Rate My Professor Hamid Sharif

Hamid Sharif is the Charles J. Vranek College of Engineering Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves as Chair of the ECE Graduate Committee and Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory. Sharif received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Iowa, M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Throughout his career, he has held faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering, accumulating over 35 years of academic and industrial experience in telecommunications and networking technologies.

Sharif's research specializations encompass wireless communications, security in communication networks, sensors, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, high-speed networks, network security, and applications in cybersecurity, vehicular communications, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, and machine learning for wireless networks. He is an IEEE Fellow, elevated in 2017 for contributions to wireless communications and networking. His scholarly impact is evidenced by over 9,500 citations and more than 350 publications. Notable publications include "Assurance of Energy Efficiency and Data Security for ECG Transmission over Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks" (2012), "Distributed MIMO Technologies in Cooperative Wireless Networks" (2011), "Dynamic Reconfigurable Multi-Cell Battery: A Novel Approach to Improve the Socio-Economic Impact of Energy Storage Systems" (2012, cited by 77), "Performance Analysis for Direction of Arrival Estimating Algorithms in Practical Breast Cancer Detection Scenarios" (2012, cited by 15), and "A General Attack Method for Steganography Removal Using JPEG Compression" (2011, cited by 11). Sharif has led projects developing wireless sensor networks to enhance rail freight safety and contributed to national cybersecurity efforts through data collection and analysis. He has delivered keynote lectures at international conferences on smart IoT and wireless innovations.