Ayaz Ahmad

Summary

Ayaz Ahmad is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad – Wah Campus, Pakistan. Prior to that he was anAssistant Professor in the same university. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Wireless Communication from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Faculty Member with the Department of Electrical Engineering, FAST-NUCES, Peshawar, Pakistan. He is the recipient of best research paper award from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan for the years 2015 -2016, National Research Productivity Award from Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (PSCT) in 2017, best research paper award in IEEE IEMCON 2018 held in Canada, and Publon Top Peer Reviewer award in 2019. He has several years of research experience and has authored or co-authored several scientific publications in various refereed international journals and conferences. He has also authored or co-authored several book chapters, and is the leading Co-Editor of the book Smart Grid as a Solution for Renewable and Efficient Energy published in 2016. He is Associate Editor with IEEE Access, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, PeerJ Computer Science and Frontiers in Smart Grids. He has twice served as Guest Editor for the IEEE ACCESS. He is regularly serving as a TPC member for several international conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC and IEEE PIMRC, and as a reviewer for several renowned international journals. He is Senior Member IEEE and Associate Fellow of Advance HE, UK. He is a member of the IEEE Communication Society. He is expert in Outcome Based Education system. His research interests include resource allocation in wireless communication systems, energy management in smart grid, and the application of optimization methods to engineering problems.

Computer Networks & Communications