Hello and Welcome! My name is Professor Maziar Nekovee. I am the founder and Managing Director of 6G Lab at the University of Sussex, I joined the University of Sussex in 2017 after 17 years in mobile, telecommunication and consumer electronics industry (Samsung, BT, Philips). Prior to Sussex I was with Samsung Electronics where I was in charge of Samsung’s 5G research and collaborations across Europe and the UK as well as working with teams in Korea, Japan, India and the United States, helping to create some of the core 5G (the Fifth Generation Mobile Communication Standards ) technologies which you can now enjoy on your latest smartphones and other devices. I also had a leading role in developing and executing the Horizon 2020’s EURO 1.4BN R&D in 5G infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP), and am currently deeply involved in shaping and leading the EURO 1.8 BN Horizon Europe’s Smart Networks and Services (SNS) Joint Undertaking to develop 6G in Europe, as full member of 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) and Chair of NetWorldEurope ETP, WG for Enabling Technologies for Future Vertical Ecosystem Transformation and the UK Telecom Innovation Network (UKTIN) Future Networks Academic Strategy Group.
The focus of my Lab is to research, develop and demonstrate disruptive technologies for 6G (the next generation of mobile communication and networks). With 5G now widely available and being deployed, the time is ripe for academia and industry alike to invest in research and collaborations and lay the foundations of 6G. A strong focus is on sustainable and Netzero 6G, and 6G as an enabler for Netzero in other sectors.
Permanent Members
Prof. Maziar Nekovee (Managing Director)
Dr Yu Yao (Lecturer/ Assistant Professor), Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Antenna Design for communication and wireless charging
Dr Reza Mohammadkhani (Lecturer/Assistant Professor ), 5G/6G Massive MIMO, Milmeterwave Communication, Autonomous Systems for Verticals, THz Communication
Dr Aryan Kaushik (Lecturer/Assistant Professor), Signal Processing for 5G/6G, Integrated Communications and Sensing Millimeterwave Massive MIMO, Energy Efficient Communication Systems, Distributed Computing for Satellite Communications
Dr Ferheen Ayaz (Senior Research Fellow), Electric Vehicular Communication and Energy Neworks, Block Chain, Cybersecurity
Mr. Abdullah Qayyum (PhD Student), Reconfigurable meta-surfaces and intelligent reflective surfaces for 6G
Mr. Safar Albaqami (PhD Student), IoT and 6G Security
Mr. Haoyu You (PhD Student), Regenerative AI for 5G and 6G-enabled video analytics
Dr Walid Hassan (Honorary Senior Research Fellow), Director| Lambda Technology Corp., SK, Canada, 5G/6G Spectrum, 5G/6G spectrum sharing and coexistence.
Dr Richard Rudd (Honorary Senior Lecturer) , Director Plum Consulting, millimetre wave and THz propagation and channel modelling
Dr Chris Marshall (Honorary Senior Research Fellow) IMEC, 5G/6G positioning and sensing
Dr Mahsa Zholfagari (Honorary Senior Research Fellow), Lecturer, Staffordshire University, London, Microwave integrated circuits for 6G
Dr Yi Zhang ( Visiting Faculty from Yibin University and Sichuan University, China), Network analytics, Network modelling
Affiliated Members
Dr Arash Moradinegade Dizqah (Senior Lecturer), Dept of Engineering, University of Sussex, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
Dr Laurence Williams (Research Fellow), Sussex Business School, 5G/6G Sustainability and Policies
Prof. George Parisis, Dept of Informatics, University of Sussex, Transport Layer and IP, next generation SDN
Dr Fan Zhang (Lecturer), Dept of Engineering, University of Sussex, Hydrogen-based Energy Systems
Dr Imran Khan (Lecture), Dept of Informatics, University of Sussex, Computer Security, Cloud Computing, Blockchain , E-fraud
Alumni
Dr Xioamin (Matteo) Meng, Rconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Project, 2018-2022
Mr Houwen (Andy) Wang, EDF (UK) Microgrids Project, 2020-202
Mrs Sarah Soloman, Thales, Deep Neural Networks for Radar Spectrum Sharing Project, 2019-2020
Mr Lloyd Pellatt, University of Sussex, Deep Neural Networks for beyond-5G/6G Physical Layer Design Project, 2018-2019
6G LAB @sussex.ac.uk 