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Khalid Al-Begain is a Professor of Mobile Computing and Networking and the Director of the Integrated Communications Research Centre (ICRC) at the University of South Wales (Since 2003), and the Director of the Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services (CEMAS), a £6.4million Centre partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Al-Begain presents a unique combination of World class research profile, international leadership, proven managerial capabilities and training, significant experience with industry and businesses, and wide network of connections Wales, UK and internationally.

He received his MSc and PhD in Communications Engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary. He also received Post Graduate Diploma in Management from University of Glamorgan in 2011 after finishing two years MBA course modules.

He has been working in different universities and research centres in Jordan, Hungary, Germany and the UK. He has led and is leading several projects in mobile Computing, wireless networking, smart energy management, assisted living and health care, analytical and numerical modelling and performance evaluation.

He is the Winner of the 2013 IWA Inspire Wales Award for Science and Technology. Additionally, in October 2006, he received Royal Recognition as one of only 500 British Scientists to his contributions to the British scientific community. He was selected as one of two case studies of impact in the USW Research Excellence Frame - REF2014 submission.

He is the President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) and has been the President of the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EuroSim) leading the UK Presidency term of 2010. He is the first person ever to take this role in both organisations.

Al-Begain is member of the Welsh Government Ministerial Advisory Steering Group for ICT in Schools. He is UNESCO Expert in networking, British Computer Society Fellow and Chartered IT Professional, Senior Member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications and Computer Societies, member of the UK EPSRC College (since 2006) and the expert panel member of Belgium Research Funding Council (FWO), Life Fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Wales Representative to the IEEE UK&RI Computer Chapter management committee, and has been UK representative to the COST290 Action management committee (2005-2009)

Al-Begain has been also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computing and Engineering at Edith Cowen University, Australia, and as a member of the Governing Board of the West Australia Centre of Excellence on Microphotonic Systems since 2005.

So far, Al-Begain has been the General Chair of twenty-five international conferences including three in 2014. He has been the General Chair of the International Conference of Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA) since 2003 and, in particular, he is the Founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST). He chaired the prestigious EUROSIM congress in Cardiff in 2013.

He has two granted patents, co-authored two books; the first: “Practical Performance Modelling” by Kluwer in 2001 and the second:”IMS: Deployment and Development Perspective” by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. He also edited 15 books, and authored more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences and. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals and acted as Guest Editor for five journals special issues. He is the co-inventor of MOSEL: The Modelling, Specification and Evaluation Language. He has already supervised over 20 successful PhD projects. He has also delivered over ten keynotes in major international conferences. Since 2003, he secured over £300K of consultancy for major companies such as Lucent Technologies, Siemens, Telekom Malaysia and General Dynamics. He also acted as Expert Witness in the major mobile IPR court cases between Nokia-Interdigital and Nokia-HTC.

Al-Begain has led the bidding process and secured £6.4million funding for establishing the Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services (CEMAS). CEMAS mission is to help Welsh SMEs to design, develop, commercialise as well as adopt cutting-edge and innovative mobile applications and technologies. The Centre has been described in May 2014 by the independent evaluators (The Innovation Partnership) to have been researched, planned for, delivered, managed, and executed more effectively than any of the similar projects in Wales.

On the technological side, among many projects, he leads a project on the IMS based next generation service and applications creation environment at ICRC supported by major industries with value exceeding £1million. When created, this facility was one of very few in universities worldwide. A recent consultancy within this theme resulted in the development of world-first Mission-Critical Emergency System over Voice over commercial 4G Networks as part of the consultancy project with General Dynamics UK.

He is also the Principal Investigator on ICE-WISH EU FP7 project (€4.9million total, €300K for UoG) with 17 partners from 11 countries. He is coordinating ECOPLAY Horizon2020 project as a follow-up project. Al-Begain’s research interests span over fundamental and technological themes. He is working on developing analytical and numerical models for evaluating the performance of wireless networks; in particular, the performance of mission critical systems over Voice-over-LTE 4G networks. This is a project that is backed by world-leader General Dynamics UK testbed facility. He is also leading a project for modelling behavioural changes to discover early symptoms of Dementia using Hidden Markov Models. He also developed both routing protocols for emergency systems as well as generalised queueing models for evaluating the impact of “Propagated Failures” resulting from a disaster on systems. Al-Begain has also a number of company directorships including being the CEO of MyLiveGuard Limited (http://www.myliveguard.com/), a spinout company of the University of Glamorgan (now South Wales) exploiting an innovative Video-to-Mobile-Phone home/office security system based on his invention (UK Patent Number GB2475578).