Omar Farooq
Professor
Department of Electronics Engineering
Aligarh Muslim University
India
Biography
Omar Farooq received his BSc Engineering and MSc Engineering degrees form Z H College of Engineering and Technology AMU in 1991 and 1993 respectively. He joined Department of Electronics Engineering, AMU Aligarh as Lecturer in 1992 and is currently working as a Professor. He was awarded Commonwealth Scholar from 1999-2002 towards PhD at Loughborough University, UK and one year UKIERI postdoctoral fellowship in 2007-08. His broad area of research interest is signal processing with specialization in speech recognition. Currently he is working in the area of biomedical signal processing on three collaborative research projects. He has authored/coauthored over 180 papers in refereed academic journals & conference proceedings and steered 5 researchers to PhD graduation. He is a Fellow, Acoustical Society of India (ASI) and Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineer (IETE), India. He is also a Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE, USA).
Research Interest
Biomedical Signal Processing, Feature Extraction for Speech Recognition Applications, Man Machine Communication
Publications
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Nidal Rafiuddin, Md. Tabrez, Yusuf Uzzaman Khan, and Omar Farooq, “Wavelet packet-based classification of brain states during English and mother tongue script writingâ€, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 325-337, 2016.
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Y. V. Varshney, Z. A. Abbasi, M. R. Abidi, O. Farooq “Frequency Selection Based Separation of Speech Signals with Reduced Computational Time Using Sparse NMF†Archives of Acoustics Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 287-295, 2017.
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Syed S. Ahmed, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Md. Kalim Ansari, Omar Farooq, Abid Ali Khan, “Role of 1.5 mm microplates in treatment of symphyseal fracture of mandible: A stress analysis based comparative study†Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2017.03.009, pp. 119–122, 2017