EE e-NEWS Quarterly Journal of Electrical Engineering Department,

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore

EDITION# 1 QUARTER# 2

NOVEMBER 2009

Collaboration with Lancaster University

CIIT and Lancaster University, UK have joined forces

for combined undergraduate programs in Electrical

Engineering, management and computer sciences.

CIIT is the first institute in Pakistan to successfully

launch dual degree programs and benefit from

Ministry of Science and Technology's initiative to

hail collaborations with foreign universities.

Launch of Graduate Courses

Electrical Engineering Department has launched classes for Masters of Science in

Telecommunication Engineering from Fall 09 Semester. Courses offered in this

semester include Probability and Stochastic Processes, Digital Telephony, Queuing

Theory for Performance Analysis and RF Systems Engineering.

Establishment of Cisco Networking Academy

The department of Electrical Engineering at CIIT Lahore has been awarded the status of a Cisco Networking Academy by Cisco Systems.

This has been made possible under the guidance of worthy director and honorable HOD EE. It all began in July this year when two lecturers, Muhammad Haleem Junejo and Muhammad Yasin, were nominated for CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor) training at Cisco Regional Academy, Islamabad.

The Academy has successfully launched its first course CCNA Discovery 4.0 from 2nd November, 2009 with an enrollment of about 30 students and faculty members. Instructors include Haleem Junejo, Muhammad Babar Ali and Muhammad Yasin.

Message from the Head of Department

I am pleased about the release of the second newsletter by our department. What you would

find in it, is a wide variety of projects, research highlights and extracurricular activities, which

I think show a healthy department in terms of the quality of the faculty and student body. I

am particularly enthusiastic about the approval of dual-degree programs in collaboration

with Lancaster University and launch of graduate course in department that hallmark a new

era of progress and development. I welcome all new colleagues and those who have re-

joined after completing their studies abroad, and have brought international academic

exposure with them. I congratulate those who have been awarded scholarships and will soon

be leaving to pursue higher degrees. I would like to appreciate the efforts of all the members

who have contributed for the development of the department. Dr. Saleem Akhtar, HoD EE

Inside this issue

Highlights Page.1 Research and Publications Page.2

Events Page.4 Hails and Farewells Page.5

Sports and upcoming Events Page.6

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Research and Publications

Computer Vision Research Group: COMVIS

COMVIS’s web administrator Mr. Adnan Elahi, has designed the

website for highlighting group’s research activities . The website

can be accessed at: http://comvis.ciitlahore.edu.pk/

The group had started its work last year under supervision of Dr.

Saquib Sarfraz. Group's tremendous struggle and achievement is

reflected by its heavy representation in FIT2009, International

Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology being held at

COMSATS Abbottabad from 16th to 18th December, 2009. Three

research papers have been accepted for presentation while only 50

out of 200 papers were accepted, an acceptance rate of 25%. These

proceeding of FIT will be included in ACM Digital Library.

1. M.S. Sarfraz, A.Saeed, M. H. Khan, Bayesian Prior Models in Vehicle Make and Model Recognition

2. Z.Riaz, C. Mayer, M.S.Sarfraz ,M. Beetz, and B. Radig, Multi Feature Fusion in Advanced Robotics Applications

3. M.H. Khan, I.Kyproais, U. Khan, A Robust Background

Subtraction Video Scene Segmentation in Embedded Platforms

In addition, the group also announces proudly the

publication of two book chapters and a journal paper

by Dr. Saquib Sarfraz.

1. M. Saquib Sarfraz, Feature Extraction for face recognition, Face recognition, INTECH publishers, Austria, 2010, ISBN 978-953-7619-00-X (in press)

2. M.Saquib Sarfraz and Olaf Hellwich, On Head Pose Estimation in Face Recognition, J. Braz, A. Ranchordas, H. Araújo and J. Jorge Editors, Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, Theory and Applications. Lecture notes CCIS 24, pp.162-175 series, Springer, 2009.

