Dr. Abdul Ghafoor

PERSONALS
Name:	Dr. Abdul Ghafoor
Designation:	Asst Professor
Department:	Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone (off.):	+92-51-561-523345
Mobile:	0342-6234654
Email:	abdulghafoor-mcs@nust.edu.pk, abdulghafoor.mcs@gmail.com, ghafoor@mcs.edu.pk, abdulghafoor@mcs.edu.p
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INTRODUCTION
Dr Abdul Ghafoor joined Pakistan Navy as Technical Sailor in 1986 and completed his Diploma of Associate Engineer in Radio Technology in 1990 from PAF Korangi Creek Karachi securing first position. In 1991 he joined MCS as a Technical Cadet for Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering, which he completed in 1994 with gold medals for securing first position in academics as well as in research project. His BE research project titled `Design & Development of Digital Speech Scrambler without Synchronization´ was selected by Sig R&D for further work and finish product. In February 1999 he joined MCS (NUST) as a faculty member where he taught Electronic Devices and Basic Electrical Engineering subjects, in addition to performing coordination and training duties. He won HEC Indigenous PhD scholarship in 2001. He completed MS in Electrical Engineering from E&ME College (NUST) in 2003 with cumulative GPA 4.00/4.00 and securing first position. His research work was successfully used by NDC in the guidance system of a Cruise Missile. He was awarded NUST split MS/PhD scholarship in 2003 and he joined University of Western Australia for pursuing PhD. During his PhD research in Australia, he was recipient of various scholarships, including International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Australian Postgraduate Award. His PhD research work was on `Model Reduction´ which is an important area of Control Systems. After successfully completing PhD, he rejoined MCS (NUST) in 2008, where he is currently teaching various courses related to Control Systems to undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervising postgraduate (MS and PhD) theses besides other academic and research activities. He has contributed over 25 research publications which include 10 papers in well reputed International Journals. Some of his research papers have been published in IEEE & ASME Transactions. His research paper ‘A Survey/Review of Frequency Weighted Balanced Model Reduction Techniques’ in ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control was ranked sixth in ‘Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles in November 2008’. He was awarded "NUST Best Teacher Award" for the year 2009.

Courses/Teaching
Discrete-Time Control Systems MSEE 15 Discrete-Time Control Systems (MSEE 14) Control Systems TE-43 A/B/C Control Systems TE-42 A
Research & Development
Research Interests Model Reduction Controller reduction Control Systems Signal Processing Watermarking
Completed Projects

