Professor Mohammad Reza Shikh-Bahaei has been engaged in research in wireless communications for three decades both in academic and industrial organizations. He has worked for start-up companies on statistical signal processing for interference cancellation, network planning and optimisation of wireless networks. In 2000, he joined National Semiconductor Corp. (NSC), CA, USA, (now part of Texas Instruments) and worked within a team on the design of 3rd generation handsets based on UMTS standards, for which he has been awarded three US patents as inventor and co-inventor, respectively. He returned to the UK in March 2002 as a Lecturer at King’s College London, and is now a full Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Engineering, King's College London.

He has since worked and published numerous articles on a number of research topics including: cross layer resource allocation for optimization of cellular and short range sensor/ad-hoc and IoT networks, cognitive and full duplex radios/networking, healthcare applications of signal processing and wireless communications, short range device-to-device (D2D) communication and edge caching, MIMO and machine-type multimedia communication, vehicle to everything communications, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for programmable wireless channels, integrated sensing and semantic communication, digital twins, terahertz communications, distributed AI, and AI methods in wireless communications. His research is now on new use cases and technologies for 6G networks.

Professor Shikh-Bahaei has worked with numerous companies as collaborators in his projects, e.g. Nokia, Thales, Ericsson, Mediatek, Samsung, and Toshiba. He has led research consortiums and been King's principal and co- investigator in several funded research projects.

He has served in various positions at King’s College London: Faculty Head of Graduate Studies, Chair of the faculty's postgraduate students committee, Member of the College's postgraduate research student subcommittee, Member of faculty’s Higher Education Review steering group, Programme Lead for UG Electronic Engineering Programmes, Director of Studies for UG Engineering Programmes.

Professor Shikh-Bahaei won the overall King’s College London ‘Supervisory Excellence Award’ as well as the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences’ Supervisory Excellence Award in 2014.

Professor Shikh-Bahaei has founded and chaired a number of conferences on wireless communications and given invited and keynote talks in various conferences and universities.

He has acted as expert consultant for technology companies and legal firms, on wireless communication standards and technologies.

He is the chair of one6G Association’s Working Group 1, has represented one6G in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and is a fellow of IET, senior fellow of higher education academy, and a senior member of IEEE.

Research Interests

Professor Shikh-Bahaei’s research interests and present projects are in the following areas:

• Emerging use cases in 6^th generation networks, with focus on: digital twins, e-health, immersive communication and autonomous vehicular networks
• Emerging technologies for 6^th generation networks, with focus on: AI and generative AI for communication, network sensing and semantic communication, programmable wireless channels via intelligent surfaces and terahertz communication, and distributed AI for future networks of intelligence
• Targets for 6^th Generation Networks, with focus on: Sustainability and Reliability

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