Ghazanfar Ali Safdar received a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan in 1997. He subsequently received M.Eng in Computer Science and Telecommunications from University of Technology, Grenoble, France in 2001.

He was awarded a PhD from Queen's University Belfast, UK in 2005 for his work in the area of power-saving MAC protocols for the IEEE 802.11 family of wireless LANs.

He then worked from 2005-2008 with the same university as a Research Fellow involved in the security and authentication protocols for wireless networks.

Ghazanfar Ali is currently working as a lecturer in Computer Networking at University of Bedfordshire. He has also worked as R & D engineer with Carrier Telephone Industries (SIEMENS), Pakistan and Schlumberger, France.

Dr Ghazanfar Ali Safdar,  has been selected to be an associate editor for IET Networks, the journal of the prestigious Institution of Engineering & Technology.

• Energy Efficient Medium Access Control Protocols for Sensors and Wearable thin client Wireless Networks / Technologies
• Security and Authentication Protocols for Communication Networks
• Greener Communication and Networking
• Interference Mitigation in LTE, Femtocells, M2M Communication
• Spectrum Sensing in Context Aware Cognitive Radio Networks
• Quality of Service and Scheduling
• Device to Device Communication, Internet of Things, Cyber Security

• Adept Communication Systems Medium Access Control Protocols Developer
• Sound Research and Development 
• Sound Proto-C and OPNET Developer
• Project Management 
• Programming and Analytical 
• Sound System Design, Modelling and Performance Analysis 
• Research Dissemination