Associate Professor Dr. Raziq Yaqub
Earned a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication, and an MBA in Marketing. An inventor of technologies in Cybersecurity, Wireless Communications, and Smart Grid, with 50 issued patents. An inductee of New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, since 2014. Received an award of “Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2019” from the President of the university, an award of “Innovator Young Faculty”, and an award of “Outstanding Engineering Educator” from the Dean of the college, and an “Outstanding Engineer 2020” award from IEEE region-3.
25 years of experience in industry, government, and academia in USA. Currently serving as an Associate Professor to lead Cybersecurity, Wireless Communication, and Smart Grid. Steered 4G/LTE research and standardization efforts as an Executive Director of Toshiba America Research, directed Cybersecurity training efforts as a Department Head of NIKSUN University, and led research and development team to develop wireless charger and media hubs for the automotive industry as a Director of Global R&D of Tecvox. Remained Sr. Consultant to the State of New Jersey to secure $87M grant for 4G/LTE deployment for first respondents, a spokesperson in 3GPP for the Department of Homeland Security, an invited Researcher in NASA Glenn Research Center, to lead cybersecurity of aerial vehicles, and an inventor for Wells Fargo, USA for cybersecurity of Fintech.
Also remained a Chair, and a contributor in standards organizations such as 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, MWIF, OMA, a lead member for ABET accreditation, Chair of Academic Standards Committee, Chair of IEEE Membership Development, Evaluator for technical papers, Ph.D. theses, patents and grant proposals, Vice Chair of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019, organizer of numerous global conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker, Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Gained cultural competence and social skills around diversity by living in different countries, serving in historically black university, and communicating in English, Japanese, Hindi, and Urdu.
Professor Dr. Mohammad Faiz Liew bin Abdullah
Mohammad Faiz Liew Abdullah received BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering (Communication) in 1997, Dip Education in 1999 and MEng by research in Optical Fiber Communication in 2000 from University of Technology Malaysia (UTM). He completed his PhD in August 2007 from The University of Warwick, United Kingdom in the area Wireless Optical Communication Engineering. He started his career as a lecturer at Polytechnic Seberang Prai (PSP) in 1999 and was transferred to UTHM in 2000 (formerly known as PLSP). At present he is a Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Senate Member University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He had over 20 years’ experience of teaching in higher education, which involved the subject Optical Fiber Communication, Advanced Optical Communication, Advanced Digital Signal Processing and etc. His research area of interest are Wireless and Optical Communication, Material Solar Cell fabrication, Image Watermarking Technique and Railway Engineering in communication. He is currently supervising Eight Postgraduate Student, where Eight PhD student has graduated. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Charter Engineer (CEng) and Senior Member of IET. Email:
Associate Professor Dr. Rini Nur Hasanah
Graduated in electrical engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology – Indonesia in 1994, got her postgraduate master degree in energy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2001, and earned her doctoral degree in electromechanics in 2005 from the same university. She joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia in 1995, where she is currently chairing the Electrical Power Engineering Section. Her research interests include electrical machines and drives, power electronics, rural electrification, renewable energy, energy management, and power systems, and right now she is the head of Power Electronics Laboratory and the vice-head of Power System Engineering and Energy Management Research Group (PSeemRG) of the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya. E-mail:
Title of talk:
Opportunities and Challenges of Wide-Bandgap Material-based Converters in Electric Drive Applications
Abstract:
This talk will provide a brief overview of recent studies and developments on the wide bandgap semiconductor material-based power electronic switching components and their applications. The two most recent intensively researched materials, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), and their utilization on the two important switching components in power electronics, MOSFET and IGBT, are to be focused on more specifically. The opportunities offered and challenges to face are to be investigated and discussed to provide some perspectives of future direction in the related research and development in electric drive applications.
Professor Dr. Ying-Dar Lin
Abstract:
5G promises to deliver enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC), and ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC). To support mMTC and URLLC, 5G needs to carry out computations closer to subscribers at the “edge” instead of the cloud, which turns 5G into an infrastructure for both communication and computing. Just like cloud computing, edge computing shall also be virtualized. On the other hand, communication is also being virtualized with software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) which virtualize control plane and data plane, respectively. When applied to 5G, together they virtualize functions in access and core networks, and release them to run on any virtualized computing platform. Combining virtualization needs in edge computing and communication, 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) is virtualizing eNB (evolved node B), EPC (evolved packet core), and CO (central office) into VeNB, vEPC, and CORD (central office re-architected as a datacenter). They are not just communication devices anymore, but also serve as computing datacenters with many open source resources like OpenDaylight and OpenStack. After streamline the above evolution path, we then give an overview of research roadmap on 5 key components, including service chain routing, multi-RAT offloading, multi-tenant slicing, horizontal and vertical federation, and capacity optimization. Selected results are then presented.
Biography:
Ying-Dar Lin is a Chair Professor of computer science at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1993. He was a visiting scholar at Cisco Systems in San Jose during 2007–2008, CEO at Telecom Technology Center, Taiwan, during 2010-2011, and Vice President of National Applied Research Labs (NARLabs), Taiwan, during 2017-2018. He cofounded L7 Networks Inc. in 2002, later acquired by D-Link Corp. He also founded and directed Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL) from 2002, which reviewed network products with real traffic and automated tools, also an approved test lab of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), and spun off O'Prueba Inc. in 2018. His research interests include machine learning for network security, wireless communications, network softwarization, mobile edge computing, and machine learning to communications and cybersecurity. His work on multi-hop cellular was the first along this line, and has been cited over 1000 times and standardized into IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.15.5, IEEE 802.16j, and 3GPP LTE-Advanced. He is an IEEE Fellow (class of 2013), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2014–2017), ONF Research Associate (2014-2018), and received K. T. Li Breakthrough Award in 2017 and Research Excellence Award in 2017 and 2020. He has served or is serving on the editorial boards of many IEEE journals and magazines, including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST) with impact factor increased from 9.22 to 29.83 during his term (2017-2020). He published a textbook, Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach, with Ren-Hung Hwang and Fred Baker (McGraw-Hill, 2011).