Dr Mansoor Shafi
Positions
Principal Advisor Wireless, Telecom New Zealand.
Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Qualifications
BSc(EE)(Lahore), PhD(EE)(Auck), FIEEE, CPEng(NZ), IntPE(NZ)
Contact Details
Phone: +64 4 382 5249
Fax: + 644-385 4557
Mansoor.Shafi@telecom.co.nz
mansoor.shafi@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address
Principal Advisor Wireless
P O Box 293
Wellington
New Zealand
Background
I work in Telecom New Zealand where my present role is to provide leadership in the wireless activities. I started my career in the New Zealand Post Office in 1979 as a radio engineer. In the late eightees, the telecommunications part of the Post Office became Telecom New Zealand. I have held various roles in Telecom that involve looking at future directions and technology strategy. Throughout my professional career, I have also been actively involve in academic activities i.e co supervising graduate students, taking visiting academic / research appointments etc. I also have a very active role in the shaping of world telecommunications standards for wireless communications via participation in the ITU.
Research Interests
- Radio Propagation Models
- Information theoretic and practical aspects of MIMO Systems
- Intelligent receiver architectures, adaptive antennas
- Wireless communications systems
- Modulation, channel estimation and equalisation
- Traffic models for wireless systems
Invitation to Graduate Students
If you are keen on working in any of these areas for ME or PhD, please contact me to discuss the projects that I have in mind.