Mouhamed Abdulla

Mouhamed Abdulla (S’02-GSM’09-M’12) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Ontario, Canada. At Sheridan, he developed and taught various courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, in area of communication and networks. He also supervised at Sheridan over 14 highly qualified personnel (HQP) on applied research and proof-of-concept with industrial partners in wireless systems and networks, including research work in IoT, LPWAN, 5G mMTC, UWB Positioning, and 6G-NTN mega satellite constellation networks. His research is funded by Bell Canada, Ericsson Research, NSERC, European Commission.

Since the fall-2015 he was an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Dept. of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. While in Europe, he was the principal investigator (PI) of the EU-H2020-MARSS-5G project focusing on Ultra-reliable Low-latency Communication (URLLC) for 5G-V2X use cases. In addition, he was involved with other European Commission funded projects, including the EU-H2020-HIGHTS project. Ericsson Research Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden also supported his 5G research on C-V2X.

In 2017, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Dept. of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in Beijing, P.R. China. With support from the EU-H2020-is3DMIMO project, under the EU-H2020-MSCA-RISE program, he conducted short visits to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen, Huawei Hong Kong, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Meanwhile, until 2015, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of the University of Québec, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montréal working on Interference Mitigation Techniques for Satellite Communications. Before that, he worked as a Systems Engineering Researcher in the Wireless Design Laboratory of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University. Moreover, for nearly 7 years since 2003, he was employed at IBM Canada Ltd. as a Senior Systems Engineer and Technical Specialist working on IBM’s ThinkPad units and IBM Servers.

Dr. Abdulla is professionally affiliated with IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE YP, ACM, AIAA, OIQ, GK, and MCAA. He was an IEEE Executive Committee member of the Montréal Section, where he held the Secretary position in 2013 and the Treasurer in 2014-2015. In addition, he was the Secretary and Treasurer of IEEE ComSoc and ITSoc societies. He is on the Editorial Board of various journal publications. He constantly serves as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of flagship international conferences (GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, WCNC, CCNC, VCC, EW, etc). He is a regular reviewer of journal publications such as IEEE, IET, Wiley, Springer, EURASIP, Elsevier, ACM, and Hindawi. Furthermore, he regularly serves as a referee for several Canadian and European Granting Agencies, including as an EU Expert Evaluator for the H2020-MSCA-IF program. He also contributes as an examination writer for the IEEE/IEEE ComSoc WCET® Certification Program, and he is a member of the committee overseeing the update of this certification. Moreover, he is a member of the IEEE Connected, Automated, and Intelligent Vehicles Working Group with the mandate to draft the “IEEE P2040 Standard”, which is the first-ever standard of its kind for autonomous vehicles. Since 2020, he has been appointed by the IEEE Canada Board (R7) as a member of the IEEE Industry Committee with the mandate to strengthen partnerships with Industry by promoting IEEE Standards on emerging technologies.

His research interests include vehicular communications, mobile communications, space/satellite communications, and machine learning algorithms for wireless systems. Moreover, he has an interest in pedagogical research focusing on mathematical education, engineering education, engineering design, course development, and the implementation of CDIO within the engineering curriculum. Since 2011, his biography has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World publication. He has an Erdős number of 4.