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Professor Muhammad Ali Imran

School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

Role of Communications in remote healthcare and overcoming digital divide

The high-performance digital connectivity has long been a luxury only enjoyed by urban centres. The rural communities struggle to get access to digital connectivity and hence the services which rely on this - including telemedicine. Our research is paving the way to make a step change by introducing low-cost digital connectivity solutions for the rural communities. We are also working on low-cost sensing solutions and futuristic advances in remote healthcare and monitoring to reach out to the disadvantaged population groups for improving their healthcare. This talk will provide an overview of research underpinning this ambition.

The talk will focus on telemedicine enablers both in urban and rural areas: the communication infrastructure and sensing technologies. For communication infrastructure we will review specific techniques that meet the constraints of different telemedicine applications (latency, jitter, throughput and reliability). We will also review the medical sensing paradigms including wearables-based sensors, remote sensing (exploiting RADAR principles and wireless channel quality variations).



Biography

Muhammad Ali Imran (M'03, SM'12, F’22) Fellow IEEE, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow IET, Fellow HEA, Fellow RSA and Senior Fellow HEA, is a Professor of Wireless Communication Systems with research interests in self-organized networks, wireless networked control systems and the wireless sensor systems. He is Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Science and Engineering at University of Glasgow and also heads the Communications, Sensing and Imaging CSI research group at University of Glasgow. He is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA and a visiting Professor at 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK. He has over 20 years of combined academic and industry experience with several leading roles in multi-million pounds funded projects. He has filed 15 patents; has authored/co-authored over 600 journal and conference publications; was editor of 10 books and author of more than 30 book chapters; has successfully supervised over 50 postgraduate students at Doctoral level. He has been a consultant to international projects and local companies in the area of self-organized networks.