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ProfessorAbbas Jamalipour

Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking

Faculty of Engineering

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  • Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking
    Faculty of Engineering

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP SUMMARy

2026-2027      Vice President-MGA, IEEE Communications Society

2026                Vice President-Publications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

2023, 2025     Panel Member, European Research Council, Starting Grants, Sysyems and Communications Engineering

2024-2025     Member, IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee

2024-2025     Member, IEEE TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee

2022-2025     Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

2020-2021      President, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

2017-2019       Chair, IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee

2014-2019       Editor-in-Chief, IEEE VTS Mobile World

2014-2028      Elected Board of Governor Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

2012-2013       Vice President-Conferences, IEEE Communications Society

2009-2011       Chair, Communications Switching & Routing Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society

2006-2008    Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Wireless Communications

2006-2009    Chair, Chapters Coordinating Committee, Asia Pacific Board, IEEE Communications Society

2004-2006    Chair, Satellite & Space Communications Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society

 

- An International Expert Evaluator for many research funding agencies, including: Panel Member European Research Council (ERC), Australian Research Council (ARC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), European Science Foundation (ESF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC), Luxembourg National Research Fund, Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Swiss National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Science Foundation Ireland, Singapore Ministry of Education, Canada Research Chairs Program, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, Singapore’s Agency for Science.

 

 

 

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    2026 IEEE James Evans Avant Garde Award
    8 Sep 2026
    The highest award of IEEE in the field of Vehicular Technology
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Neville Thiele Eminence Award – ITEE, Engineers Australia
    18 Sep 2025
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award IEEE Communications Society GCCTC
    1 Jan 2019
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), AHSNS
    1 Jan 2018
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society CSR TC
    1 Dec 2016
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society CSR TC
    1 Jan 2016
  • MEDIA
    Smartphone's Transformation into a Dual Spectrometer (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2015
    Prof Abbas Jamalipour in collaboration with Prof John Canning at the School of Chemistry and PhD student at EIE, Md Arafat Hossain, are working on the use of mobile phones for monitoring water pollution using 3D printed custom-made attachments to the phone
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  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC2012)
    1 Jan 2012
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Best Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
    1 Jan 2011
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Best Editor Award, ETRI Journal
    1 Jan 2010
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    IEEE Commun. Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences
    1 Jan 2010
  • FELLOWSHIP
    IEICE, Fellow
    1 Jan 2010
  • FELLOWSHIP
    The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, Visiting Fellowship
    1 Jan 2010
  • RECOGNITION
    Top Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2011
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Vice-Chancellor's Award for Systems that Achieve Collective Excellence, Univ. of Sydney
    1 Jan 2010
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Excellent Paper Award, 25th AIAA ICSSC, American Inst. Aeronautics & Astronautics
    1 Jan 2007
  • FELLOWSHIP
    IEEE (CitationFor contributions to next generation networks for traffic control), Fellow
    1 Jan 2007
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    IEEE Commun. Society Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award
    1 Jan 2006
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
    1 Jan 2006
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Telstra Award for Excellence in Teaching (Academic), Univ. of Sydney
    1 Jan 2005
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    ALSTOM Power Prize for Imaginative Problem Solving in Research Project Work U. Sydney
    1 Jan 2004
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Cochlear Prize for Next Generation Applications in Research Project Work Univ. of Sydney
    1 Jan 2004
  • RECOGNITION
    Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society
    1 Jan 2004
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Engineers Australia (IEAust), Elected Fellow
    1 Jan 2004
  • RECOGNITION
    Certificate of Appreciation, IEEE Communications Society
    1 Jan 2001 - 1 Jan 2007