A Proposal for

Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics and IT

Under

Department of Electronics & IT

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Government of India

Submitted by

Department of Electronics Engineering ZH College of Engineering and Technology

AMU Aligarh, UP 202002

India

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Format for Details about the Institution seeking support for PhD candidates Institution Details:

Name of the University/ Institution Aligarh Muslim University (NAAC ‘A’ Grade)

Postal Address with phone/ Fax/email Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP-202002, Phone No. 91-5712721148, Email- chairman.eled@gmail.com

Status : Central Univ. /State Univ./Deemed Univ./Private Univ. / Institute, etc

Central University

Contact details of Nodal Person with phone/Fax/email appointed by Institution for the PhD Scheme of DeitY

Prof.Omar Farooq

Department of Electronics Engineering

Faculty of Engg & Tech, AMU, Aligarh

Email: omar.farooq@amu.ac.in

Ph.: 09456667567

Availability of Hostel accommodation Yes

Whether the institute is recognized by UGC for award of PhD degree

Yes

Department Details:

Name of Department Electronics Engineering (DSA Status under UGC-SAP Scheme on account of quality of research output)

Current Areas of Research of the department :

Low-power circuits and system design, Spintronics, Biomedical Signal Processing, Image/Video Processing, Video Over wireless networks, Analog Signal processing, Wireless sensor networks, Cognitive Radio, RF device and modeling, Nanoelectronics, ANN based circuits.

Number of faculties/ guides in the department with name and other details :

Name Qualification Designation Specialization Dr. M. J. R. Khan Ph. D. (AMU,

Aligarh) Professor Active and Passive Networks,

Micro Electronic Circuits, Measurement and Instrumentation, Control Systems

Dr. Zia A. Abbasi Ph. D. (AMU, Aligarh)

Professor Communication and Signal Processing, Radar systems and Digital Communication.

Dr. P. Mustajab Ph. D. (IIT Roorkee)

Professor Fuzzy Controller, Embedded Systems

Dr. M. Salim Beg Ph.D. (Loughborough, UK)

Professor Multimedia Communication & Signal Processing, Mobile Communication & Wireless Networks

Dr. Mohd. Hasan Ph.D. Professor VLSI Design, Nano-electronics,

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(Edinburgh, UK) Spintronics Dr. Omar Farooq Ph.D

(Loughborough, UK)

Professor Biomedical Signal Processing, Feature Extraction for Speech Recognition Applications, Man Machine Communication

Dr. M. ShahAlam Ph.D. (Queen’s Univ., UK)

Professor Nano-electronics, Multiband RF

Dr. Ekram Khan Ph.D.(Essex, UK)

Professor Image/Video Signal Processing/Coding, Biomedical Image Processing, Image/Video Transmission over Networks

Dr. S. Maheshwari

Ph.D.(AMU, Aligarh)

Professor Analog Signal Processing, Current-mode Circuits

Dr. M. J. Siddiqui Ph.D.(IIT Kanpur)

Professor Semiconductor Device Modeling, Microelectronics and VLSI Design.

Dr. S. A. Rehman Ph. D. (IIT Delhi)

Professor Artificial Neural Networks, Electronic Circuits, Signal Processing

Dr. Athar A. Moinuddin

Ph. D. (AMU Aligarh)

Professor Image/Video Coding and Transmission

Dr. Tahira Parveen

Ph. D. (AMU Aligarh)

Associate Professor

Electronic CircuitsandSystems,Analog SignalProcessing

M. R. Abidi M. Tech. (AMU Aligarh)

Associate Professor

Fibre Optic Transversal Filters, Digital Signal Processing

Dr. S. Javed Arif Ph. D. (AMU Aligarh)

Associate Professor

Fast and Accurate Measurement, of Seismicvibrations and fore-shocks

Dr. Anwar Sadat Ph. D. (AMU Aligarh)

Assistant Professor

Electronics Instrumentation, Electronics sensor, Ultrasonic applications

Current number of PhDs in the department (average of last three year intake) :15(4)

Distribution of current PhD candidates among the Faculty/ Guides:

Name No. of Ph.D. students(ongoing) Prof. M. J. R. Khan 01 Prof. Z. A. Abbasi 01 Prof. P. Mustajab 01 Prof. M. Salim Beg 02 Prof. M. Hasan 03 Prof. Omar Farooq 04 Prof. M. Shah Alam 02 Prof. Ekram Khan 02

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Prof. S. Maheshwari 01 Prof. M. J. Siddiqui 04 Dr. Tahira Parveen 01 M. R. Abidi 02 Dr. Anwar Sadat 01

Availability of Infrastructural Facilities in the department /Institute/ Univ.:See Annexure A

Capacity to take additional PhD candidates: 44

Name Additional Capacity Prof. Z. A. Abbasi 05 Prof. P. Mustajab 05 Prof. M. Salim Beg 05 Prof. M. Hasan 03 Prof. Omar Farooq 02 Prof. M. Shah Alam 04 Prof. Ekram Khan 04 Prof. S. Maheshwari 05 Prof. M. J. Siddiqui 02 Prof. S. A. Rehman 06 Prof. Athar A. Moinuddin 06 Dr. Tahira Parveen 04 M. R. Abidi 03 Dr. S. Javed Arif 05 Dr. Anwar Sadat 03

Details about Guide and PhD Candidates: Research areas proposed for additional PhDs : ESDM &IT/ITES

Brief on Research areas proposed :

The Department of Electronics Engineering proposes the following research areas under Electronic Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) and Information Technology/ Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITES):

Wireless Networks: The research focus to deal with the spectrum access and security issues in 5G wireless network. Use of wireless network to facilitate remote consultation, speedy disease detection, treatment, and monitoring specially in remote areas for the development of Mobile Health Care Delivery System.

Ultra low power design using beyond CMOS devices: This areadeals with the design of novel high density and energy efficient circuits/systems by the combination of CMOS and beyond CMOS devices (spin devices like magnetic tunnel junctions, domain wall magnets, tunnel FET etc). Moreover mixed signal current mode circuits using beyond CMOS devices will also be explored. Design of ultra-low power circuits by operating the transistor under sub-threshold condition for biomedical applications.

Digital Signal Processing:Efficient algorithms for use of factor graph in signal processing applications. Image Processing for forensic applications. Processing of biomedical signals with emphasis on EEG and EMG for applications like BCI, seizure analysis, pain and fatigue

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Annexure A

Major Research Facilities in the Department of Electronics Engineering

The department has the following infrastructure to support the research in the proposed areas:

• Subscription of Digital Libraries viz. IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect • High Speed Internet (1 Gbps) • The seminar library of the Department has over 2000 books covering varied areas of

ElectronicsEngineering. The students of the department also have access to college book bank library and University’s Maulana Azad library.

