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Dr Imdad Khan

Dr Imdad Khan

Professor

Area of Interest: Body-Centric Wireless Communications

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

PhD Electrical Engineering               2009          University of Birmingham, UK

MS Electrical Engineering                 2003          NWFP University of Engineering

and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

B.Sc Electrical Engineering               1999          NWFP University of Engineering

and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

H.S.S.C (F.Sc)                                    1994          Islamia College Peshawar, =

S.S.C                                                  1992          Muslim Public School Peshawar, 


Profile / Bio

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • .Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan since April 11, 2022, till date.
  • Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since June 15, 2017 till till April 11, 2022.
  • Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Islamic University Madinah, Saudi Arabia, since September 12, 2014 till June 15, 2017
  • Associate Professor / Head of Department (HoD) Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since September 7, 2010 till September 12, 2014.
  • Head of Department (HoD), ECE department from May 2012 till July 31, 2014 and then from February 13, 2018, till June 30, 2021.
  • Remained HoD EE department from May 2012 till September 2014.
  • Assistant Professor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since September 17, 2009, till September 7, 2010.
  • On study leave for PhD studies from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since October 1, 2006 till September 16, 2009.
  • Design and simulation of ferrite-cladded antennas for narrowband and wideband applications at University of Birmingham on a project done for the DSTL, UK from December 2008 till February 2009.
  • Troubleshooting and purification of the radiation pattern of a transmitter-receiver pair with waveguide ports at 24 GHz for Safe Training Systems (STS), Wokingham, Berkshire, UK in February 2008
  • Design and fabrication of antennas, fabrication and etching of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) at University of Birmingham, UK.
  • Maintaining and updating the technical section related to antennas and propagation of the web site for the Virtual Center of Excellence (VCE), under the Antenna Center of Excellence (ACE) from June 2007 till December 2007.
  • Visiting Researcher, University of Marne La Valle, Paris, France, 1st – 30th June 2007.
  • Assistant Professor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since August 2003, till 30th September 2006
  • Department operating Officer, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since August 2005, till September 2006.
  • Major Responsibilities: Student counseling, projects supervision and Industrial liaison, management and supervision of the day to day affairs of the department (of over 50 employees) related to administration and academics, managing the discipline of employees, leave record, inventory management, follow-up purchases and projects.
  • Lecturer, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan since August 2001 till August 2003.
  • Major Responsibilities: Teaching, Student Advisory, Project supervision.
  • Lab Administrator / Lecturer at CCISE, NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan since September 2000 till August 2001.
  • Major Responsibilities: Conducting Labs, Equipment maintenance.
  • Lecturer at Peshawar College of Engineering from November 1999 till September 2000.

SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS DELIVERED

  • Program Co-Chair and Event Organizer, FIT 2013, 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Technical Program Committee, FIT 2012
  • Local Arrangements Co-Chair, FIT 2011

Research Interests

  • Diversity and MIMO
  • Personal Area Networks
  • Antenna Design and measurement
  • Propagation Channel measurement and Characterization
  • 5G wireless communication technology

Awards

  • Award for higher studies abroad (covering both the tuition fee and living allowance) by HEC under faculty development program for public sector universities from the platform of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology from October 2006 till September 2009
  • A cash award of 3500 pound sterling for outstanding achievement by PhD student in the research during year 2008 form University of Birmingham
  • Visiting researcher award (covering traveling and living allowance for one month) to University of Marne La Valle, Paris, France from University of Birmingham in June 2007
  • Third position in class in the third year examinations of Engineering at NWFP UET Peshawar
  • First position in the school at the secondary school level exam at Muslim Public School, Peshawar
  • Certificate of the best in Academia from Muslim Public School, Peshawar in 1992
  • Certificate for best Attendance record during the years 1991-1992

Students Supervised

PhD Students supervised:

1. Throughput and Energy Efficiency Maximization by Resource Allocation in High Density 5G Networks, Xiaomin Qi, SP22..


2. Design and Analysis of Metasurfaces with Asymmetric Transmission for Polarization Manipulation of Giga Hertz Waves, Ayesha Bibi, SP16-R65-001

