Prof. Dr. Sobia Baig, CEng, MIET, SMIEEE, is currently serving as Head, Energy Research Center, COMSATS University, Isb. She is a certified EDGE Expert for Green Buildings. She is a certified Trainer of Trainers by National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (NEECA). She has been the Vice-Chair of IEEE lahore Section and member of Pakistan Engineering Council's Women Engineer Sub-Committee, Lahore. She has served as the Head of Department at the Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan from September 2013 till September 2016. She holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan. She was awarded the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU ) Titular fellowship, for research work in Smart Grid communication in 2016. Her research interests include work on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques, Smart Grid Communication techniques, multicarrier modulation techniques and application of wavelet based modulation techniques in the wireline Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), power line communication (PLC) networks and in 5G wireless communication networks. She has published papers in several areas including NOMA for 5G, power line communication (PLC), digital modulation techniques, etc.
She is an HEC approved PhD supervisor, currently supervising a PhD thesis, and has supervised several Final Year Projects and MS Thesis at COMSATS, Lahore. She is a regular reviewer of the IEEE Magazine, journal and letters on Communication and Signal Processing, Elsevier journals on Utilities Policies, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, etc. She is affiliated with professional organizations, such as Pakistan Engineering Council, IEEE USA, and IEICE, Japan. She has done several years of voluntary work with IEEE in Pakistan and held the position of Vice-Chair, IEEE Lahore Section in 2015-16. She has taught courses of digital communications, wireless communication, signal and systems, digital signal processing, probability and random variables, at both undergraduate and graduate level during her teaching experience. orcid.org/0000-0002-1951-4568.