Muhammad Bilal (M'16, SM'20) received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication network engineering from the School of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea University of Science and Technology, in 2017. From 2017 to 2018, he was with Korea University, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Smart Quantum Communication Center. In 2018, he joined Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, where he was as an Associate Professor with the Division of Computer and Electronic Systems Engineering. In 2023, he joined Lancaster University, where he is working as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) with the School of Computing and Communications.
Dr. Bilal is an editorial board member of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, IEEE Future Directions in Technology, Policy, and Ethics Newsletter, Alexandria Engineering Journal (Elsevier), Physical Communication (Elsevier), Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, and Co-EiC of the International Journal of Smart Vehicles and Smart Transportation. He has served as a Technical Program Committee Member on many international conferences, including the IEEE VTC, the IEEE ICC, ACM SigCom, and the IEEE CCNC.