Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning

Statistical Signal Processing

Biomedical Informatics

 

Publications:

 

Amin Zollanvari, Alex P. James, Reza Sameni, A Theoretical Analysis of the Peaking Phenomenon in Classification, In Press, Journal of Classification, 2019.

Berdakh Abibullaev, Amin Zollanvari, Learning Discriminative Spatiospectral Features of ERPs for Accurate Brain-Computer Interfaces, In Press, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019.

Mehdi Bagheri, Amin Zollanvari, Svyatoslav Nezhivenko, Transformer Fault Condition Prognosis using Vibration Signals over Cloud Environment, IEEE Access, pp. 9862-9874, 2018.

 

 

Advanced materials including energy harvesting materials; metal oxides thin films and nanostructures Organic and perovskite solar cells Plasmonic photovoltaics Optoelectronic device fabrication and optimization Publications:

A. Ng, Z. Ren, H. Hu, P. W. K. Fong, Q. Shen, S. H. Cheung, P. Qin, J.-W. Lee, A. B. Djurišić, S. K. Su, G. Li, Y. Yang, C. Surya, A Cryogenic Process for Antisolvent-Free High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. 30, 1804402, 2018. Q. Shen, A. Ng, Z. Ren, H. C. Gokkaya, A. B. Djurišić, C. Surya, Characterization of low-frequency excess noise in CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 -based solar cells grown by solution and hybrid chemical vapor deposition techniques, ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 10, 371, 2018. Z. Ren, J. Zhou, Y. Zhang, A. Ng, Q. Shen, S. H. Cheung, H. Shen, K. Li, Z. Zheng, S. K. So, A. B. Djurišić, C. Surya, Strategies for high performance perovskite/crystalline silicon four-terminal tandem solar cells, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells. 179, 36, 2018.

Power System and Energy Management, Digital Twin Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Power Quality and Harmonics, High Voltage Technology, Transformers, Electric Rotating Machines, Real-time Monitoring and Industry 4.0, Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis, Digital Transformation in Energy and Utilities Industry, IoT and Machine Learning in Power System, Smart City and Smart Grid, Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles, Electrical Insulation and Frequency Response Analysis, Partial Discharge and Cable Quality Assessment. Publications:

Bagheri, M., Lu, M., Naderi, M., Phung, B., Transformer frequency response: A new technique to analyze and distinguish the low-frequency band in the frequency response analysis spectrum, In : IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine. 34, 5, p. 39-49, 2018. Bagheri, M., Nezhivenko, S., Naderi, M., Zollanvari, A., A new vibration analysis approach for transformer fault prognosis over cloud environment, In : International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. 100, p. 104-116, 2018. Bagheri, M., Nurmanova, V., Abedinia, O., Salay Naderi, M., Enhancing power quality in microgrids with a new online control strategy for DSTATCOM using reinforcement learning algorithm, In : IEEE Access. 6, p. 38986-38996, 2018.

  Wireless Communications and Networks Signal Processing for Communications Nano-Neural Communication Networks   Publications: https://sites.google.com/site/behrouzmaham/publications

Micro-structured Fiber Design

High Power Fiber Lasers

Mid-IR Photonic Technologies

Computational Electromagnetism

Optical Fiber Sensors

Bio-photonics

Publications:

A. Beisenova, A. Issatayeva, S. Sovetov, S. Korganbayev, M. Jelbuldina, Z. Ashikbayeva, W. Blanc, E. Schena, S. Sales, C. Molardi, and D. Tosi, “Multi-fiber distributed thermal profiling of minimally invasive thermal ablation with scattering-level multiplexing in MgO-doped fibers,” Biomedical Optics Express, 10(3), 1282-1296, 2019. [IF: 3.482]

T. Ayupova, M. Sypabekova, C. Molardi, A. Bekmurzayeva, M. Shaimerdenova, K. Dukenbayev and D. Tosi, “Wavelet Based Demodulation of Multimode Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Refractive Index Sensor,” MDPI Sensors, 19(1), 39, 2018. [IF: 2.475]

