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Lab Director
Dr. Syed Ali Hassan
Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
National University of Sciences and Technology
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Bio sketch: Syed Ali Hassan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, USA in 2011. He received his MS Mathematics from Georgia Tech in 2011 and MS Electrical Engineering
from University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2007. He was awarded BE Electrical Engineering (highest honors) from
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2004. His broader area of research is signal
processing for communications. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, where he is heading the IPT research group, which focuses on
various aspects of theoretical communications. Prior to joining SEECS, he worked as a research associate at Cisco
Systems Inc., CA, USA, where he was involved with the home networking business unit in devising e cient
strategies for home networking. Dr. Hassan is a member of IEEE and IEEE Communications society, author/co-author of numerous IEEE conference
and journal papers and a reviewer for many journals and transactions. He has organized sessions in IWCMC 2015, VTC 2015, Stemcom 2016 and
WCNC 2016 among others. Dr. Hassan has chaired several sessions in international conferences and has served as a TPC member for IEEE Tencon
2012, IEEE ICET 2012, and IEEE IEISA 2012, IEEE PIMRC 2013, IEEE VTC 2013, WCSP 2014, MILCOM 2015, and so on.
Students
Current PhD Students:
Student Name Research Topic
1 Ayesha Binte Saleem Spatial Modulation in Massive MIMO Systems
2 Adil Raja 5G mm-wave Communications
3 Sara Shakeel Qureshi Massive MIMO Systems
4 Qamar Abbas Age-of-Information in Green IoT Networks
5 Shah Zeb 5G URLLC in Industrial IoT (IIoT) Networks
6 Amara Umar 5G mmWave systems
7 Maira Islam Beamforming for mmWave systems
8 Fazal Ali Khan NOMA based Cellular Communications
PhD Graduates:
Student Name Research Topic
1 Sadaf Nawaz Initial Access in 5G mmWave Network
2 M. Waseem Akhtar STBC-aided NOMA for 5G Networks
Current MS Students:
Student Name Research Topic
1 Ismail Zabihullah Timing Synchronization in IoT Networks
2 Hashim Khan Underwater Sensor Networks
3 Waseem Sajjad Control-Data Separation Architecture for Dual-Band
mmWave Networks
4 Ahmad Kamal Tahir Resource Allocation in B5G Systems
5 Tayyaba Ali ML-based Resource Allocation for NOMA
6 Amber Hina PD-NOMA in B5G
7 Sara Basharat NOMA with Intelligent Re ecting Surfaces (IRS)
MS Graduates:
Name Thesis Title Year
1 Mudasar Bacha Analysis of Linear Cooperative Networks Subject to Composite Shadowing- April 2013
Fading
2 Asma Afzal A Stochastic Geometry Approach for the Analysis of Strip-Shaped July 2013
Cooperative Networks
3 Rafay Iqbal Ansari Performance Analysis of an Opportunistic Large Array with Limited Node July 2013
Participation
4 Quratulain Sha Interference Analysis in Cooperative Linear Multi-Hop Networks Subject to October
Multiple Flows 2013
5 Usman Javed SNR Estimation for Non-Coherent M-FSK Receivers in Rice Fading May 2014
Environment
6 Syed Waqar Hassan Interference Management in OFDMA Femtocells May 2014
7 Rehan Zahid Reverse Frequency Allocation Scheme in Single Cell Downlink December
Heterogeneous Networks 2014
8 Aamra Arshad SNR Estimation for non-coherent FSK-based Cooperative Networks in January
Rayleigh Fading 2015
9 Muhammad Arslan Aslam Multi-Hop Multi-Source Network Coding January
2015
10 Muhammad Saad Zia Analysis of Massive MIMO Systems subject to Composite Shadowing February
Environment 2015
11 Haroon Mazhar Analysis of Target Multi-paths in Passive Wi-Fi Radars March 2015
12 Zaka ul Mulk Analysis of Pilot Contamination in Very Large Scale MIMO Systems March 2015
13 Sidra Shaheen Syed Design of Randomized Space-Time Block Codes for Cooperative Strip- April 2015
Shaped Networks
14 Atta ur Rahman Composite fading in Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks August 2015
15 Muhammad Bilal Haroon Cooperative Multi-hop Networks in the presence of Lognormal-Rice Fading October
2015
16 Nohman Javed UMTS and LTE-based Passive Multistatic Radars January
2016
17 Muhammad Ahsen Stochastic Geometry-based Analysis of Cooperative Multi- Networks January
2016
18 Junaid Abdullah Geometry optimization in WiFi-based Passive Radars February
2016
19 Sikander Afridi Spatial Modulation in Wireless Networks December
2016
20 Tauseef Mushtaq Massive MIMOs in the presence of K-fading December
2016
21 Hamnah Munir Game Theory-based capacity optimization of HetNets February
2017
22 Aneeqa Ijaz Reverse Frequency Allocation Algorithms for HetNets December
2016
23 Soma Qureshi Non orthogonal multiple access system for 5G networks February
2017
24 Sana Habib Initial Access in mmWave Systems April 2017
25 Anum Umer Secrecy Analysis in Massive MIMO Systems August 2017
26 Erum Mushtaq Quaternion Algebra for Space Time Block Coding August 2017
27 Muhammad Nasar Jamal Cooperative NOMA using STBC January
2018
28 Qanaita Mehmood 5G Full Duplex Wireless Communication July 2018
29 Farhan Nawaz Multiple Flows Scheduling in Dense M2M Networks July 2018
30 Syed Fahad Hassan Wireless Mediation in Industrial IoT Networks July 2018
31 Afshan Mehmood Social-Aware based D2D Networks July 2018
32 Syed Qasim Gillani Full-duplex and dual-slope path loss modeling in 5G July 2018
33 Maira Imran Relay Selection in SWIPT Networks September
2018
34 Hemant Kumar Propagation Analysis in Large Scale Networks September
2018
35 Arsalan Haider Performance of Ultra Reliability and Low Latency Communication (URLLC) January
with the Composite E ects of Fading and Shadowing 2019
36 Shah Zeb Estimation of ToA in IIoT Networks May 2019
37 Muhammad Asim Jan Performance Analysis of mmWave drone-assisted 5G Hybrid August 2019
Heterogeneous Network
38 Rida Zia-ul-Mustafa Context Aware Initial Search in 5G mmWave Systems August 2019
39 Muhammad Karam Shehzad Association of Small Cell Base Stations with UAVs in HetNets October
2019
40 Shahzeb Ahsan Improving Channel E ciency in LoRaWANs using Novel Channel October
Sensing mechanism 2019
41 Sidra-tul-Muntaha Energy E ciency and Hover Time Optimization in UAV-Based HetNets November,
2019
42 Anam Yasir Kiani Optimizing the Transaction Times for NOMA Based Mobile Edge November,
Computing 2019
43 Ahsan Waleed Performance Analysis of NOMA Enhanced Backscatter August 2020
Communication for Green IoT Networks
UG Students:
Year Students
2013 Ameera Taseer Yousufzai, Sundus Mehdi, Annum Javed Rana
2015 Muhammad Shahmeer Omar, Syed Ahsan Raza, Muhammad Ali Anjum
Junaid Naeem, Abdul Moeed Khalid, Hassan Abid
2016 Saad Amin, Shahzaib Faisal, Muhammad Sohaib
Azlan Shaukat, Ramiz Hassan Siddiqui
2017 Uzair Akbar, Haris Suhail, Osama Waqar Bhatti
Akber Raza, Amna Aziz, Syed M. Ali Qasim Naqvi
Atif Salman Sheikh, Shahzaib Qazi, Zain Zafar
Zain Kabir, Usman Mehmood Khan
2018 Saad Iqbal, Usman Iqbal
Shehryar Aslam, Alishba Khan, Abeera Atif
2019 Ahsan Fahim, Hassan Rasheed, Sikander Azam
Wahma Nayer, Hajra Bibi, Sarah Basharat
Usama Saeed, Ussaid Akram
Muhammad Moaz, Awais Haider, Adeel Hamdani
Amina Shorish, Momin Salman, Warda Binte Masna, Ramsha Zameer
Bilal Isa Khan, Shaheer Raza, Muhammad Suleman
Shahzina Zubair, Muhammad Umer
Mahnoor Anjum, Muhammad bin Aamir, Muhammad Usman Javed
Fahad Zia, Asjad Behzad, Minahil Ashfaq
2021 Noor Waqar
Muhammad Faraz Abrar, Muhammad Talha
Syed Usama Minhaj, Syed Haider Ali, M Talha Bhatii
Muhammad Ali, Syed M Abbas Haider, Muhammad Ali
Arooba Rehman, Aleesha Abbasi
Professional Developers:
Saad Iqbal:
Higher-Order Modulation schemes in backscatter & acoustic communications.
Muhammad Shahmeer Omar:
Timing synchronization and MAC layer issues in cooperative communications.
Syed Ahsan Raza:
Relay selection and space-time coding algorithms for cooperative communications.
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