He is Distinguished National Professor and the Dean Faculty of Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering at
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He did his PhD from renowned School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK in 1990. He is having teaching, research and administration experience of more than 35 years. He has the honour of being one of the editor of
several books "Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems", CCIS 20, "Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies",
CCIS 281, "Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries", CCIS 366, "Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development",
CCIS 414, published by Springer Verlag, Germany. He has also been serving as a Guest Editor for special issue "Wireless Personal Communications" Springer International Journal. He has produced more than 13 PhDs and supervised more than 50 MPhil/Masters Thesis in the area of ICT. His list of research
publication crosses to over 60 in national and international journals, IEEE and ACM proceedings. Also, he has Chaired Technical Sessions in USA, UK, China, UAE,
Italy, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Pakistan, Denmark, Spain and Belgium.
He is member of various professional bodies including: immediate past Chairman IEEE Karachi Section, Region10 Asia/Pacific, Fellow IEP, Fellow IEEEP, Senior Member, IEEE Inc. (USA), SM ACM Inc. (USA).
He is a Lead person for four European Commission Erasmus Mundus exchange programs "Mobility for Life", "STRoNG-TiES"(Strengthening Training and Research through Networking and Globalisation of Teaching in Engineering Studies), INTACT (It's Time for CollaboratioNTowArds Close CooperaTion) and LEADERS (Leading mobility between Europe and Asia in Developing Engineering educations and ReSearch).
He organized several International Conferences including "IMTIC08", "IMTIC12","IMTIC13", "IMTIC15", "WSN4DC13", "IEEE SCONEST", "IEEE PSGWC13",
and track chair in "Global Wireless Summit (GWS 2014), and Chief Organizer and Co-Chair GCWOC'16, GCWOC'17 in Malaga Spain.
In 2015, he also organized two weeks ICTP/UNESCO Regional workshop on "FPGA Based Instrumentation Systems" fully funded by The Abdus Salam ICTP/UNESCO
first time in Pakistan in which scientist from 27 regional countries were invited for participation.
He has been actively serving national and international professional and scientific bodies in various capacities including:
- Member Governing Body and Washington Accord team, Pakistan Engineering Council (2012-at present),
- Chairman IEEE Communication Society (COMSOC), Karachi ChapterRegion10 Asia/Pacific, (2011-2015)
- Chair IEEE Karachi Section Region10 Asia/Pacific (2016 -2017),
- Fellow IEEEP,
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Inc. (USA),
- SENIOR Member, Association of Computer Machinery (ACM), USA,
- Member IEEE Industrial Electrical Society,
- Member IEEE Communication Society,
- Member IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology,
- Member IEEE Education Society, Member IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society,
- Member IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, Member IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
- Member IEEE Biometrics Council, Member IEEE Nanotechnology Council,
- Member IEEE Sensors Council,
- Member IEEE Systems Council,
- Member The International Society for Telemedicine & e-Health (ISfTeH), Switzerland,
- Member, World Federation of Engineering Organization (WFEO), France,
- Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG),
- Member Engineering Accreditation Board PEC, 1999-at present.
- Reviewer IEEE Transaction of Education,
- Expert reviewer ICTR&D, and various HEC reviewers/experts Committees,
- Honorary Consulting Editor "Engineering Review" and "Wire and Wireless" Magazine.
- Honorary Consulting Editor-Education "Engineering Review"
- Chief Editor, IEEEP Journal "Horizon".
- Visiting Guest Scientist/Regular Associate, The Abdus Salam ICTP/UNESCO Centre, Trieste , Itlay (1996-2002) and (2004-2011)
- Erasmus Mundus visiting Fellow, City University, London, 2017
E-mail:
c.bhawani@ieee.org