Biography:

Shurjeel Wyne received his BSc in Electrical Engineering with Honors from UET Lahore, Pakistan (1995) and his MS in Digital Communications from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2003). He obtained his PhD in Wireless Communications from Lund University, Lund, Sweden (2009). From 2009 to 2010 he was a post-doctoral research fellow funded by the High-Speed Wireless Center at Lund University. Since June 2010, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan, where he currently serves as Professor and Head of Department. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, USA, registered with Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) as a Professional Engineer, and serves on PEC's national panel of accreditation experts. 

Prof Shurjeel’s research interests include wireless channel characterization, multi-antenna systems, cooperative communications, heterogeneous networks, vehicular communications, and physical layer security. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Antennas and Propagation Track at IEEE VTC2013-Spring in Dresden, Germany. He is a regular reviewer for several prestigious international journals including the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and the IEEE Communications Letters. He has also served as member TPC for international conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation.