"My interests are in applied Antenna Engineering and RF/Microwave Techniques. In research, I address electronic sustainability challenges through RF sensing, RF power transfer, and green RF electronics. I am also passionate about RF engineering education and research communication for attracting more students to bridge the skills gap in the RF industry"

Mahmoud received his EEE BEng (First Class Hons.) in September 2018, and his award-winning PhD in Rectenna Design in April 2021, from the University of Southampton. He previously worked as an undergraduate and postgraduate Research Assistant, at the University of Southampton (UK and Malaysia) on industrial collaborations and research projects (Intel; EPSRC Platform Grant), as a Researcher Co-Investigator on Safeguard a £49.9k EPSRC-SPRINT project, and has worked on consultancy projects (ECS Partners Ltd.) in 2017-2021. He was an EU-EnABLES funded PhD student from 2018 to 2020. He was a Hardware Verification Engineering Intern, in 2018, and a Research Intern, in 2020, at Arm Ltd., UK.

He has been PI/Co-I on projects worth over £370k, and has published over 70 journal and conference papers in leading IEEE and high-IF publications. He holds a Intelligence Community Research Fellowship on the topic of RF-enabled energy harvesting, and is s currently with the University of Glasgow as a Prolpetic Lecturer (Assitant Professor) and UK IC Fellow. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. 

Awards and Honours:

• Best PhD in Europe in Antennas and Propagation "Per-Simon Kildal Award", European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), for a PhD awarded in 2020 and 2021, presented at the flagship European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
• Winner of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation Video Contest, 2022, for the best video based on a published IEEE OJAP article (out of >110 papers accepted/published in 2021).
• International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, 2022. Awarded at the URSI Atlantic / Asia-Pacific Radio Science Meeting for the work on Phase-Accurate Analytical Modelling of Single-Wire Transmission Lines.
• Best Paper Award (1st Place), at PowerMEMS 2021 international conference. Received for the paper "Textile-Based Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting and Storage using Ultra-Compact Rectennas with High Effective-to-Physical Area Ratio".
• Young Engineer of the Year Finalist, TechWorks, 2021, the award publicly celebrates and promotes the efforts of young professionals at the early stages of their careers. 
• Dean's Award, Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences 2021, recognizing an Early Career Researcher who has demonstrated excellent performance and an exceptional contribution beyond expectations.
• Doctoral College Best of Faculty Research Award, selected from all the School Award winners and finalists across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS: >1,000 PhD students). Received for "Establishing a track record in a new field of research through an exceptional number of high-quality publications from a PhD"
• Doctoral College Research Award, School Winner for Electronics and Computer Science, 2021 Festival of Doctoral Research.
• IEEE Microwave Week 2020 3MT® Best Presentation (2nd Prize): selected from 24 finalists from worldwide top institutions for the presentation "Collecting Radio Rain". Featured in the IEEE Microwave Magazine and several workshop invitations.
• Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference, Wireless Power Week 2019, London, U.K. for the paper "Millimeter-Wave Textile Antenna for On-Body RF Energy Harvesting in Future 5G Networks"; from >100 WPTC2019 papers.
• Best Oral Paper Award at PowerMEMS 2019, Krakow, Poland, for the paper "Position-Independent Wearable 6.78 MHz Near-Field Radiative Wireless Power Transfer using Electrically-Small Embroidered Textile Coils", sponsored by MDPI Energies.
• Selected for the IEEE MTT-S Project Connect 2019: bringing an exceptional group of undergraduate and first-year graduate students to the International Microwave Symposium.
• University of Southampton 3MT®: Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences Runner Up, SEMS Group first place winner.
• Andy Cranny Memorial Prize (2017/18), for the Best Undergraduate Project from 300 projects for the Project: "Flexible Wireless Sensor Node for Foot-Plantar Pressure Sensing".

Professional Roles

Dr. Wagih holds multiple external roles including:

• Senior Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Member of the IET, and Member of the IEEE,
• Elected as an Affiliate Member for two IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Technical Committees (TC-25 and TC-26): Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee, and RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT Committee, 
• A member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) technical committee on Wireless Power. 
• A member of the inaugural IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Committee.
• TPC member and reviewer for several conferences including the flagship IEEE Internaional Microwave Symposium (IMS) and IEEE Antennas & Propagation Symposium (APS), Wireless Power Week, and others.
• A reviewer for over 17 Journals including multiple IEEE Antennas & Propagation and Microwave Theory & Techniques Letters, Journals, and Transactions, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Systems Journal, Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, and multiple MDPI journals.
• Session chair at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, 2022, and co-chair at the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP'21)