Professional Positions & Awards

Awards

• Runner-up in Hackathon 2023- organized by Pakistan Aerospace and Deeptech innovation center, NICAT

• Top-Reviewer of the Year Award, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  2021.

• National Research Productivity Award (RPA), Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST), Pakistan 2017—18

• National Research Productivity Award (RPA), Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST), Pakistan 2016-17

• Best Student Award, Mobile Telecommunication Research Laboratory (MTRL), Inha University, Korea, 2016

• Highly Accessed paper, QoS priority-based dynamic frequency band allocation algorithm for load balancing and interference avoidance in 3GPP LTE HetNet in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2015

• Best Research Proposal Award (Co-author), Flying Adhoc-Network for Catching Illegal Drones, SK Telecom, Korea 2015

• Jungseok International Scholarship (Full Fee Waiver), Ph.D. Electronics Engineering, Inha University, Korea 2012

• HEC Scholarship for MS (Fee Waiver + Living), MS level training in Korean universities/ Industry – HEC Pakistan, Batch –V 2008

• Secured 5th Position in HSSC Pre-Engineering Group, Examination conducted under BISE, Bannu, Pakistan 2002

Associate Editor

[AE 5] IEEE Communications Magazine

[AE 4] ELSEVIER Computers & Electrical Engineering 

[AE 3] IEEE Access 

[AE 2] Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer

[AE 1] Journal of information processing systems (JIPS)

Guest Editor/Call for Papers

[GE 4] Special Issue on Amateur drone and UAV communications and networks, Journal of communications and networks, 2018. [Abbas Jamalipour, Zeeshan Kaleem, Pascal Lorenz, Wan Choi, Hassna Moustafa]

[GE 3] Special Issue on Green Wireless Networks in 5G-inspired Applications, Sensors, 2018. [ Fadi Al-Turjman, Mihai T. Lazarescu, Ejaz Ahmed, Zeeshan Kaleem]

[GE 2] Special Issue on Amateur Drone Surveillance: Applications, Architectures, Enabling Technologies, and Public Safety Issues, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017. [Leading GE: Zeeshan Kaleem, Participating GEs: Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ejaz Ahmed, Abbas Jamalipour, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Hassna Moustafa, and Wael Guibene ]

[GE 1] Special Issue on Mission Critical Public-Safety Communications: Architectures, Enabling Technologies, and Future Applications, IEEE Access, 2017. [Leading GE: Zeeshan Kaleem, Participating GEs: Mubashir Husain Rehmani,  Muhammad Ali Imran, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Abbas Jamalipour, Ejaz Ahmed ]

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

• IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2017 - Wireless Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks

• International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom) 2018 

• 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2017- Wireless Networks Track

• IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Emerging Technologies (ICEET) 2018 

• IEEE Frontiers of Information Technology  (FIT) 2016, 2017

• IEEE International Conference on Communications Technologies (ComTech) 2017

Technical Reviewer

Journal/Magazine

• IEEE Communications Magazine

• IEEE Access

• IEEE Systems Journal

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

• China Communications

• Springer Wireless Peronsal Communications

• Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing

• Wiley International Journal of Communiation Systems (IJCS)

Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)