3. M.S.Sarfraz, O.Hellwich,” Probabilistic Learning for Fully Automatic Face Recognition across Pose”, Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, 2009 doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2009.07.008

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Research and Publications (continued)

Dr. Ali Nawaz Khan, MCN Research Group CIIT will be attending FIT 2009 with following 3

research papers to his credit:

1. A.N. Khan, X. J. Sha, W. Anwar, A. Khan, “Performance Analysis of Prioritized and

Non Prioritized Handoff Call Queuing Schemes in Mobile Cellular Networks”

2. Khan, M. Awan, W. Anwar, A. N. Khan, U. Sharif,” Mobile Agent Watermarking:

Security Properties and Attacks revisited”

3. U. Sharif, M. Awan, W. Anwar, A. Khan, A. N. Khan “CLUSMA: A Mobile Agent based

clustering middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks”

Mobile Communication and Networks Research Group

Book published by EE Faculty member

Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Assistant Professor EE Department, currently doing his PhD in Wireless Networks at Lancaster University UK, published his first book titled:

"Video over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Power-Aware Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks for Video Traffic" VDM Verlag, November 2009.

This is another great achievement by a EE Faculty member and a matter of pride for EE Department and COMSATS.

Electric Power Systems Research Group

Mr. Kashif Imran was principal author in a journal paper and conference paper this year.

K. Imran, T. Hassan, M. F. Aslam, H. W. Ngan and I. Ahmad, “Simulation Analysis of Emissions Trading Impact on a Non-Utility Power Plant”, International Journal of Energy Policy (Impact Factor 1.755). Vol 37(2009), pp 5694-5703. DOI information: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.036 Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.036

K. Imran, T. Hassan and M. F. Aslam, “Operational Optimization of an Industrial Power Plant for Electricity Trading in a Power Exchange”, IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 9-11 April, 2009. Available online at IEEEXplore: http://www.ieexplore.org

MEMS Research

Mr. Shuja is the Principal author and will attend the two conferences: ICSCT 2009 in South Korea and IEEE-NEMS 2010 in China to present following papers:

1. M. Shuja Khan, Shafaat A. Bazaz and Muhammad Abid, “Comparative Study on System Model and Finite Element Analysis of a Monolithic 3DOF MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer”, International Conference on Semi-Conductor Technology, ISBN 978-1-4244-5383-2, December 18-19, 2009 Jeju Island, South Korea.

2. M. Shuja Khan, Abid Iqbal, Shafaat A. Bazaz and Muhammad Abid, “System & Finite Element Modeling of PolyMUMPs Based Monolithic 3D MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer”, 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, January 20-23, 2010 Xiemen, China.

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Events, Seminars

Training Workshop: FPGAs, From Scratch

A two day training workshop on Field Programmable Gate Arrays was organized by IEEE Student Chapter starting from 3rd Nov, 2009. Mr. Usman Rafique, Lecturer EE Department introduced the students to the promising and innovative field of Reconfigurable Computing and the theoretical concepts introduced were supplemented by hand-on experience on Xilinx Spartan FPGAs.

A seminar aimed at introducing the audience with Intel

family of microprocessors and their programming using

assembly language and features of debug was conducted

Mr. Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam, Assistant Professor EE

Department, on Tuesday, 6th October, 2009.

Arrangements were made by local chapter of IEEE.

Seminar: Learning Assembly and Exploring Intel Processors using

“Debug”

Annual Aftar party is a tradition of EE

Department. Every year, during Ramzan,

faculty members get together and share

the sanctifying moments of Iftar.

This year the annual aftar party arranged

at DeSOM Defense Mess, Lahore Cantt on

Wednesday, 16th September 2009. Faculty

members had a great time together. There

was lots of good food, fun, and laughs. All

appreciated the apt arrangements made

possible by efforts of Mr. Adil Humayun

Khan.

Annual Aftar Party

Saeed Anwar speaks at a Seminar

The Islamic Society of Electrical Engineering

Department, IQRA, organized a lecture on

"How to Become a Practicing Muslim" on

Wednesday 16th September, 2009. The

lecture was delivered by Saeed Anwar

(Former Cricketer). The speaker threw light

on the various aspects of the Islamic teachings

and practices a Muslim should follow. A big

audience attended the lecture with great

enthusiasm and benefitted from the

knowledge of the famous speaker.

In a Seminar arranged by Mr. Ahmad Mudassar

Assistant Professor EE, Senior Managers of

CambridgeDocs pvt. Ltd briefly described about

their ongoing projects, distributed the company

brochures and after interacting with EE students

the technical managers showed interest to hire

the shining ones.

