Professor Wai Pang Ng

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Wai Pang Ng (S'99-M'01-SM'08, CEng, FHEA) is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (International and Educational Partnerships) and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at Northumbria University, UK. He provides strategic leadership for the Faculty's internationalisation agenda, educational partnerships, transnational education activities, and global engagement portfolio. Prior to this appointment, he served as Head of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering (2023-2025) and Deputy Head of Department (2019-2022).

Professor Ng joined Northumbria University in 2004 and has held a number of academic leadership positions including Associate Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer. Before entering academia, he worked as a Senior Network Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, where he was involved in networking software development and industry-academic engagement activities.

His leadership experience spans research, education, internationalisation and operational management. He led Northumbria University's REF2014 General Engineering submission and has overseen significant improvements in research performance, funding activity and educational outcomes. As Head of Department, he was responsible for strategic planning, staff development, operational delivery and financial oversight of a department with an annual budget exceeding £10 million.

His research interests include optical communications, radio-over-fibre systems, distributed fibre sensors and communications signal processing. He has secured more than £2.6 million in external research funding as Principal Investigator and has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research has contributed to major collaborative programmes including the DEFRA Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme.

Professor Ng is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Member of IEEE and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has held numerous international leadership roles within IEEE, including Chair of the IEEE United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Communications Chapter, and has contributed to major international conferences including IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM. He is also an active reviewer for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Campus Address

Ellison Building

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Wai Pang Ng's research interests include radio-over-fiber, cognitive radio, high speed optical communications, adaptive digital signal processing and distributed fibre sensing.

Key Publications

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Digital twins for hazard-resilient power grids: A systematic review and roadmap, Cavus, M., Jiang, J., Allahham, A., Rameshrao, A., Scullion, E., Malamud, B., Sun, H., Ng, W. 1 Jul 2026, In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Innovative Small-Scale PV Modeling: Optimizing the Single-Diode Approach for Sub-Watt Systems, Brown, M., Ng, W., Bahrami, A., Jiang, J., Townson, M. 15 Jul 2026, 2026 15th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2026, IEEE
A slot shape microstructured optical fiber for high sensitivity pressure sensing, Xue, P., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
The fabrication of “8”-shape microstructured optical fiber and its application in pressure/temperature sensing, Xue, P., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
Acoustofluidic Patterning in Glass Capillaries Using Travelling Acoustic waves based on Thin Film Flexible Platform, Wang, Q., Maramizonouz, S., Stringer Martin, M., Zhang, J., Ong, H., Liu, Q., Yang, X., Rahmati, M., Torun, H., Ng, W., Wu, Q., Binns, R., Fu, Y. 1 Jan 2024, In: Ultrasonics
High-Sensitivity Narrow-band T-Shaped Cantilever Fabry-Perot Acoustic Sensor for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, Wang, J., Wang, Q., Yan, C., Xu, S., Zou, X., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Fu, Y. 1 Aug 2024, In: Photoacoustics
Microstructured optical fiber sensor with three-core Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Xue, P., Wu, Q., Fu, Y., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 May 2024, In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Ultra-sensitive fiber optic temperature sensor based on Vernier effect in cascading Sagnac loops integrated with PMFs, Zhang, Y., Liu, Q., Xu, T., Wu, Q., Fu, Y., Ng, W., Binns, R. 1 Sep 2024, In: Optics Communications
Integrated label-free erbium-doped fiber laser biosensing system for detection of single cell Staphylococcus aureus, Liu, J., Liu, B., Liu, J., He, X., Yuan, J., Ghassemlooy, Z., Torun, H., Fu, Y., Dai, X., Ng, W., Binns, R., Wu, Q. 15 May 2023, In: Talanta
Integrated sensing and acoustofluidic functions for flexible thin film acoustic wave devices based on metallic and polymer multilayers, Zahertar, S., Tao, R., Wang, H., Torun, H., Canyelles-Pericas, P., Liu, Y., Vernon, J., Ng, W., Binns, R., Wu, Q., Luo, J., Fu, Y. 15 Oct 2023, In: IEEE Sensors Journal

PGR Supervision

Matthew Brown Next generation environmental monitoring: Advancements to autonomy of power and data logistics in LoRa networks Start Date: 17/10/2023 End Date: 05/11/2025
Matthew Brown Next generation environmental monitoring: Advancements to autonomy of power and data logistics in LoRa networks Start Date: 17/10/2023
Matthew Brown Next generation environmental monitoring: Advancements to autonomy of power and data logistics in LoRa networks Start Date: 17/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025

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