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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 54 2234 2144 876 821 242 18608

Akbar M. Sayeed publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Akbar M. Sayeed between 1994 and 2021, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Akbar M. Sayeed published across 28 years, from 1994 to 2021, averaging 8.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2003. 6 of the 243 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2021. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2003. 1994: 3 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 10 publications 1997: 9 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 14 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 18 publications 2003: 24 publications 2004: 14 publications 2005: 13 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 15 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 1 publication 2020: 3 publications 2021: 3 publications
1994 2021

243 publications in total across all disciplines

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Akbar M. Sayeed: publications per year, 1994 to 2021
Year Publications
1994 3
1995 5
1996 10
1997 9
1998 7
1999 7
2000 14
2001 5
2002 18
2003 24
2004 14
2005 13
2006 13
2007 12
2008 15
2009 10
2010 8
2011 8
2012 6
2013 7
2014 5
2015 6
2016 10
2017 4
2018 3
2019 1
2020 3
2021 3
Total 243
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Akbar M. Sayeed publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akbar M. Sayeed sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 34–53 to 1,065+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 445. Most scientists, 445, have 174–193 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–253 publications, is where this scientist sits. 34–53 publications: 24 scientists 54–73 publications: 52 scientists 74–93 publications: 114 scientists 94–113 publications: 203 scientists 114–133 publications: 269 scientists 134–153 publications: 355 scientists 154–173 publications: 403 scientists 174–193 publications: 445 scientists 194–213 publications: 430 scientists 214–233 publications: 431 scientists 234–253 publications: 399 scientists 254–273 publications: 366 scientists 274–293 publications: 335 scientists 294–313 publications: 300 scientists 314–333 publications: 276 scientists 334–353 publications: 250 scientists 354–373 publications: 214 scientists 374–393 publications: 187 scientists 394–413 publications: 152 scientists 414–433 publications: 169 scientists 434–453 publications: 147 scientists 454–473 publications: 111 scientists 474–493 publications: 117 scientists 494–513 publications: 103 scientists 514–533 publications: 99 scientists 534–553 publications: 92 scientists 554–573 publications: 75 scientists 574–593 publications: 58 scientists 594–613 publications: 69 scientists 614–633 publications: 50 scientists 634–653 publications: 62 scientists 654–673 publications: 54 scientists 674–693 publications: 44 scientists 694–713 publications: 37 scientists 714–733 publications: 28 scientists 734–753 publications: 26 scientists 754–773 publications: 26 scientists 774–793 publications: 19 scientists 794–813 publications: 23 scientists 814–833 publications: 20 scientists 834–853 publications: 16 scientists 854–873 publications: 20 scientists 874–893 publications: 11 scientists 894–913 publications: 11 scientists 914–933 publications: 16 scientists 934–953 publications: 13 scientists 954–973 publications: 10 scientists 974–993 publications: 11 scientists 994–1,013 publications: 9 scientists 1,014–1,033 publications: 9 scientists 1,034–1,053 publications: 10 scientists 1,054–1,064 publications: 6 scientists 1,065+ publications: 99 scientists
34–53 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 242 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
34–53 24
54–73 52
74–93 114
94–113 203
114–133 269
134–153 355
154–173 403
174–193 445
194–213 430
214–233 431
234–253 399 242
254–273 366
274–293 335
294–313 300
314–333 276
334–353 250
354–373 214
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147
454–473 111
474–493 117
494–513 103
514–533 99
534–553 92
554–573 75
574–593 58
594–613 69
614–633 50
634–653 62
654–673 54
674–693 44
694–713 37
714–733 28
734–753 26
754–773 26
774–793 19
794–813 23
814–833 20
834–853 16
854–873 20
874–893 11
894–913 11
914–933 16
934–953 13
954–973 10
974–993 11
994–1,013 9
1,014–1,033 9
1,034–1,053 10
1,054–1,064 6
1,065+ 99
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Akbar M. Sayeed D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akbar M. Sayeed sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 111+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 263. Most scientists, 263, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 54 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 178
31 257
32 263
33 262
34 244
35 236
36 211
37 220
38 214
39 214
40 205
41 187
42 194
43 201
44 155
45 189
46 148
47 160
48 134
49 130
50 141
51 156
52 108
53 130
54 112 54
55 97
56 111
57 102
58 108
59 120
60 103
61 93
62 92
63 74
64 77
65 73
66 64
67 69
68 60
69 39
70 57
71 59
72 46
73 49
74 38
75 35
76 32
77 35
78 31
79 22
80 34
81 31
82 34
83 23
84 18
85 30
86 19
87 19
88 20
89 8
90 17
91 7
92 14
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 12
97 10
98 10
99 12
100 16
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 8
105 9
106 13
107 4
108 5
109 10
110 8
111+ 96
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Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Statistics
  • Telecommunications
  • Algorithm

Akbar M. Sayeed mainly investigates MIMO, Communication channel, Wireless, Electronic engineering and Channel capacity. Akbar M. Sayeed has researched MIMO in several fields, including Beamforming, Spectral efficiency and Antenna array. His Communication channel study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Algorithm, Spatial correlation and Topology.

The Wireless study combines topics in areas such as Key generation, Cryptography and Wireless sensor network, Computer network. His Electronic engineering study focuses on Bandwidth in particular. His Channel capacity study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Degrees of freedom and Representation.

