Professor M. Shamim Hossain is internationally recognized for pioneering contributions to artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and intelligent multimedia systems. His research has advanced AI-enabled solutions for transportation safety, pervasive health care, emotion recognition, and other societal applications. As a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and ACM Distinguished Scientist, he has combined internationally influential scholarship with sustained research leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, and professional service, translating advances in artificial intelligence into practical engineering solutions for safer, healthier and more connected societies.
Professor Shamim has authored and co-authored more than 450 publications with an H-Index of 100+. His research has attracted more than 10M. He is the chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health with the IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee. He has been named the general chair of the IEEE Healthcom, 2028 and is the technical co-chair of IEEE WF-IoT, 2026. He served as the symposium chair for Selected Areas in Communications (E-Health), IEEE GLOBECOM 2024 and 2027, and was the technical program co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2023.
He continues to serve as AE/editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) (retired), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), ACM TOMM (retired), IEEE Multimedia (retired), IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications (retired), and Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier). He has served as a lead guest editor for more than two dozen special issues (SIs) in several IEEE and ACM venues. He has received several awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award in IEEE IWCMC, IEEE Globecom; the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award; the 2016 ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award; and the 2019 King Saud University Scientific Excellence Award (Research Quality). He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL).