Invited Speakers

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Short Bio: Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees with distinction from International Islamic University, Pakistan. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Engineering with Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before this, he served Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey, University of Sialkot, Pakistan and International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
He has supervised more than 40 graduate students in their research. Working in the field of information and communication security, he has published extensively at top venues. Over 170 publications and with an H-index of 44, I-10 index of 101, and accumulate impact factor of more than 430, he has published more than 140 SCI/E indexed manuscripts and has been cited more than 5100 times. His current research interests include lightweight cryptography, elliptic/hyper elliptic curve cryptography, multimedia security, E-payment systems, MANETs, SIP authentication, smart grid security, IP multimedia subsystems, and next generation networks. He was awarded a Gold Medal for achieving maximum distinction of 4/4 CGPA in his maters. In 2018, considering his research, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology granted him the Prestigious Research Productivity Award, while affirming him among Top Productive Computer Scientist in Pakistan. For the consecutive three years (i.e 2020,2021 and 2022), he is being listed among Top 2% Computer Scientists across the world in Stanford University’s report.

Short Bio: PROF DR MOHAMAD KAMAL A RAHIM received the B Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Management Trainee at Sime Tyres Mergong Alor Star Kedah and Production Supervisor at Sime Shoes in Kulim Kedah. In 1989, he joined the Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur as an Assistant Lecturer A. He obtained his M.Eng Science from the University of New South Wales Australia in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham UK in 2003.   After he received his Master’s he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 2005 he was appointed as a senior lecturer and in 2007 he was appointed as Assoc. Professor at the faculty. Now he is a full Professor in RF and Antenna at the School of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interest includes the areas of design of Dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, small antennas, microwave sensors, RFID antennas for readers and tags, Multi-function antennas, microwave circuits, EBG, artificial magnetic conductors, metamaterials, phased array antennas, computer-aided design for antennas and design of millimeter frequency antennas. He has published over 500 articles in journals and conference papers. He received various award in international and national exhibition. In 2019 he received the award for Distinguish Researcher from UTM and Top Research Scientist from Academy Science of Malaysia. He supervised and graduated over 30 Phd students and 50 Master students by research

Title of Talk: Antenna with Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure (EBG) for Future Wireless Application