I organised a Distinguished Lecture Program together with IEEE Malaysia Comsoc/VTS Joint Chapter, on 29 Nov 2017. The talk entitled " Consulting Career for Engineers" was presented by invited speaker, Mr. Fawzi Behmann President, TelNet Management Consulting, Inc.

I organised a 5G Tutorial on Wireless Localisation together with IEEE Malaysia Comsoc/VTS Joint Chapter, on 30 Nov 2017. The talk entitled " Wireless Localisation and Location Aware Communications " was presented by invited speaker Prof. Dr. Sunwoo Kim from Hanyang University, South Korea.

On 5th-6th September 2017, I attended the EU H2020 ATOM project mid-term meeting and workshop at University of York. The mid-term meeting on 6th September was carried out in the presence of the reviewer from European Commission (EC) office to review the progress of the project of all partner institutions such as UTM, UPM, University of York, University of Cyprus, CIIT and UoP. I presented the UTM's work packages progress and received congratulatory remarks from the EC reviewer. The overall progress of the ATOM project was recognised by the EC reviewer and the second disbursement was approved . During the workshop on 5th September, I was invited to present a talk on "Harnessing Interference in Virtual Full Duplex System ".

As the principal investigator from UTM, I was invited for a two-week secondment to University of York, from 28th Aug 2017 until 8th Sep 2017. The living allowance amounting to 1000 Euros was sponsored by University of York through the ATOM project. During the secondment period, I work with Dr. Cumanan and his team on the topic of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access.

As the person in charge for the MoU with Ericsson Malaysia, I participated in the connected water project. The project is a collaboration between UTM, Intel Malaysia, Ericsson Malaysia and Keysight Technologies, with the aim to develop IoT solution for water quality monitoring in Malaysia. The project is later renamed to MyHydronet and it is currently in the proposal refinement stage. Photo taken at Intel Penang on 5th July 2017.

WCC and Ericsson organised the 5G Accelerating Digital Malaysia at the Innovation Centre for 5G, UTM KL. During the event, the 5G base station operating on 28GHz band was demonstrated in IC5G, together with other futuristic use cases of 5G. In addition, periodic progress meeting is carried between UTM and Ericsson to ensure the continuity of the collaboration. Photo taken in front of the mmWave MIMO base station prototype operating at 28GHz.

I jointly organised a 5G tutorial together with IEEE Malaysia Comsoc/VTS Joint Chapter, on 10 April 2017. The tutorial entitled "Recent Progress of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Acces (NOMA)" was presented by invited speaker, Prof. Zhiguo Ding from Lancaster University.

I organised a Distinguished Lecture Program together with IEEE Malaysia Comsoc/VTS Joint Chapter, on 13 April 2017. The talk entitled " Current and Future Research Challenges in Smart Grid Networks and the Internet of Things" was presented by invited speaker, Prof. Abbas Jamalipour from University of Sydney.

Workshop on Advancing the State of the Art of MIMO (ATOM Workshop) — May 3, 2016 9:12:43 AMThe workshop on "Advancing the State of the Art of MIMO: The Key to the Successful Evolution of Wireless Networks" was hosted by the WCC UTM and supported by the EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 ATOM Project 690750 from 30th May to 2nd June 2016 at UTM KL. I acted as the chair of the organising committee to plan and coordinate the event. Speakers from the consortium institutions, namely Lancaster University, University of York, University of Cyprus, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia shared with the audience the recent R&D advancement related to the topic of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO).

As the principal investigator from UTM, I was invited for a two-month secondment to Lancaster University, from 26th June 2016 until 28th August 2016. During the secondment period, I work with Prof Zhiguo Ding and his team on the topic of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access.

As the person in charge for the MoU with Ericsson, I coordinated and attended the project kick-off meeting and regular project meeting with Ericsson Research Sweden through teleconference. One of the important outcome is the establishment of the UTM Ericsson Innovation Centre for 5G and the successful application of the CREST R&D grant entitled "A Beamforming Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array system for 5G Applications".

As the secretariat of 5G SWG, I involved as the organising committee, master of ceremony and invited speakers for the Malaysia-Japan IMT-2020 (5G) Workshop on 6th April 2016, which aims to promote the public awareness about 5G and to foster collaboration with 5G MF Japan.

On 15th February 2016, WCC director Prof Tharek and myself visited the 5GIC at University of Surrey, UK to benchmark the 5G facilities and operation and to establish 5G R&D collaboration with 5GIC team headed by Prof Rahim Tafazolli (Middle)

On 17th-18th February 2016, Prof Tharek and myself were invited to attend the EU H2020 ATOM project kick-off meeting at Lancaster University. The meeting was carried out to discuss the project planning, execution and management and to facilitate networking between partner institutions such as UTM, UPM, University of York, University of Cyprus, CIIT and UoP.

I involved as the secretariat for the first national 5^th Generation International Mobile Telecommunication seminar with MTSFB, on 27th May 2015 at MCMC Cyberjaya.

UTM and Ericsson Malaysia to Collaborate in 5G . I facilitated the MoU between UTM and Ericsson. The MoU with Ericsson Malaysia is officially approved by JPU on 4th October 2015. I coordinated with the corporate office UTM and successfully organised a MoU signing ceremony on 22nd October 2015 at UTM KL.

The director of 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey visited WCC UTM KL from 25th to 27th May 2015 as a visiting professor to discuss potential collaboration with WCC. As a result of the visit, 5GIC agreed to establish a MoU with UTM.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Li from University of Sydney visited WCC UTM JB and WCC UTM KL from 2nd to 6th June as a visiting academic as part of the activity under MoU.