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.

Dr. Ahmad has authored multiple publications in leading international conferences and journals in the areas of satellite communications and non-terrestrial networks. He currently leads the Digital Communications and Networking Lab at METU-NCC, where he supervises undergraduate and graduate research projects. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as Telecommunications, Digital Electronics, Probability and Random variables, and systems and control.