Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department,
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia
(Senior Member IEEE)
Contact Info: Building# 22, Room#217, CoE Department
zeeshankaleem@gmail.com, zeeshan.kaleem@kfupm.edu.sa
office Tel: +966-13860-5419
Zeeshan Kaleem [Senior Member, IEEE] is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining KFUPM he served for 8 Years at COMSATS University Islamabad. He received his BS from UET Peshawar in 2007. He received MS and Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, and Inha University, South Korea in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Dr. Zeeshan consecutively received the National Research Productivity Award (RPA) awards from the Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (PSCT) in 2017 and 2018. We won the Runner-up Award in the National Hackathon 23 competition for Project to develop Drone Detection system. He won the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Best Innovator Award for the year 2017, and there was a single award all over Pakistan. He is the recipient of the 2021 Top Reviewer Recognition Award for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has published 100+ technical Journal papers including 21 as 1st author papers, Books, Book Chapters, and conference papers in reputable journals/venues and holds 21 US and Korean Patents, and got research grants of around 60k US$. He is a co-recipient of the best research proposal award from SK Telecom, Korea. He is currently serving as Technical Editor of several prestigious Journals/Magazines like IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Computer and Electrical Engineering, Springer Nature Wireless Personal Communications, Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Journal of Information Processing Systems, and Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He has served/serving as Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Access, Sensors, IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks, and Physical Communications, and served as a Track Chair in VTC-Fall 2024 and VTC-Spring 2025. He is also regularly serving as TPC Member for world-distinguished conferences like IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE ICC, and IEEE PIMRC.
[17-02-2023] Stood runner-up in the Hackathon 2023 competition for developing Drone detection system.
[02-10-2022] Appointed as Editor in Frontiers In Communications And Networks.
[06-03-2022] Appointed as Editor in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
[10-02-2022] Open funded PhD, MS, and Developer positions available under HEC project. Contact me for more details.
[04-01-2022] Top-Reviewer Award, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021
[20-04-2021] Elevated to the Grade of IEEE Senior Member.
Call for Springer Book Chapters: Intelligent Unmanned Air Vehicles for Public Safety Networks
Selected as an Associate Editor in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS)
Open CFP on Unmanned Air Vehicles-to-Everything (U2X) Communications, Wiley-Hindawi, WCMC July 2019. [IF: 0.869]
Selected as an Associate Editor in ELSEVIER Computers & Electrical Engineering
Open CFP on Mission Critical Communications and Networking for Disaster Management, Physical Communications, June 2019. [IF:1.522]
Open CFP on Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications, IEEE ACCESS Nov. 2018. [IF:3.557]
The FYP titled "Drone-based Inventory Management System" win National Grassroot ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) grant
Won Research Productivity Award (RPA) 2017-18 from Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST), Ranked: C Category
Selected as Associate Technical Editor in IEEE Communications Magazine
Won Research Productivity Award (RPA) 2016-17 from Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST), Ranked: B Category [Certificate]
Special Issue on Amateur drone and UAV communications and networks, IEEE/KICS Journal of communications and networks, 2018. [IF:1.130]
Special Issue on Green Wireless Networks in 5G-inspired Applications, Sensors, 2018. Deadline : 1st February, 2018 [IF: 2.67]
Wireless/Mobile Communications
3GPP LTE/5G Systems
Device-to-Device Discovery/Communications
Full-Duplex Communications
Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Detection & Tracking
Public-Safety Communications
Internet of Things
Smart Grid
Machine learning for Wireless Communications
