Dr. Md. Saifur Rahman

Dr. Md. Saifur Rahman

Professor
Contact Information
Major Area

Communication and Signal Processing (CSP)

Education

Ph.D. (1992), UMIST (Victoria University of Manchester), UK

Research Interests
  • Telecommunication Engineering
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Quantum Communication
  • Engineering Electromagnetics
  • Renewable Energy Systems Design
  • Embedded Systems Design
Dr. Md. Saifur Rahman
Section-A: BAETE Instructed Information
Education Qualification
  • Ph.D., Information Systems Engineering Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, UMIST (Victoria University of Manchester), UK, December 1992.
  • M.Sc. Engg. (EEE), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 1989.
  • B.Sc. Engg. (EEE), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 1987.
Academic experience
  • Professor, Department of EEE, BUET. (05/1998 to Date)
  • Lab Course Teaching Associate, Curtin University, Australia. (07/2000 to 06/2001)
  • Associate Professor, Department of EEE, BUET. (07/1996 to 05/1998)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, BUET. (08/1989 to 07/1996 of which 09/1989 to 12/1992 on study leave.)
  • Lab Course Teaching Associate, UMIST, UK. (07/1990 to 06/1991)
  • Lecturer, Department of EEE, BUET. (06/1987 to 08/1989)
Non-academic experience
  • Dean, Faculty of EEE, BUET (07/2017 to 08/2019)
  • Telecom Adviser to Honorable VC, BUET (07/2013 to 06/2014)
  • Head, Department of EEE, BUET (05/2010 to 05/2012)
  • Hall Provost, Nazrul Islam Hall, BUET (06/2003 to 12/2006)
  • Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (10/1999 to 09/2001)
  • System Analyst, Computer Centre, BUET (09/1995 to 08/1997)
Fellowship/membership of academic bodies and professional organizations
  • Member, Bangladesh Academy of Science
  • Member, Bangladesh Electronic Society
  • Member, Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB)
  • Member, IEEE, USA
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society
Honors and awards
  • Received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (October 1999 – September 2001) to undertake advanced level research at the Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies Australia (CRESTA), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
  • 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 Young Scientist 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, 1990, pp. 81-88.
  • Obtained Commonwealth Scholarship in 1989 to undertake Ph.D. Research at UMIST (now University of Manchester), Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • Received the prestigious “ORDER OF ORCA” – Award from the Old Rajshahi Cadets Association (ORCA), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Received Talent Pool Scholarship in SSC (1979) and HSC (1981) Examinations under the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Rajshahi.
List of significant publications and presentations in the five most recent years

Journal

[1] K. Habibul Kabir, Md Rifat Hossain, S.M. Nasif Shams, Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Rafiqul Islam, “Post Covid-19 strategies for power and energy sectors of Bangladesh”, Energy Strategy Reviews, Vol. 50, November 2023, 101176, 19 pages;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2023.101176 Impact Factor (IF): 7.9

[2] Syed Emad Uddin Shubha, Md. Saifur Rahman and M.R.C. Mahdy, “Significant improvement of fidelity for encoded quantum bell pairs at long and short-distance communication along with generalized circuit”, Heliyon 9(3):e19700, September 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19700 Impact Factor (IF): 3.4

[3] K. Habibul Kabir, Shafquat Yasar Aurko and Md. Saifur Rahman, “Smart Power Management in OIC Countries: A Critical Overview Using SWOT-AHP and Hybrid MCDM Analysis”, Energies 2021, 14(20), 6480, 50 pages; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206480 Impact Factor (IF): 3.0

[4] Das, S., Rahman, M.S. & Majumdar, M., “Design of a quantum repeater using quantum circuits and benchmarking its performance on an IBM quantum computer.” Quantum Inf Process 20, 245 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03189-8 Impact Factor (IF): 2.5

[5] M. R. H. Khan, M. A. Hoque, and M. Saifur Rahman, “Internet of Things (IoT) for MC-CDMA-Based Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) in 5G: Performance Results,” Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, Vol. 20, No. Supp 01, 2140009 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649221400098 Impact Factor (IF): 0.9

[6] M. R. H. Khan, M. A. Hoque, M. T. Reza, and M. Saifur Rahman, “System Imperfections on the Overall Performance of MC-CDMA-Based Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) System,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 30, No. 04, 2150057 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126621500572 Impact Factor (IF): 0.9

[7] Mohammad Zunaed, Ankur Nath and Md. Saifur Rahman, “Dual-CyCon Net: A Cycle Consistent Dual-Domain Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Detection of Partial Discharge,” Preprint, October 2021, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2012.11532 Citations: (3)

[8] M. Rezaul Hoque Khan, M. Ashraful Hoque, M. Taslim Reza, and M. Saifur Rahman, “Performance Analysis of MC-CDMA Based UWB System for Beyond 4G”, International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 15(3):933-944, July 2020. Impact Factor (IF): 2.0.

