Research Interest: 

1. Healthcare Technologies
2. Wearable RF Sensing
3. Vital Signs Montoring (Cardiac Rate, Respiratory Rate and Blood Pressure Monitoring)
4. Beamforming
5. Advanced Signal Processing
6. Antenna Design

Short Biography: 

Dr. Syed Aziz Shah was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Research Centre for Intelligent Healthcare (CIH) at Coventry University (CU) in 2020. He is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on advanced radio frequency (RF) sensor design and signal processing using RF and THz sensing, specifically for healthcare applications. He is highly motivated to utilize and develop advanced technologies that address the unmet healthcare challenges of unobtrusive monitoring of older adult daily activities for health and wellbeing purposes.

He is recipient of UK's prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Investigator Award. Dr. Aziz also received the endorsement of UK exceptional talent candidate (‘Emerging Leader’) in year 2018, for the pioneering work in the field of wireless sensing for remote patient monitoring. These prestigious awards are given to early-career, world-leading innovators and scientists from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

He has grant portfolio of ~£1.2M; won 8 fully-funded projects as Principle Investigator / Principle Supervisor from national and international funding bodies. Notable research projects include:

Research Grants Won – Principal Investigator / Lead

1. UK Government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), New Investigator Award – Project Title: Radar Sensing for Human Activity Monitoring of Daily Living Simultaneously in Multiple Subjects, Grant No.: EPSRC Reference: EP/W037076/1, Funding Amount: GBP 415,000 fEC.

2. DIKTI–Coventry University Doctoral Scholarship Program – Project Title: Detecting Falls Using Channel State Information in a Communication System Based on Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces, Funding .

Research Grants Won – Coventry Lead

1. EPSRC and CHEDDER HUB – Project Title: SecureSense: A Secure 6G Enabled Realtime Joint Communication and Sensing Testbed, Funding Amount: GBP 200,000.

2.  EPSRC and CHEDDER HUB –  Project Title: Securesense+: Enhanced Secure 6G Real-Time Joint Communication And Sensing Testbed : GBP 60,000

PhD Projects (Fully Funded)– Principal Supervisor / Lead

1. Coventry University - EPSRC Matched Funding – Project Title: RF Sensing for Falls Detection in Heterogeneous Environments

2. Coventry University's Doctoral College Funding Scheme – Project Title: Non-Invasive Sensor-fusion for Detecting and Monitoring COVID-19 Disease Symptoms

3. Coventry University (UK) – Deakin University (Australia) Joint Funding Scheme (Cotutelle) – Project Title: Conversational Question-Answering System for Healthcare (Medical) Information Retrieval

4. Coventry University (UK) – Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore) Joint Funding Scheme (Cotutelle) – Project Title: Developing AI-based Multi-Modal Sensing Platform and Advanced Signal Processing Techniques to Examine the Impact of Falls on Health Parameters/Vital Signs

5. Coventry University (UK) – Deakin University (Australia) Joint Funding Scheme (Cotutelle) – Project Title: Understanding Mechanical Vibrations of Vocal Folds for Speech Processing Through Advanced Radar Sensing To Retrieve Healthcare Information, 

Dr. Aziz has published 130 scientific articles (90 in top-tier peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journals including IEEE TAP, IEEE AWPL and IEEE JBHI), given 10 presentations at leading international peer-reviewed conferences (including RADAR Conference France, UCET Conference UK and AECT Conference KSA). He has also served as technical chairperson for leading conferences including UCET, and SIA, and received distinguished guest talk invitations from Glasgow Caledonian University (UK), National University of Science and Technology (Pakistan), North West Polytechnical University (China) and Palestine Technical University (Palestine).