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Always patient, kind, and understanding.
Inspires curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.
Creates a collaborative learning environment.
Makes even hard topics easy to grasp.
A true role model for academic success.
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About Salman
Salman Durrani is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, where he has held positions since 2005, advancing from Lecturer (2005-2011) and Senior Lecturer (2012-2017) to Associate Professor (2018-2022) and Professor since 2023. From 2021 to 2025, he served as Associate Director Education for the School of Engineering. He earned a B.Sc. degree with first-class honours in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2000, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 2004, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from ANU between 2005 and 2007. Durrani has supervised over 100 students, including 16 PhD candidates (15 graduated), six Master's Honours students, and numerous undergraduate research and Honours students, and acted as external examiner for 36 PhD and five MPhil theses from institutions in Australia, Canada, India, and Pakistan.
His research focuses on wireless communications and signal processing, encompassing Internet of Things networks, satellite and UAV communications, machine learning for wireless networks, backscatter and wireless powered communications, and stochastic geometry modeling of networks. Durrani has co-authored more than 180 publications, including the edited book Wireless Information and Power Transfer: A New Paradigm for Green Communications (Springer, 2017), two book chapters, 72 journal papers, and 95 conference papers. Notable publications appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. His papers have accumulated over 6700 Google Scholar citations, achieving an h-index of 36 and i10-index of 90. As chief investigator, he has secured six research grants totaling $1.9 million. Awards include the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2018 ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Supervision, 2012 ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Education, Special Commendation in the 2019 Australian Council of Graduate Research Award for supervision excellence, and honorable mentions as one of the AI 2000 Internet of Things Most Influential Scholars in 2020, 2022, and 2023. He edited IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2015 to 2020 and since 2024, chaired the ACT Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Societies from 2015 to 2016, and holds Senior Membership in IEEE and Senior Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy, UK.
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