Current Projects
Through the Wall Surveillance Control Systems
Future Projects
Control Systems
Publications
• A. Ghafoor and T. Stykel, “Frequency Limited Gramian-Based Model Reduction of Descriptor Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (in preparation) • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Model Reduction via Limited Frequency Interval Gramians”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, Vol 55, 2008. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “A Survey/Review of Frequency Weighted Balanced Model Reduction Techniques”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol 130, 2008. • R. Treasure, A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Frequency Weighted Identification and Model Reduction of 2-D Separable Denominator Systems”, International Journal of Modeling and Simulations Vol 28, No 4, 2008. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Partial-Fraction Expansion based Frequency Weighted Model Reduction Technique with Error Bounds”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, pp. 1942-1948, 2007. • A. Ghafoor, V. Sreeram and R. Treasure, “Frequency Weighted Balanced Model Reduction Technique retaining Hankel Singular Values”, Asian Journal of Control, Vol 9, No. 1, pp. 50-56, 2007. • O. Kaneko, K.M. Grigoriadis, A. Ghafoor, V. Sreeram, Q. Wang, J. Lam, H. Gao and Q. Wang, “Discussion on: Energy-to-Peak Model Reduction in 2-D Discrete Systems in Fornasini-Marchesini Form”, European Journal of Control, Vol 12, pp. 431-436, 2006. • A. Ghafoor, J. Wang and V. Sreeram, “Frequency Weighted Model Reduction Technique with Error Bounds for 2-D Separable Denominator Discrete Systems”, International Journal of Information and System Sciences, Vol 1, No 2, pp 105-119, 2005. • R. Akhtar, A. Rashdi and A. Ghafoor, “Grouping Technique for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios” IEEE International Conference on Wireless VITAE, May 17-20, Aalborg, Denmark (accepted), 2009. • R. Khan, A. Ghafoor and R. N. Iqbal, “A Blind Image Adaptive Watermarking Scheme for Audio using Wavelet Transform”, IEEE International Conference on Digital Image Processing, March 7-9, Bangkok, Thailand (accepted), 2009. • R. Khan, A. Ghafoor and R. N. Iqbal, “A Novel Texture Based Blind Audio in Image Watermarking Scheme Using Wavelet Transform”, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, March 8-10, Bangkok, Thailand (accepted), 2009. • S. Ahmed, R. N. Iqbal and A. Ghafoor, “Direct Hallucination: Direct Locality Preserving Projections (DLPP) for Face Superresolution”, IEEE International Conference on Advance Computer Theory and Engineering, December 20-22, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 105-110, 2008. • S. Sahlan, A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Properties of Frequency Weighted Balanced Truncation Techniques”, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, September 22-25, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, pp. 765-770, 2007. • A. Ghafoor, S. Sahlan, and V. Sreeram, “A new Frequency Weighted Model Reduction Technique with Error Bounds”, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, August 5-8, Harbin, China, pp. 1962-1967, 2007. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Interval Gramians based Model Reduction”, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, December 4-7, Singapore, pp. 2002-2006, 2006. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Frequency Weighted Model Reduction: A Survey”, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, December 5-8, Singapore, pp. 1543-1548, 2006. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Frequency Weighted Balanced Hankel Norm Model Reduction and Error Bounds”, Asian Control Conference, July 18-21, Bali, Indonesia, pp. 564-570, 2006. • A. Ghafoor, J. Wang and V. Sreeram, “Frequency Weighted Model Reduction Technique with Error Bounds for 2-D Separable Denominator Discrete Systems”, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control and Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 27-29, Cyprus, pp. 525-530, 2005. • V. Sreeram and A. Ghafoor, “Frequency Weighted Model Reduction Technique with Error Bounds”, IEEE American Control Conference, June 8-10, Portland, OR, USA, pp. 2584-2589, 2005. • A. Ghafoor, V. Sreeram and R. Treasure, “On Frequency Weighted Balanced Truncation Technique retaining Hankel Singular Values” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2-4, pp. 638-642, 2004. • R. Treasure, A. Ghafoor, V. Sreeram, and K. Ngan, "Frequency Weighted Identification and Model Reduction of 2-D Separable Denominator Systems", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications, Ballarat, Australia, December 9-11, 2004. • A. Ghafoor, R. N. Iqbal and S. Khan, “Robust Image Matching Algorithm”, EURASIP Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communication Conference, Zagreb, Croatia, July 2-5, pp. 155-160, 2003. • A. Ghafoor, R. N. Iqbal and S. Khan, “Modified Chamfer Matching Algorithm”, Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Hong Kong, March 21-23, pp. 1102-1106, 2003. • A. Ghafoor, R. N. Iqbal and S. Khan, “Image Matching Using Distance Transform”, 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Halmstad, Sweden, June 29 - July 2, pp. 654-660, 2003. • A. Ghafoor and V. Sreeram, “Frequency-Weighted Balanced Model Reduction and Error Bounds”, International Journal of Control (in preparation). • R. Khan, A. Ghafoor and R. N. Iqbal, “A Blind Audio in Image Watermarking Technique based on Image Adaptive Features Using Wavelet Transform” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (in preparation).
Professional Memberships & Affiliations

Contact Info
Email: abdulghafoor-mcs[at]nust.edu.pk, abdulghafoor.mcs[at]gmail.com, ghafoor[at]mcs.edu.pk, abdulghafoor[at]mcs.edu.p Telephone (Off): +92-51-561-523345 Telephone (Res): +92-51-561-524419 Mobile #: 0342-6234654

Research Interests