• LAN and WiFi network ofaround 10 workstations and 100 high end computers. Sl. No. Equipment/Software 1. MATLAB 2. LabView 3. Advanced Design System 4. Quantum Tool for Nano-electronics Simulation 5. CADENCE University Bundle Analog & Digital Front End & Back End 6. Sysnopsys Circuit Design (HSPICE) and Technology CAD (TCAD) Software 7. Xilinx FPGA Design Suite 8. Advance Fiber lab Level- II 9. Spectrum Analyzer 10. FPGA design boards 11. Low Power Tunable SFF SDR development platform 12. Advance Micro Strip Trainer Kit 13. Digital Storage Oscilloscope 60MHz 14. Arbitrary Function Generator 15. MSO 2024 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope 16. Spectrum Analyzer 17. TPS 2024 B Digital Storage Oscilloscope 18. Harmonic Analyzer Kit & Adv. Fiber Kit 19. Packages Sensor Nodes 20. 8CH EMG System ( Data LOG Miniature) 21. Field Fox RF Vector network analyzer 22. RFID Training System model-NV4000 23. 8 Channel BCI System (Part No. ENOBIO 8) 24. 30 MHz dual channel CRO 25. WSN motes 26. EXATA Software Emulator for Networking 27. Microwave Bench X Band with different antennas & Motorized turntable with Teaching &

Simulation software along with hardware lock containing the following components 28. LCR Meter 100Hz to 100KHz, 29. Strain Gauge Trainer, Pressure measurement Trainer, LVDT displacement trainer,

Thermocouple temperature trainer, Analog Fiber Optic trainer, Smoke detector 30. Strain Gauge Trainer, Pressure measurement Trainer, LVDT displacement trainer,

Thermocouple temperature trainer, Analog Fiber Optic trainer, Smoke detector

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Annexure B Selected Journal Publications in Proposed area of Research

Prof. M. Salim Beg • M. Rihan, M. Ahmad and M. Salim Beg, “Smart sensors for a more reliable and environment

friendly power grid”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 4, No.1, July-September 2010, pp. 1-7 (ISSN-0973-8835).

• M. Israil and M. Salim Beg, “Mitigation of ISI for next generation wireless channels in outdoor vehicular environments:, International Journal of Electronics, Communication & Computer engineering, France, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2009, pp. 150-155 (ISSN 2073-0543).

• M. Israil, M. Salim Beg, “Performance of some detectors for outdoor mobile channels with severe distortion”, Mediterranean Journal of Electronics and Communications, United Kingdom, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2009, pp 58-65, ISSN 1744-2400.

• M. S. Islam, M.S. Bhuyan, M. Salim Beg, and M. Othman, “Design and Implementation of a VHDL Processor for DCT based Image compression”, ASEAN Journal on Science & Technology for Development, Vol. 24, Dec. 2007, pp. 393-406, ISSN 0217-5460.

• M. S. Islam, M. Salim Beg, M.S. Bhuyan and M. Othman, “Design and development of Discrete Cosine Transform chip for digital consumer products”, IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, vol. 52, August 2006, pp. 998-1003. (Also available in IEEE Xplore On-line Digital Library).

• Y.C. Chang and M. Salim Beg, “Video over TETRA employing MPEG-4 visual Coding standard”, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Japan, vol. E87-B, No. 4, April 2004, pp. 990-998.

• C.M. Wee, M. Salim Beg and B. Vaillant, “Secure SETREQUEST and GETRESPONSE for SNMP: APSSNMP” International Journal of Computers and Applications, Canada, vol. 26, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 24-30.

• H.C. Chong and M. Salim Beg, “Realising MPEG-4 video transmission over wireless Bluetooth link via HCI”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, U.S.A., vol. 49, November 2003, pp. 1028-1034. (Also available in IEEE Xplore On-line Digital Library).

• Y.C. Chang, M. Salim Beg, and T.F. Tang, “Performance evaluation of MPEG-4 visual error resilient tools over a mobile channel”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, U.S.A., vol. 49, Feb. 2003, pp. 6-13. (Also available in IEEE Xplore On-line Digital Library).

• C.M.Wee and M. Salim Beg, “Performance Evaluation of APSSNMP: An alternative security algorithm for SNMP”, Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), U.S.A., vol. 10, No. 4, Dec. 2002, pp. 411-415.

• W.K. Chan and M. Salim Beg, “Efficient Routing for IP subnet VLAN over Ethernet”, International Journal of Communication Systems, UK, vol. 15, pp. 67-83, February 2002.

• R. Ismail, M. Salim Beg, M. Yunus Majid, and A. Zainal, “The progress of Common Channel Signalling No. 7 (CCS#7) in Telekom Malaysia PSTN”, Tele. Journal, vol. 13, pp. 93-99, Dec. 2001.

Prof. M. Hasan • Mohit Kumar Gupta and M. Hasan, “A Low Power Robust Easily Cascaded PentaMTJ based

Combinational and Sequential Circuits” accepted in ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

• Mohit K. Gupta and M. Hasan, “Robust High speed Ternary Magnetic Content Addressable Memory” accepted in ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

• Mohit Kumar Gupta and M. Hasan, “Design of high speed energy efficient masking error immune PentaMTJ based TCAM” accepted in ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

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• S.D. Pable, Mohd. Hasan, S.A. Abbasi and A.R.M. Alamoud, “Interconnect optimization to enhance the performance of subthreshold circuits”, ISI indexed Elsevier’s Microelectronics Journal, Vol. (44), Issue (5), pp. 454-461, March 2013.

• Ale Imran, Aminul Islam, M. Hasan and S.A. Abbasi, “Optimized Design of a 32nm CNFET based Low Power Ultra Wide band CCII”, ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, Issue 6, pp. 1100-1109, Nov., 2012. .

• Aminul Islam and Mohd. Hasan, “Leakage Characterization of 10T SRAM Cell”, ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 631-638, March, 2012.

• S.D. Pable and Mohd. Hasan, “Interconnect Design for Subthreshold Circuits”, ISI indexed IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, Issue 3, pp. 633-639, May, 2012.

• Aminul Islam and Mohd. Hasan, “A Technique to Mitigate Impact of Process Voltage and Temperature Variations on Design Metrics of SRAM Cell” ISI indexed Elsevier’s Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 405-411, February, 2012.

• Aminul Islam and Mohd. Hasan, "Variability Aware Low Leakage Reliable SRAM Cell Design Technique, "ISI indexed Elsevier’s Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 52, Issue 6, pp. 1247-1252, June, 2012.

• Aminul Islam and Mohd. Hasan, “Variation Resilient Subthreshold SRAM Cell Design Technique," ISI indexed International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 99, No. 9, pp. 1223-1237, Sept. 2012.

• S.D. Pable and Mohd. Hasan, “Ultra-low-power signaling challenges for subthreshold global interconnects”, ISI indexed Elsevier’s Integration, The VLSI Journal, Vol. 45, Issue 2, pp. 186-196, March, 2012.

• S.D. Pable and Mohd. Hasan, “A Novel Robust FPGA Routing Switch Box Design for Ultra Low Power Applications”, ISI indexed International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 99, Issue 1, pp. 15-27, Sept. 2011, DOI: 10.1080/00207217. 2011.609977.

• S.D. Pable and Mohd. Hasan, “Robustness comparison of emerging devices for portable applications,” Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 242459, 8 pages DOI:10.1155/2012/242459.

• S.D. Pable and Mohd. Hasan, “High Speed Interconnect through Device Optimization for Subthreshold FPGA”, ISI indexed Elseviers’s Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 545-552, Jan., 2011.

• Fahad Ali Usmani and M. Hasan, " Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors for High Performance Analog Applications: An Optimum Design Approach, ISI indexed Elseviers’s Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 41, Number 7, pp. 395-402, July, 2010.

Prof. Omar Farooq • Tazeem Fatma, Omar Farooq, Yusuf U. Khan, Manjari Tripathi and Priyanka Sharma, “Automatic

detection of Non-Convulsive Seizures: A reduced complexity approach”, Accepted for publication in Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier Publication Dec. 2014.

• Priyanka Sharma, Yusuf Uzzaman Khan, Omar Farooq, Manjari Tripathi, and Hojjat Adeli, "A Wavelet-Statistical Features Approach for Nonconvulsive Seizure Detection", Journal of Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, Sage Publication, October 2014, vol.45, pp. 274-284, 2014.

• M Bedeeuzzaman, T Fathima, YU Khan, O Farooq, "Seizure prediction using statistical dispersion measures of intracranial EEG", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031, Volume 10, March 2014, Pages 338–341.

• R. P. Sharma, O. Farooq, I. A. Khan, S. K. Gupta, “Wavelet Based Sub-band Parameters for Classification of Unaspirated Hindi Stop Consonants in Initial Position of CV Syllables”,

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International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, September 2013, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 323-332, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s10772-012-9185-x.

• Farid Ghani, Hameedah Sultan, Dilnashin Anwar, Omar Farooq, Yusuf Uzzama Khan, "Classification of Wrist Movements using EEG signals" Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT), Volume 4, Number 8, ISSN : 2233-9388 (Online) ISSN: 2092-8637 (Print), October 2013, pp. 29-39.

• David Mulvaney, Bryan Woodward, Sekharjit Datta, Paul Harvey, Anoop Vyas, Bhaskar Thakker, Omar Farooq, and Robert Istepanian, “Monitoring Heart Disease and Diabetes with Mobile Internet Communications”, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN: 1687-6415 (Print), ISSN: 1687-6423 (Online) Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 195970, pp. 1-12, doi:10.1155/2012/195970.

• M. Bedeeuzzaman, Thasneem Fathima, Yusuf U. Khan, and Omar Farooq, “Mean Absolute Deviation and Wavelet Entropy for Seizure Prediction” Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Vol. 2, 238–243, 2012, ISSN 2156-7018, Online ISSN: 2156-7026, DOI: doi:10.1166/jmihi.2012.1090

• M. Bedeeuzzaman, Omar Farooq and Yusuf Uzzaman Khan “Automatic Seizure Detection Using Inter Quartile Range”, International Journal of Computer Applications, ISSN 0975 8887, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 1-5, 2012.

• Farid Ghani, Musfira Jilani, Mohit Raghav, Omar Farooq and Yusuf Uzzama Khan “Development of Brain Computer Interface for Elbow Movement Detection”, Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT), Vol. 3, No. 3, ISSN : 2233-9388 (Online) ISSN: 2092-8637 (Print), August 2012, doi:10.4156/jnit.vol3, issue3.7, pp. 66-74.

• Musheer Ahmad, Bashir Alam and Omar Farooq, “Chaos Based Mixed Keystream Generation for Voice Data Encryption”, International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security (IJCIS), Vol. 2, No.1, ISSN: 1839-8626, March, 2012, DOI:10.5121/ijcis.2012.2104, pp. 36-45.

• Musheer Ahmad and Omar Farooq, “Chaos and Wavelets Based Image Encryption”, International Journal of Information Processing, 5(2), ISSN: 0973-8215, 13-21, 2011.

• Musheer Ahmad and Omar Farooq, “A computation-efficient block-based scrambling technique with random control parameters”, Journal of Information Technology, ISSN 0973-2896, Vol. VI, No. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 7-16.

• O. Farooq, S. Datta and M. C. Shrotriya, “Wavelet sub-band based temporal features for robust Hindi phoneme recognition”, International Journal on Wavelets and Multi-resolution Information Processing ISSN: 0219-6913 Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 847-859, 2010.

• O. Farooq and S. Datta, “Robustness evaluation of wavelet based features for continuous speech recognition”, International Journal on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-14, 2010 (IPP:0.359).

• Amit, Bohra, Omar Farooq, Izharuddin, “Blind Self-Authentication of Images for Robust Watermarking using Integer Wavelet Transform” International Journal of Electronic and Communications, Volume 63, Issue 8, pp. 703-707, August 2009.

• Yusuf U. Khan and O. Farooq, “Autoregressive Features Based Classification for Seizure Detection using Neural Network in Scalp Electroencephalogram” International Journal of Biomedical Engineering & Technology Vol. 2, No.4 pp. 370 – 381, 2009.

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Prof. M. Shah Alam • Indra Vijay Singh and M. S. Alam, ″Inter-modulation Linearity Investigation of an optimally

designed and optimally biased LNA for wireless LAN″, Accepted for publication in Radio-electronics and Communications Systems, Springer Publication for April 2015 Issue.

• M. S. Alam, ″Analytical Modeling and Design of CMOS LNA with ESD Protection″, IETE Technical Review 2015, pp. 1-9; Co-published by Taylor & Francis (UK)

• Indra Vijay Singh, M.S. Alam and G.A. Armstrong, ″Accurate Modeling of Nano-scale Gate Underlap SOI MOSFET and Design of Low Noise Amplifier for RF Applications″, Radioelectronics and Communications Systems, Springer Publication, June 2013, Vol. 56, Issue 6, pp. 265-277.

• M.S. Alam, and G.A. Armstrong, ″Accurate Substrate Modeling of RF CMOS″, International Journal of Numerical Modeling (USA), Vol. 19, Issue 3 May/June 2006, pp 257-269.

• M.S. Alam, Lim T.C. and G.A. Armstrong, ″Analog Performance of Double Gate SOI Transistors″, International Journal of Electronics, Taylor & Francis Group (UK), Vol. 91, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-18.

• M.S. Alam, and G.A. Armstrong, ″Extrinsic Resistance Parameter Extraction and RF Modeling of CMOS″, Solid State Electronics, Elsevier Publication, Vol. 48, Issue 5, 2004, pp. 669-674.

Prof. Ekram Khan • Mohd. Farhan Khan, Ekram Khan and Z. A. Abbasi, “Segment Dependent Dynamic Multi-

Histogram Equalization for Image Contrast Enhancement”, Elsevier Science Journal of Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 198-223, February 2014.

• Mohd. Farhan Khan, Ekram Khan and Z. A. Abbasi, “Segment Selective Dynamic Histogram Equalization for Brightness Preserving Contrast Enhancement of Images”, Optik-International Journal of Light and Electron Optics (Elsevier Science), Vol. 125, No. 3, pp. 1385-1389, February 2014.

• Farid Ghani, Abdul Kader, Ekram Khan and Badlishah Ahmad, “Memory Efficient Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Tree (MESH) for Wavelet Image Compression”, IEICE Trans on Communication, Vol. E95-B, No. 9, pp. 2906-2913, September 2012.

• Mohd. Altaf, Ekram Khan, M Ghanbari and Nadia Qadri, “Efficient Bitstream Switching for Streaming of H.264/AVC Coded Video”, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, May 2011.

• Mohd. Ayyub Khan, Athar Ali Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Reliable Transmission of Wavelet-based Scalable Video over Wireless Networks Using Cross-Layer Approach,” IET Communication, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 1325-1336, July 2010.

• Ekram Khan, Irshad A. Arshad and Taru Varshney, “An Error Resilient and Memory Efficient Scheme For Wavelet Image Coding”, Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods (JAQM), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 350-357, 2010.

• Athar Ali Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “The Impact of Tree Structures on the Performance of Zerotree-based Wavelet Video Codecs,” Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier Science), Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 179-195, March 2010.

• M. S. Abdaheer and Ekram Khan, “A novel image processing approach for size estimation of breast tumours”, International Journal of Electronics Engineering, Vol.1, No. 1, pp. 13-18, January 2009.

• Athar Ali Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Low Complexity, Efficient and Embedded Color Image Coding Technique”, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 787-794, May 2008.

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• Athar A. Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and M. Ghanbari, “An efficient algorithm for very low bit rate embedded image coding”, IET Journal of Image Processing, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 59-71, April 2008.

• Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Wavelet based video coding with early predicted zerotrees”, IET Journal of Image Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 95-102, March 2007.

• E. L. Andrade, J. C. Woods, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Region based analysis and retrieval for tracking of semantic objects and provision of augmented information in interactive sport scenes”, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 1084-1096, December 2005.

• Ekram Khan, S. Lehmann, H. Gunji and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Iterative error detection and correction of H.263 coded video over wireless networks”, IEEE Transaction on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 1294-1307, December 2004.

• Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari “An efficient and scalable low bit-rate video coding with virtual SPIHT”, Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier Science), Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 267-283, March 2004.

• E. L. Andrade, Ekram Khan, J. C. Woods and M. Ghanbari, “Description based object tracking in region space using prior information”, IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 600-602, April 2003.

• Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Efficient SPIHT based embedded colour image coding techniques”, IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 37, No. 15, pp. 951-952, July 2001.

• Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari “Very low bit rate video coding using virtual SPIHT”, IEE Electronics Letter, vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 40-42, Jan. 2001.

• F. Ghani, E. Khan and M. A. Khan, “Restoration of old manuscripts using image processing techniques”, IETE journal of Research, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 325-329, September 2000.

• F. Ghani, E. Khan and S. Hami, “A modified JPEG Image compression technique”, IETE journal of Research, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 331-337, September 2000.

• Farid Ghani and Ekram Khan, “Missing lines recovery and impulse noise suppression using improved 2-D median filters”, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 356-360, May 1999.

• Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Farid Ghani, “An efficient coding technique for storage of two tone images”, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 1312-1320, November 1997.

Prof. S. Maheshwari • P. Beg, S. Maheshwari, Generalized Filter Topology Using Grounded Components and Single

Novel Active Element, Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, 2014. doi:10.1007/s00034-014-9807-4, 17 pages.

• J. Mohan, S. Maheshwari, Additional high input low output impedance voltage mode all-pass sections, Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, Vol. 23, issue 5, 2014. doi: 10.1142/S0218126614500777, pages 14.

• P. Beg, S. Maheshwari, M. A. Siddiqi, Digitally controlled fully differential voltage and transadmittance mode biquadratic filter, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, vol. 7, issue 4, 2013, pp. 193-203.

• S. Maheshwari, B. Chaturvedi, High-input low-output impedance all-pass filters using one active element, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2012, vol. 6, no. 2, pp 103-110.

• B. Chaturvedi, S. Maheshwari, Second order mixed mode quadrature oscillator using DVCCs and grounded components, Int. Journal of Computer Applications, 2012, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 42-45.

• S. Maheshwari, M. S. Ansari, Catalog of realizations for DXCCII using commercially available IC and applications, Radioengineering, 2012, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 281-289.

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• S. V. Singh, S. Maheshwari, Current-Processing Current-Controlled Universal Biquad Filter, Radioengineering, 2012, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 317-323.

• B. Chaturvedi, S. Maheshwari, An ideal voltage mode all-pass filter band its application, Journal of Communication and Computer, 2012, no. 5, pp. 613-623.

• P. Beg, I. A. Khan, S. Maheshwari, M. A. Siddiqi, Digitally programmable fully differential filter, Radioengineering, 2011, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 917-925.

• S. Maheshwari, A. Gangwar, Versatile voltage mode universal filter using Differential Difference Current Conveyor, Circuits and Systems, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 210-216.

• S. V. Singh, S. Maheshwari, D. S. Chauhan, Single MO-CCCCTA based electronically tunable current/trans-impedance mode based biquad universal filter, Circuits and Systems, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 1-6.

• S. Maheshwari, S. V. Singh, D. S. Chauhan, Electronically tunable low-voltage mixed mode universal biquad filter, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2011, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 149-158.

• S. Maheshwari, J. Mohan, D. S. Chauhan, Cascadable all-pass and notch filter configurations using two plus type DVCCs, Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, April 2011, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 329-347.

• S. Maheshwari, J. Mohan, D. S. Chauhan, Novel cascadable all-pass/ notch filters using a single FDCCII and grounded capacitors, Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, June 2011, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 643-654.

• J. Mohan, S. Maheshwari, D. S. Chauhan, Voltage mode cascadable all-pass sections using single active element and grounded passive elements, Circuits and Systems, July 2010, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5-11.

• S. V. Singh, S. Maheshwari, D. S. Chauhan, Universal current controlled current-mode biquad filter employing MO-CCCCTA and grounded capacitors, Circuits and Systems, 2010, vol. 1, pp. 35-40.

• S. Maheshwari, Current-mode third order quadrature oscillator, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2010, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 188-195.

• S. Maheshwari, J. Mohan and D. S. Chauhan, High input impedance voltage-mode universal filter and quadrature oscillator, Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, 2010, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1597-1607.

• S. Maheshwari, J. Mohan and D. S. Chauhan, Voltage-mode cascadable all-pass sections with two grounded passive components and one active element, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2010, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 113-122.

• S. Maheshwari, Analog signal processing applications using a new circuit topology, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2009, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 106-115.

• S. Maheshwari, Quadrature oscillator using grounded components with current and voltage outputs, IET: Circuits Devices and Systems, 2009, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 153-160.

• S. Maheshwari, High output impedance current-mode all-pass sections with two grounded passive components, IET: Circuits, Devices, and Systems, 2008, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 234-242.

• S. Maheshwari, A canonical voltage-controlled VM-APS with a grounded capacitor, Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, 2008, vol. 27, pp. 123-132.

• S. Maheshwari, Grounded capacitor CM-APS with high output impedance, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 2007, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 567-576.

• S. Maheshwari, Current controlled precision rectifier circuits, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Feb. 2007, vol. 16, no.1, pp. 129-138.

• S. Maheshwari, High input impedance VM-APSs with grounded passive elements, IET: Circuits, Devices, and Systems, Feb. 2007, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 72-78.

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• S. Maheshwari and I. A. Khan, J. Mohan, Grounded capacitor first order filters including canonical forms, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, April 2006, vol. 15, no. 2, 289-300.

Prof. M. J. Siddiqui • M. J. Siddiqui and S. Qureshi, “An Empirical model for leakage current in Poly-Si TFTs”, Solid

State Electronics, Vol.-44, No.11,2000, pp: 2015-2019. • M. J. Siddiqui and S. Qureshi, “Surface Potential Based Charge Sheet Model Poly-Si TFTs

Without Considering Kink Effect”, Microelectronics Journal, Vol.-32, No.33, 2001, pp: 235-240. • S. Qureshi and M. J. Siddiqui, “A DC Charge Sheet Turn-on Model for I-V Characteristics of

Doped Poly-Si TFTs”, Semicond. Sci. and Tech., Vol. 17, No.6, 2002, Pp: 526-533. • P. A. Alvi, K. M. Lal, M. J. Siddiqui, and S. Alim H. Naqvi ,”Carbon nanotubes field effect

transistors (CNTFETs)”: A review, Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, Vol. 43, Dec. 2005, 899-904

• M. J. Siddiqui, S. Qureshi, S. M. ALShariff, “A Simple Semi-Analytical Model for the Intrinsic n-Channel Poly-Silicon Thin Film Transistors”, Electron Technology Internet Journal, Vol-39, 2007, pp1-4.

• P. A. Alvi, Sapna Gupta, M. J. Siddiqui, G. Sharma, and S. Dalela, “Modeling and Simulation of GaN/Al0.3Ga0.7N New Multilayer Nano-Heterostructure” Phsica B 405 (2010) 2431-2435

• P. A. Alvi, Sapna Gupta, Pooja V. , G. Sharma, and M. J. Siddiqui, “Affects of Al concentration on GaN/AlxGa1-xN new modeled multilayer nano-heterostructure” Phsica B 405 (2010) 3624-3629.

• P A Alvi, PyareLal, S Dalela and M J Siddiqui, “An extensive study on simple and GRIN SCH- based In0.71Ga0.21Al0.08As/InP lasing heterostrucutres”,Phys. Scr. 85 (2012) 035402 (9pp).

• Sapna Gupta , F.Rahman b, M.J.Siddiqui c, P.A.Alvi,” Strain profile in nitride based multilayer nano-heterostructures” Physica B 411 (2013) 40–47

• AishaMalik, S. Hameed, M. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Haque, andM.Muneer, “Influence of Ce Doping on the Electrical and Optical Properties of TiO2 and Its Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Remazol Brilliant Blue R” International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2013, Article ID 768348, 9 pages; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/768348

• Aisha Malik, , S. Hameed, M. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Haque, K. Umar, A. Khan, and M. Muneer, “Study of Electrical and Optical Properties of Synthesized Tungsten Doped and Undoped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle: Improved Performance in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells ” , Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanomanufacturing, Vol. 4, pp. 1–7, 2014(www.aspbs.com/jnan)

• Aisha Malik, , S. Hameed, M. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Haque, A. Khan, and M. Muneer, “Effect of Doping on Electrical and Optical Properties of Zirconium Doped and Undoped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle ” , Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, Vol. 6, pp. 1–7, 2014 (www.aspbs.com/asem)

• Aisha Malik, , S. Hameed, M. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Haque, K. Umar, A. Khan, and M. Muneer, “Electrical and Optical Properties of Nickel- and Molybdenum-Doped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle: Improved Performance in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” , Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance , September 2014, Volume 23, Issue 9, pp 3184-3192

• Meha Sharma, Rashmi Yadav, Pyare Lal, M. J. Siddiqui, S. Dalela, and P. A. Alvi, “Lasing Characteristics of InGaP/GaAs Nanoscale Heterostructures” , Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine Vol. 6, 1–7, 2014 (www.aspbs.com/asem)

• Swati Jha, Meha Sharma, Pyare Lal, Rashmi Yadav, M. J. Siddiqui, and P. A. Alvi, “Gain Simulation of InGaP/GaAs Heterostructure” International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT) AMRP-2013.

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Prof. S. A. Rehman

• S. A. Rahman, Jayadeva, and S. C. Dutta Roy, “Neural network approach to graph colouring”, Electronics Letters, vol. 35, No. 8, pp.1173 – 1175, July 1999.

