Invited Speakers

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Short Bio: PROF DR MOHAMAD KAMAL A RAHIM received the B Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Management Trainee at Sime Tyres Mergong Alor Star Kedah and Production Supervisor at Sime Shoes in Kulim Kedah. In 1989, he joined the Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur as an Assistant Lecturer A. He obtained his M.Eng Science from the University of New South Wales Australia in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham UK in 2003.   After he received his Master’s he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 2005 he was appointed as a senior lecturer and in 2007 he was appointed as Assoc. Professor at the faculty. Now he is a full Professor in RF and Antenna at the School of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interest includes the areas of design of Dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, small antennas, microwave sensors, RFID antennas for readers and tags, Multi-function antennas, microwave circuits, EBG, artificial magnetic conductors, metamaterials, phased array antennas, computer-aided design for antennas and design of millimeter frequency antennas. He has published over 500 articles in journals and conference papers. He received various award in international and national exhibition. In 2019 he received the award for Distinguish Researcher from UTM and Top Research Scientist from Academy Science of Malaysia. He supervised and graduated over 30 Phd students and 50 Master students by research.

Title of Talk: Antenna with Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure (EBG) for Future Wireless Application

Short Bio: Dr. Athar Waseem, a Senior Member of IEEE, currently holds the position of Faculty Member at DECE-FET-IIUI in Pakistan. Prior to this role, he has amassed experience in both telecom industry and academia. Dr. Athar’s ongoing research pursuits encompass diverse areas such as 5G and B5G Communication, Radio Communication, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, CS-based Channel Estimation & Security Techniques for Massive MIMO Systems & D2D Communications in 5G & B5G Networks. Furthermore, Dr. Athar heads the Advanced Communication and Sensors Integration Research Lab at IIU. With a prolific scholarly output, he has authored/produced over 50+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including conference proceedings. Moreover, he has provided guidance to several MS/PhD students, past and present. Dr. Athar is widely recognized internationally for his expertise in organizing IEEE conferences. Since 2014, he has successfully organized numerous conferences at international venues across various domains of Electrical Engineering and Technologies. Presently, he holds roles in several conferences and journals, including Executive Chair, Technical Chair, Founding Chair, Technical Advisor, and Editor/Associate Editor.

Title of Talk: Applications of Pattern Recognition and Compressive Sensing in 5G and Beyond Communication Systems

Short Bio: Dr Sufian Mousa Ibrahim Mitani is an experience industry researcher at Telekom Research & Development, Malaysia. His experience more to Telecommunication industry in the fields of Fixed Communication (Fiber & Copper), Mobile Communications, 5G, LTE, Radio Over Fiber, Software Defined Network/ Network Virtualization Function, Photonics, Optoelectronics, Semiconductor lasers, in order to promote the cutting edge technologies and contribute to the advancement of the nation’s economy as well, where his skills, experience, industrial and academic background will greatly enhance the nation’s success and his own personal career. Several years of experience combined between industrial applications, teaching, academic and industrial research in the field of Mobile Communications, Passive Optical Networks & Optoelectronics, 5G, SDN/NFV Network; specializing mainly in the area of Wired & Wireless Connectivity Technology. He has been leading a very well established and qualified teams at various fields of connectivity technology where many of his projects have been adopted and employed at Telekom Malaysia as a service provider. In this proposal, his roles more to general idea, general concept, monitoring and management the project in overall.

Title of Talk: Edge Access Gateway Light Engine Field Trial

Short Bio: Prof. Mardeni Roslee is a Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia. His current research interests are 5G/6G telecommunication, Internet of Things, radar and sensing technology. He serves as Chair of Centre of Wireless Technology, former Deputy Director of Research Management Centre and was President of MMU Staff Association, Multimedia University. He was also the main founder of Armada Smart Tech MR Sdn Bhd, Spinn Off Company and registered Chartered Engineer with Engineering Council United Kingdom, and Member with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. His experiences include consultation, professional institution and academic sectors. He was invited as 25 keynote speaker for at worldwide international conferences and been invited by IEEE international conference as an invited speaker at 16 countries such as at Thailand, China, Australia, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, French, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Romania, India and Turkey. His contributions to academic and the engineering professional over the years have earned him recognitions nationally and internationally, he has awarded more than 100 International/local awards including recipient of VTS Chapter of the Year Award 2017 from Canada, Excellence in European Creativity Special Award 2018 from Romania, World Invention Special Award 2019 from World Invention Intellectual Property Associations, Outstanding Researcher Award 2020 from VTS, USA, 2021 IEEE Malaysia Outstanding Volunteer Award, Global Challenge Award 2022 from Japan and Top Research Scientists in Malaysia 2020 from Academy Science Malaysia.

Short Bio: Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees with distinction from International Islamic University, Pakistan. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Engineering with Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before this, he served Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey, University of Sialkot, Pakistan and International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
He has supervised more than 40 graduate students in their research. Working in the field of information and communication security, he has published extensively at top venues. Over 170 publications and with an H-index of 44, I-10 index of 101, and accumulate impact factor of more than 430, he has published more than 140 SCI/E indexed manuscripts and has been cited more than 5100 times. His current research interests include lightweight cryptography, elliptic/hyper elliptic curve cryptography, multimedia security, E-payment systems, MANETs, SIP authentication, smart grid security, IP multimedia subsystems, and next generation networks. He was awarded a Gold Medal for achieving maximum distinction of 4/4 CGPA in his maters. In 2018, considering his research, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology granted him the Prestigious Research Productivity Award, while affirming him among Top Productive Computer Scientist in Pakistan. For the consecutive three years (i.e 2020,2021 and 2022), he is being listed among Top 2% Computer Scientists across the world in Stanford University’s report.