PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

·  Received the Best Researcher Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus for the Year 2018. I was also awarded with the Research Productivity Award by Director COMSATS Abbottabad Campus for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 for distinguished contributions in the research.

·   Lead the Electrical Engineering Department team to prepare Self-Assessment Report (SAR) with the result of first ever Outcome Based Education (OBE) accreditation from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) for the three engineering programs (computer, electronics, and power) of electrical engineering department at CUI Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.

·  Initiated and lead the team to shift the labs of electrical engineering department as per OBE standards at CUonline and prepared the OBE based course outlines of 4 subjects (Digital System Design, Probability Methods, and Electronics−I&II).

·       Received the HEC approved supervisor status. Supervised the completion of 1 Ph.D. Dissertation, 12 MS Theses, and Supervised 19 undergraduate Final Year Projects (FYP), with two projects lead to IEEE conference paper publications. Another project received the National Grassroot Information and Communication Technology Research Initiative (NGIRI) funding of 35000 PKR for the duration of one year from July 2019–July 2020.

·   Received the prestigious COMSATS Faculty Development program (FDP) scholarship award for PhD studies in North Dakota State University, USA from years 2013 – 2015.

·   Received the prestigious Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan scholarship award for MS studies in Hanyang University, South Korea in 2009. Also received the MS Scholarship from Hanyang University, South Korea from years 2009 – 2011.

·   Research collaborations have resulted in 50 publications, which include 23 Impact Factor Journals and 27 International Conference publications.

·    Served as the reviewer of top-tier journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Access, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IET Image Processing, IET Biometrics, and IET Computer Vision. Moreover, I am also an active Technical Program Committee member in IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) and IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET).