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Staff Profile

Dr Husnain Sherazi

Director of Student Recruitment, Business, Innovation and Skills. Associate Professor in Computing

  • Email: husnain.sherazi@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 191 2083988
  • Address: Office 3.048
    Urban Sciences Building
    1 Science Square
    Newcastle Helix
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE4 5TG
Background

Husnain Sherazi is an experienced researcher and academician, with over 12 years of teaching & cutting-edge research experience in Computer Science and self-sustained IoT systems, currently serving as Director of Student Recruitment, Business, Innovation, and Skills and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer and Program Director for B.Sc. IT Management for Business (ITMB) at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK. He was a Researcher at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland from Sep. 2020 to May 2021. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at GIFT University and Adjunct Professor at Superior University, Pakistan during the Spring 2020. Husnain earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy on the Ministerial Fellowship in 2018 where he also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher from Nov. 2018 to Oct. 2019. He has been on a research exchange at the University of Glasgow, UK from May 2017 to Jan. 2018. 


During his professional career spanned across different countries, he has been a part of renowned research projects, acquired research grants, supervised research dissertations, developed programs, and contributed to the design & delivery of a range of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has previously served on a number of senior administrative roles in academia including Director of Student Outreach, Program Director for B.Sc. ITMB, Lead on Research and Knowledge Exchange, and Head of Intelligent Systems and Industrial Automation research group, to name a few. Over 70 articles in top-tier journals and conferences are on his credit. He is serving as Associate Editor (Ad Hoc Networks), Executive Editor (Internet Technology Letter), Topic Editor (Electronics), and Guest Editor for a number of prestigious journals. Husnain regularly chairs sessions and serves on the Technical Program Committee for world's renowned conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE VTC, and IEEE EDUCON. Moreover, he is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Senior Member IEEE, Member ACM, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Communications Society, British Computing Society, and the IET.

Research

His research interests broadly span the areas of Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles and Drones, Energy Harvesting, Industrial Automation, Blockchain Technologies, and Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Quantum Computing. Specifically, his research addresses energy efficiency and sustainability issues in IoT networks by promoting green communications through designing energy harvesting techniques and methodologies suitable for low power systems for network operators and mobile users perspective in heterogeneous IoT networks.


Past PhD Students:

  • Smart Farming off to a Flying Start with Self-Sustained Internet of Trees (Zanab Safdar - School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, United Kingdom)
  • Development of a software platform for smart city based on self-adaptation and big data analytics. (Mubashir Ali - University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)
  • Software defined networks based virtualized network service infrastructures. (Awais Aziz Shah - Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy)
  • Sensor-Based Systems, Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Prediction Algorithms for the Energy Data of Smart Homes (Asad Hussain - University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)


Currently accepting new PhD students interested in working under his supervision. The full list of his publications is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7Qp4GhQAAAAJ&hl

Teaching

He has designed and delivered a number of modules including, but not limited to the following:

  • Computer Networks (CSC 8021); Level 7, F2F, Cohort of 90, Autumn 24.
  • Computer Systems (Module Leader); Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 74, Autumn 23.
  • Information Systems and Databases (Module Leader); Level 5, Hybrid Mode (F2F & online), Cohort of 398 students, Spring 22.
  • Machine Learning; Level 7, Hybrid Mode (F2F & online), Cohort of 65 students, Autumn 22.
  • Computer Architecture; Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 30, PT-SAT, Spring 22.
  • Introduction to Computer Technologies (Module Leader); Level 4, F2F, Cohort of 106, Autumn 21.
Publications