Professor Wai Pang Ng

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Wai Pang Ng (S’99-M’01-SM’08 IEEE) received his BEng (Hons) in Communications and Electronic Engineering, from the University of Northumbria, U.K. and his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from University of Wales, Swansea. He is a Chartered Engineer, ECUK since 2005.

He is currently Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for International and Educational Partnerships in the Faculty of Science and Environment and Professor in Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University, UK. From 2023 to 2025, he was Head of Department in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor (2017-2022), Reader (2011-2017) and Senior Lecturer (2004-2011). He has worked as Senior Networking Software Engineer at Intel Corporation.

Prof Ng is PI of grants worth more than £1.6M and has published over 150 publications in journals and conferences.

Prof Ng was the Chair of IEEE UK&RI Communications Chapter (2011-2015) and the Publicity Chair of IEEE ICC2015 and ICC2016. He has also served as Guest Editor for IET Communications. He was Symposium Co-Chair of Signal Processing for Communications Symposium at ICC 2009, Technical Chair of CSNDSP 2010, Technical Chair of NOC/OC&I 2011, and TPC members for numerous international conferences including GLOBECOM and ICC since 2006. He is also a member of SPCE TC, TCGCC, ONTC and FiWi Sub-TC.

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
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
Synchronization of Packet Coupled Low-accuracy RC Oscillator Clocks for Wireless Networks, Zong, Y., Dai, X., Canyelles-Pericas, P., Gao, Z., Ng, W., Busawon, K., Binns, R. 1 Jul 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

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

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