Dr. Usman Hadi is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the School of Engineering at Ulster University, Jordanstown campus. Prior to that, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Aalborg University & Ext Research Engineer at Nokia Standards (Nokia Bell Labs) in Aalborg Denmark (2019-2021). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering University of Bologna, Italy in 2019.  At the same time, he was a Visiting Researcher (2017–2019) at Université Paris-Est, ESYCOM, ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, France and Nokia Bell Labs, NJ, USA. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication for 5G and Beyond 5G particularly Time Sensitive Networks, microwave photonics, machine learning including RoF systems, devices for telecommunications, and wireless sensor networks. He was among the top 2% of cited researchers for three consecutive years (2023, 2022, 2021). 

Active Collaborations:

• Nokia Bell Labs
• University of Leeds, UK
• University of East Anglia, UK
• University of Texas, USA
• Boise State University, USA
• KAUST, KSA
• MD Anderson Institute, Texas, USA
• The University of Melbourne, VIC Australia

PhD Students: 

Ms. Cara Rose, funded by Department of Economy (Sept. 2023–Present)

Mr. M.Y. Daha, funded by Vice Chancellor's Research Studentship  (Sept 2022–Present)

Have a look at our recent in-house drone MADNI (Made in UU) Demo equipped with state-of-the art 5G connectivity, object detection, and facial detection

Radio over Fiber

Long Haul Optical Front Hauls

Wireless Communication (MIMO, Beamforming, Time Sensitive Networks)

Machine Learning for Optical Communications

AI for IoT

Smart Home Automation

Cyber Security (COM771)

Digital Signal Processing (EEE 834)

Mechatronics-1 (EEE 412)