Syed Hassan Ahmed

Professional Life in a Nutshell:

['20 - Present] Chair Membership, ACM Orange County Chapter, California, USA.

['19 - Present] Product Specialist, (DAS, CBRS, oRAN, mmWave) JMA Wireless, USA.

['18 - Present] IEEE Senior Member, ACM Distinguished Speaker¹.

['17 - '19] IEEE VTS Liaison to Young Professionals, (Standing Committee Chairperson)

['18 - '19] Assistant Professor (CS), (Tenure Track) Georgia Southern University, USA.

['17 - '18] Post Doctoral Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.

['15 Summer] Visiting Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.

['13 - '17] MS + Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, KNU, Daegu, South Korea.

['07 - '12] BS in Computer Science, Kohat University of Science & Technology, Pakistan.

Biography:

Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah (SM'18) is currently working at JMA Wireless as a Product Specialist for Distributed Antenna System (DAS), CBRS, and open RAN product line. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, USA, where, he also founded Wireless Internet and Networking Systems (WINS) lab. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and Ph.D. Degree (combined Masters) from School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). In summer 2015, he was also a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. Overall, he has authored/co-authored over 200 international publications including Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and 03 books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks lead him to win the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, Korea. Dr. Hassan's research interests include Sensor and Ad hoc Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Vehicular Communications, and Future Internet. He has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for the year 2018-2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Furthermore, Dr. Hassan is a Senior IEEE and ACM Professional member, served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in 100+ International Conferences and Workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, ACM SAC, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for 30+ International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Wireless Communications, Networks, Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Hassan has been an editorial member of more than 30 Special Issues with top-ranked journals in Communication Society and serving as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Wiley's Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks.

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Research Interest:

Vehicular Communications (Routing, Application, MAC)
Next-Generation Networks (Information/Content-Centric and Named Data Networking)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Connected and Smart Communities
Sensors & Ad-hoc Networks
Smart & Mobile Health

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