Dr. Nasir Saeed

Designation                       Associate Professor                                                     

Email ID(s)                          [email protected]                                                      

Contact #                           3109966609                                                    

NUTECH ext.                     235

Profile Summary

Nasir Saeed (Senior Member IEEE-2019) received his B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2009 and his M.S degree in satellite navigation systems from Polito di Torino, Italy, in 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea in 2015. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Gandhara Institute of Science and IT, Peshawar, Pakistan from August 2015 to September 2016. Dr. Saeed worked as an Assistant Professor at IQRA National University, Peshawar, Pakistan from October 2017 to July 2017. Dr. Saeed served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from July 2017 till October 2020. Dr. Saeed is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Technology (NUTECH), Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Saeed is also a member of technical program committee for various IEEE conferences, such ICCC, GLOBECOM, and VTC. He is also serving as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks. Dr. Saeed has participated in various projects in KAUST relevant to communications, localization, and networking in extreme environments. His current areas of interest include cognitive radio networks, underwater and underground wireless communications, satellite communications, dimensionality reduction, and localization.

Qualification
Sr. No	Degree	University						Year
1	P.hD	Electronics and Communication Engineering						2015
2	MS	Satellite Navigation Systems						2011
3	BS	Telecommunication Engineering						2009
Teaching Experience
Sr. No	Designation	University						Year
1	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA						2017	2020
2	Assistant Professor	IQRA National University, Peshawar, Pakistan						2016	2017
3	Assistant Professor	GIST, Peshawar, Pakistan						2015	2016
Professional Memberships
Sr. No	Membership Type	Membership Body
1	Senior Member IEEE	IEEE
Honors and Awards
Sr. No	Award							Year
1	Associate Editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks							2020
2	Research work has been highlighted by scientific magazines such as KAUST Discoveries, nature middle east, and physics.							2017-2020
3	Nominated for IEEE Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region							2020
Research Areas/Interests
Sr. No	Area	Description
1	Signal Processing	Developing positioning and navigation algorithms in different environments.
2	Wireless Communications	Performance analysis of next generation wireless communication systems
3	Internet of Things	Investigating IoTs for extreme environments, such as underwater and underground
4	Deep Learning	Use of deep learning in industrial IoT networks
Research Supervision
Sr. No	MS/PhD	Title
1	PhD	Signal of opportunity-based localization in underwater environment
2	PhD	Intruder detection and tracking using AUVs
3	PhD	Flow rule installation for In-band SDNs
4	MS	Intersatellite communications in CubeSat networks
5	MS	Localization in 5G networks
Journal Publications
Sr. No	Journal Name		Publication Title with I.F						Year
1	IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials		CubeSat Communications: Recent Advances and Future Challenges (IF: 29.83)						2020
2	IEEE Communications Magazine		Next Generation Terahertz Communications: A Rendezvous of Sensing, Imaging and Localization ( IF: 11.05)						2020
3	IEEE Sensors Journal		Optimal relay placement in magnetic induction based internet of underwater things (IF: 3.07)						2020
4	IEEE Internet of Things Journal		Accurate 3D localization of selected smart objects in optical-internet of things ( IF: 9.93)						2020
5	IEEE Wireless Communications Letters		A joint TDOA-PDOA Localization approach using particle swarm optimization (IF: 4.66)						2020
6	IEEE Communications Magazine		A Software-Defined Opto-Acoustic network architecture for internet of underwater things ( IF: 11.05)						2020
7	IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine		Towards the Internet of Underwater Things: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (IF: 4.01)						2020
8	Electronics		Effect of link misalignment in optical-internet of underwater things ( IF: 2.41)						2020
9	Science China-Information Sciences		Analysis of 3D Localization in Underwater Optical Wireless Networks with Uncertain Anchor Positions ( IF: 3.30)						2020
10	Frontiers of Communications and Networks		When wireless communication responds to COVID-19: Combating the pandemic and saving the economy						2020
11	IEEE Sensors Letters		Network Optimization for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)						2020
12	IEEE Internet of Things Magazine		Climate monitoring using internet of X-things						2020
