Biography:

Dr. Jawad Mirza (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical (telecommunications) engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2007, the M.Sc. degree in communications engineering from the University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, in 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Wolfson School Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. His current research interests include intelligent reflecting surfaces aided multiple antenna communication systems, full-duplex transmission, and 6G wireless communication systems.

Selected Publications:
M. A. Houran, G. Srivastava, J. Mirza, A. Ranjha, M. A. Javed, M. H. Zafar, "Centralized Task Allocation for Multiple UAVs in Time-Constraint Industrial IoT Operations", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, accepted for publication, 2025. [Impact Factor: 8.9]


M. K. Aslam, M. A. Javed, G. Srivastava, A. Ranjha, A. N. Alvi, B. Ali, J. Mirza, "Efficient Task Offloading in NOMA-assisted Vehicular Fog Computing for Customer Applications", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, accepted for publication, 2025. [Impact Factor: 10.9]

M. A. Javed, L. Nkenyereye, S. J. Nawaz, J. Mirza, G. Fortino, K. Dev, "Quantum Computing-Assisted 6G Networks: Use Cases and Future Opportunities", Tsinghua Science and Technology, accepted for publication, 2025. [Impact Factor: 3.5]

M. Khan, J. Mirza, B. Ali, M. A. Javed, K. Dev, L. Nkenyereye, P. Bellavista, "Joint optimization of semi-passive IRS phase shifts and NOMA power coefficients for cooperative CRNs", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 380-391, 2024. [Impact Factor: 6.7]

M. A. Houran, M. Asad, G. Srivastava, J. Mirza, A. Ranjha, M. A. Javed, X. Yang, "Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted cellular V2X based open RAN communications shifts and NOMA power coefficients for cooperative CRNs", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 9226-9233, 2024. [Impact Factor: 7.1]

M. W. Shabir, T. N. Nguyen, J. Mirza, B. Ali and M. A. Javed, "Transmit and Reflect Beamforming for Max-Min SINR in IRS-Aided MIMO Vehicular Networks," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1099-1105, Jan. 2023.

H. A. Khan, T. N. Nguyen, G. Shafiq, J. Mirza and M. A. Javed, "A Secure Wearable Framework for Stress Detection in Patients Affected by Communicable Diseases," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 981-988, 15 Jan.15, 2023.

J. Ahmed, T. N. Nguyen, B. Ali, M. A. Javed and J. Mirza, "On the Physical Layer Security of Federated Learning Based IoMT Networks," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 691-697, Feb. 2023.

M. A. Javed, T. N. Nguyen, J. Mirza, J. Ahmed and B. Ali, “Reliable Communications for Cybertwin driven 6G IoVs using Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 7454-7462, 2022.

J. Mirza and B. Ali, “Channel Estimation Method and Phase Shift Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MIMO Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 441-451, 2021.

J. Mirza, B. Ali and M. A. Javed, "Stable Matching for Selection of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in Multiuser MISO Systems," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 2748-2752, Aug. 2021.

B. Ali, J. Mirza, J. Zhang, G. Zheng, S. Saleem and K. K. Wong, “Full-Duplex Amplify- and-Forward Relay Selection in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 6142-6146, 2019.

J. Mirza, G. Zheng, S. Saleem and K. -K. Wong, "Optimization of Uplink CSI Training for Full-Duplex Multiuser MIMO Systems," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2325-2329, Dec. 2019.

J. Mirza, G. Zheng, K. K. Wong and S. Saleem, “Joint Beamforming and Power Optimization in D2D Underlaying Cellular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 8324-8335, 2018.

J. Mirza, G. Zheng, K. K. Wong, S. Lambotharang and L. Hanzo, “On the Performance of Multiuser MIMO Systems Relying on Full-Duplex CSI Acquisition”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 4563-4577, 2018.

J. Mirza, P. J. Smith and P. A. Dmochowski, “Coordinated Regularized Zero-Forcing Pre- coding for Multicell MISO Systems with Limited Feedback”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 335-343, 2017.

J. Mirza, M. Shafi, P. J. Smith and P. A. Dmochowski, “Limited Feedback Massive MISO Systems with Trellis Coded Quantization for Correlated Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 8240-8254, 2016.

J. Mirza, B. Ali, S. Saud Naqvi and S. Saleem, "Hybrid Precoding via Successive Refinement for Millimeter Wave MIMO Communication Systems," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 991-994, May 2017.

J. Mirza, P. J. Smith, M. Shafi, P. A. Dmochowski, A. Firag and A. Papathanassiou, "Double-Cap Differential Codebook Structure for MU MISO Systems in Correlated Channels," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 441-444, Aug. 2014.

J. Mirza, P. A. Dmochowski, P. J. Smith and M. Shafi, "A Differential Codebook with Adaptive Scaling for Limited Feedback MU MISO Systems," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 2-5, February 2014.