Presentation
Reza Malekian is a Full Professor and the Deputy Head of Department (Vice Prefekt) in the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, with the responsibility for research and doctoral education. He was nominated for the Tage Erlander prize, an award by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) for outstanding scientific research in natural sciences and technology.
Before joining MaU, Dr. Malekian was an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he previously led the Advanced Sensor Networks research group and received the Vice-Chancellor and Principal's Exceptional Young Researcher's award, as well as with the University of Victoria (UVic) in Canada.
Having several years’ experience in teaching and research in both the university and the industry sectors, he has maintained an active research programme and provided supervision and mentorship to several doctoral graduates and postdoctoral fellows under the industry and government funding.
His research focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor systems and networks. He is registered as a chartered engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council of UK, a senior member of the IEEE (USA), a senior member of the ACM, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Apart from serving on several IEEE committee roles, such as chairing Steering Committee of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), USA, and chairing a standing committee of the IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community (IEEE IoT TC), USA, he has been serving as an Area Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, and IEEE Academy on Internet of Things (IoT).
Moreover, Dr. Malekian has been involved in the IEEE Technical Activities, including collaborations on the IEEE Academy on IoT, and conference organization on many levels, most notably as the General Co-Chair of 2024 IEEE World Forum on IoT (Ottawa, Canada), General Co-Chair of 2024 IEEE International Conference on IoT (Copenhagen, Denmark), TPC chair of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (Orlando, FL, USA), and Invited Paper Chair of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (Maui, Hawaii, USA).
He has been appointed as an assessment committee member for PhD thesis at various universities, including Mittuniversitetet, Mälardalen University, Aarhus University, Western Sydney University and has chaired several doctoral thesis defenses and defense committee at the University of Pretoria.
He served as an evaluator for the following funding agencies:
Transportation finance, public transit, and innovative mobility, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, California, USA (https://www.its.ucla.edu/)
Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR), Utah, USA (https://ustar.org)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp)
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW) (https://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-domains/ttw)
Desmond Tutu Doctoral Progarmme (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
National Research Foundation of South Africa) (https://www.nrf.ac.za/)
VLIR-UOS supports partnerships between universities and university colleges in Flanders (Belgium) (https://www.vliruos.be/en/home/1), and
South African Medical Research Council (www.samrc.ac.za).
Dr. Malekian was also a guest editor for "IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering", "IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics", "IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems", "IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine", "IEEE Sensors Journal", "IEEE Transactions on Multimedia", and "Elsevier Computer Networks".