Conference

[9] Sudipta Sarker and M. S. Rahman, "Effect of Doppler Shift on the Performance of LoRa Chirp Spread Spectrum Communication over Various Fading Channels," 2024 13th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2024), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2024, pp. 1-4.

[10] M. F. Abid, T. A. Azfer and M. S. Rahman, "Performance Analysis of a Multi-Amplitude Multi-Frequency Digital Modulation and Demodulation Scheme," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2023, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTP60248.2023.10490600.

[11] M. M. Rahman and M. S. Rahman, "Performance Analysis of Classical and Graph Neural Network-Based Power Allocation Schemes for Single-hop Ad hoc Wireless Networks," 2022 12th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022, pp. 449-452,https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECE57408.2022.10088575

[12] M. A. Iqbal and M. S. Rahman, "Development and Performance Analysis of a Novel Single-bin FFT Algorithm," 2022 12th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022, pp. 316-319, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECE57408.2022.10088798

[13] S. E. U. Shubha and M. S. Rahman, "Effect of Quantum Repetition Code on Fidelity of Bell States in Bit Flip Channels," 2022 12th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2022), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022, pp. 368-371, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECE57408.2022.10088665

[14] M. E. I. Eunus, M. A. Haque and M. S. Rahman, "Calculation of Bit Error Rates for Superdense and ALOHA based Quantum Communication," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2021, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTP53732.2021.9744193

[15] M. A. Mobin, M. Islam and M. S. Rahman, "Performance Analysis of GMSK and Chirp-Binary Orthogonal Keying in AWGN and Multipath Fading Channels," 2020 11th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2020), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2020, pp. 443-446, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECE51571.2020.9393133

List of Professional Consultancy and Sponsored Research activities in the five most recent years

Consultancy

  • Served as an active Member of BRTC (Bureau of Research Testing and Consultation) Team of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, and have been involved in testing, repairing, developing software and offering various consultancy services with the team.

As a member of the team,

  • I was involved in designing the control circuits of “Steno Telephone Sets for Office Use” requested by Telephone Shilpa Snagstha Limited, Tongi, Bangladesh. (2019-2020)
  • Prepared report on the “Electrical Part of the Consultancy Service for Vetting of the Price Offer for the Underground Substation Project of DESCO” (2022).
  • Prepared report on the Electrical Safety Assessment Reports for all the Buildings of Bangladesh Bank in the Country after inspecting the sites (2022-23).

Sponsored Research Projects

  • Research Investigator, Research Project on “The Impact of Inertia and Magnetic Forces in Aiding the Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion Processes”, Privately Funded Project, Dept. of EEE, BUET, 2022-2024. 2.0 lakh BDT.
  • Research Investigator, Research Project on “Identification of the Efficient Battery Charging Techniques for a Lead-Acid Battery Bank”, Self-Funded Project, Dept. of EEE, BUET, 2023-2024. 1.0 lakh BDT.
Section-B Additional Information
Short Biography

Md. Saifur Rahman was born on March 11 1963 in the district of Dinajpur, Bangladesh. He passed his B.Sc. Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in 1987, and M.Sc. Engineering in EEE in 1989 from the Department of EEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). In September 1989, he visited UK as a commonwealth scholar for pursuing Higher Studies and Research, and obtained his PhD in Digital Signal Processing from UMIST (University of Manchester) in December 1992. Later, as a Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, he worked for 2 years on “Intelligent Control of a Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System using Neural Net and Fuzzy Logic Techniques” at the Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies (CRESTA) under the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He has been teaching as a Faculty at the Department of EEE, BUET since June 1987. In the past, he served as a Hall Provost of Nazrul Islam Hall, as Head, Department of EEE and as Dean, Faculty of EEE at BUET. He is currently serving as a Professor in the same department and is conducting research in the fields of Digital Communication, Signal Processing, Intelligent Networks, Automation, Software Development, Embedded Systems Design, Energy Conversion Processes and Renewable Energy. He has published a significant number of papers in various journals and conference proceedings of national and international repute. He is an honorable member of Bangladesh Academy of Science, Bangladesh Electronic Society, Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) and Institution of Engineers (IEEE), USA.

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Major Courses Offered:

Undergraduate

  • EEE 309 – Communications System-I
  • EEE 439 – Communications System-II
  • EEE 209 – Engineering Electromagnetics
  • EEE 311 – Digital Signal Processing I
  • EEE 437 – Wireless Communications
  • EEE 441 – Telecommunication Engineering
  • EEE 443 – Radar and Satellite Communication

Postgraduate

  • EEE 6208 Advanced Multimedia Communications
  • EEE 6202 Advanced Telecommunication Engineering
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