• S. A. Rahman and M.T.Ahmed, “A Minimal Delay Decoder Design for Block Codes of Small Lengths”, IETE Journal of Education, Vol.41, pp.31-34, 2000.

• Jayadeva and S. A. Rahman, “A Neural Network With O(N) Neurons for Ranking N Numbers in O(1/N) Time”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: I, Issue 99, 2004.

• Syed Atiqur Rahman and Mohd. Samar Ansari, “A neural circuit with transcendental energy function for solving system of linear equations”, Analog Integr Circ Sig Processing (Springer), Vol.66, No. 3, pp. 433-440, March 2011.

• Mohd. Samar Ansari and Syed Atiqur Rahman, “DVCC-based Non-Linear Feedback Neural Circuit for solving System of Linear Equations”, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Springer. Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 1029-1045, October 2011.

• Mohd. Samar Ansari and Syed Atiqur Rahman, "Non-linear Feedback Neural Network for Solution of Quadratic Programming Problems," International Journal of Computer Applications, 39(2):44–48, 2012.

• Mohd. Samar Ansari and Syed Atiqur Rahman,"A Non-Linear Feedback Neural Network for Graph Coloring," International Journal of Computer Applications, 39(16):31–33, 2012.

Prof. Athar Ali Moinuddin • S. A. Rahman, M. S. Ansari and A. A. Moinuddin, “Solution of Linear Programming Problems

using a Neural Network with Non-Linear Feedback,” Radioengineering, vol. 21, Dec. 2012, pp. 1171-1177.

• M. A. Khan, Athar A. Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Reliable Transmission of Wavelet based Scalable Video over Wireless Networks using Cross-layer Approach,” IET Communications: Special Issue on Video Communication over Wireless Networks, vol. 4, Issue 11, July 2010, pp. 1325-1336.

• Athar Ali Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “The Impact of Tree Structures on the Performance of Zerotree-based Wavelet Video Codecs,” Elsevier’s Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 25, March 2010, pp. 179-195.

• Athar Ali Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Low Complexity, Efficient and Embedded Color Image Coding Technique,” IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, vol.54, May 2008, pp. 787-794.

• A. A. Moinuddin, E. Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Efficient Algorithm for Very Low Bit Rate Embedded Image Coding,” IET Image Processing, vol.2, April 2008, pp. 1-13.

• Athar A. Moinuddin and Satyam Singh, “Accurate Path-loss Prediction in Wireless Environment,” IE Journal of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, vol. 88, July 2007, pp. 09-11.

• Athar A. Moinuddin, Ekram Khan and Farid Ghani, “An Efficient Technique for Storage of Two-Tone Images,” IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 43, No. 4, Nov. 1997, pp. 1312-1319.

Dr. S. Javed Arif • Syed J. Arif, M. S. J. Asghar and AdilSarwar, “Measurement of Speed and Calibration of

Tachometers Using Rotating Magnetic Field,” IEEE Trans. On Instrumentation and Measurement, Issue 99, pp. 1-11.

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• Syed J. Arif with M. S. J. Asghar and K. F. Khan, “Harnessing Low Power Wind Energy from Riverine and Isolated Potential Pockets Using Wound Rotor Induction Machines”, Special Issue of International Journal on Earth Science and Climate Change (USA), pp. 1-9, March 2013.

• S. J. Arif, M. S. J. Asghar and Imdadullah, “Accurate Measurement of Velocity and Acceleration of Seismic Vibrations near Nuclear Power Plants,” Elsevier’s Journal of Physics Procedia, vol., 37, pp. 43-50, Oct. 2012.

• S. J. Arif with M. S. J. Asghar and K. F. Khan, “A High Resolution Measurement of Foreshocks for the Prediction of Earthquakes”, International Journal on Earth Science and Climate Change (USA), vol., 3, no. 2, pp. 1-6, Oct. 2012.

Dr. Anwar Sadat • Anwar Sadat, Pallavi Gupta & M. J. R. Khan, “ An Opto-electronic Honey Adulteration

Measuring System,”, volume 1, Number 10, Journal of Basic and Applied Engineering Research (JBAER), (ISSN: 2350-0077, October, 2014, pages 1-3.

• Pallavi Gupta, Anwar Sadat & M. J. R. Khan, “An Optoelectromechanical Sensor for Detecting Adulteration in Anhydrous milk fat”, IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, Vol. 14, No. 9, September 2014, ISSN: 1530-437X, Impact factor: 1.852, pp2930-2931.

• Anwar Sadat, “Determining the Adulteration of Diesel by an Optical Method” International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 100– No.13, August 2014.

• Anwar Sadat, “Electronic Technique for the Determination of Added Water to Milk”, INROADS- An International Journal of Jaipur National UniversityVolume 3, Issue 1s, Year March 2014, Pages 94-96, ISSN : 2277-4904, Journal DOI: 10.5958/j.2277-4912

• Anwar Sadat , Pallavi Gupta & M. J. R. Khan “Acoustic attenuation technique for the detection of adulteration in milk”, Special issue on Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Published by International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), Number 1, year of publication 2011, New York, USA, Pages 1-2, ISBN:978-93-80865-61-7, ISSN 0975-8887.

• Anwar Sadat, “Authentication of oils using electronic circuit”, International J. of Multidispl.Research & Advcs. in Engg.(IJMRAE), Vol. 2, No. III (October 2010), pp. 523-527 ISSN 0975-7074,

• Anwar Sadat & Iqbal A. Khan, “A Novel technique for the measurement of liquid viscosity”, Journal of Food Engineering, Published by Elsevier’s Science Ltd, Oxford, England, Volume 80, Issue 4, June 2007, Pages 1194-1198. Impact Factor: 2.845, ISSN: 0260-8774, Cited: 12.

• Anwar Sadat, Pervez Mustajab & Iqbal A. Khan, “Determining the adulteration of natural milk using ac conductance measurement”, Journal of Food Engineering, Published by Elsevier’s Science Ltd, Oxford, England Volume 77, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 472-477. Impact Factor: 2.845, ISSN: 0260-8774.

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Annexure C Prof. M. Salim Beg An SDR based Reconfigurable Digital Transceiver

Software Defined Radio (SDR) help in migration of the traditional hardware defined radio platforms to flexible radio platform that can support multiple modulation waveforms and multiple air interface standards. SDR is a collection of hardware and software technologies that enable reconfigurable system architectures for wireless networks and user terminals. SDR provides an efficient and comparatively inexpensive solution to the problem of building multi-mode, multiband, multi-functional wireless devices that can be enhanced using software upgrades. As such, SDR can really be considered an enabling technology that is applicable across a wide range of areas within the wireless industry. Many sophisticated signal processing tasks are performed in a SDR, including advanced encryption/decryption algorithms, equalization, forward error correction etc.

