Irfan Ullah

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House # 65G, Street # 30A, I-10/4, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mobile # +92-331-2121030

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lecturer – Sep 2010 to date

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology -

Islamabad, Pakistan

Responsibilities:
  • Teaching undergraduate courses. Manage and monitor labs related to the assigned course.
  • Supervising undergraduate final year projects and guiding student in writing technical reports.
  • Research in specific field and document the outcomes in the form of research papers.

Research Associate – Feb 2009 to Aug 2010

Tampere University of Technology -

Tampere, Finland

Responsibilities:
  • Worked on the SYSMODEL project.
  • The project is aimed at providing SMEs with system level modeling tools for the design and implementation of time and power critical, heterogeneous systems
  • In this project a System Level cycle accurate model of Hierarchical Network-on-Chip (NoC) for on-Chip Multi-Core Platform using SystemC was developed.

Research Associate – Aug 2007 – Aug 2008

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology -
Islamabad, Pakistan
Responsibilities:
  • Research in the field of embedded and digital design systems.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses and respective Labs.
  • Technical report writing.

EDUCATION

PhD - Jan 2013 to Till date

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

Islamabad, Pakistan

Research area:Advanced Image reconstruction algorithms in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

M.Sc. (Technology),Aug 2008 to Sep 2010

Tampere University of Technology

Tampere, Finland

Major: Digital and Computer ElectronicsMinor: Software Systems

MS Thesis:System level model of hierarchical Network-on-Chip for system-level on-Chip Multi-Core platforms.

BS (Computer Engineering), Jan 2003 to June 2007

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

Islamabad, Pakistan

FYP:Real time mobile robot with analysis of surrounding environment and high speed integrated embedded wireless communication system.

Publications

  1. O. Ahmad, I. Ullah and J. Iqbal, “A multi-robot educational and research framework”, International Journal of Academic Research (IJAR) Part A, ISSN: 2075-4124 (print), 2075-7107 (online), 2014, 6(2):217-222, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.7813/2075-4124.2014/6-2/A.32)
  2. M. Qureshi, M. Tariq, S. Aslam, V. Iqbal, I. ullah, S. Qazi, H. Omer. “Conjugate Gradient (CG) SENSE algorithm for radial and spiral trajectories in parallel MRI”. Biomedical Research, 2016
  3. M. Qureshi, M. Junaid, A. Najam, D. Bashir, I. ullah, M. Kaleem, H. Omer. “Image reconstruction using compressed sensing for individual and collective coil methods”. Biomedical Research, 2016
  4. I. ullah, H. Omer “Combining CG-SENSE with Compressed Sensing for MR Image reconstruction for Radial and Spiral Trajectories” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA) Part A, ISSN: 0968-5243 (print), 1352-8661 (online), 2016, 29(1):113-114, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0568-x).
  5. I. ullah, S. Tallat, F. Shahid, H. Shahzad, N. Seiberlich, M. Griswold, H. Omer “Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) implementation on Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) for exploiting inherent parallelism” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA) Part A, ISSN: 0968-5243 (print), 1352-8661 (online), 2016, 29(1):103-104, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0568-x).
  6. I. ullah, M.M. Qasim, H. Raza, H. Nisar, S. Qazi, H. Omer “QR Decomposition based SENSE Implementation on Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA) Part A, ISSN: 0968-5243 (print), 1352-8661 (online), 2016, 29(1):461-462, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0571-2).
  7. S. A. Qazi, I. Ullah, H. Omer” Implementation of Low-Rank + Sparse Matrix Decomposition on GPUs for Accelerating Re-Construction Time” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA) Part A, ISSN: 0968-5243 (print), 1352-8661 (online), 2016, 29(1):69-70, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0568-x).
  8. H. Shahzad, H. Omer, I. Ullah “Combined application of PMRI and CS for MR Image reconstruction” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA) Part A, ISSN: 0968-5243 (print), 1352-8661 (online), 2016, 29(1):198-199, ISI Indexed, (DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0569-9).

Patents

  • Graphical Processing Unit(GPU) Implementation of Magnetic Resonance Finger-printing(MRF).
  • GPU based Implementation of SENSE (a parallel MRI algorithm) using QR decomposition.
  • GPU based Implementation of SENSE (a parallel MRI algorithm) using left Inverse method.

Research Interest

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Embedded Systems, Multi-Processor System on Chip, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics.

Memberships and Research Activities

  • Member Pakistan Engineering Council. Membership # COMP/04195
  • Member ISMRM, Membership # 81013
  • Member ESMRMB,Membership # 20347
  • Member IEEE, Membership # 93392080
  • Member of Organizing Committee International Symposium on System-on-Chip 2009, Tampere, Finland.
  • Member of Pak-China Business Forum Organizer Committee 2012.
  • Participated in international conference on Frontier of Information Technology (FIT)
  • Microprocessors workshop 2012(Organizer), CIIT.
  • Member of Pakistan engineering council. (COMP/04195)
  • Training and Tutorial on FPGA “Born to FPGA”, CAST.

Courses Taught

  • EEE113 Engineering Drawing.
  • EEE121 & EEE222Electric Circuit Analysis I & II.
  • EEE231 & EEE232 Electronics I & II.
  • EEE342 Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing.
  • EEE440 Computer Architecture.

REFERENCES

Prof.
Dr. Jari Nurmi,

Tampere University ofTechnology,
Tampere, Finland / Assistant Prof.
Dr. Hammad Omer,

COMSATS Institute of Technology,
Islamabad, Pakistan / Assistant Prof.
Dr. Zeeshan Ali Khan,

University of Dammam,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia