Jaafar Elmirghani

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT JAAFAR ELMIRGHANI

Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Fellow of IET and Fellow of Institute of Physics. He is Director of Technology, Research and Innovation in Neom; Professor of Communication Networks and Systems at Kings College London. He was the Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks and Professor of Communication Networks and Systems within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds 20••••22. He joined Leeds in 2007 having been full Professor and chair in optical communications at the University of Wales Swansea He has given over 120 invited and keynote talks. He has provided outstanding leadership in a number of large research projects, secured over £50m in grants and was PI of the £6m EPSRC Intelligent Energy Aware Networks (INTERNET) Programme Grant, 20••••16. He is Co-Chair of the Sustainable ICT initiative, a pan Societies initiative responsible for Green ICT activities across 2012-present. He was awarded in international competition the Comsoc 2005 Hal Sobol award, 3 Comsoc outstanding technical achievement and service awards (2009, 2015, 2020), the 2015 GreenTouch award, IET Optoelectronics 2016 Premium Award for work on energy efficiency and shared the 2016 Edison Award in the collective disruption category with a team of 6 from GreenTouch for joint work on the GreenMeter. His work led to 5 standards with a focus on cloud and fog computing and energy efficiency, where he currently heads the work group responsible for P1925.1, P1926.1, P1927.1, P1928.1 and P1929.1 standards; this resulting in significant impact through industrial and academic uptake. He was named among the top 2% of scientists in the world by citations, in 2019, in Elsevier Scopus, Stanford University database, named ever since. He is/has been on the Technical Programme Committee of 43 ICC/GLOBECOM Conferences, between 1995 and 2022, including 21 times as the Symposium Chair. He is Area Editor of JSAC series on Machine Learning for Communications and is PI of the EPSRC £6.6m Terabit Bidirectional Multi-user Optical Wireless System (TOWS) for 6G LiFi, 20••••24. He has published over 600 technical papers, supervised over 75 PhDs and has research interests in energy efficiency, optical wireless systems, optimisation, machine learning, cloud and fog computing.