Lect. PhD BILAL AHMAD

Dr. Bilal Ahmad is currently serving as a faculty member at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus (METU-NCC). He received his Ph.D. in Electronics, Electrical, and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 DYNASAT project. His research interests include Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), Graph Theory, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), Digital Communications, MIMO systems, and Optimization Theory.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Ahmad worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, where he contributed to several European collaborative projects such as DYNASAT, 6G-NTN, and EAGER focusing on advanced radio resource management and user scheduling techniques for next-generation satellite communication systems. He has also served in various academic and administrative positions at Lahore Leads University, Pakistan.