M. Sypabekova, S Korganbayev, W. Blanc, T. Ayupova, A. Bekmurzayeva, M. Shaimerdenova, K. Dukenbayev, C. Molardi, and D. Tosi, “Fiber optic refractive index sensors through spectral detection of Rayleigh backscattering in a chemically etched MgO-based nanoparticle-doped fiber,” Optics Letters, 43 (24), 5945-5948, 2018. [IF: 3.589]

 

Optical fiber sensors

Optical biosensors

Biomedical sensors

Distributed sensing and applications

Biophotonics

 

           Publications:

A. Beisenova, A. Issatayeva, S. Sovetov, S. Korganbayev, M. Jelbuldina, Z. Ashikbayeva, W. Blanc, E. Schena, S. Sales, C. Molardi, D. Tosi, “Multi-fiber distributed thermal profiling of minimally invasive thermal ablation with scattering-level multiplexing in MgO-doped fibers,” Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1282-1296, 2019.

T. Ayupova, M. Sypabekova, C. Molardi, A. Bekmurzayeva, M. Shaimerdenova, K. Dukenbayev, D. Tosi, “Wavelet Based Demodulation of Multimode Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Refractive Index Sensor,” Sensors, vol. 19, no. 1, 39, 2019.

A. Bekmurzayeva, K. Dukenbayev, M. Shaimerdenova, I. Bekniyazov, T. Ayupova, M. Sypabekova, C. Molardi, D. Tosi, “Etched fiber Bragg grating biosensor functionalized with aptamers for detection of thrombin,” Sensors, vol. 18, no. 12, 4298, 2018.

Energy harvesting wireless communications

Cognitive radio

Physical layer security

Massive MIMO

Interference alignment

Interference coordination and cancelation

Cooperative communications

Relaying networks

Multiuser communications theory

Visible light communications

Free-space optical communications

 

Vehicular technologies

 

Publications:

G. Nauryzbayev, M. Abdallah, and H. Elgala, “Outage of SEE-OFDM VLC-NOMA Networks,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 121-124, January 15, 2019.

S. Arzykulov, T. A. Tsiftsis, G. Nauryzbayev, and M. Abdallah, “Outage Performance of Cooperative Underlay CR-NOMA with Imperfect CSI,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 176-179, January 2019.

J. Al-khori, G. Nauryzbayev, M. Abdallah, and M. Hamdi, “Secrecy Performance of Decode-and-Forward based Hybrid RF/VLC Relaying Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 10844-10856, January 2019.

• Microscale devices for biomedical applications
• Organ-on-a-chip
• Lab-on-a-chip platforms
• MEMS

Prof. Gulsim Kulsharova's group website: https://sites.google.com/nu.edu.kz/nu-microfluidics/home

Publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YchMNzwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Nanoelectronic and Optoelectronic Circuits and Systems

Photonic Computing and Photonic Integrated Circuits (Nanophotonics)

Modeling and Signal Integrity for Circuits, Devices and Systems

High-bandwidth Packaging Design and Solutions

            Publications:

Elochukwu Onyejegbu, Dias Azhigulov and Ikechi Augustine Ukaegbu, “Numerical Analysis of A Dynamic Power-Aware Integrated Circuit for Optoelectronic Interconnect Applications,” accepted, SPIE Optics and Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech Republic, April, 2019.

Dias Azhigulov, Ikechi Augustine Ukaegbu, and Hyo-Hoon Park, “The Design of All-Optical Logic Gates Using Micro-ring Resonator Structures,” accepted, SPIE Optics and Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech Republic, April, 2019.

Nga T. H. Nguyen, Ikechi Augustine Ukaegbu, Hyo-Hoon Park, “A 30 Gb/s Integrated Receiver Array for Parallel Optical Interconnects,” IET Journal of Engineering, accepted March 2019.

