Awards & Recognitions

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• • Exemplary Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials for the Year 2015 (Click to see the Certificate)

• Best Paper Award from IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) 2017 in the IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France.(Click to see the Certificate)

Athar Ali Khan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Martin Reisslein, Cognitive Radio for Smart Grids: Survey of Architectures, Spectrum Sensing Mechanisms, and Networking Protocols, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume18, no.1, pp.860-898, Firstquarter 2016. [ISI Indexed, Impact Factor = 17.18] -- [PDF]

[As of November/December 2016, this paper was highly cited paper (According to Thomson Reuters, ISI Web of Knowledge) received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Computer Science based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.]

• Received Research Productivity Award 2017 from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology. Ranked # 1 in Engineering Discipline all over Pakistan.

• Received HEC, Pakistan Best Paper Award 2016.

• Received Research Productivity Award 2016 from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology.

• Name has been listed in Young Productive Research Scientists of Pakistan in Engineering Sciences by PCST, Pakistan (Ranked No. 13 all over Pakistan).

  • http://www.pcst.org.pk/docs/psp/lists/under40/engg.pdf

  • Selected as Associate Editor of the month for April 2016! IEEE Access

  • Best Researcher of the Year 2015, COMSATS Wah Campus, Awarded by Director Campus in Dec 2015.

  • Founding member of IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing with Cognition and Cooperation, 2015

  • Appreciation Letter from Director CIIT, 2015

  • Research Productivity Award, 2014

  • Appreciation Letter from Director CIIT, 2014

  • Appreciation Letter from Director CIIT, 2013

• HEC Approved Supervisor

  • Article is in the list of "most downloaded articles from ScienceDirect in the last 90 days" [Data taken on 01st Apr 2015]

  • Integration of Cognitive Radio Technology with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Issues, Opportunities and Future Research Challenges

  • Article is in the list of "most downloaded articles from ScienceDirect in the last 90 days" [Data taken on 03rd Jan 2015]

  • An efficient trajectory design for mobile sink in a wireless sensor network

  • Article is in the list of "most downloaded articles from ScienceDirect in the last 90 days" [Data taken on 20th Nov 2014]

  • A survey on network coding: From traditional wireless networks to emerging cognitive radio networks

  • Article is in the list of "most downloaded articles from ScienceDirect in the last 90 days" [Data taken on 4th Sep 2014]

  • Primary radio user activity models for cognitive radio networks: A survey

• Registered Engineer (R.E), Pakistan Engineering Council.

• The Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

• Meraj Khalid Award for the Promotion of Science and Technology in Pakistan, 2006. Awarded by Pakistan Society of Geographical Information Systems (PSGIS).

• M.S leading to PhD Scholarship, June 2007 to September 2011. Awarded by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan.