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foez28@ru.ac.bd

Room # 232B, 2nd Floor, Dr. M. A. Wazed Miah Academic Building, Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi.


FOEZ AHMED
Associate Professor
Information & Communication Engineering


Education Summary  
B.Sc. (Raj), M.Sc. (Raj), M.Engg. (China), Ph.D. (Australia)

Research Interest  
Antennas, Metasurface, RIS, RF-Devices, Space Antennas, Microwave and Electromagnetics
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Technology Sydney, Australia 2023
Masters
(M.Engg.)
South China University of Technology, China 2013
Masters
(M.Sc.)
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh 2009
Bachelor/Honors
(B.Sc.)
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh 2007

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2024-04-30 to Shah Makhdum Hall SENIOR HOUSE TUTOR
2021-04-03 to Information & Communication Engineering ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
2014-03-16 to 2017-03-15 Syed Ameer Ali Hall SENIOR HOUSE TUTOR
2014-02-16 to 2021-04-02 Information & Communication Engineering ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2012-02-16 to 2014-02-15 Information & Communication Engineering LECTURER

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2009-09-01 to 2011-09-01 Kind Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Lecturer
2008-08-02 to 2009-08-31 Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Lecturer

Book

1. Foez Ahmed "Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Routing Protocols: A Comparative Study and Analysis the Performance of MANETs Routing Protocols over Realistic Environment Model." German: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, pp. 108, ISBN: 978-3659308048.

Published: November 2012

Journal

1. M. Y. Ali, A. Lalbakhsh, S. Koziel, L. Golunski, F. Ahmed, and M. Asadnia "A Low-Profile 3-D Printable Metastructure for Performance Improvement of Aperture Antennas" Scientific Reports, 2024 (Accepted).

Published: January 2024
2. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, K. P. Esselle, and D. N. Thalakotuna "Novel Dual-Band Phase-Gradient Metascreen and Dual-Band Near-Field Meta-Steering Antennas" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 2202–2216, 2024.

Published: January 2024
3. F. Ahmed, T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, S. Zhang, K. P. Esselle, and W. G. Whittow "3-D Printable Synthetic Metasurface to Realize 2-D Beam-Steering Antenna" IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 4, pp. 506–519, 2023.

Published: May 2023
4. F. Ahmed, K. Singh, and K. P. Esselle "State-of-the-Art Passive Beam-Steering Antenna Technologies: Challenges and Capabilities" IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 69 101–69 116, 2023.

Published: May 2023
5. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, D. N. Thalakotuna, and K. P. Esselle "Novel Dual-Band Metascreen for Dual-Band Near-Field Phase Correction" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 5591–5604, 2023.

Published: April 2023
6. K. Singh, F. Ahmed, and K. Esselle "Electromagnetic Metasurfaces: Insight into Evolution, Design and Applications" Crystals, vol. 12, no. 12, 2022, ISSN: 2073-4352.

Published: December 2022
7. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, K. P. Esselle, and D. N. Thalakotuna "Self-Sustained Rigid Fully Metallic Metasurfaces to Enhance Gain of Shortened Horn Antennas" IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 79 644–79 654, 2022.

Published: July 2022
8. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, K. P. Esselle, and D. N. Thalakotuna "A Near-Field Meta-Steering Antenna System With Fully Metallic Metasurfaces" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 10 062–10 075, 2022.

Published: June 2022
9. T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, F. Ahmed, S. Zhang, K. P. Esselle, and J. Vardaxoglou "The Use of a Pair of 3D-Printed Near Field Superstructures to Steer an Antenna Beam in Elevation and Azimuth" IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 153 995– 154 010, 2021.

Published: November 2021
10. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, K. P. Esselle, and D. N. Thalakotuna "A Dielectric Free Near Field Phase Transforming Structure for Wideband Gain Enhancement of Antennas" Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2021.

Published: July 2021
11. T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, F. Ahmed, S. Zhang, K. P. Esselle, and Y. Vardaxoglou "Low-Cost Ultrawideband HighGain Compact Resonant Cavity Antenna" IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1271–1275, 2020.

Published: May 2020
12. F. Ahmed, F. Ying, and R. Li "A Multiband Multiple-input Multiple-output Antenna System for Long Term Evolution and Wireless Local Area Networks Handsets" International Journal of Engineering, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1087–1093, 2016, ISSN: 1025-2495. [Online].

