Academic Experience

 

2009 – Present: Professor

 

·         Teaches courses in BS/MS Electrical Engineering

o   Signals and Systems (2009)

o   Linear Systems (2009)

 

2004 – 2009: Associate Professor

 

·         Taught number of courses to PhD

o   Neural Networks and Recent Advances in Evolutionary Computing (2006,2007)

 

·         Taught courses to MS (System engineering)

o   Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing (2005-2008)

 

·         Taught courses to BS (Computer and Information Sciences)

o   Probability and Statistics, Electronics, Computational Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation (2005-2008)

 

• Supervised Two PhD Students

• New Architectures for Multi-Step Ahead Time Series Forecasting by Syed Rahat Abbas, 2008.
• Variability Analysis Of Physiological Signals Using Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Techniques by Mr. Wajid Aziz Loun, 2006.

 

• Supervised MS (System Engineering) Students in their Final Year Projects
• Design of an Earthquake Risk Prediction System, Hizbe Majeed, (Session 2004 – 2005), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Design of an ECG Analyzer, Muhammad, (Session 2004 – 2005), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Design of Personal Inertial Navigation System, Qazi Rashid, (Session 2005-2006), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• OPEN HEART: ECG based cardiac disease analysis and Diagnosis system, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas, (Session 2006-2007), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad

 

• Supervised BS Theses
• Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas, Automatic Fingerprint based Person Identification & Verification System (AFRS)  (Best Thesis Gold Medal), Session 2001-2005
• Hassam Inayat, Design of Face Detection System, Session 2001-2005
• Safdar Abbas, Design of Face Recognition System, Session 2001-2005
• Usman Farrokh Niaz, Automatic Handwritten Signature Verification System (Best Thesis Gold Medal), Session 2002-2006
• Imran Hasan, Design of an E-Cardiologist, Session 2002-2006
• Fawad Khan, Face Recognition in Infrared Spectrum, Session 2002-2006
• Mudassar Abbas, Design of a Speech Synthesizer System for Urdu, Session 2002-2006
• Rafia Malik, 3D Bipedal Walking Animation Software (Best Thesis Certificate), Session 2003-2007
• Zeeshan Hyder, Facial Expression Recognition, Session 2003-2007
• Shahzadi Farah, Speaker Recognition System, Session 2003-2007
• M. Usman Akram, Application of Prototype Base Fuzzy Classifiers for ECG based Cardiac Arrhythmia Recognition, Session 2004-2008
• Ali Imran, Design of Evolutionary neural networks, Session 2004-2008
• Bushra Sadia, Multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms, Session 2004-2008

 

• Head, Documentation and Publication Division (2006 – 2007)       
• Member, Council of Graduate Studies and Research, PIEAS
• Member, Board of Faculty, PIEAS
• Research coordinator, Department of Computer and Information Sciences (2004 – 2006)
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, PIEAS (2000, 2003 – 2008)
• Member, Technical Committee of National Physics Talent Contest (2007 –2008)

 

1996 – 2004: Assistant Professor

 

• Taught courses to MS (System Engineering)
• Neural Networks, Digital Control, Linear Algebra (1999, 2000)

 

·         Taught courses to BS (Computer and Information Sciences)

o   Probability and Statistics, Electronics, Modeling and Simulation (2003, 2004)

 

• Co-supervised PhD Student
• Advanced Continuous Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications in the Motion Planning of Robot Manipulators and in the Numerical Solution of Boundary Value Problems by Mr. Za’er Salem Abo-Hammour, 2002.

 

• Supervised MS (System Engineering) Students in their Final Year Projects

 

• Application of Iterative Learning Controllers in Process Control (Time Delay Systems), Eatazaz Hanif, (Session 1999 – 2000), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad.
• Hybrid Learning Controllers for Robotics, (Session 1999 – 2000), Javaid Khurshid, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Experimental Study of Human Learning Characteristics in 2D Tasks, Abdul Aziz Khan, (Session 1999 – 2000), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Design of Acrobot and Experimental Study of Various Control Strategies for Acrobot, Ashfaq Ahmad Mian, (Session 1999 – 2000), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Investigation of Cardiovascular Functioning using Nonlinear Characteristics of the Human ECG, Adnan ul Hasan, (Session 2003 – 2004), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Voice based Automatic Person Identification, Arshad Iqbal, (Session 2003 – 2004), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Study of Dynamic Characteristics of EEG Signal, Syed Naved Imran, (Session 2003 – 2004), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad
• Neural Network based Adaptive Algorithms for Nonlinear Control, Saeed Khan, (Session 2003 – 2004), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad.
• Hand Written Character Recognition, Saifullah, (Session 2003 – 2004), CTC, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad

 

• Supervised BS Theses
• Nabeel and Fahad, Data mining in MP3 audio file format, Session 2000-2004
• Usman Akram, Voice Recognition System for Urdu Language, Session 2000-2004

 

• Member, Technical Committee of National Physics Talent Contest (1999 – 2000, 2003 – 2004)
• Member, Technical Committee of National Engineering Talent Contest (2003 – 2004)
• Member, Board of Studies, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, PIEAS (2000, 2003 – 2004)
• Research coordinator, Department of Computer and Information Sciences (2003 – 2004)

 

 

1993 – 1996: Lecturer

 

• Involved in teaching Nuclear Orientation courses for CHASNUP Engineers and Scientists
• Developed Computing lab in Reactor Analysis Group
• Involved in Mathematical Simulations of Reactor Kinetics and Dynamics