Meet the team
Dr. Hadi Heidari (PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA) is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. His Microelectronics Lab (meLAB) consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers and 8 PhD students, conducts pioneering research on magnetoelectronics and integrated microelectronics design for wearable and implantable devices.
Dr Heidari's research has been funded by major research councils and funding organizations including the European Commission, EPSRC, Royal Society and Scottish Funding Council. He is PI for EU H2020 MSCA-IF "WiseCure: Wireless Implantable Devices for Neurological Disorders Cure" and the €8.4M EU H2020 FET-Proactive “Hybrid Enhanced Regenerative Medicine Systems (HERMES)” projects. He is a member of the eFutures Steering Group (an EPSRC-funded network representing the UK’s electronic systems academic community). He is a member of EPSRC College, and also reviews proposals for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Dr Heidari is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Board of Governors (2018-2020), IEEE Sensors Council Member-at-Large (2020-2021), Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology and IEEE Access, Editor of Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, and Guest Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal, and Frontiers in Neuroscience. He is the General Chair of 27th IEEE ICECS 2020, Technical Program Chair of IEEE PRIME'19, and serves on the organising committee of several conferences including the UK Circuits and Systems Workshop (UKCAS), UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET) Conference, IEEE SENSORS’16 and ’17, NGCAS’17, BioCAS’18, PRIME’15, ISCAS'23, and the organiser of several special sessions on the IEEE Conferences. Dr Heidari has authored/co-authored over 145 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals or conference proceedings and acts as a reviewer for several journals and conferences. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the 2019 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award, the Rewards for Excellence prize from the University of Glasgow (2018), IEEE CASS Scholarship (NGCAS’17 conference), Silk Road Award from the Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC’16), Best Paper Award from the IEEE ISCAS’14 conference, Gold Leaf Award from the IEEE PRIME’14 Conference. He has been an external examiner for multiple PhD theses, including students at Imperial College London, University of Southampton, and Aarhus University.
Dr. Rami Ghannam (BEng, DIC, MSc, PhD, MIET, MIEEE) is a Lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with research interests in the broad field of photonics. Following his PhD from Cambridge University in 2007, Dr. Ghannam has spent the past ten years in the field of photovoltaics. He has held previous industrial appointments at Nortel Networks, IBM Research GmbH and Starkon S.A.E. He received his BEng degree from King's College (top First Class Honours), as well as his DIC and MSc degrees from Imperial College London. Dr Ghannam is also a member of the Microelectronics Lab, where he is investigating the use of PV cells for energy harvesting applications in wearable and implantable electronic devices.
Dr. Qammer H. Abbasi (S’08–M’12–SM’16, MIET’12) received his BSc and MSc degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan (with distinction). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Electrical engineering from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), U.K., in Jan., 2012. He is an Associate editor for IEEE Access journal and acted as a guest editor for numerous special issues in top notch journals. He is a member of IET and commitee member for IET Antenna & Propagation and healthcare network. Research interests include but not limited to: nano communication, biomedical applications of millimeter and terahertz communication, wearable and flexible sensors, compact antenna design, RF design and radio propagation, antenna interaction with human body, Implants, body centric wireless communication issues, wireless body sensor networks, non-invasive health care solutions, physical layer security for wearable/implant communication and multiple-input-multiple-output systems. Research Assistants & Associates
Dr Rupam Das
Research Associate
Dr Vahid Nabaei
Research Associate
Xianpeng Liang
Research Assistant
PhD students
Siming Zuo
PhD student (October 2017)
Asfand Tanwear
PhD student (October 2018)
Jinwei Zhao
PhD student (January 2018)
Haobo Li
PhD student (January 2017)
Adnan Zahid
PhD student (October 2017)
Yuchi Liu
PhD student (February 2019)
Kaung Oo Htet
PhD student (October 2017)
Amy (Mengyao) Yuan
PhD student (Jan 2020)
Eve McGlynn
PhD student (October 2019)
Yuchen Li
PhD student (starting Feb 2020)
