Mailing Address: 2/39 Coolgardie Street
                              Bentley, WA 6102
                              Australia

Telephone : +618 9266 2569 (O)
                  +618 9350 6746 (H)
          Fax : +618 9266 2584

E-mail : md_saifur@yahoo.com
                rrahmans@curtin.edu.au

Residency Status: Bangladeshi (Australian Permanent Resident)

Academic Qualifications:

PhD (Digital Communication and Signal Processing), February, 1993 GPA: N/A (PhD by Research)
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK.
Thesis: An Investigation into Spectral Analysis using a Chirp-Signal Matched Filter.

MSc. Engineering (Electrical & Electronic), July 1989 GPA 3.92/4.00
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
Thesis: A Study on the On-Off Patterns of Bangla Speech Over a Telephone Channel.

BSc. Engineering (Electrical & Electronic), April 1987 Rank: 1st Class 1st, 79.26%
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, (BUET), Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
Final Year Major in: Computer and Communication Engineering
Final Year Project: Optimisation of Transmission Line Transients using Fast Fourier Transform.

Research Interests:

• Communications and Digital Signal Processing (Data Communications and Computer Network, Digital Communication and Digital Systems)
• Software Development, Computing, Multimedia and Computer Education
• Computer Graphics, Speech and Image Processing
• Applications of Neural Net and Fuzzy Logic

August 1999 till date

Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Have been working on the use of Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic in Control Applications.

May 1998 – August 1999

Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). As a Professor at the Department, I conducted:

• Theory and laboratory classes on Digital Systems, Communication Electronics, Digital Electronics, and Telecommunication Engineering at the undergraduate level.
• Theory classes on Data Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Telecommunication Engineering, Communication Network, and Linear System Analysis at the masters level.
• Supervised undergraduate projects of the final year students on Digital Electronics, Data Communication, Development of PC-based Educational Software, Telecommunication etc., and masters projects on the development of Multimedia Applications Software, Speech Processing, Computer Communication, Modem and Communications Software.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

September 1995 – September 1997

Part-Time System Analyst, Computer Centre, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The responsibilities assigned to me were:

• Run and maintain the mainframe computer system (IBM 4330 and IBM 370) and Novell Network based PC Work stations.
• Help Students debug their programs in Fortran, Pascal and C/C++.
• Teaching courses related to Lotus, MS-Office, and Dbase, FoxPro and C/C++ programming.
• Introducing computer, data acquisition techniques and computer networking to the people serving in the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, and Power Development Board.
• Consultancy with the team.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

October 1990 – June 1991

Part-Time Demonstrator, Maths and Computation Department, U.M.I.S.T., UK.

As a Lab Demonstrator, I had to take Laboratory and Tutorial classes on Computer Programming (Pascal and C).

June 1987 – August 1989

Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Projects:

• Communication between Two PCs using the RS232C Serial Ports
• Development of a Low Cost LAN using parallel port, the RS232C Communication Port and an External Switching Device
• Design and Simulation of a Chirp Modem
• Multilingual Electronic Mail System-a Proposal
• Design and Implementation of a Speech Password Driven Security Door-Lock System
• Development of a Bangla Text to Speech Converter
• Features Extraction for Speaker Identification
• Development of a PC-Based Automatic Food Grain Measuring System using a Hopper Scale.
• Development of a PC-Based Audio-Visual Alphabet Learning System
• Design and Implementation of a Digital Spectrum Analyser
• Design and Implementation of a Digital Blood Pressure Meter using the PC Interfacing Technique
• Design and Implementation of a Cuff Pressure Controller for a PC-Based Blood Pressure Monitoring System
• The Technique of Detecting Systolic and Diastolic Pressure from the Transducer Output of a PC Based Blood Pressure Monitoring System

