Biography

Fellow of OPTICA; Fellow of IET; Senior Member of IEEE; Member of IAENG, CEng. Google Scholar: Citation of 23334, h-index of 65 and i10-index of 440. BSc (Hons.), Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK, (1981), MSc (1984), and PhD (1987) Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 joined Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK as a Lecturer becoming head of Communication and DSP Subject Group and funding Head of Optical Communications Research Group and a Professor (1997), 2004-14 Associate Dean for Research, School of Eng., School of Computer, Eng. and Information Sciences, and Faculty of Eng. & Env., Northumbria Univ., UK, and currently is the Head of Photonics Technology Laboratory and Optical Communications Research Group. A Research Fellow (2016-22) and a Distinguished Professor (2015-2022) at the Chinese Academy of Science. Visiting Professor at Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (2013-17), Huaqiao Univ., China (2017-18), Technical Univ. of Prague, Czech Rep. (2019), Technical Univ. of Graz, Austria (2018), and others. Vice-Chairs of EU Cost-Action IC1101 (2011-16) and Cost Action CA19111, 2020-24. IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25. Research interests: optical wireless communications (OWC), free space optics, visible light communications, optical camera communications, hybrid RF-OWC, with many funded research projects from UK Research Council, UK Space Agency, European Union (including 3 Marie Curie DT Network Programmes in the last 4 years), and industries in collaboration with international research centres. Over 1024 publications [436 journals (IEEE, IET, IoP, SOA, Elsevier, etc.), 8 books, 25 book chapters, 33 invited papers, and 3 White Papers on OWC] with a total download of over 120,000 at IEEE xplore. 16 awards and prizes (including best papers) and 115 keynote/invited talks. Supervised 13 Research Fellows and 76 PhDs. Founding Head of the European Collaborative Research Network since 2020. Chief Editor of International J. of Optics and Applications (2015-24), Associate Editor of several journals (IEEE, IET, etc.), Guest/Co-guest Editor of special issues (18 in total) on OWC in IEEE, IET, etc., and members of Editorial boards of many journals. Expert panel member of Research Organisations (UK (2003-16), Ireland (2002-03), Poland (2020-24), EU (2019-) and Germany (2009)), Vice-Chair of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-); Executive Committee Member of IEEE UK/RI Nano-technology Chapter (2024-); and Chair of IEEE Student-Branch at Northumbria University (2019-). 2004-06 was IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, Vice-Chair (2006-2008), Chair (2008-11), Chair of IET Northumbria Network (2011-15), Vice-Chair of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-21), and European Association for Signal Processing UK Liaison Officer (2008-15). Founding Chairman of the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communications Systems, Networks and DSP (1988-), West Asian Symposium on Optical and mmW Wireless Communications (2018-), and South American Colloquium on Visible Light Communications (2018-); Chair/vice-Chair of 16 international conferences; co-founder/organiser of 25 international events including Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in IEEE ICC (2015-16), colloquium on OWC in CSNDSP since 2004, and international Workshop on OWC since 2015. He is a member of international technical committee of many international conferences including IEEE ICC and Globecom.