Biography

Mohammad R. Shikh-Bahaei, PhD, FIET, SFHEA

Professor of Telecommunications

Director of Studies: Undergraduate Programmes in Electronic Engineering, 

Department of Engineering, King's College London

Winner of the overall King’s college London’s “Excellence in Supervisory Award”, 2014

Prof. Mohammad R. Shikh-Bahaei has been engaged in research in the area of wireless communications for 30 years both in academic and industrial organizations. He has worked for start-up companies on interference cancellation, network planning and optimisation of wireless networks. In 2000 he joined National Semiconductor Corp. (NSC), CA, USA, (now part of Texas Instruments) and worked within a team on the design of 3rd generation handsets based on UMTS standards, for which he has been awarded three US patents as inventor and co-inventor, respectively. He returned to the UK in March 2002 as a Lecturer at King’s College London, and is now a full Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Engineering, King's College London. He has since worked on a number of research topics including resource allocation for optimization of cellular (inc. HSPA, 4G, 5G) and short range sensor/ad-hoc networks (inc. Wifi, Bluetooth, Zigbee), Cognitive and full duplex radios/networking, cross-layer optimisation of wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), Healthcare applications of signal processing and wireless communications, short range device-to-device (D2D) communication and edge caching, MIMO and machine-type multimedia communication, communication protocols for Vehicle to Everything and drone Communications. He has published more than 170 articles in renowned, refereed journals and conference proceedings, mostly related to cellular and M2M/D2D (machine-to-machine and device-to-device) communications and sensor networks. He has worked with numerous companies as collaborators in his projects, e.g. Nokia, Ericsson, Mediatek and Samsung, Toshiba and Thales, and with start-ups. 

He has led research consortiums and been King's Principal and Co- Investigator in a number of funded projects, and won the overall King’s College London ‘Excellence in Supervisory Award’ as well as the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences’ Excellence in Supervisory Award in 2014.

Prof. Shikh-Bahaei has founded and chaired a number of conferences on wireless communications, and given invited and keynote talks in various conferences and universities. 

He has acted as expert consultant for technology companies and legal firms, on wireless communication standards and technologies. 

He has been a member of the Standards Association (IEEE-SA) in 2020-21, and a member of wireless communications standardisation committees. He is a Fellow of IET, Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and a Senior Member of IEEE.