While there are a plethora of silicon alternatives available for implementing the various functions in a SDR, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an attractive option for many of these tasks for the reasons of performance, power consumption and configurability. The FPGAs to be used in this work are Virtex-4 SX35 and Virtex-4 LX25. While the former is used for all the baseband processes, the latter is used for Digital Up Conversion (DUC) and Digital Down Conversion (DDC) before the DAC and after the ADC respectively.

A lot of resources are saved in implementation of a reconfigurable transceiver as compared to transceivers implemented based on all the modulation schemes taken together and added up. In this reconfigurable transceiver, the corresponding demodulation at the receiving end is appropriately selected by using the information about the power of the received signal. The power transmitted for each of these modulation schemes is known at the receiver.

Prof. M. Hasan Design of neuromorphic circuits/systems using CMOS/Tunnel FET and spin devices

Traditional CMOS implementation of neuromorphic circuits/systems under subthreshold condition is highly area and power intensive due to the limitations of the CMOS technology. Spin based neurons have the potential to revolutionize the realization of neuromorphic circuits and systems due to its unique properties like memory, no leakage power and high integration density. Moreover, subthreshold performance of Tunnel FET is much better than MOSFET and these devices will be ideal for ultra low power neuromorphic circuits. This project will explore the design of neuromorphic circuits/systems in hybrid technology (CMOS/Tunnel FET and spin devices like magnetic tunnel junctions and domain walls) and then to compare their performance with only CMOS counterparts. This will go a long way to create highly area and energy efficient neural systems of the future that can be employed for a variety of real time applications like facial recognition where human brain is much better than computer.

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Prof. Omar Farooq Fatigue/Pain Identification in Hand Arm System due to Manual Tasks

The main emphasis of manufacturing industry is to reduce burden of operators doing physical labour at various stages. Continuous work induces fatigue, which severely affects the cognitive skills and level of alertness, thereby, reducing productivity. In some extreme cases, this may result in pain and prolonged exposure to these conditions may cause muscular disability as well. To prevent these complications, fatigue must be detected and evaluated based on some quantitative manner. The basic ideas to evaluate the level of fatigue developed in hand-arm system and registered pain, if any, in subjects due to continuous manual task.

It is proposed to use physiological signals such as EMG and EEG to detect fatigue and pain in different subjects. A recording protocol will be developed and EMG and EEG data will be collected from different subjects performing manual task. Multi-band frequency analysis of the signal will be studied and features correlated to fatigue/pain will be identified using EMG and EEG signals.

Prof. M. Shah Alam Multi-band RF

With emergence of diverse range of wireless bands for various applications necessitates the use single receiver circuit to successfully operate over number of frequency bands rather than to use a single receiver for each band. One obvious advantage of this approach is to maximize the reuse of power and other circuit blocks to reduce the overall cost of the receiver.

Most of the design available in literature involving advance Si devices for key RF blocks of the receiver namely antenna and low noise amplifier relies on separate unit for these blocks to process signal of each band. The major drawback of this approach is that each separate unit requires higher silicon area to implement multi-band functionalities as a result receiver cost become higher. Therefore, to reduce cost the key blocks e.g. antenna and low noise amplifier capable of supporting multiple bands are required.

Prof. Ekram Khan Digital Image Forensic

Due to popularity of low-cost and high resolution digital cameras, today digital images are playing an important role than ever before. However, due to the powerful image editing software (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator), digital images can be easily manipulated and altered without any visible clues; thus, it poses a serious social problem such as much of their content can be trusted, whether it can be used as a witness in a courtroom, insurance claims, and scientific frauds. Since JPEG compression has been widely used in digital image coding, therefore, the intrinsic footprints left by the JPEG compression may give useful information for the inspector to trace the previous JPEG history, and some forensic techniques need to be developed to successfully distinguish an image’s JPEG operation with the help of the some statistical features. When a digital image is compressed into the JPEG format, the image histogram of the DCT coefficients are likely to be changed, which can be utilized as an evidence of whether an image underwent double JPEG compression, due to

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tempering. Obviously, if the image is directly carried out the JPEG compression, the compression history can be obtained by some existing forensic schemes. However, sometimes the compression trace of image needs to be concealed for some political or other purpose, so some algorithms that can hide mark of image compression must be considered; this is called anti-forensic scheme. Image anti-forensic scheme aims at covering history of distorting for the image and making some forensic algorithm against image tampering ineffective. At present, there is only a little work for image anti-forensic to make the existing image forensics algorithms more reliable and robust; the research work on anti-forensic needs to be widely explored and tested. This proposal is aimed to develop some novel forensic as well as anti-forensic schemes.

Prof. S. Maheshwari Design of Mixed Signal Current Mode Circuits

The current mode approach has fast emerged as a potential tool for addressing the demands of mixed signal circuits, where not only the current conveyors, but also its variants have made tremendous impact. Though, lot of scope exists in designing CMOS variants of current mode building blocks with low voltage operating and suitability for mixed signal environment. There is also a strong demand of utilizing hierarchal approach while designing such circuits for meeting the modern challenges, which can be met through designing configurable analog blocks for field programmable analog arrays. This would further demand the design of current mode interfaces. The proposed work is targeted to further the existing knowledge in the area of mixed signal circuit designs with CMOS and beyond CMOS as the technologies of choice. Current mode circuits to be designed are to be made not only compatible with existing technologies, but their commercial realizations are also to be explored. State-of the art circuit design tools and hardware set-ups are expected to be used for supporting the proposal.

Prof. M. J. Siddiqui Simulation and Modelling of Nano- Heterostructures

Heterostructures are widely used in many areas of human civilization. It is hardly possible to imagine our life without double heterostructure (DHS) laserbased telecommunication system, heterostructure light emitting diodes, heterostructure bipolar transistors and low noise high electronic mobility transistor (HEMT) for high frequency applications. DHS laser enters now practically every house with CD players. Heterostructure solar cells have been widely used for space and terrestrial applications- Mir space station has been using AlGaAs heterostructure solar cells for nearly 10 years. Hetrostructures consisting of GaN with AlGaN have recently attracted a good deal of attention for applications in high-power and high-temperature electronic and optoelectronic devices operated in UV and visible wavelengths, because of their large bandgap, large high field electron velocity, high breakdown field and superior thermal conductivity.

