Muhammad Imran Akram
Research Engineer
Islamabad,Pakistan
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Chief Engineer
Center of Excellence for Science and Technologies (CESAT)
Islamabad, Pakistan
04.2002 - Current
- Real time automation test and control system design and its implementation over NI compact RIO based controller
- Geo-referencing and ortho-rectification of satellite images and extracting geographic information from them
- Implementation of Image processing algorithms including Edge detection, Image filtering and geometrical transformation
- Optimization of these algorithms for the fixed point DSP
- Programming Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in Slave Serial mode using C6414 DSP and hence obtaining run time hardware re-configurability
- Interfacing Xilinx FPGAs to TI C6414 DSP Platform using the optimal setting for External Memory Interface (EMIF) of DSP and hence real time video transfer over 48 frames per second between Camera link Interface implemented over FPGA and External Memory (SDRAM) using Enhanced Direct Memory Access (EDMA) controller of TI DSP
- Path Planning system design and implementation for autonomous vehicle in geodetic canvas
- The system generates multiple routes in real time, satisfying the given constraints and also avoids obstacles that are present in the path
- Secure Communication Module (SCM) system design to communicate over a secure network and serial port
- The system uses H.263 video and GSM Full Rate audio codec to compress video and audio data respectively
- The system is also capable of handling text and file data
Visiting Faculty Member
Bahria University
07.2007 - 01.2015
- Responsibilities include teaching, Digital Signal Processing (under graduate Level)
- Signals and system in Communication Engineering (Graduate Level)
Lecturer B
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
10.2008 - 01.2013
- Responsibilities include teaching, Electronics and Instrumentation course
- DSP, Electric Circuits, Electronics 1 and Electronics II Labs
Design Engineer
Communication Enabling Technology
11.2000 - 04.2002
- Design of multi-processor interfaces for the communication of applications running on two different PCs using the Socket Programming
- The interfaces transfer messages between the components of media and signaling board application running at different PCs
- Design of a Fax Controller for transmitting the Fax over IP and integration of Fax in the Voice over IP software packet this includes the implementation of T.38 protocol for the real time transmission of Fax over IP and integration of V.17, V.21 and V.29 modem standards for Facsimile transmission
- Design and Integration of Call Discriminator task for the detection of tone to discriminate among Voice, Fax and Data Call using frequency domain analysis
- Design and Implementation of FTP client to provide the application to communicate with remote FTP server for File Transferring using socket APIs
Education
PhD - Electrical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, KSA 01.2009 - 04.2013
M.Sc - Systems Engineering
Quaid-e-Azam University
Islamabad, Pakistan 01.1998 - 04.2000
B.E. - Electrical Engineering
NED University of Engineering & Technology
Karachi, Pakistan 01.1994 - 04.1998
Skills
C/C
C#
Visual BASIC
Visual C
FORTRAN
LABVIEW
Assembly language
Verilog
WINDOWS 98
NT/2000
Unix
RT-Linux
MS-DOS
VxWorks
MATLAB
Visual Studio
Code Composer Studio
PC-DSP
AutoCAD
PCAD
GIS software
Embedded automation control
application software development
TCP/IP
socket programming
Real time
Multithreaded applications design
serial communication
parallel port communication
MFC library
Control Systems Design
Data Compression
Digital Signal Processing
DSP algorithms
pipelined architecture
Conferencepublications
- Optimal Path Planner for Autonomous Vehicles, International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 12/01/04
- Wireless Channel Characterization in Indoor Environment, The 13th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2010), Recife, Brazil, 10/01/10
- Wideband Wireless Propagation in Confined Space, International conference of Wireless Information Networks and Systems, Seville, Spain, 07/01/11
- On the second order statistical properties of Nakagami Hoyt mobile to mobile fading channel, Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), 11/09/11
- Modeling Nakagami Hoyt mobile to mobile fading channel with diffused Line of Sight, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 04/01/12
- Efficient implementation of tap delay line filter using high speed Digital Signal Processor, Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA), 07/02/12
- Modeling and simulation of non-isotropic Nakagami Hoyt vehicle to vehicle fading channel, Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 07/18/12
Journalpublications
- On the Statistical Properties of Nakagami Hoyt Vehicle to Vehicle Fading Channel under Non-Isotropic Scattering, International Journal of Antenna and Propagations, 11/01/12
- Design and Implementation of Real Time Wideband Channel Simulator, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 10/01/12
- On the second order statistics of non-isotropic Nakagami Hoyt mobile to mobile fading channel, AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 01/04/13
- Modeling and Simulation of a Generalized Vehicle to Vehicle Fading Channel, IET communications journal, 04/01/12
Teachinginterest
- Digital Signal Processing
- DSP software programming
- Digital image processing
- DSP in communications systems
- Simulation of communication systems
- C/C++ programming
- Systems Programming
- Digital logic design
- Data structures
Skillsandtools
C/C++, C#, Visual BASIC, Visual C++, FORTRAN, LABVIEW for NI Compact RIO controller, Assembly language for 8086, 8051, TMS320C64X DSP, Verilog coding, synthesis and gate level verification, WINDOWS 98, NT/2000, Unix, RT-Linux, MS-DOS, VxWorks (RTOS), MATLAB, Visual Studio, Code Composer Studio, PC-DSP, AutoCAD, PCAD, GIS based software (ERDAS, ERMAPPER), Embedded automation control and application software development, TCP/IP, socket programming, Real time, Multithreaded applications design, serial and parallel port communication, MFC library, Control Systems Design, Data Compression, Digital Signal Processing application design, DSP algorithms implementation and optimization using pipelined architecture system
Timeline
PhD - Electrical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
01.2009 - 04.2013
Lecturer B
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
10.2008 - 01.2013
Visiting Faculty Member
Bahria University
07.2007 - 01.2015
Deputy Chief Engineer
Center of Excellence for Science and Technologies (CESAT)
04.2002 - Current
Design Engineer
Communication Enabling Technology
11.2000 - 04.2002
M.Sc - Systems Engineering
Quaid-e-Azam University
01.1998 - 04.2000
B.E. - Electrical Engineering
NED University of Engineering & Technology
01.1994 - 04.1998