Inaugural Lecture - Professor Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir

We are delighted to invite you to the above Inaugural Lecture by Professor Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, of UWS's School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Join us at Paisley Campus on Thursday 8th June at 5pm - register now.

"When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance." Nikola Tesla (1925)

There is an indispensable need for the digital transformation of our society, economy, and industry. Wireless technology has been considered as one of the breakthroughs of the 20th century to digitise our future and deliver Fifth Industrial Revolution (Industry 5.0). Recent wireless technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Holographic Communications, and 5G/6G connectivity, have already started to change the way we work, live, and do things in our daily lives.

Now, we can deploy wireless sensors to monitor anything anywhere anytime and use the collected information or data to train Artificial Intelligent (AI) algorithms to detect an anomaly, predict the future, create alerts, and automate the processes.

This inaugural lecture is a personal reflection of research and development achievements spanning over the period of the last ten years on the design, development, and testing of resilient, robust and reliable wireless technologies achieving most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Professor of Wireless Communications at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), has received over £3 million in research funding from Innovate UK, British Council, ERASMUS, QNRF and the Scottish Government. With over 15 years of research expertise in design and development of digital technologies which has been published in over 150 research articles and contributed to 10 books, Professor Shakir has also been the recipient of numerous research awards and prizes including STEM Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion award 2022 from Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators (SAMEE), Fred W. Ellersick award 2021 from IEEE Communications Society, numerous best research paper awards from China Institute of Communications, IEEE and The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) and UWS STARS awards for outstanding research and enterprise contributions.

Dr. Shakir is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK, Senior Member of IEEE, and an active member of IEEE Communications Society. Member Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. He is a Chair of IEEE Communications Society emerging technologies committee on backhaul/fronthaul, and Public Safety Technology Committee Informatics.

The event is free, however please book your place.

We look forward to welcoming you to UWS, Paisley Campus on Thursday 8th June at 5.00pm.