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Asrar U.H. Sheikh
graduated from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore,
Pakistan with first class honors degree in 1964 and received his M. Sc.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Birmingham, England, in 1966
and 1969 respectively. Professor Sheikh has vast experience in education
and research in several developing and developed countries. He held
positions in Pakistan, Iran, UK, and Libya before joining Carleton
University, Ottawa in 1981, first as an Associate Professor and later as
a Professor and Associate Chairman for Graduate Studies. He was a
Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Electronic and
Information Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where
he established the Wireless Information Systems Research (WISR) Centre.
In March 2000, he joined KFUPM as Bugshan/Bell Lab Chair in
Telecommunications, the first chair professorship in Saudi Arabia. At
KFUPM, he established Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL). He
also established teaching laboratories in Iran and Libya. He held the
position of the Rector, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan during
his leave of absence from KFUPM last year.
Professor Sheikh is the
author of a recently published book, Wireless Communications – Theory
& Techniques published by Springer, USA in 2004. Earlier he
contributed a chapter on wireless communications in a book on
Telecommunications in Canada in 1986. He has published over 270 papers
in international journals and conference proceedings. He also authored
or co-authored 32 technical reports. Dr. Sheikh has delivered several
keynote speeches at international conferences. Dr. Sheikh also received
several honours and awards - 1984 Paul Adorian Premium from IERE
(London), Teaching Achievement Awards in 1984 and 1986, and Research
Achievement Award in 1994 (Carleton University), and Research Excellence
Awards (College of Engineering Sciences, KFUPM) in 2005 and 2006.
He Chaired the Technical
Program of IEEE-VTC’98, ISWSN’03 and IEEE-ISWSN’05. He was the
Vice-chair TPC of IEEE-GCC 2006 held in Bahrain. He has been member of
Technical Program Committees of many international conferences and
organized and chaired many technical sessions. Professor Sheikh has
delivered many invited keynote lectures in international conferences. He
was an editor of IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications (2003-05),
and was a Technical Associate Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine
(2000-2001). He is on the Editorial Board of Wireless Personal
Communications, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, the
two highly rated international journals.
Dr. Sheikh has been
consultant to many private companies and government agencies. His other
interests include helping developing countries in education and
research. He held assignments under UNDP's sustained Development
Program. Dr. Sheikh is listed in Marquis’s Who’s Who in the world and
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He is a member of Institution of
Engineers Pakistan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET
(London).
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My current
interests are in signal processing in communications, modeling and
mitigation of interference in wireless communications, radio propagation
modeling, equalization, spread spectrum and 3G and beyond wireless
communication systems. |