MS Thesis Supervised:    11

  1. Miniaturized Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Frequency Reconfigurability for WiMAX/WLAN Applications Zeeshan Aamir, FA17-R09-021.
  2. Meta-material Based Radiating Structures for BAN Applications, Muhammad Muzammil Hassan, FA17-R09-027.
  3. Design and implementation of SIW based Vector Controller for 5G applications, Sajid Ullah, SP17-R09-021.
  4. Tri-Band Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) Design for MIMO Applications, Zenab Fazal, SP17-R09-046.
  5. Four-element dual port MIMO antenna for 8x8 MIMO systems, Kanwal Naveed, SP17-R09-018.
  6. Investigating the effects of coupling and decoupling in Bayesian beamforming, by Naila Nazir, FA10-R09-002.
  7. Effect of antenna type and body mass index on characteristics of on-body channels, by Mehmoona Gul, CIIT/FA11-R09-004/ATD.
  8. A Beam Scanning Antenna Array Design for Direction of Arrival Estimation In Body Area Networks, by Najam Us Saqib, FA10-R09-003.
  9. Characterization of PLC (Power Line Communication) Network Impedance, by Bushra Rasool, FA09-R09-003.
  10. Wearable Antenna Design for FM Radio, Mohsin Ali, FA09-R09-022, Spring 2012.
Wideband Channel Characterization for Body Area Network, Hameed ur Rehman, FA09-R09-008

Journal Publications

1. Muhammad Yousuf1,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=240" title="Dr. Faisal Khan">F. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=741" title="Dr. Noman Ullah">N. Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Ahmed Tameemi Design Optimization and Experimental Validation of Five Phase NonOverlapped Wound Field Flux Switching Machines, Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42835-025-02313-3, 2025
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Realizing Efficient Asymmetric Transmission Using Optical Activity of Ultra-thin Chiral Metasurfaces for K-band Applications, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters , 2023
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,M. Ismail Khan,Bin Hu,Shahid Iqbal Efficient asymmetric transmission for wide incidenceangles using chiral split-ring-resonators, Int J RF Microw Computer Aided Eng, 2022
4. Xiaomin Qi,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Syed Shahid Mustafa GA based energy efficiency resource allocation in heterogeneous networks with MRC, IET Communications Journal, 2022
5. XIAOMIN Q,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,SHAHID KHATTAK Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Networks using Genetic Algorithm, IEEE Access, 2021
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>, M. Ismail Khan, Yixiao Chen, Bin Hu,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> An efficient chiral polarization rotator with asymmetric transmission for large incidence angles , Journal of Applied Physics, 2020
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> EMC Coupling Between Two Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) Transmission Lines on PCBs, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) journal, 2020
8. Arshad K.V,Bilal A. Khawaja,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Muhammad Mustaqim Dual-Band Minkowski-Sierpinski Fractal Antenna for Next Generation Satellite Communications and Wireless Body Area Networks, Microwave and Optical Technology letters, 2018
9. Ahmed M. Al-Samman,Tharek A. Rahman,Marwan Hadri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Tien Han Chua Experimental UWB Indoor Channel Characterization in Stationary and Mobility Scheme, Measurement journal, Elsevier, 2017
10. Masood Ur-Rehman,Qammer Hussain Abbasi,Atiqur Rahman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>, Hassan Tariq Chattha,Mohammad Abdul Matin Millimetre-Wave Antennas and Systems for the Future 5G, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2017
11. A. M. Al-Samman, M. H. Azmi,T. A. Rahman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,M. N. Hindia,A.Fattouh Window-Based Channel Impulse Response Prediction for Time-Varying Ultra-Wideband Channels, PLOS ONE, December 2016, 2016
12. Ahmed M. Al-Samman,Tharek A. Rahman,Marwan Hadri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Tien Han Chua Experimental UWB Indoor Channel Characterization in Stationary and Mobility Scheme, Measurement journal, 2016
13. A. M. Al-Samman,T. A. Rahman,M. H. Azmi,M. N. Hindia,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,E. Hanafi Statistical Modelling and Characterization of Experimental mm-wave Indoor Channels for Future 5G Wireless Communication Networks, PLOS ONE, 2016
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=570" title="Najam Us Saqib">Najam Us Saqib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> A Hybrid Antenna Array Design for 3-D Direction of Arrival Estimation, Plos One, 2015
15. Bushra Rasool,Afshan Rasool ,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Impedance Characterization of Power Line Communication Networks, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2014
16. Mohsin Ali,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Wearable Antenna Design for FM Radio, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2014
17. L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl,P.S.Hall,Y. I. Nechayev,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Depolarization in on-Body Communication Channels at 2.45 GHz, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , 2013
18. K. Ghanem,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall MIMO Stochastic Model and Capacity Evaluation of On-body Channels, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2012
19. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,P.S.Hall Transmit-Receive Diversity for 2x2 MIMO Channel in Body Area Networks, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Journal, 2011
20. L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl ,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Polarization Diversity Performance for On-Body Communication Applications, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation Journal, 2011
21. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,K. Ghanem,P.S.Hall BAN-BAN Interference Rejection with Multiple Antennas at the Receiver, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2010
22. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall On-body Diversity Channel Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2010
23. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Experimental Evaluation of MIMO Capacity and Correlation for Body-Centric Wireless Channels, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2010
24. A.A. Serra,A. R. Guraliuc,P. Nepa,G. Manara,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Dual-Polarization and Dual-Pattern Planar Antenna for Diversity in Body-Centric Communications, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation Journal, 2010
25. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall Second-order Statistics of Measured On-body Diversity Channels, Microwave and Optical Technology letters, 2009
26. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Corrections to-Multiple Antenna Reception at 5.8 and 10 GHz for Body-Centric Wireless Communication Channels, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2009
27. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall,A.A. Serra,A. R. Guraliuc,P. Nepa Diversity Performance Analysis for On-body Communication Channels at 2.45 GHz, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2009
28. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Multiple Antenna Reception at 5.8 and 10 GHz for Body-Centric Wireless Communication Channels, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2009
29. A.A. Serra,A. R. Guraliuc,P. Nepa,G. Manara,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Diversity Gain Measurements for Body-Centric Communication Systems, Int. Journal on Microwave and Optical Technology (IJMOT), 2008

