Shahid Mumtaz

Ph.D., CEng, SMIEEE

Senior Researcher, IET Fellow, IEEE IAS Distinguished Lecturer , ACM Distinguished Speaker, IEEE ComSoc Lecturer

Editor in Chief - IET Journal of Quantum Communication

Shahid Mumtaz has more than 12 years of wireless industry experience and is currently working as Senior Research Scientist and Technical Manager at GS, Portugal. Prior to his current position, he worked as Research Intern at Ericsson and Huawei Research Labs in 2005 at Karlskrona, Sweden. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) Karlskrona, Sweden and University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Dr. Shahid MSc and Ph.D. were funded by the Swedish government and FCT Portugal. He has been involved in several EC R&D Projects in the field of green communication and next generation wireless systems. In EC projects, he holds the position of technical manager, where he oversees the project from a scientific and technical side, managing all details of each work packages which gives the maximum impact of the project’s results for the further development of commercial solutions. He has been also involved in two Portuguese funded projects (SmartVision & Mobilia) in the area of networking coding and development of system level simulator for the 5G wireless system. Dr. Shahid has several years of experience in 3GPP radio systems research with experience in HSPA/LTE/LTE-A and strong track-record in relevant technology field, especially physical layer technologies, LTE cell planning and optimization, protocol stack and system architecture.

Dr Shahid research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to 3GPP networks (i.e., LTE-A user plan & control plan protocol stack, NAS and EPC), 5G NR related technologies, green communications, cognitive radio, cooperative networking, radio resource management, Network slicing, LAA/LTU, cross-layer design, Backhaul/fronthaul, heterogeneous networks, M2M and D2D communication, and baseband digital signal processing. Dr. Shahid has more than 150 publications in international conferences, journal papers, and book chapters.

Dr. Mumtaz is a senior member of IEEE. He was awarded an "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship by ERCIM to pursue research in communication networks for one year at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2012. He was nominated Chair for IEEE new standardization on P1932.1: Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Networks. This standardization resulted from Dr. Mumtaz’ novel idea on “WiFi in Licensed band”. He is also actively involved in 3GPP standardization on LTE release 12 onwards, along with major manufacturers .