Published: August 2016
13. F. Ahmed and M. S. Rahim "Performance Investigation on Two Classes of MANET Routing Protocols Across Various Mobility Models with QoS Constraints" International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC), vol. 3, no. 2, 2011. [Online].

Published: March 2011
14. F. Ahmed, S. K. Pradhan, N. Islam, and S. K. Debnath "Performance Evaluation of TCP over Mobile Ad hoc Networks" International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 140–146, 2010.

Published: March 2010
15. S. K. Debnath, F. Ahmed, and N. Islam "Performance Evaluation of Unicast and Broadcast Mobile Ad hoc Network Routing Protocols" International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 40–46, 2010.

Published: January 2010

Conference

1. M. Y. Ali, A. Lalbakhsh, F. Ahmed, S. H. Taheri, and M. Asadnia "A Perforated Dielectric Metasurface Using 3-D Printing for Aperture Antenna Performance Improvement" in 2024 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2024, pp. 1038–1041.

Published: May 2024
2. K. Singh, F. Ahmed, and K. P. Esselle "Beam-Steering Antennas Using Semi-Periodic Metasurfaces" ” in 2023 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2023, pp. 639–642.

Published: October 2023
3. K. Esselle, K. Singh, D. Thalakotuna, M. N. Y. Koli, and F. Ahmed "Beam-Steering Antenna Technologies for Space-Related Applications" in 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2023, pp. 1–5.

Published: May 2023
4. F. Ahmed, K. Singh, K. P. Esselle, and D. Thalakotuna "Near-Field Metallic Metasurfaces for Enhancing Antenna Capabilities" in 2023 IEEE 5th Australian Microwave Symposium (AMS), 2023, pp. 53–54.

Published: March 2023
5. F. Ahmed, T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, and K. P. Esselle "All-Dielectric Phase Correcting Surface Using Fused Deposition Modeling Technique" in 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2022, pp. 77–78.

Published: January 2023
6. F. Ahmed, K. Singh, K. P. Esselle, and D. Thalakotuna "Metasurface-Driven Beam Steering Antenna for Satellite Communications" in 2022 5th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2022, pp. 1–5.

Published: January 2023
7. F. Ahmed, K. Singh, T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, and K. P. Esselle "Ku-Band Metallic Metasurfaces for High-Power Microwave Applications" in 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2022, pp. 1–2.

Published: January 2023
8. M. I. Nabeel, F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, D. N. Thalakotuna, and K. P. Esselle "A Dual Band Resonant-Cavity Antenna for Satellite Communication" in 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2022, pp. 201–202.

Published: January 2023
9. K. Singh, F. Ahmed, K. P. Esselle, and D. Thalakotuna "Cross-Entropy Method for Combinatorial MixedParameter Optimization of Waveguide Polarizers for Ku-Band" in 2022 5th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2022, pp. 1–7.

Published: January 2023
10. K. Singh, F. Ahmed, D. Thalakotuna, and K. P. Esselle "A Modified Approach to Optimize Phase-Gradient Metasurface-Based Beam-Steering Systems" in 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2022, pp. 31–32.

Published: January 2023
11. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, D. Thalakotuna, and K. P. Esselle "Near-Field Phase Transforming Structures for High-Performance Antenna Systems" in 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), 2022, pp. 1640–1641.

Published: July 2022
12. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, K. Singh, T. Hayat, and K. P. Esselle "Highly Transparent Fully Metallic 1-Bit Coding Metasurfaces for Near-Field Transformation" in 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2022, pp. 1–4.

Published: May 2022
13. T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, F. Ahmed, and K. P. Esselle "Design and Performance Comparison of Compact Resonant Cavity Antennas Using Customized 3D Printing Techniques" in 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2022, pp. 1–5.

Published: May 2022
14. K. P. Esselle, M. U. Afzal, K. Singh, D. N. Thalakotuna, F. Ahmed, and A. S. M. Sayem "Applications of Near-Field Meta-Steering Antenna Systems" in 2021 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (CAMA), 2021, pp. 394–397.

Published: March 2022
15. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, and K. P. Esselle, "A Metal-Only Partially Reflective Surface for Metallic Resonant-Cavity Antennas" in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI), 2021, pp. 573–574.

Published: March 2022
16. T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, F. Ahmed, and K. P. Esselle "Rapid Prototyping of Ultrawideband Compact Resonant Cavity Antennas Using 3D Printing" in 2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 2021, pp. 169– 171.

