Internet of Things for Smart Cities Smart Buildings
Biography
Abdel Hamid Soliman, BEng, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Signal Processing and Telecommunications
Director of research students – Engineering
Award Leader: MSc Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
Dr Soliman has a multi-disciplinary academic/research experience in digital signal processing, telecommunications, data acquisition systems, wireless sensor networks (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT) and image/video processing. He is working to harness and integrate different technologies towards implementing smart systems to contribute to smart cities and real-life applications. His research activities are not limited to the national level within the United Kingdom but are internationally extended to many partner Universities in various countries. His research has produced over 40 refereed papers.
In addition to his research activities, he is involved in several enterprise projects and consultancy activities for national and international companies. Since 2007 he has been leading and involved in several externally funded projects om national, European and international levels totalling more than £20M.
Dr Soliman’s work has been recognised through several awards such as: Lord Stafford award “Impact through Innovation”, for Designing and developing a smart monitoring and controlling system for diabetic people. The AWM ICT Excellence awards for “Best Knowledge Transfer project” category, for Designing and developing an electronic bladder diary, and UHNS “Clinical Innovation” award, for Designing and developing an online multimedia-based training system for surgeons.
