Sultan Qaboos University
Afaq Ahmad is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1990 and received M.Sc., B.Sc. degrees and a postgraduate diploma from Aligarh Muslim University, India. His teaching and research spans many aspects of Digital systems’ design, VLSI testing, Embedded systems, FPGA based design,algorithm design and testing, fault-tolerant computing, mathematical Morphology, data security, coding and its commercial applications, engineering design, network analysis & synthesis and development of low cost engineering educational tools. His career spans more than forty years and has punctuated with many recognition, honors and awards. He proved himself as a reputed and excellent instructor who keeps the pace in the changes of topics, courses and techniques of learning processes. He has credit of developing and evaluating the curricula and programs for various educational institutions. He has extensive administrative experiences of various levels required in operation and management of Universities and Institutes. He has undertaken many project works and published more than 200 technical manuscripts. He has technical association with many journals and conferences. Associated in technical program committees of more than 200 worldwide conferences, he chaired many technical sessions, meetings and panel discussions of international conferences, symposia and meetings. He conducted many workshops and short courses. He has delivered many invited talks and keynote addresses on current issues in various areas of importance. He is Fellow Member of IETE, Senior Member of IEEE and has association with SSI, IACSIT, IAENG, ISIAM, UACEE-IRED, WSEAS, WASET and Enformatika. More can be learned about him via the links provided below: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Afaq_Ahmad3 https://www.linkedin.com/in/afaq-ahmad-61b2a992