CambridgeDocs interacts with EE students

EE Congratulates!!! Mr. Haroon Ahmad Khan*

Mr. Aamir Rasheed Chaudry* & Mr. Shahid Ayub**

on being awarded the Lancaster University's Chancellor's

Scholarship* and CIIT FDP ** for PhD in UK.

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Hails and Farewells

Dr. Sobia Baig

Dr. Sobia Baig recently joined EE Department as an Assistant Professor. She has previously worked in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Electronic Engineering. Her research interests include multicarrier modulation techniques and application of wavelet based modulation techniques in the wireline DSL and power line communication networks. She is a regular reviewer of the IEEE Magazine, journal and letters on Communication and Signal Processing. She is an HEC approved PhD Supervisor.

Atif Shehzad Saqib Salahuddin Muhammad Jawad Sadaf Pervaiz

MS Electronics MS Microelectronics MS Advanced Control Systems MS Mobile Communication Univ. of Leeds, UK Univ. of Southampton, UK Univ. of Manchester, UK Surrey Univ. , UK

Mr. Shuja recently joined Electrical Engineering Department as a Lecturer after completing MS Electronic Engineering from GIK Institute, Swabi. His MS research focused on MEMS Inertial Sensors for automobile applications and proposed a novel design of 3DOF MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer. His research interests include Bio-MEMS/NEMS sensors.

Muhammad Shuja Khan

Lab Engineers and Research Assistants who joined EE this Semester

Adil Humayun Khan Nauman Saeed Salman Khan Naseer Ali Bajwa BS Electrical (Telecom) BS Electrical (Telecom) BS Electrical (Telecom) BS Computer Engg.

Faculty re-joining after completion of higher studies

Dr. Sobia Baig

Best of Luck!!!

To all faculty members

who have left for higher

studies abroad:

Mr. Rana Arslan Ali Khan for PhD from UTP Malaysia Mr. Jahanzeb Anwar for MS from UTP Malaysia Mr. Ahsan Khalid Ghauri for MS on CIIT FDP from UIUC, USA Mr. Adeel Ahmad Bajwa for MS from Germany

Miss Fatima Rizvi for MS from Italy

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Sports and upcoming Events

EE outperforms at Table Tennis and Football

The EE table tennis team again stood at top this year. It won inter-departmental table tennis competition in both singles and doubles categories.

The team consisted following two talented students, Fahad Aziz and Muhammad Junaid Abid from the faculty of Telecommunications Engineering. Last year, our team was chosen to represent HEC after winning at Campus and Zonal competitions.

EE Faculty beats NESPAK at Cricket

Cricket Team from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE) played a match with NESPAK Cricket Team on Saturday 31st October, 2009. EE Faculty displayed a tremendous performance by scoring 287 runs in 25 over match. NESPAK Cricket team was unable to chase the target and lost by 120 runs. Our captain Mr. Khurram Zaidi scored 92 runs and opener for the team Dr. Ali Nawaz Khan also played well for his 52 runs.

All Pakistan Digital Innovation Competition and Exhibition is being held at COMSATS

Lahore on 23rd and 24th of December, 2009. More than 80 project proposals were

received and 62 projects in the disciplines of Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical

Engineering and Computer Science have been selected for final exhibition. Details

about DICE2009 can be viewed at http://www.ciitlahore.edu.pk/dice2009.

Incoming Events: DICE 2009

Electrical Engineering Department COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Defence Road, Off: Raiwind Road, Lahore-53700, Pakistan Website: www.ciitlahore.edu.pk Phone: +92-42-111001007

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Recognition: A Note of Thanks

This edition of newsletter has been prepared and published by Mr. Usman Rafique and Mr. Muhammad Yasin, Lecturers EE Department on behalf of Departmental News and Publication Committee.

The committee is supervised by Mr. Ahmad Mudassar, Assistant Professor EE Deptt. The publication team is thankful to all EE committee heads for providing us with the data of their respective sections through collaboration with Miss Reema Inam.

You can send feedback to: amudassir@ciitlahore.edu.pk and/or yasin.muhammad@ciitlahore.edu.pk

Another major achievement of

EE department in sports is to

the smashing victory of BTE

team over BBA in the final of

inter-departmental Football

tournament by flourishing

margin of 7-2 goals.

This is a symbol of continuous

struggle and achievement by EE

sports committee members.