• Served as a Member of the Internet Web Page Design Committee, BUET.
• Served as the Lab-in-Charge of Telecom Lab, BUET, Bangladesh.
• Attended a Seminar on Digital Telecommunications Network, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 10-14 January 1996, organised by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, Japan and Fujitsu International Engineering Limited, Japan.
• Served as an Adviser, Telecommunications Group, during Renovation of the National Science Museum of Bangladesh (1993-94).
• Served as a Member, Special Technical Committee for preparing specification and project proposal on "Inclusion of automatic voting system in the existing SIS and Conference System of the Bangladesh National Assembly", (June 1995).
• Served as a Member, Technical Committee (Electronics), Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI).
• Served as a member of the organising committee for the International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ICCIT'98, organised by BUET and IEEE Bangladesh Section, and also for the 1st National Conference on Computer and Information Systems NCCIS'97, jointly organised by DU, BCS, NSU & BUET.
• I served as an active Member of the BRTC (Bureau of Research Testing and Consultation) of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, and have been involved in testing, repairing, developing software and consultancy (preparing technical specification and tender document evaluation etc) with the team.
• As a member of the team, I also developed a share market software, which is now being used by the BUET team of experts to conduct the lottery live in front of the public in the Share Market of Bangladesh.
• I have also worked as an active member of the mainframe group, which determines the merit list of the B. Sc. Engineering Admission Test of BUET, by using the mainframe computer (for the academic sessions 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97).

• Networking: Working knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite. Was also involved in setting up a Novell Network based PC network in the Telecom Lab (BUET).
• Assembling PCs: Can assemble and set up PCs.
• Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, (Learning UNIX).
• Computer Languages: Assembly for IBM compatible PC, HTML, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C/C++, Dbase, FoxPro and Matlab Programming, Assembly for TMS320C25 and TMS320C30 DSPs.
• Other Packages: MS-word, MS-Excel, Power Point, Word Perfect, Lotus, Dbase, FoxPro.
• Simulation Tools: Simulink, Matlab.
• Reviewer of Books: I review newly published books on Communication Electronics and Signal Processing in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (IJEEE), UK.

Engineering Analysis, Communication and Computer Networks, Advanced Telecommunication Engineering, Microwave Theory and Techniques, Information Theory and Telecommunication, Communication Electronics, Digital Techniques, Microprocessors and Digital Computers.

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Institutions:

• Member, IEEE
• Member, IEEE Communications Society
• Member, IEEE Computer Society

• Received the K S Krishnan Memorial Award (1996) from the IETE, India, for the best System Paper. "A Comparative Study of the Outputs of a Chirp-Matched Filter and a Dispersive Line for the Matched Input Chirp Signal", Journal of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, Vol.42, No.6, November-December, 1996, pp 401-407.
• Received Dr. M. A. Rashid Gold Medal, for scoring the highest Grade Point Average (GPA) in M.Sc. Engineering Course in 1989.
• Received the best paper award (under the 35-year age group) for the paper "A Simple Experimental Set-up for Generating On-Off Speech Patterns in Two-Way Telephone Conversations", The Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research, Special Issue, 1990, pp. 81-88.
• Obtained Commonwealth Scholarship in 1989 to undertake Ph.D. Research at UMIST, UK.
• Received University Grants Commission (UGC) Scholarship, in 1986, at the end of 3rd Year of the B.Sc. Engineering course for scoring the highest marks in the class.

As an undergraduate, I complemented my academic work with participation in sports and other extra-curricular activities. My favourite sports are Football, Volleyball and Table Tennis. I was the Team Captain of the House Football and Volleyball Teams of my residential hall (Khalid House) at Rajshahi Cadet College. The topics of my personal interest are education, personal computing, computers in higher education, developing PC-based educational softwares etc.

List of Publication: Please see Attachment-1.

Conferences and Seminars Attended: Please see Attachment-2.

Recent Publication and Related Information: Please see Attachment-3.

Availability: Immediately available.

References:

Professor G.F. Gott
Digital Communication and Information Systems
C-21, Main Building
UMIST, PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD
UK
Tel : (0161) 200 4717 (O)
Fax : (0161) 200 4770
e-mail : G.Gott@umist.ac.uk

Dr. Kazi Mohiuddin Ahmed
Associate Professor
Telecommunications Program
School of Advanced Technologies
Asian Institute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand
Tel : (66-2) 524 5740 (O)
Fax : (66-2) 524 5730
e-mail : kahmed@ait.ac.th

Dr. Syed Mahbubur Rahman
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Wissink Hall 273
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001, USA
Tel : (507) 389 3226 (O)
         (507) 345 3316 (H)
Fax : (507) 389 6376
e-mail : syedm@mail.mankato.msus.edu

Dr. Ruhul Amin Sarker
Lecturer OR/MS
School of Computer Science
University of New South Wales
ADFA Campus, Northcott Drive
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: +61 2 6268 8051
Fax: +61 2 6268 8581
e-mail: ruhul@cs.adfa.edu.au

(i) Proceedings

• Attended the International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ICCIT'98, organised by BUET in cooperation with IEEE Bangladesh Section. I was a member of the organising committee, and I actively participated in organising the conference. I also presented a technical paper, which is listed, in serial 16 of the list of publication.

• Attended the 20th Annual Science Conference of Bangladesh in 28-30 November, 1998, organised by the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). I presented a paper in the Conference, which has been listed in serial 20 of the list of publication.

• Attended the 1st National Conference on Computer and Information Systems NCCIS'97, jointly organised by DU, BCS, NSU & BUET. I was a member of the organising committee, and I had an active participation in organising the conference. I also presented 2 technical papers, which are listed in serial 17 and 18 of the list of publication.

• Offered a seminar on the "Development of a Bangla Text to Speech Converter" organised by the Bangladesh Computer Society, at BUET on 25/08/97.

• Attended the 41st Annual Convention of the IEB, Electrical Engineering Division, Bangladesh, 9-12 December 1996. I presented the paper that has been shown in serial 4 of the publication list.

• Attended the conference at Trieste Medical Physics' 96, V International Conference on Applications of Physics in Medicine and Biology, Trieste (Italy), ICTP, 2-6 September 1996; and presented the paper, which is shown in serial 3 of the list of publication.

• Attended the 19th Annual Science Conference of Bangladesh in 29-31 October, 1996, organised by the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). I presented a paper in the Conference, which has been listed in serial 21 of the list of publication.

• Attended a Seminar on Digital Telecommunications Technology, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 10-14 January, 1996, organised by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, Japan and Fujitsu International Engineering Limited, Japan.

• Attended the First IEEE National Conference on Electro Technology, ET'95, jointly organised by BUET and IEEE. I presented a paper in the Conference, which has been listed in serial 19 of the publication list.

• Attended the International Symposium on Electrical Energy Systems, ISEES'93, jointly organised by BUET, Bangladesh and VPI & SU, USA. I actively participated in organising the conference. I also served as a rapporteur in one of the technical sessions.

• Attended the 14th Annual Science Conference of Bangladesh in 1989, organised by the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). Received the Best Paper Award under the 35-years age group, for presenting the paper listed in serial 14 of the publication list).

1. M.S. Rahman and F.R. Khan, "Development of a PC-Based Automatic Food Grain Measuring System using a Hopper Scale", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Manuscript IM-2090, Under Review).

2. P.S. Panickar, and M. S. Rahman "Wind Speed Prediction using a Statistical Method", Proceedings of the Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical Engineering Symposium, pp.15-18, held on 12^th July 2000, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.

3. M.S. Rahman, M.M. Rashid and S.M. Rahman, "Speaker-Identification and its Application in the Designing of a Speech Driven Security Door Lock System", Presented and Selected for Publication in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the AMSE held during 13-15^th October 2000, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

4. P. S. Panickar, M.S. Rahman, S. Islam and T.L. Prior, "Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System Control using a Fuzzy Logic Model", Accepted for presentation at the International Power Engineering Conference (IPEC’01) to be held during May 17-19, 2001 at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

5. P. S. Panickar, M.S. Rahman, S. Islam and T.L. Prior, "Adaptive Control Strategies in Wind-Diesel Hybrid Systems", Proceedings of the Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2000), pp.295-301, held during 24-27 September 2000, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Seminar Presentation

6. M.S. Rahman and G.F. Gott, "Application of Chirp Signals in Communication Systems", Presented at the request of the Telecommunication Chair, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA on 25^th July, 2000.