What is this collection about?

This Collection focuses on how electromagnetic, optical, acoustic, or hybrid methods can be engineered to achieve reliable, safe, secure implantable wireless communications. It also showcases applications in maintaining health and diagnosing and treating illness or injury.

Topics include, but are not limited to, wireless communication mechanisms (such as radio frequency, Terahertz and mmWave, near-field, ultrasonic, optical, and hybrid approaches), energy‑efficient computing and compute–communication co‑design, system‑level integration and miniaturisation, materials and packaging considerations, security and privacy, biological impacts, and biomedical applications.

Why is this collection important?

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well‑being for all at all ages. Implantable wireless communication technologies enable data exchange between devices embedded within biological tissues and external systems, supporting continuous sensing, signal transmission and therapeutic control in complex biological and physiological environments.

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Communications Engineering is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members. For this Collection, Hamed Rahmani, Syed Mohammad Zafaruddin and members of the Editorial Board will handle submissions to Communications Engineering.

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Guest Editors for Communications Engineering

Hamed Rahmani, PhD, New York University, United States
Dr Hamed Rahmani is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU). His research focuses on wireless communication, microwave engineering, antennas, bioelectronics, integrated circuits, remote sensing, electronics, wireless power transmission and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Dr Rahmani is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2025) and numerous other honors, including the IEEE MTT‑S Graduate Fellowship for medical applications and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship.

Syed Mohammad Zafaruddin, PhD, BITS Pilani, India
Dr Zafaruddin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, India. His research interests include wireless and wireline communication technologies, THz and optical wireless systems, reconfigurable intelligent and holographic surfaces, distributed signal processing, resource allocation algorithms, and multi‑agent AI. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, India, in 2013. From 2012 to 2015, he worked at Ikanos Communications, later acquired by Qualcomm, on xDSL system research and development. He served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bar‑Ilan University, Israel (2015–2018), supported by the Planning and Budgeting Commission Fellowship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researchers from China and India awarded by the Council for Higher Education, Israel. He joined BITS Pilani in 2018.

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