Biography

Dr. Junaid Qadir is a Professor of Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. He is also affiliated with the Information Technology University (ITU) as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He is the Director of the IHSAN (ICTD; Human Development; Systems; Big Data Analytics; Networks Lab) Research Lab at ITU (http://ihsanlab.itu.edu.pk/). Previously, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), from 2008 to 2015. Junaid Qadir completed Ph.D. from University of New South Wales, Australia in 2008 and his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore, Pakistan in 2000. His primary research interests are in the areas of computer systems and networking and using ICT for development (ICT4D). He has served on the program committee of a number of international conferences and reviews regularly for various high-quality journals. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Springer Nature Central’s Big Data Analytics journal, Springer Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, and the IEEE Communications Magazine. He is an award-winning teacher who has been awarded the highest national teaching award in Pakistan—the higher education commission’s (HEC) best university teacher award—for the year 2012-2013. He has considerable teaching experience and a wide portfolio of taught courses in the disciplines of systems & networking; signal processing; and wireless communications and networking. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE. He serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.