Atif Shamim
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
By advancing antennas and sensors research through additive manufacturing techniques, we enable low-cost and efficient wireless communication and sensing for various applications such as remote health monitoring.
Program Affiliations
Center of Excellence
Biography
Atif Shamim received his M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholar at Carleton University from 2007–2009 and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009–2010 at the Royal Military College of Canada and KAUST. In August 2010, he joined KAUST and is now chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program and principal investigator of the IMPACT Lab.
His research work has won best paper awards at major IEEE conferences, and his students have won several design competitions. He has served as Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE AP-S (2022–2024), won the King’s Prize for inventors and the gifted (2018) for his work on sensors for the oil industry, and was awarded the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award in 2008 in Canada. His work on wireless dosimetry won the ITAC SMC Award from the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. Prof. Shamim has also won numerous business-related awards, including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and OCRI Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010. He is an author/co-author of one book, three book chapters, and more than 400 international publications. He is an inventor on 40 patents and has given over 120 invited talks at various international forums. His research interests are innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. He is a fellow of IEEE and has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013–2019), IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (2020–2024), and as a guest editor for IEEE AWPL Special issue (2019). He was appointed as editor-in-chief for IEEE JERM for three years beginning in 2026. He has served as an administrative committee member for IEEE AP-S (2025) and is currently serving as the founding chair of IEEE AP-S TC-8 (Wireless Communications) and vice chair of IEEE AP-S MGA Committee.
Research Interests
Atif Shamim's research focuses on innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. Shamim is particularly interested in developing wearable wireless sensor systems to measure physiological parameters in real time.
Specific research interests include:
Antenna-on-Chip (AoC) design, integration and efficiency enhancement strategies
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)
Additive manufacturing (inkjet, screen, and 3D printing)
Wearable and disposable wireless sensors realized through printing technologies
Reconfigurable microwave components (magnetically controlled)
Phase change materials (PCM) for low-cost RF and mm-Wave switching applications
Terahertz plasmonic antennas and their characterization techniques
Microwave resonators for quantum applications
Education Profile
Ph.D., Carleton University (Canada), 2009
M.S., Carleton University (Canada), 2004
Awards and Recognitions
Publications
Research Areas
- Electrical and Computer Engineering