I am working as Professor and Chairman in the Department of Information & Communication Engineering at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Pakistan since 2007. Before joining the IUB, I worked as Assistant Divisional Engineer in Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited from 2002 to 2007 and as System Engineer with Delta Indus Systems, Pakistan from 2000 to 2002.
My research interests lie in signal processing and communications particularly, image and video processing, image compression, machine learning, image forensics, and image quality assessment of distortions, enhancement, and inpainting, medical image processing, wireless sensor networks and smart grids. I have published around 60 journal articles and conference proceedings in these areas. I am also reviewer of many top-rated conferences and journals in the related fields. I am senior member of IEEE and holding the position of Chair, IEEE Bahawalpur Sub-Section, Region 10. I am also Advisor of IEEE Signal Processing Society student chapter in UCE&T - The Islamia University of Bahawalpur student branch. I was also co-founder Branch Counselor of the IEEE student branch UCE&T - The Islamia University of Bahawalpur from 2010 to 2012.
PhD Electrical Engineering, 2012-2017
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
M.Sc. Telecommunication Engineering, 2007-2008
N.W.F.P UET Peshawar, Pakistan
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, 1995-2000
University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan
MATLAB, C++, LaTex, HTML & CSS, Verilog, Assembly, Python
English, Urdu, Punjabi