Tang
Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the DSP Centre, Bangor University
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Prof. Simon Cotton
Director of the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI), Belfast University
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Prof. Dominic O’Brien
Professor of Engineering Science, Oxford University
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Prof. Julie McCann
Professor of Computer Systems, Imperial College
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Prof. Harald Haas
Professor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Strathclyde University
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Dr. Fatma Benkhelifa
Lecturer in Telecommunications, Queen Mary University of London
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Dr. Abderrahmen Trichili
UK IC Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow, Oxford University
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Yathreb Bouazizi
Research Associate, Imperial College London
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Prof. Ning Wang
Professor in Networks, University of Surrey
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Dr. Iman Tavakkolnia
Assistant Professor, Cambridge University
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Prof. Polina Bayvel
Professor of Optical Communications & Networks, UCL
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UKTIN Strategic Engagement
Kishan Nundloll
Policy, Research & Strategic Engagement Lead - Digital Catapult
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UKTIN Strategic Engagement
Kostas Katsaros
Lead 5G Technologist - Digital Catapult
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Dr Ferheen Ayaz
Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London