Hamed Ahmadi

Hamed Ahmadi

Hamed Ahmadi is a Reader in Digital Engineering, at the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK where he is the director of iTWINS lab and deputy pillar lead for Advanced Communications in the university’s Institute for Safe Autonomy. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2012 where he was a SINGA PhD scholar at Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR. Since then he worked at different academic and industrial positions in the Republic of Ireland and UK. Dr. Ahmadi has published a book and more than 100 peer reviewed book chapters, journal and conference papers. He is the ML/AI work package lead for the York-led £7.8M YO-RAN and £5.5M REACH, which are projects developing 5G open radio access networks in collaboration with industry and funded by the UK Government.

He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Communication Standards magazine, a senior member of IEEE, and Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy. He has been the Networks working group chair of COST Actions CA15104 (IRACON) and CA20120 (INTERACT). He had chairing roles in organising and technical programme committee of several IEEE flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2024, EUCNC 2019, PIMRC 2024 and 2019. He is also the treasurer of the IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. His current research interests include the application of machine learning in wireless networks, Open Radio Access and Networking, green and sustainable networks, airborne networks, Digital twins of networks, and Internet-of-Things.