Published: January 2022
17. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, and K. P. Esselle "Low-Cost All-Metal Bandpass Frequency Selective Surface" in 2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2021, pp. 035–037.

Published: September 2021
18. F. Ahmed, T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, and K. P. Esselle "A Dielectric-Free Wideband Bandpass Frequency-Selective Surface and Its Frequency Response for Normal and Oblique Incidence" in XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2021, pp. 77–78. [Online].

Published: September 2021
19. M. Rahman, F. Ahmed, and A. M. A. Rahman "A Low-Cost Dual Band Notched Planar Patch Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications" in 2020 11th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2020, pp. 109–112.

Published: April 2021
20. F. Ahmed, T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, A. Lalbakhsh, and K. P. Esselle "Dielectric-Free Cells for Low-Cost Near-Field Phase Shifting Metasurfaces" in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, 2020, pp. 741–742.

Published: March 2021
21. M. Rahman, F. Ahmed, and A. M. Abdur Rahman "Low-Cost Low-Profile Planar Patch Antenna for UltraWideband Applications" in 2019 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), 2019, pp. 1–4.

Published: December 2020
22. T. Hayat, M. U.Afzal, A. Lalbakhsh, F. Ahmed, and K. P.Esselle "Comparative Analysis of Highly Transmitting Phase Correcting Structures for Electromagnetic Bandgap Resonator Antenna" in 2020 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2020, pp. 1–4.

Published: May 2020
23. F. Ahmed, M. U. Afzal, T. Hayat, and K. P. Esselle "Low-Cost All-Metal Resonant-Cavity Antenna for High Power Applications" in 2020 4th Australian Microwave Symposium (AMS), 2020, pp. 1–2.

Published: April 2020
24. T. Hayat, M. U. Afzal, F. Ahmed, A. Lalbakhsh, and K. P. Esselle "3D Printable Lightweight Porous Superstrate for Improved Radiation Performance of Antenna" in 2020 4th Australian Microwave Symposium (AMS), 2020, pp. 1–2.

Published: April 2020
25. M. Rahman, F. Ahmed, and A. M. A. Rahman "A Low-Cost WLAN Band Notched Planar Patch Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications" in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP), 2019, pp. 1–4.

Published: April 2020
26. M. M. Hasan and F. Ahmed "A Compact Planar Multiband Antenna based on Driven Monopole and Protruded Ground Branch for Wireless Applications" in 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), 2018, pp. 152–155.

Published: January 2019
27. M. Rahman, F. Ahmed, and A. M. A. Rahman "A Compact MICS Band Operated Implantable Antenna for Biomedical Applications" in 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), 2018, pp. 148–151.

Published: January 2019
28. F. Ahmed, N. Hasan, and A. M. A. Rahman "A Compact Planar Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications" in 2017 3rd International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology (EICT), 2017, pp. 1–5.

Published: March 2018
29. F. Ahmed, M. H. M. Chowdhury, and A. M. A. Rahman "A Multiband MIMO Antenna for Future Generation Handset Applications" in 2017 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 2017, pp. 91–94.

Published: April 2017
30. F. Ahmed, N. Hasan, and M. H. M. Chowdhury "A Compact Low-Profile Ultra-Wideband Antenna for Biomedical Applications" in 2017 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 2017, pp. 87–90.

Published: April 2017
31. F. Ahmed, M. H. M. Chowdhury, and N. Hasan "A Compact Multiband Antenna for 4G/LTE and WLAN Mobile Phone Applications" in 2016 3rd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2016, pp. 1–4.

Published: March 2017
32. F. Ahmed, Y. Feng, and R. Li "Dual Wide-Band Four-Unit MIMO Antenna System for 4G/LTE and WLAN Mobile Phone Applications" in 2013 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013, pp. 202–207.

Published: January 2014
33. F. Ahmed, R. Li, and Y. Feng "Development of a Compact Planar Multiband MIMO Antenna for 4G/LTE/WLAN Mobile Phone Standards" in 2013 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Antennas & Propagation, vol. 01, 2013, pp. 539–542.

Published: January 2014
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Dr. Foez Ahmed

Dr. Foez Ahmed is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Rajshahi, specialized in Antenna, Electromagnetics and Microwave Engineering for wireless applications. He received his PhD from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia. Contributing actively to communities, he serves as a secretary in the IEEE BDS Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S) Jt and advisor in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) RU Student Branch Chapter. Additionally, he is a potential reviewer for the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE AWPL, IEEE OJAP, IET MAP, and flagship conferences.



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