Rate My Professor Syed Zaidi

Dr. Syed Ali Raza Zaidi is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Leeds. He joined the University of Leeds as a University Academic Fellow under the 250 Great Minds Initiative. His academic background includes a B.Eng degree in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, awarded in 2008. For his final year project on the analysis of forward error correction schemes over wireless channels with memory, supervised by Dr. Syed Ali Khayam, he received NUST's most prestigious Rector’s Gold Medal. Zaidi pursued his PhD at the University of Leeds' School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, supported by the Overseas Research Student (ORS) scholarship, Tetley Lupton Scholarship, and Excellence Scholarship. Additional funding came from COST IC0902, DAAD, and Royal Academy of Engineering grants. Prior to his current role, he served as a Research Assistant in the Wireless Sensor Network Lab on a collaborative project between NUST, Pakistan, and Ajou University, South Korea, from September 2007 to August 2008, and as a Visiting Research Scientist at Qatar Innovations and Mobility Center from October to December 2013. He also contributed to a US Army Research Lab-funded project on Cognitive Green Wireless Communication from a Network Science Perspective.

Zaidi's research interests center on communication and networking for IoT, robotics, and autonomous systems, with a focus on the design, analysis, and implementation of large-scale ad-hoc wireless networks employing tools from stochastic geometry and random graph theory. His areas of expertise include wireless communication networks, robotics and autonomous systems, embedded systems design, complex systems and spatio-temporal models, stochastic geometry, random graph theory, and resource allocation. He holds international certifications in embedded systems and programming from Microsoft, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. Zaidi serves as Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and Editor for IEEE Communications Letters. He has been a Technical Program Committee member for major IEEE conferences such as WCNC, VTC, Globecom, and ICC, and an invited reviewer for IEEE flagship journals and conferences. His professional affiliations include Member of IEEE, Affiliate Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, General Secretary of IEEE TCNBC, Member of Internet Society, Member of IETF, and Junior Member of the Isaac Newton Institute. He is associated with research groups including Energy Leeds, Robotics, Computational Science and Engineering, and the Institute of Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Sensing. With thousands of citations, his work has made notable contributions to the field of wireless communications and networked systems.