Dr Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi

Dr Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Lecturer at the 5G/6G Innovation Centre (5G/6GIC) at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey (UoS). Prior to joining ICS, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN) Research Group, Imperial College London, 2019-2021. He received the B.S. degrees (Hons.) in electrical and industrial engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mobile telecommunications all from the Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran, in 2011, 2013, and 2018, respectively. He was a visiting Research Associate with the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, in 2018, and Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, in 2017. He has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications (see non-exhaustive list below) including high impact IEEE transactions papers, prestigious IEEE conference publications, and granted patents, in the areas of wireless communications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and signal processing. He received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE EWDTS 2012 conference, and the Exemplary Reviewer Award from the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS in 2021. In December 2020, he won Bronze in the international AI/ML in 5G challenge by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). He is currently collaborating with the ITU in the international competition on AI/ML in 5G where he is a member of a global panel of judges to evaluate innovative submissions on applications of AI/ML in 5G and beyond wireless networks.