Conference Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Broadband Magnet Shaped Chiral Metasurface for Asymmetric Transmission of Optical Activity Over Wide Incidence Angle , , 2023
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Dual-band Chiral Metasurface with Linear Asymmetric Transmission and Orthogonal Polarization Conversion over a wide Incidence Angle for Ku-band and 5G Applications , , 2022
3. Kanwal Naveed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=229" title="Jamal Nasir">J. Nasir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Four-Element 8-Port Dual-band MIMO Antenna System for 5G Mobile Communication, , 2021
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=232" title="Aisha Bibi">Aisha</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Muhammad Ismail Khan Microwave Linear Polarization Chiral Rotator with Asymmetric Transmission, , 2021
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=229" title="Jamal Nasir">J. Nasir</a>,Mohd. Haizal Jamaluddin,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin,Muzammil Hussain Design and Implementation of an UWB Printed Monopole Antenna for Portable Devices, , 2014
6. Ghanem, K,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Nedil, M,Azzeddine, S,Kandil N,Denidni T On Using Antenna Diversity in Underground Channels, , 2013
7. K. Ghanem,H Al Qowaiee,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Effect of antenna type on the capacity of body-to-body capacity when using uniform power allocation, , 2012
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall,Y. I. Nechayev,L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl Multiple Antenna Systems for Increasing On-Body Channel Capacity and Reducing BAN-to-BAN Interference, , 2010
9. Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Constantinou, C.C. Wireless Channels and Antennas for Body-Area Networks, , 2010
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall Inter-Body Interference Cancellation in Body-Area Networks, , 2009
11. P.S.Hall,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl On-Body Channel Modelling: Diversity, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Interference Reduction, , 2009
12. L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall Investigation of Polarization on the Body propagation channels , , 2009
13. A.A. Serra,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P. Nepa,G. Manara,P.S.Hall Dual-polarization and Dual-pattern Planar Antenna for Diversity in Body-centric Communications, , 2008
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall,A. R. Guraliuc,P. Nepa Reciprocity and Repeatability of Diversity Measurements for On-body Communication Channels at 2.45 GHz, , 2008
15. A.A. Serra,A. R. Guraliuc,P. Nepa,G. Manara,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,P.S.Hall Diversity Gain Measurements for Body-centric Communication Systems, , 2007
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,L. Yu,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall Space and Pattern Diversity for On-body Communication Channels in an Indoor Environment at 2.45 GHz, , 2007
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,M.R. Kamarudin,L. Yu,Y. I. Nechayev,P.S.Hall Comparison of Space and Pattern Diversity for On-body Channels, , 2007
18. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>, Prof. Dr. Azzam-ul-Asar,Dr. Shahid A. Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> Artificial Neural Networks in Speaker Recognition Systems, , 2004
19. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,Dr. Shahid A. Khan,Adnan Umer,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a> Space Time Equalization and Interference Cancellation in Frequency Selective MIMO Systems, , 2003

Books and Book Chapters

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,Khalida Ghanem,Peter S. Hall Diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of body-centric wireless communications devices”, Chapter 8, , 2016
2. K.M. Chan, P. Gardner, M.R. Kamarudin, F. Colombel,M. Himdi,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,J.M. Laheurte,S. Ranvier,C. Luxey Developments In Active Integrated Antennas, , 2011
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