David Ndzi

Summary

I am a Professor of Wireless Communication Systems and Head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portsmouth.

I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Electronics and Mathematics from Keele University and a PhD in Telecommunications from the University of Portsmouth (1998). Since 1998, I have held several academic and leadership roles, including Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer, International Coordinator for the Faculty of Technology, Head of the School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, and currently Head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.

Between 2017 and 2023, I held several senior leadership positions at the University of the West of Scotland, including Assistant Dean, Interim Dean, Head of Computing Division, and Director of The Scotland Academy in Wuxi, China. I have extensive experience in academic leadership, transnational education, curriculum development, and international partnerships, having managed engineering, computing and science programmes across China, Singapore, India, the UAE, Ghana and many other countries.

My research focuses on applying wireless communications, sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence to address engineering and environmental challenges.

Research Expertise

Wireless communication systems and radio propagation
Wireless sensor, ad hoc and mesh networks
Experimental wideband channel measurement and modelling
Environmental and vegetation effects on radio wave propagation
AI-enabled environmental monitoring, modelling and prediction
Rain modelling for telecommunications, water resource management and flood forecasting
Ambient information aggregation, security and resource management
Precision agriculture and smart sensing technologies

I have published extensively in wireless communications and environmental sensing, and I am particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary solutions that address sustainability, resilience, and resource management challenges.

Research outputs

2026

RCDF-Net: Retinal-cortical dual-pathway fusion for medical image segmentation

Li, Y., Li, S., Luo, Y., Davydov, M., Ndzi, D., Yang, G.

22 Sep 2026, In: Information Fusion. 139, 104795

Research output: Article

Terrain controls on the portability of rainfall prediction models: a framework for transferability and adaptability across tropical and temperate climates

Ejike, O., Ndzi, D., Shakir, M.

8 Aug 2026, In: Forecasting. 8, 4, 26p., 69

Research output: Article

Machine learning-based prediction of lettuce growth utilising online environmental datasets

Al Broomi, B., Masum, S. K., Ndzi, D., Becerra, V.

11 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 3191, 19p., 012096

Research output: Article

2025

Warning system for extreme weather events, awareness technology for healthcare, equitable delivery, and resilience (WEATHER) project: a mixed methods research study protocol

Lynch, M., Harris, F., Ierna, M., Mahomed, O., Henriquez-Mui, F., Gebreslasie, M., Ndzi, D., Viriri, S., Shakir, M. Z., Dickinson, N., Miller, C., Hursthouse, A., Nadesan-Reddy, N., Nkwanyana, F., Spencer, L. H., Naidoo, S.

21 Aug 2025, In: Climate. 13, 8, 16p., 170

Research output: Article