Abdul Waheed Umrani
He has an accomplished career demonstrating consistent success as an educator and an administrator at the institution of higher learning. He also has an experience in conceiving and building academic programs from the ground up through the end with proven competencies in administration, project and program management, and staff development. He is also an effective communicator with excellent planning, organizational, and negotiations skills to obtain desired results.
Currently he is supervising 1 Ph.D. and 2 M.E. students and his research interests are in the following areas.
- Digital Communications (including optical) over Propagation Channels
- Multiple Antenna Systems (MIMO) and their Channel Modeling
- Cognitive Radios (Spectrum Sharing and Co-operative Diversity Systems)
- Social aspects of ICTs related to health and education
In past, he has supervised following projects successfully.
- Performance Analysis with Coordination among base station for NGN Systems
- Solving gateway discover and handover problems using NS-2 in Wireless AD-HOC Networks
- Performance Analysis and Latency Calculation of Cooperative Communication Protocols
- Evaluation and Optimization of Low Complexity LDPC Iterative Decoding Algorithm
- PicoBlaze Soft core Microcontroller using Verilog/VHDL
- PAPR Reduction Technique in MC CDMA Systems
- Localization techniques used in EGSM Networks
- Performance Analysis with simulation of UMTS/WCDMA based MIMO Networks
- Performance Analysis of Routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Spatial Correlation based co-operative diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Blind Channel Equalization techniques in Communication Systems
- Approach for Rate Selection in MIMO OFDM Systems
- Performance Analysis of Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) in Future Wireless Communications
- Education
- Positions Held
- Honors and Awards
- Talks
- Courses
- Professional Work Experience
- Memberships
| Ph.D. Communication Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
2008 |
| M.E. (Res.) Communication Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
2002 |
| B.E. in Electronics MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
1995 |
| Professor Department of Telecommunication, MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
August, 2015 - Present |
| Professor Communications Engineering, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, PK |
August, 2013 - August, 2015 |
| Professor Department of Telecommunication, MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
February, 2012 - August, 2013 |
| Associate Professor Department of Telecommunication, MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
2010 - 2012 |
| Lecturer Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
1996 - 2009 |
| Erasmus-Mundus Post-doc Fellowship Politecnico di Milano, IT |
October, 2012 - December, 2012 |
| PhD Research Scholarship Nanyang Technological University, SG |
2002 - 2006 |
| Master of Engineering Research Scholarship Nanyang Technological University, SG |
1999 - 2001 |
| Gold Medalist and Best Graduate Award MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
1995 |
| First Class First Position Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, MUET, Jamshoro, PK |
1995 |
| Addressing Rural Poverty in Pakistan: Perspective of Community Engagement 2nd International Conference on Computing and Social Sciences, Rize, Turkey |
August, 2014 |
| OFCDM a promising broadband technique for Broadband Wireless Access Wireless and Propagation Research Group, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
December, 2012 |
| Research Activities of CRG at Mehran UET Jamshoro Wireless and Propagation Research Group, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
December, 2012 |
| Performance Comparison of OFDM, MC-CDMA and OFCDM for 4G Wireless Broadband Access and Beyond Progress in Electromagnetic in Research Symposium, Marrakesh, Morocco |
March, 2011 |
| A Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction of Multicarrier CDMA System using Error Control Selective Mapping Progress in Electromagnetic in Research Symposium, Marrakesh, Morocco |
March, 2011 |
| DS CDMA System Performance for Linear and Circular Antenna Arrays in Cellular Environment IEEE International Multi-topic Conference on Information and Communications, INMIC 2005, Karachi, Pakistan |
December, 2005 |
| Performance of a 2D-RAKE receiver over spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channel IEEE Information, communications and signal processing and 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Singapore |
December, 2003 |
| Uplink spatial fading correlation of MIMO communication channels IEEE 58th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC’03 Fall, Orlando, Florida, USA |
October, 2003 |
| Downlink performance of multi-beam multi-satellite CDMA-based LEO Satellite system with Power Control IEEE Global Conference on Communications, San Francisco, Ca, USA |
December, 2000 |
| Role of PAF in a multi-satellite CDMA-based LEO Satellite System IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall, Boston, Ma, USA |
September, 2000 |
| Modern Trends in Telecommunications Masters in Communication Systems and Networks |
Graduate Course |
| Mobile and Wireless Communications Masters in Communication Systems and Networks |
Graduate Course |
| Advanced Data Communications Masters in Information Technology |
Graduate Course |
| Telecommunication Management Networks Masters in Telecommunication Engineering and Management |
Graduate Course |
| Wireless Communications Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering |
Undergraduate Course |
| Mobile Network Planning Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering |
Undergraduate Course |
| Probability and Stochastic Processes Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering |
Undergraduate Course |
| Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro: Professor, Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Registrar, Mehran UET Jamshoro Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication Engineering Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, |
Feb 2012 – present Aug 2016-October 2021 2010–Jan.2012 1996 – 2009 |
| Dawood University of Engineering and Technology Karachi: Acting Vice Chancellor Dean Faculty of Engineering Director,(Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity, Learning and Entrepreneurship (CIRCLE)) Professor of Communications Engineering |
May 27 to July 5, 2014 & May 29 to July 23, 2015 March 2014 – August 20, 2015 Aug. 2013 – August 20, 2015 Aug. 2013 – August 20, 2015 |
| Politecnico di Milano-ITALY: Visiting Professor, Department of Electronics & Information Nov |
Oct 30 – Dec 3, 2012 |
| Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Teaching & Research Assistant Teaching & Research Assistant |
2002–2006 1999–2001 |
| Life Member Pakistan Engineering Council (Electro-4171) |
| Fellow IACSIT,Singapore (Member No. 8033389, since 2012) |
| Member COST2012: MCM8 Action IC0802(Propagation tools and data for integrated Telecommunication, Navigation and Earth Observation systems) at DLR, Germany 2012 |
| Member National Curriculum Revision Committee(s) for Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer System Engineering, Higher Education Commission Pakistan since 2007 |
| Vice President, IEEE Communication Society 2010 (Karachi Chapter) |
| Active Reviewer of the following journals: IEEE Communication Letters, Progress in Electromagnetic Research and IEEE Antennas & Wireless Propagation Letters |