CV

Education:

• PhD (Electrical Engineering) Aug 2007- till date, University of New South Wales, Australia.
• M.Sc (Communications Engineering) Oct 2003 – March 2006, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
• B.E (Electrical Engineering) Jan 1998 - Feb 2002, NED University of Engineering  &Technology,
  Pakistan (Rank 01/150).

Work Experience:

• NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan, Apr 2006 - July 2007
  Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering.
• Infineon Technologies AG, Germany, July 2005 - Mar 2006
   Master's Thesis Research Student in the Concept Enginering Division.
• Delphi Delco Electronics Europe GmbH: Germany, Aug 2004 - Feb 2005
  R&D Student Employee in the Restrained Systems Electronics Department.
• N.E.D. University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan, Mar 2002 – Aug 2003
  Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering.

Professional Computing Skills:

• Algorithm Development and Simulation Environment: MATLAB, Cocentric System Studio(CCSS)
• High Level Languages: C Language
• Electronic Design Automation Tool: SIMULINK
• Electronics and RF Circuit Simulation: Virtuoso Spectreฎ, LINMIC, ORCAD,ADS and SWCAD
• Embedded System Design: Good Knowledge of SHARCฎ and ARMฎ DSP Architecture
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and UNIX
• Microsoft Applications: MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio
• Others: Latex

Awards and Achievements:

• Recipient of Engineering Research Excellence Award of AUD 10,000 per anum at UNSW. It is to recognize research students with University Medal.
• Recipient of Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for PhD studies at UNSW. (March 2010 – till end of PhD).
• Awarded a top-up scholarship from Common Wealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organization (CSIRO) for PhD studies at UNSW. (April 2008 – till end of PhD).
• Recipient of highly competitive University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) for PhD studies at UNSW. (August 2007 – March 2010).
• Awarded a competitive student travel grant from IEEE for presenting paper at ICC 2009 in Dresden, Germany.
• Awarded two separate student travel grants for presenting paper at PIMRC 2008 in Cannes, France
  from (IEEE) ComSoc and ACORN.
• Best Teacher Award of Electronic Engineering Department of NED University of Engineering &
  Tech for the year 2007.
• Best Advisor Award for the Final Year undergraduate students of Electronic Engineering
   Department of NED University of Engineering & Tech for the year 2006.
• 2 weeks intensive Analogue IC design course tutored by Prof. Dr. Asad Abidi from University of
  California. Los Angeles, UCLA at School of Science and Engineering (SSE) of LUMS.
• Recipient of merit scholarship from NED University to pursue MSc in Communications
  Engineering at RWTH Aachen which covers all living expenses up to two years.
• Best Teacher Award of Electronic Engineering Department of NED University of Engineering &
  Tech for the year 2003
• Ranked 1st in Final year of Electrical Engineering and received Governor's Gold Medal for over
  all performance (150 candidates) of year 2002.
• Ranked 1st in Third year of Electrical Engineering and received merit scholarship (150 candidates)
  of year 2001.
• Ranked 4th in First year of Electrical Engineering (150 candidates) of year 1999.
• 99.7 percentile among 40,000 candidates for university entrance examination (12th grade) of year
  1997.
• 99.8 percentile among 60,000 candidates for college entrance examination (10th grade) of year
  1995

Languages:

• English: Excellent
• Urdu: Native language
• German: Middle

References:

1. Prof. Jinhong Yuan, PhD thesis supervisor, Professor, Department of Electrical
   Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New south Wales, NSW, Australia, Email:
   Jinhong@ee.unsw.edu.au.
2. Dr. Michael Speth, Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Principle Research Engineer, Infineon
   Technology, Germany, Email: Michael.Speth@infineon.com
3. Dr. Herbert Dawid, Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Principle Research Engineer, Infineon
   Technology, Germany, Email: Herbert.Dawid@infineon.com

PDF version of my CV (updated less often).