His most cited work include:

  • An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (1344 citations)
  • Compressed Channel Sensing: A New Approach to Estimating Sparse Multipath Channels (871 citations)
  • Detection, classification, and tracking of targets (850 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Communication channel, MIMO, Electronic engineering, Algorithm and Wireless. His Communication channel research incorporates elements of Transmitter and Topology. His studies in MIMO integrate themes in fields like Spatial correlation and Control theory.

His study ties his expertise on MIMO-OFDM together with the subject of Electronic engineering. As a part of the same scientific study, Akbar M. Sayeed usually deals with the Algorithm, concentrating on Time–frequency analysis and frequently concerns with Quadratic equation, Signal processing and Bilinear interpolation. His research in Wireless intersects with topics in Key generation, Wireless sensor network, Computer network, Reduction and Real-time computing.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Communication channel (50.44%)
  • MIMO (34.96%)
  • Electronic engineering (34.51%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2020)?

  • Electronic engineering (34.51%)
  • MIMO (34.96%)
  • 3G MIMO (11.50%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Electronic engineering, MIMO, 3G MIMO, Spatial multiplexing and Beamforming. His Electronic engineering research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Interference, Antenna array and Aperture. His study in MIMO is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Wireless, Phased array and Bandwidth.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Computer network, Signal processing, Bandwidth allocation and Gigabit in addition to Wireless. His Spatial multiplexing research incorporates themes from Multiplexing and Electrical engineering. His Communication channel research includes elements of Beamwidth, Algorithm, Data conversion and Wideband.

Between 2012 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (1344 citations)
  • Beamspace MIMO for Millimeter-Wave Communications: System Architecture, Modeling, Analysis, and Measurements (538 citations)
  • Beamspace MIMO for high-dimensional multiuser communication at millimeter-wave frequencies (206 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Statistics
  • Telecommunications
  • Artificial intelligence

His primary areas of study are MIMO, Electronic engineering, Spatial multiplexing, Multi-user MIMO and 3G MIMO. The concepts of his MIMO study are interwoven with issues in Beamforming and Bandwidth. His Bandwidth research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Wireless and Communications system.

His Wireless study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Computer network and Spectral efficiency. His Spatial multiplexing research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Multiplexing and MIMO-OFDM. His Communication channel research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Computational complexity theory, Communication complexity, Matched filter and Radar.

Best Publications

  • An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems

    Robert W. Heath;Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic;Sundeep Rangan;Wonil Roh

  • Detection, classification, and tracking of targets

    Dan Li;K.D. Wong;Yu Hen Hu;A.M. Sayeed

  • Compressed Channel Sensing: A New Approach to Estimating Sparse Multipath Channels

    Waheed U Bajwa;Jarvis Haupt;Akbar M Sayeed;Robert Nowak

  • Deconstructing multiantenna fading channels

    A.M. Sayeed

  • Beamspace MIMO for Millimeter-Wave Communications: System Architecture, Modeling, Analysis, and Measurements

    John Brady;Nader Behdad;Akbar M. Sayeed

  • Distributed target classification and tracking in sensor networks

    R.R. Brooks;P. Ramanathan;A.M. Sayeed

  • Joint multipath-Doppler diversity in mobile wireless communications

    A.M. Sayeed;B. Aazhang

  • Compressive wireless sensing

    Waheed Bajwa;Jarvis Haupt;Akbar Sayeed;Robert Nowak

  • Detection, Classification and Tracking of Targets in Distributed Sensor Networks

    Dan Li;Kerry D. Wong;Yu H. Hu;Akbar M. Sayeed

  • Improved wavelet denoising via empirical Wiener filtering

    Sandeep P. Ghael;Akbar M. Sayeed;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • Transmit signal design for optimal estimation of correlated MIMO channels

    J.H. Kotecha;A.M. Sayeed

  • Beamspace MIMO for high-dimensional multiuser communication at millimeter-wave frequencies

    Akbar Sayeed;John Brady

  • Secure wireless communications: Secret keys through multipath

    A. Sayeed;A. Perrig

  • Systematic Codebook Designs for Quantized Beamforming in Correlated MIMO Channels

    V. Raghavan;R.W. Heath

  • Low RF-Complexity Technologies to Enable Millimeter-Wave MIMO with Large Antenna Array for 5G Wireless Communications

    Xinyu Gao;Linglong Dai;Akbar M. Sayeed

  • Channel estimation and precoder design for millimeter-wave communications: The sparse way

    Philip Schniter;Akbar Sayeed

  • Maximizing MIMO Capacity in Sparse Multipath With Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays

    A.M. Sayeed;V. Raghavan

  • Joint Source–Channel Communication for Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks

    W. Bajwa;J. Haupt;A. Sayeed;R. Nowak

  • Experimental Study of MIMO Channel Statistics and Capacity via Virtual Channel Representation

    Yan Zhou;Markus Herdin;Akbar M. Sayeed;Ernst Bonek

  • Exploiting Channel Diversity in Secret Key Generation From Multipath Fading Randomness

    Yanpei Liu;S. C. Draper;A. M. Sayeed

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas L. Jones
Douglas L. Jones University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.D. Van Veen
B.D. Van Veen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert Nowak
Robert Nowak University of Wisconsin–Madison
Venugopal V. Veeravalli
Venugopal V. Veeravalli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Behnaam Aazhang
Behnaam Aazhang Rice University
Stark C. Draper
Stark C. Draper University of Toronto
Jianzhong Zhang
Jianzhong Zhang Samsung (United States)
Nader Behdad
Nader Behdad University of Wisconsin–Madison
Linglong Dai
Linglong Dai Tsinghua University
Lajos Hanzo
Lajos Hanzo University of Southampton

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