Professor Zabih. Ghassemlooy received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K., in 1981, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, University of Manchester, U.K., in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1988, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with City University, U.K. 1988 he joined Sheffield Hallam University as a Lecturer, becoming a Reader in 1995 and became a Professor in optical communications in 1997. 2004 joined the University of Northumbria (UNN), Newcastle, as an Associate Dean (AD) for research with the School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences, and from 2012 to 2014, he was AD of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, UNN, UK, where he currently is Head of the Northumbria Communications Research Laboratories. In 2001 he was awarded the Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship in Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. 2016 he become a Research Fellow at the Chines Academy of Science, and since 2015 has been a Distinguished Professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quanzhou, China. He is a Visiting Professor at the University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia (2013-2017), and Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China (2017-18). He published over 695 papers (259 journals and 6 books), over 88 keynote and invited talks, and supervised 57 Ph.D. students. Research interests include optical wireless communications, free space optics, and visible light communications. He was the Vice-Chair of EU Cost Action IC1101 (2011-16). He is the Chief Editor of the British Journal of Applied Science and Technology and the International Journal of Optics and Applications. He is the fellow of the IET, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of OSA. He is a co-author of a CRC book on “Optical Wireless Communications – Systems and Channel Modelling with Matlab (2012); and co-editor of four books including the Springer book on “Optical Wireless Communications – An Emerging Technology (2016)”, CRC book on “Visible Light Communications: Theory and Applications, CRC June 2017”, IGI Global book on “Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques, 31 Mar 2013, and IET book on “Analogue Optical Fibre Communications, IEE Telecommunication series 32, 1995”. From 2004-06 he was the IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, the Vice-Chairman (2004-2008), the Chairman (2008-2011), and Chairman of the IET Northumbria Network (Oct 2011-2015). 

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