Paul Daniel Mitchell (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Eng. degree in electronic engineering and Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of York, York, U.K., in 1999 and 2003, respectively.
He has more than 25 years research experience in wireless communications an underwater acoustic networking, and industrial experience gained with BT and DERA (now QinetiQ). He has been a Member of academic staff with the University of York since 2005, and a Full Professor since 2020. He is an author of more than 180 refereed journal and conference papers. His primary research interests include underwater acoustic communication networks, wireless sensor networks, high-altitude platforms, satellite systems, and communication protocols, including the development of novel medium access control and routing strategies. Other related interests include machine learning, traffic modelling, queuing theory, satellite, and mobile communication systems.
Prof. Mitchell has served on numerous international conference programme committees including ICC and VTC. He was General Chair of the International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems in 2010. He currently serves as an Associate Editor with the IET Wireless Sensor Systems journal, the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, and MDPI Electronics, and has experience as Guest Editor and as a reviewer for a number of IEEE, ACM, and IET journals. He has secured more than £4M + 4.7 M funding as Principal and Co-Investigator. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Member of the IET, and the U.K. Acoustic Network.