Physical layer design Channel modeling Wireless optical communications 5G systems Visible light communications Intelligent Transportation Systems Society 5.0 Publications: Manglayev, Talgat, Refik Caglar Kizilirmak, and Nor Asilah Wati Abdul Hamid. "GPU Accelerated PIC and SIC for OFDM-NOMA." Electronics 8.3 (2019): 257. O. Narmanlioglu, R.C. Kizilirmak, F. Miramirkhani, S. Safaraliev, S.M. Sait, M. Uysal, "Effect of Wiring and Cabling Topolies on the performance Distributed MIMO OFDM VLC Systems", IEEE Access, 2019. M. Yerzhanova, A. Amantayeva, R.C. Kizilirmak, "UAV Location Optimization for UAV-to-Vehicle(U2V) Multiple Access Channel with Visible Light Communication (VLC)", IEEE Wireless Days, 2019.

Bio-inspired Design and intelligent control of Rehabilitation Robots for stroke patients. Development of newer Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence approaches and their applications in image-processing using GANs, virtual reality and mixed reality, digital image processing for oil exploration, Signal processing Bio-sensors (EEG, EMG etc.), Health care applications such as Big Data Analytics for cancer treatment. Development of serial-parallel robots to supplement CNC machining centers. Development of robotic as well as in-silico biomechanical models of human joints to provide a baseline knowledge which can be used for identifying individuals at risk for injury, developing solutions for preventing injury and for assessing joint reconstruction and implantation methods. Publications:

B. Abdikenov, Z. Iklassov, A. Sharipov, S. Hussain, and P. K. Jamwal, “Analytics of Heterogeneous Breast Cancer Data Using Neuroevolution” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 18050-18060, 2019. P. K. Jamwal, B. Abdikenov, and S. Hussain, “Evolutionary optimization using equitable fuzzy sorting genetic algorithm (EFSGA),” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 8111-8126, 2019. Z. Tauanov, D. Shah, V. Inglezakis, and P. K. Jamwal, “Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolite production from coal fly ash: A heuristic approach and its optimization for system identification of conversion,” Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 182, pp. 616-623, 2018.

Superconducting and cryogenic detectors,

Quantum Technology,

Data acquisition systems,

Machine learning and Applied Physics

 

Dr. Mohammad Hashmi

RF Wireless Power Transfer

RF Aspects in Wireless Body Area Network

Nonlinear and Linear Transistor Device Modelling (Conventional and Machine Learning Based)

Advanced RF Circuits (Active and Passive) and High Frequency Measurement Techniques

 

            Publications:

D. Rano, and M. S. Hashmi, “An Extremely Compact EBG backed Antenna for Smartwatch Applications in Medical Body Area Network,” IET Microwave and Antenna Propagation, Accepted/Feb 2019.  

A. Khusro, M. S. Hashmi, and A. Q. Ansari, “An Accurate and Simplified Small Signal Parameter Extraction Method for GaN HEMT,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (Wiley), Accepted/Feb 2019. 

R. Gupta, M. H. Maktoomi, V. V. Singh, and M. S. Hashmi, “High Impedance Transforming Dual-Band Balun with Isolation and Output-ports Matching”, Progress in Electromagnetics Journal, Accepted/Jan 2019.    

Active noise control and sound field reproduction Blind source separation and independent component analysis Multichannel hands-free communication EEG signal processing and analysis Adaptive noise cancellation Acoustic feedback in Digital hearing aid systems Publications:

M. T. Akhtar, and A. Nishihara, “Two-adaptive filter-based method using gain controlled probe noise for acoustic feedback neutralization in digital hearing aids,” in Proc. 16th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2018), Sept. 17-20, 2018, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 176-180. M. T. Akhtar, “A convex-combined step-size-based normalized modified filtered-x least mean square algorithm for impulsive active noise control systems,” in Proc. EUSIPCO 2018, September 03-07, 2018, Rome, Italy, pp. 2468-2472. M. T. Akhtar, “An adaptive algorithm - based on modified tanh non-linearity and fractional processing - for impulsive active noise control systems,” Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 495-508, Sept. 2018.