Dr Shahid Mumtaz

Shahid Mumtaz has more than 10 years of wireless industry experience and is currently working as Senior Research Scientist and Technical Manager at Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal. Prior to his current position, he worked as Research Intern at Ericsson and Huawei Research Labs in 2005 at Karlskrona, Sweden. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) Karlskrona, Sweden and University of Aveiro, respectively.

Dr. Shahid has several years of experience in 3GPP radio systems research with experience in HSPA/LTE/LTE-A/5G-NR and strong track-record in relevant technical field, especially physical layer technologies, LTE cell planning and optimization, protocol stack and system architecture.

Dr. Shahid research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to 3GPP networks (i.e., LTE-A user plan & control plane protocol stack, NAS, and EPC), 5G NR related technologies, green communications, cognitive radio, cooperative networking, radio resource management, Network slicing, LAA/LTU, cross-layer design, Backhaul/fronthaul, heterogeneous networks, M2M and D2D communication, and baseband digital signal processing. Dr. Shahid has more than 150 publications in international conferences, journal papers, and book chapters.

Dr. Mumtaz is a senior member of IEEE. He was awarded an "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship by ERCIM to pursue research in communication networks for one year at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2012. He was nominated Chair for IEEE new standardization on P1932.1: Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Networks. This standardization resulted from Dr. Mumtaz’ novel idea on “WiFi in Licensed band”. He is also actively involved in 3GPP standardization on LTE release 12 onwards, along with major manufacturers .