Hamid Aghvami - iCore Inaugural Workshop Panellist
Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King's College London in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader, and in
1993 was promoted Professor in Telecommunications Engineering. He is the founder of the Centre for Telecommunications
Research at King's. He was the Director of the Centre from 1994 to 2014.
Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for British and International
companies; he has published over 550 technical journal and conference papers, and given invited talks and courses the
world over on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio
Communication Systems Laboratories in 1990, Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories in 1998-1999, and was an Executive
Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA, in 1996-2002. He is the Chairman of Advanced Wireless Technology Group Ltd.
He is also the Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications Ltd, his own consultancy company.
Professor Aghvami leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for
Fourth and fifth generation networks; these projects are supported both by government and industry. He was a member
of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society in 2001-2003, was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Communications Society in 2004-2007, and has been member, Chairman, and Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and
organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also founder of the International Symposium
on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), a major yearly conference attracting some 1,000 attendees.
Professor Aghvami was awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC) Recognition Award in 2005
for his outstanding technical contributions to the communications field, and for his service to the scientific and
engineering communities. Professor Aghvami is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IET, Fellow
of the IEEE, and in 2009 was awarded a Fellowship of the Wireless World Research Forum in recognition of his personal
contributions to the wireless world, and for his research achievements as Director at the Centre for Telecommunications
Research at King's.