Wednesday, 31 December 2025


About Me:
Arumugam Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless Communications and the founding Head of Communication Systems Research (CSR) Group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London from September 2017. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Informatics at King's College London from September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King's College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications from April 2013 to August 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Systems, Beyond 5G Wireless networks and Internet of Things. He published nearly 800 Journal and Conference papers with 37000+ citations and h-index of 95. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM'2017), IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC'2016) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2018 (VTC’2018). He is a co-recipient of IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize 2022.

    He was an Editor-at-Large for IEEE Transactions on Communications and a senior editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2006-2011), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2006-2017), IEEE Signal Processing Letters and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). He served as the Chair for the Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC-TC) of IEEE Communications Society and Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in numerous IEEE conferences. He received the IEEE Communications Society SPCE outstanding service award 2012 and IEEE Communications Society RCC outstanding service award 2014. He has been selected as a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016, 2022-2025. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Research Interests:
  • Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Systems
  • Beyond 5G Wireless Networks
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
Honors and Awards:

  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2025
  • Listed among the Top 10 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2025/2026
  • 2025 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention, 2025
  • Member, IEEE Fellows Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society , 2025-2026
  • Listed among the Top 20 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2025
  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2024, News
  • Listed among the Top 20 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2024
  • AI2000 Most Influencial Scholar Award in the field of Internet of Things, 2024
  • Elected as the World's AI top Scientist of International AI Industry Alliance, 2024
  • Listed among the Top 20 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2024
  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2023, News
  • Listed among the Top 20 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2023
  • Listed among the Top 50 Global Artificial Intelligence Scholars, 2023
  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2022, News
  • IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, 2022
  • Listed among the Top 20 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientists in the U.K, 2022
  • Awarded Charted Engineer (CEng), 2022
  • AAIA Fellow, 2021
  • IEEE Fellow, Class of 2017
  • IET Fellow
  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2016, News
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Communications Society (2020-2023)
  • IEEE Distinguished Speaker, Vehicular Technology Society(2014-2024)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2018 (VTC’2018)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM’2017)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC’2016)
  • Best of IEEE Global Communications Conference 2014 (GLOBECOM’2014)
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2021,2022)
  • Senior Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (from 2020)
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2011-2022)
  • Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2009-2013)
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2006-2017)
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2006-2011)


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