It is proposed to study III-V binary and ternary semiconducting compounds, with the help of Computational Modelling and Simulation of III-V Semiconducting Multilayer Nano- Heterostructures. In order to have extensive study of nano-heterostructures based on various combinations of III-V

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semiconducting compounds, the proposed models will be simulated with the help of suitable software packages. Energy band profile, which graphs the energy of the conduction and valence band edges versus position, potential distribution throughout the modelled nano-heterostructure, electron and hole densities along with space charge densities, will be studied.

Prof. S. A. Rehman

Ultra Low Power Low-Noise Analog Interfacing Circuits for Biomedical Signal Acquisition

The design of analog ICs for wearable and implantable devices faces three challenges. Firstly, the design must incorporate low power techniques to reduce the amount of heat dissipation such that the surrounding human tissues will not be damaged. Secondly, physiological signals are often low frequency signals that span from DC to a few kilohertz. Sometimes, there is also a large DC component caused by electro de and skin interface residing in the signal. Hence, the analog front- end ICs are often implemented with low cutoff frequencies to read out the signals from the electro des or sensors. Such designs require large resistances and/or large capacitances, which can be easily achieved with discrete components but are difficult to be fabricated on chip directly due to the large areas they occupy. Thirdly, the amplitude of most biomedical signals is in the range of a few microvolts to tens of millivolts. The quality of the signals is also largely affected by the noises from the electrodes or sensors, the power supplies, as well as the user’s activity. Therefore, the circuits must exhibit low input-referred noises to process the weak signals with precision.

Based on the available literature, it can be easily observed that not enough work has been done on the development of current-mode interfacing circuits for biomedical applications. Hence, to overcome the lacuna, the present work is proposed with following objectives to achieve the twin goals of low-power and better noise-rejection simultaneously.

• Development of a novel design methodology for Low-Power interface circuits using (i) the Sub-threshold Approach (ii) the Low- Threshold MOSFET approach.

• Investigation of the use of log-companding technique for the design of low-power low-noise biomedical signal processing circuits.

• Design of ultra-low cut-off frequency filters (sub-10 Hz) for applications in EEG and ECG.

Prof. Athar Ali Moinuddin Efficient Mobile Health Care Delivery System

India is the second most populated country in the world and more than half of its population lives in geographically scattered remote villages. Majority of these villages are deprived of modern medical facilities and shortage of medical professionals. In the absence of proper medical schemes, and due to the low income (than $5 a day) of the rural population, it is often difficult to meet out high medical expenses. However, wireless and mobile networks have brought about new possibilities in the field of telemedicine. The accessibility of wireless networks could be combined with the development in multimedia technologies, to realize a highly efficient mobile health care delivery system. This would facilitate remote consultation, speedy disease detection, treatment, and monitoring specially in remote areas.

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M. R. Abidi Factor Graphs in Signal Processing

Factor graphs are used to represent factorization of function of several variables, reducing computational cost. Factor graphs allow a unified approach to solve certain problems in coding, signalprocessing, machine learning, statistics, and statistical physics.

When it is impossible to present model with features and output, factor models allow to build hidden states, layers and complex structure of variables to fit real world behavior. The factor graphs approach is quite successfully being used in decoding techniques. New applications of factor graphs in the field of signal processing, such as estimation theory, multiple signal separation, radar beam forming and sensor localization, may need to be explored. It is quite likely that factor graph based approaches may lead to computationally efficient algorithms.

Dr. S. Javed Arif Simulation and Measurement of Seismic Vibrations and Foreshocks

The earthquake is one of the prime causes of natural disasters, human loss, technological disasters, and damage to heavy building structures, electric power and water delivery system.The prediction of earthquake is a great challenge. There is no precursor that can be reliably used for the prediction of earthquake. However, before the main shocks of all earthquakes, generally there are one or more foreshocks. Due to poor resolution of measurement, which is of the order of seconds, the existing measurement methods do not capture the peak values of main shock and foreshocks reliably even if the peaks have very large magnitude. The instruments like seismometers and accelerometers, used for monitoring seismic vibrations have been mainly developed in view of measuring acceleration, which is only one of the parameters. Furthermore, the present seismometers fail to record the peak values of acceleration, displacement, speed, rise time caused by strong motions in the critical area near field of strong earthquakes, with high resolution. Hence, due to poor resolution, the peak values of seismic wave’s parameters are missed, which causes problems in the reliable design of nuclear power plants, industrial plants and buildings, resistant to strong earthquakes. This fact has been demonstrated by the destruction of heavy constructions in the recent strong earthquakes. Therefore, for a more consistent design of buildings, it would be an advantage to measure directly the seismic waves acting on the buildings. A reduction in disasters due to earthquakes requires a rigorous effort over a wide range of solutions-oriented multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research. An accurate prediction of earthquake will minimize the loss of life, severe injuries, and disruption of important services. Therefore, the prediction of location and time, of large earthquakes, has regained a great importance. A high resolution measurement of velocity and acceleration of foreshocks helps more accurate prediction of earthquakes. The foreshocks consist of very low frequency waves with superimposed high frequency spikes, which have extremely high instantaneous velocity and acceleration. Due to this adverse combination, the existing low resolution accelerometers and seismometers are unable to get an insight of signatures of these foreshocks. Various techniques, for measuring the velocity and acceleration of foreshocks and main shock, have been proposed in the literature. The resolution of measurement of existing methods is in the range of few seconds to tens

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of seconds. Moreover these methods are slow, less accurate, and unreliable for the prediction of earthquakes. Hence a high resolution measurement technique for the measurement of seismic vibrations and foreshocks is required.

Dr. Anwar Sadat Development of Electronic Techniques to determine the Quality/Adulteration in raw materials procured by industries

In industries the raw materials are purchased and the quality of the raw materials decides the cost of the procured material by the industry. i.e. sunflower, soybean, groundnut and rape seeds are grown for their oil content; therefore an accurate and fast determination of oil content is important to breeders, growers and buyers.On the other hand excess of water or moisture content reduces cost and shelf life of agriculture products. The traditional method of oil determination is based on solvent extraction, which is time consuming, uses harmful reactives and solvents, moreover results depends on operator importance. Thus, such methods have low accuracy and reproducibility. IR spectroscopy is very suitable for this but is too difficult to calibrate devices. Moisture content can be evaluated by consequent drying and weighting but it requires a lot of time

The proposed research work intends to develop electronic instruments involving sensors which will provide fast measurement of quality at low cost and the non-requirement of skilled person. These developed instruments will find wide applications in industries as we are facing the problem to check the quality and adulteration for economic reasons.