We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Waheb A. Jabbar from Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Sciences. Waheb Abdullah received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Basrah, Iraq, in 2001, the Master of Engineering (with distinction) in Communication & Computer Engineering and PhD in Electrical, Electronic, and Systems Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, in 2011 and 2015 respectively. He is registered as Charted Engineer (CEng) under the Engineering Council and IET, UK and a Professional Technologist under Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). He is also an IEEE Senior Member, and he served as chair of the educational activities of the IEEE-UKM Student Branch (2012-2013). Waheb is a MIET member of IET UK, and a member of IEM and BEM, Malaysia. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical/Electronics Engineering at the College of Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University (BCU), United Kingdom. His research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Networks, Mobile Communications, and Smart Sensors and Control. He also has a keen interest in Low Power Wide Area Networks such as LoRa Networks and NB-IoT. Previously, he served in different academic, research and administrative positions at Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia that include: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Technology, Research Fellow at the Centre for Software Development & Integrated Computing, Coordinator of Senior Design Projects for undergraduate students, and the Head of Advanced Electronics & Automation Research Sector. He also served as a Leader/Member of several research projects in the field of IoT and Wireless Networks and the author of many articles published in prestigious journals, including Experts Systems with Applications, IEEE Access, Sensors, Wireless Networks, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing and Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory. He also presented numerous papers at international conferences. Dr. Waheb has supervised and co-supervised four PhD, five Masters by research students and many undergraduate project dissertations. He has also been nominated as Internal Examiner for Master's and PhD candidates. He has registered four IPs (Patents/Copyrights) and received a number of Gold/Silver/Bronze medals and research awards from many national and international exhibitions for innovative research, invention & technology. He is an Editorial Board Member of several indexed peer-reviewed journals and he served as TPC chair/member in several international conferences. Waheb is a certified Peer Reviewer from the Publons Academy and serves as a Reviewer of more than 85 prestigious journals indexed by ISI/WoS/Scopus, including IEEE Transactions and Top Q1 WoS-Indexed journals from various publishers (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, MDPI, etc.). During his PhD study, Waheb served as Graduate Research Assistant at the Centre for Research and Instrumentation Management, UKM, Malaysia. Before that, he served as Planning Director at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sana’a, Yemen. His industrial experience in Electrical/Electronics Engineering is supported by his six years as an Electrical Supervisor and Commissioning Engineer with Public Electricity Corporation, Yemen prior to awarding Fellowship and joining UKM for pursuing his postgraduate studies. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Waheb A. Jabbar for his participation and support.
September 23, 2024