Showcasing and Empowering Women in STEM (SEWS)

Dr Muhammad Usman Hadi

Lecturer

Dr. Usman Hadi is currently working as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Electronics and Communication Engineering in the School of Engineering at Ulster University, Belfast campus. Prior to that, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Aalborg University & Ext Research Engineer at Nokia Standards (Nokia Bell Labs) in Aalborg Denmark (2019-2021). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering University of Bologna, Italy in 2019.

At the same time, he was a visiting researcher (2017–2019) at Université Paris-Est, ESYCOM, ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, France and Nokia Bell Labs, NJ, USA. He received his Master in Electronic Engineering from University of Bologna Italy and bachelor’s in electrical engineering from PIEAS, Pakistan.

His research interests are in the area of machine learning for IoT, optical communication, wireless communication, UAV/drones, 5G and Beyond 5G particularly Time Sensitive Networks, microwave photonics, RoF systems, devices for telecommunications, and wireless sensor networks. He was among the top 2% cited researchers worldwide in 2021 and 2022. He has authored or co-authored many reputed journals and flagship conferences proceedings in the area of wireless/optical communications and digital signal processing.

He serves as an editorial for Photonics, Sensors and Electronics, Frontiers in Digital Health. He is an active reviewer for various journals including IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Optics Communication, Optiks, Spie, Optical and Quantum Electronics and many other reputed journals.

Affiliations

3GPP RAN, International Telecommunication Union

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Professor Margaret Morgan

Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Pilar Fernandez-Ibanez

Professor in Environmental Engineering

Dr Chiara Salaris

Lecturer in Building Surveying

Dr Inna Vorushylo

Lecturer in Energy Markets and Energy Storage

Dr Inna Vorushylo is a lecturer in energy markets and energy storage in the School of the Built Environment, where she gained a PhD in techno-economic modelling of all Ireland Electricity System. She also holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electronic Engineering, as well as BSc in Economics, which she gained at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".

Dr Vorushylo's expertise straddles fields of Engineering and Economics and specific applications of these to energy markets. Dr Vorushylo possesses extensive knowledge and experience in the electricity market modelling.

Dr Vorushylo's most recent areas of research are the future role of energy storage systems and demand side response in the pathways towards energy market decarbonisation. She also coordinated “Zero-in on NI heat” project under Whole systems networking fund of the UK Energy Research Council focusing on barriers and opportunities for heat sector decarbonisation in Northern Ireland.

Dr Sunish Kumar Orappanpara Soman

Lecturer in Electronics and Software Engineering

Dr. Sunish Kumar Orappanpara Soman (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India, in 2005, the M.B.A. degree in human resource management and finance from Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram, India, in 2010, the M.Tech degree in optoelectronics and communication systems from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, in 2020. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Project Assistant with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. From 2020 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

In 2021, he joined the Ulster University, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, U.K., as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of electronics and software engineering. Currently, he is also working as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and an International Faculty at the Ulster College, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China. He has authored or co-authored many reputed journal papers and flagship conference proceedings in the area of wireless/optical communications and digital signal processing.

He is serving as a reviewer for various reputed journals such as IEEE/OPTICA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, and Taylor & Francis Cogent Engineering. He is also serving as a guest editor for the special issue "Advances in Radio over Fiber Techniques for 5G and Beyond" in the MDPI Photonics journal and as an associate editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS) under the research area Optical Communications and Networks.

His research interests include the application of digital signal processing, and machine learning techniques in various areas of wireless and optical communications engineering.

He was the recipient of the Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar Fellowship National Award, 2011, from India, the Hira-Kamal Ahuja International Graduate Fellowship Award (Ahuja Fellow), 2015, and the Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies Award, 2020, at Memorial University, Canada.

Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• International Faculty at Ulster College, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China

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