Academic activities

Publications and indexes

First book dedicated to wideband beamforming: Wideband beamforming concepts and techniques, Wiley, 302 pages, March 2010.
A second book titled Low-cost smart antennas (by Wiley) was published in March 2019.
Number of publications: two books, five book chapters, 210+ journal papers, 170+ conference papers (h-index: Google Scholar, Scopus, and Researcher ID).

Beamforming optimisation for massive MIMO in wireless communications, £221,000, PI, Innovate UK, 2021–2023
Cooperative underwater surveillance networks, £222,000, PI, UK EPSRC, 2021–2024.
Intelligent design of antenna arrays, US $70,000, PI, Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, 2020–2021.
Virtual sensing for autonomous systems via V2X communications, £50,000, PI, UK EPSRC, 2019–2021.
Sparse sensor array signal processing for detection and estimation, £103,000, PI, funded by industry from China, 2017–2019.
High resolution wide swath spaceborne SAR based on co-prime arrays, about £23,000, PI, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017–2018.
Sparsity based wideband direction of arrival estimation, £95,000, PI, funded by the UK DSTL, 2014–2015.
Wind profile prediction, £90,000, PI, joint by National Grid (UK) and UK EPSRC, 2011–2014.

Senior Member of IEEE (from 05/2010).
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK (from 04/2009).
Member of the UK EPSRC College of Peer Reviewers (from 10/2020).
Elected member (05/2015 to present) of the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee (DSPTC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
Elected member (01/2017 to present) of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAMTC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Vice-Chair (2019–2020) and Chair (2021–2022) of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Technical Committee.
Secretary (2020–2022) and Chair (2022–2024) of the IEEE Digital Signal Processing for Circuits and Systems Technical Committee.
Member (2021–2022) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Directions Board.
Member (2022–2023) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Conferences Board.

Associate editor for IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (03/2015 to 03/2019) and IEEE Access (04/2016 to 03/2021).
Associate editor for the Journal of The Franklin Institute (02/2021-01/2023).
Executive Associate Editor-in-Chief (2023-2026) and Editorial Board Member (2016-2022) of Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (FITEE) and received the 2019 Distinguished Editorial Board Member Award.

“Direction of Arrival Estimation with Magnitude-only Array Measurements”, half-hour talk at the International Workshop on Signal and Information Intelligent Learning and Processing, Xidian University, China, July 2022.
Two-hour tutorial entitled 'Basic concepts and techniques for wideband beamforming' at the International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing, China, September 2021.
Half-day tutorial entitled 'Underdetermined wideband direction of arrival estimation and target localisation" at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, Canada, June 2021.
Half-day tutorial entitled 'Wideband beamforming for next-generation wireless communication systems" at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, May 2018.

Technical Committee Co-Chair for the track of Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing of the 2019 - 2024 IEEE International Conferences on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
Track Co-Chair for Digital Signal Processing of the 2021- 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
Publicity Co-Chair of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore.
Finance Co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Costa Rica.
Proceedings Chair of the2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI), Santa Clara, California, USA.
Chair of the IEEE five-minute video clip contest (5-MICC) 'Let there be a beam' at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2020), Barcelona, Spain, 4–8 May, 2020.
General Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Sheffield, UK.
Registration Chair for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2015), London, UK.
Publications Chair of the 2009 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2009), Glasgow, UK.
Technical programme committee (TPC) member (or similar role, or regular/special session chair) for about 100 international conferences, such as IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ISCAS, EUSIPCO, DSP, IEEE VTC, IEEE GLOBECOME, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC.

Regular reviewer for all major journals in areas related to signal processing, such as IEEE TSP, IEEE SPL, IEEE TALSP, IEEE TAP, IEEE TAES, Elsevier SP, Elsevier DSP, and IET SP.
External examiner for universities in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada, India and Pakistan.