Rate My Professor Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Division of Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi, a position she has held since January 2024. She is also an associated faculty member with NYU WIRELESS at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Nadeem obtained her M.S. degree in electrical engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2015 and her Ph.D. degree in the same field from KAUST in 2018. From 2019 to the end of 2023, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Additionally, she held postdoctoral teaching fellow positions at UBC in 2020 and 2022.

Her research interests encompass wireless communications, signal processing, massive MIMO systems, programmable metasurface applications, electromagnetics, and antenna theory. These areas extend to communication theory, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), non-terrestrial networks, and machine learning and AI-empowered wireless communications. Nadeem directs the NextG Wireless Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. She received the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society in 2018 for her work on full-dimension massive MIMO systems. In 2021, she was granted the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, ranking first among applications from female candidates. In 2024, she was named among the top 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women. Nadeem serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. She has acted as Guest Editor for the special issue on Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks in IEEE Network Magazine and for the special collection on New Trends in MIMO Systems in npj Wireless Technology. Furthermore, she has co-chaired technical tracks and workshops at prominent IEEE conferences, including IEEE PIMRC 2023, IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, IEEE WCNC 2024, IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE VTC-Fall 2025, and IEEE WCNC 2026. Her publications have accumulated over 2,200 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring her influence in the field of advanced wireless systems.