Dr Mohammed Jahangir MIET CENG

Mohammed Jahangir

School of Engineering
Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
07815775971
Email
m.jahangir@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@Mohamme63116784
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Mohammed Jahangir (B.Sc. Ph.D., C.Eng, MIET) is the lead senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham Quantum Technology Hub Timing and Navigation programme. He is responsible for the development of a fully coherent quantum enabled networked staring radar. Having graduated with 1st class honours from Imperial College he joined the UK MoD research centre in Worcestershire to embark on a research career on surveillance radars. He obtained his PhD from UCL in 2000 on coherent radar clutter statistics. He has nearly three decades experience of working on many aspects of surveillance systems for both defence and the civil sector. He has widely collaborated with academia and industry in his pursuit to drive innovation in radar techniques. In 2013 he joined Aveillant Limited in Cambridge to be the R&D lead for the staring holographic radar and was recognised as a world leading expert on wind farm mitigation and counter drone surveillance. His current focus is on multi-function networked radar that harnesses persistent dwell to track difficult targets in complex clutter environment. He has several patents and published over 50 papers and three book chapters. He is the chair of the EMSIG UK Radar Society ASPIRE focus group, serves as a PRI for the IET Chartership registration and is a keen STEM ambassador.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University College London, London, 2000
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Imperial College, London,1st Class Hons, 1992
  • A-level, Cauldon College, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 5 A grades plus Special Paper in Pure Maths, 1989
  • Chartered Engineer (CENG), MIET, MIEEE

Postgraduate supervision

  • Jithin Kannanthara
  • Darren Griffiths
  • Daniel White

Research

Quantum-enabled radar installation at the University of Birmingham
Quantum timing research at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing
Field trials at Cranfield Airport
Using quantum technology to improve radar

Other activities

  • Chair of the EMSIG UK Radar Society ASPIRE focus group
  • Professional Registration Interviewer for IET Chartership registration
  • STEM Ambassador
  • Member of the technical programme for multiple radar conference e.g IEEE Radar 2021 & 2022, EuMW2021

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Yan, L, Jahangir, M, Antoniou, M, Chengpeng, H, Clemente, C & Orlando, D 2025, 'Applications for the EM-based Classifier in Radar Sensor Network', IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, 7001204. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2025.3540732

White, D, Jahangir, M, Kumar Mishra, A, Baker, C & Antoniou, M 2025, 'Latent Variable and Classification Performance Analysis of Bird-Drone Spectrograms with Elementary Autoencoder', IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, vol. 3, 10804883, pp. 115-123. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRS.2024.3518842

Griffiths, D, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Jahangir, M, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Phase Synchronization of Bistatic Radar by Exploiting the Urban Scene', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2025.3526900

Ahmad, BI, Rogers, C, Harman, S, Dale, H, Jahangir, M, Antoniou, M, Baker, C, Newman, M & Fioranelli, F 2023, 'A Review of Automatic Classification of Drones Using Radar: Key Considerations, Performance Evaluation and Prospects', IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2023.3335003

Jahangir, M, Griffiths, D, White, D, Donlan, G, Ren, X, Kannanthara, J, Singh, Y, Wayman, JP, Baker, CJ, Sadler, JP, Reynolds, J & Antoniou, M 2023, 'Development of a networked photonic‐enabled staring radar testbed for urban surveillance', IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12524

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Kannanthara, J, Donlan, G, Baker, CJ, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2023, 'Fully digital, urban networked staring radar: Simulation and experimentation', IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12499

Wayman, JP, Atkinson, G, Jahangir, M, White, D, Matthews, T, Antoniou, M, Reynolds, J & Sadler, J 2023, 'L-band radar quantifies major disturbance of birds by fireworks in an urban area.', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 12085. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39223-1

Conference contribution

White, D, Jahangir, M, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Thiyagalingam, J 2024, Comparing Optical Transfer Learning and Autoencoder Pretraining for Radar Bird-Drone Discrimination. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, IEEE, 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024, Denver, United States, 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548652

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Antoniou, M, Baker, C & Singh, Y 2024, Microwave Photonics in Networked Staring Radar. in 2023 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP)., 10416574, IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, IEEE, 2023 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP), Nanjing, China, 15/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP58203.2023.10416574

White, D, Jahangir, M, Wayman, JP, Reynolds, J, Sadler, J & Antoniou, M 2023, Bird and micro-drone spectral width and classification. in 2023 24th International Radar Symposium (IRS). Proceedings International Radar Symposium, IEEE, 24th International Radar Symposium, IRS 2023, Berlin, Germany, 24/05/23. https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS57608.2023.10172408

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Kannanthara, J, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2023, Direct signal synchronization for staring passive bistatic radar. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). International Conference on Radar Systems, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 220–225, International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2319

Ren, X, Jahangir, M, White, D, Atkinson, GM, Baker, CJ & Antoniou, M 2023, Estimating physical parameters from multi-rotor drone spectrograms. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). 17 edn, vol. 2022, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 20-25, 2022 International Conference on Radar Systems, RADAR 2022, Edinburgh, Virtual, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2285

Jahangir, M, Atkinson, G, White, D, Griffiths, D, Ren, X, Wayman, JP, Baker, C, Sadler, J, Reynolds, J & Antoniou, M 2023, Networked staring radar testbed for urban surveillance: Status and preliminary results. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). International Conference on Radar Systems, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 471-476, International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2363

Paper

Donlan, G, Jahangir, M, Griffiths, D, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Design and Development of a Transportable Transmitter Node for Drone Detection in an L-Band Multistatic Network', Paper presented at 2025 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2025, Krakow, Poland, 4/10/25 - 9/10/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2559087.2025.11204988

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Beasley, P, Ritchie, M, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Synchronization Performance of L-Band Staring Radar with Different GPSDOs', Paper presented at 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2025, Atlanta, United States, 3/05/25 - 9/05/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR52380.2025.11031626

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