13	IEEE Transactions on Communications		Outlier Detection and Optimal Anchor Placement for 3D Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks Localization ( IF: 5.64)						2019
14	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications		Localization of Energy Harvesting Empowered Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks (IF: 6.77)						2019
15	IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing		Performance Analysis of Connectivity and Localization in Multi-Hop Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks (IF: 5.11)						2019
16	IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials		A Survey on Multidimensional Scaling Based Localization Techniques (IF: 29.83)						2019
17	Ad Hoc Networks		Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey ( IF: 3.64)						2019
18	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications		End-to-End Performance Analysis of Underwater Optical Wireless Relaying and Routing Techniques under Location Uncertainty ( IF: 6.77)						2019
19	IEEE Access		3D Localization for Internet of Underground Things in Oil and Gas Reservoir ( IF: 3.74)						2019
20	IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials		Towards Internet of Underground Things: A Systematic Survey (IF: 29.83)						2019
21	Sensors		Primary User Localization and its Error Analysis in 5G Cognitive Radio Networks ( IF: 3.27)						2019
22	Journal of System Architecture		An Improved Mechanism for Flow rule installation in In-band SDN (IF: 2.55)						2019
23	Physical Communication		Camera Based Optical Communications, Localization, Navigation, and Motion Capture: Survey, use cases, challenges and future trends ( IF: 1.59)						2019
24	Sensors		Energy Harvesting Hybrid Acoustic-Optical Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks Localization (IF: 3.27)						2018
25	AEU Int. J. of Electronics and Communications		Efficient Error Detection in Soft Data Fusion for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (IF: 2.92)						2018
26	IEEE Access		A 3D Localization algorithm for vehicular ad-hoc networks with Improved Accuracy ( IF: 3.74)						2018
27	ACM Computing Surveys		A Survey on Multidimensional Scaling (IF: 7.99)						2018
28	IEEE Communication Letters		Energy Efficient Localization in Cognitive Radio Networks with Improved Accuracy ( IF: 3.41)						2017
29	IEEE Access		Location Awareness in 5G Networks using RSS measurements for Public Safety Applications (IF: 3.74)						2017
30	Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics		Low-Complexity SIC-MMSE for Joint Multiple-input Multiple-output Detection (IF: 0.51)						2017
31	IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing		Cluster Based Multidimensional Scaling for Irregular Cognitive Radio Networks Localization (IF: 5.02)						2016
32	Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing		Robust Localization Algorithm for Large Scale 3D Wireless Sensor Networks (IF: 0.71)						2016
33	Sensors		Fuzzy C-means Clustering and Energy Efficient Cluster Head Selection for Cooperative Sensor Networks (IF: 3.27)						2016
34	Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks		Efficient Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Levenberg-Marquardt Refinement (IF:0.94)						2016
35	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology		Robust Multidimensional Scaling for Cognitive Radio Network Localization (IF: 5.37)						2015
36	IET Communications		Primary User Localization and Uplink Resource Allocation in OFDMA Cognitive Radio Systems (IF: 1.77)						2015
37	Wireless Personal Communications		Delay Analysis of an Improved Wimax Macro-Femto Handover Technique and Cell Selection Algorithm (IF: 0.95)						2015
Conference Publications
Sr. No	Conference Name		Publication Title						Year
1	in Proc. LTC, KSA		Diversity Schemes in Multi-hop Visible Light Communications for 6G Networks						2020
2	in Proc. IEEE VTC, Hawaii		Towards Ultra-Reliable-Low-Latency communications for underwater optical wireless networks						2019
3	in Proc. IEEE WCNC, Marrakech, Morocco		SectOR: Sector-based opportunistic routing protocol for underwater optical wireless sensor networks						2019
4	in 1st 6G Wireless Summit, Levi, Finland		Passive intelligent mirror-assisted localization for random blockage-limited urban cellular networks						2019
5	in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Machine Vision, Stuttgart, Germany		Multiple Objects Localization in Underwater Wireless Communication Systems Using the Theory of Gravitation						2018
6	in Proc. IEEE SPAWC, Kalamata, Greece,		Robust 3D Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks Localization via Low Rank Matrix Completion						2018
7	in Proc. IEEE ICC, Kansas City, USA		Connectivity Analysis of Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks: A Graph Theoretic Approach						2018
8	in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Alberta, Canada		Underwater Optical Sensor Networks Localization with Limited Connectivity						2018