Hamed Ahmadi is a Reader in Digital Engineering at School of Physics Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK, He is also an adjunct associate professor at the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2012 where he was a funded PhD student at Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR. Since then he worked at different academic and industrial positions in Republic of Ireland and UK. In his academic roles he has been involved in UCD Beijin Dublin International College and University of Essex partnership with Xi'an Northwest University. Dr. Ahmadi has published more than 70 peer reviewed book chapters, journal and conference papers. He is a member of editorial board of IEEE Communications Standards magazine, IEEE Systems and Springer Wireless Networks. He is a senior member of IEEE, Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy, and Networks working group co-chair and a management committee member of COST Actions CA20120 (INTERACT) and CA15104 (IRACON). His current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization of wireless communications networks, Digital Twins, airborne networks, wireless network virtualization, blockchain, Internet-of-Things, cognitive radio networks, and the application of machine learning in small cell and self-organizing networks.

Design, analysis, and optimization of wireless communications networks, digital twin of networks, airborne networks, wireless network virtualization, blockchain, Internet-of-Things, cognitive radio networks, and the application of machine learning in small cell and self-organizing networks.