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Akhtar, Muhammad Tahir

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering ,
Comsats Institute of Information Technology
Pakistan

Biography

Muhammad Tahir Akhtar received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2004 (through Japanese Government Scholarship), MSc in Systems Engineering form Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan (under fellowship from Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences) in 1999, and BSc Electrical (Electronics and Communication) Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan in 1997. From 2008 to 2014, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, and a Special Visiting Researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He was a visiting researcher at Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK (Dec. 2008 - Feb. 2009), and at Institute for Neural Computations (INC), University of California San Diego (Nov. 2010 - Mar. 2011), with funding from Japan society for promotion of sciences under the grant “Institutional Programme for Young Researcher Overseas Visits”. Prior to that, he was a COE postdoctoral fellow at Tohoku University, Sendai Japan (2004-2005), and has worked as an Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE (2006-2008). His research interests include adaptive signal processing, active noise control, blind source separation, and biomedical signal processing. He has published about 90 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He won Best Student Paper at the IEEE 2004 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, and student paper award (with Marko Kanadi) at 2010 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing.

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