DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Dr. Humera Noor

The Department also offers a PhD program for faculty members.

Ms. Humera Noor, also the co-chairperson of department, has done her PhD from NEDUET. The details of her research topic are as follows:

· PhD Research Title:

              "Intelligent View Extrapolation for Dynamic Scenes"

· Research Supervisor:

          Prof. Dr. Shahid Hafeez Mirza

          Senior Research Fellow,

          NED University of Engineering & Technology

          Publication:

·  "University of Central Florida at TRECVID 2006 high-level feature extraction and video search", in proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, October 2006.

·  "Model Generation for video based Object Recognition", CM Multimedia, 2006

· "Automated Estimation of Future Scenes through View Extrapolation of Past and Present Images", in International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering 2006, May 2006.

·    "Automated Position Estimation of Target Using View Extrapolation", in SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, April 2006.

·    “Using Past and Present Images to Generate Future Views for Dynamic Scenes” in International Conference on Advanced Technology (SPACE) 2005, December 2005.

·    "Effects of Data Preprocessing on Artificial Neural Networks", Published and in 2^nd National Workshop on Trends in Information Technology, November 2003

Dr. Qurat-ul-Ain Inayat

Email: qinayat@neduet.edu.pk

She has done PhD (Computer Science) from University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)  on:

" Design and Performance Analysis of Fail-Signal Based Consensus Protocols for Byzantine Faults"

Her Areas of Interests are : Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Performance Evaluation, Dependability, Fault-Tolerance.

            Publication:

·         Q. Inayat, M. Alsaeed, N. A. Speirs and P.D. Ezhilchelvan, “Examining the Performance Benefits of Fail-Signal Approach using a Network Emulator”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication, Karachi, Pakistan, November 12-13, 2007.

·         Q. Inayat and P.D. Ezhilchelvan, “A Consensus Service for Applications in Large-Scale Self-Organizing Networks”, In Proceedings of Workshop on Dependable Application Support in Self-Organising Networks (DASSON) held with DSN 2007, Edinburg, UK, June 2007.

·         Q. Inayat And P.Ezhilchelvan, “A Performance Study on the Signal-On-Fail Approach to Imposing Total Order in the Streets of Byzantium”, to appear in proceedings of the international conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 06), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 25-28, 2006.

MASTER OF ENGINEERING BY RESEARCH

The Masters of Engineering by research program provides another platform for independent research.

Muhammad Khurram, who is also a Assistant Professor in the Department has recently completed his Research work under this program. He worked on Software Defined Radio design and implementation. The details of his research topic are:

· MEngg. Research Title:

             "Wireless Transceiver Design Based on Software Defined Radio Technology"

· Research Supervisor:

          Prof. Dr. Shahid Hafeez Mirza

          Ex-Dean, Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering,

          NED University of Engineering & Technology

          Publication:

·         “Wireless Transceiver Design Based on Software Defined Radio Technology” in 4^th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Tehnology, IBCAST June 2005.

·         “A General Purpose Processor Based IEEE802.11a Compatible OFDM Receiver Design'” in 3rd Industrial Electrical and Electronics Engineering GCC Conference, IEEE-GCC, March 2006.

·         “An Architecture for Development of Software Radios on General Purpose Processors” in International Conference on Computer and Communications Engineering, ICCCE 2006.

Mr. Fahad also a Assistant Professor in the Department has also successfully completed his research work. He worked on Wireless Grid Computing with emphasis on development of an efficient resource manager using JavaSpace technology for wireless grid devices. The details of his research topic are:

· MEngg. Research Title:

              "An approach to Opportunistic Resource Management using Java Space in  

               Grid Computing"

·  Research Supervisor:

           Prof. Dr. Shahid Hafeez Mirza

           Ex-Dean, Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering,

           NED University of Engineering & Technology

          Publication:

·         “Jini Based Wireless Grid Computing” in     International Technical Conference on Circuits/systems, Computers and  Communications , July 2006.

·         "Wireless Computational Grid" in Internal Conference on Networks and Mobile Computing (NMC 2006), August 2006.