 |
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
Mohammed Zaki Ahmed Dr Mohammed Zaki Ahmed - (Zaki)
Role My current roles/responsibilities include
Qualifications & background Qualifications PhD. Digital Communications (2000-2003) MEng. Information Engineering (Distinction) (1997-1999)
BEng. (Hons) Communication Engineering (First Class Hons.) (1996-1999)
Background I completed all my higher education degrees at the University of Plymouth (1996-2003). I was funded by the Overseas Research Students award from the committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, and a scholarship from the Dean of Technology for my PhD until I was appointed as a permanent member of staff in 2001. Prior to that I (almost) completed my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria {West Africa}, 1991-1996).
Before all that (19xx - 1991) I studied at home on my own for the GCE London Ordinary (1990) and Advanced (1991) level examinations. Professional membership Roles on external bodies Teaching interests I participate in the delivery of the following modules Module Code : Term : To whom ========================================= ELEC330* : 1,2 : BSc. Stage 3 (Lect. 2hr/wk, Sem. 1hr/wk, Lab 2hr/wk) ELEC344* : 1,2 : MEng + BEng + BSc. Stage 3 (Lect. 2hr/wk, Sem. 1hr/wk, Lab 2hr/wk) ELEC221 : 1,2 : BEng. Stage 2 (Lect. 1hrs/wk, Sem. 0.5hrs/wk) ELEC214* : 1,2 : BEng. Stage 2 (Lect. 1hr/wk, Sem. 1hr/wk) PRCE508 : 1 : MEng. Final Stage Staff serving as external examiners External Examiner for PhD Award for University of Limerick, Ireland (2006) : Dr Y Mulero
External Examiner for PhD Award for University of Manchester, UK (2011) : Dr Y Shi
Research interests UoP Research group membership Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN)Electrical and Electronic Engineering Wolfson Nanomagnetics Laboratory Other research Research degrees awarded to supervised students Main/Second Supervisor for the following projects 2008/09 Academic Year 2007/08 Academic Year Grants & contracts UoP: Bombardier Consultancy, 2009, value £5000 UoP: Atheric Consultancy, 2009, value £10000 UoP: Internal Grant, iPEG, 2009, value £5000 KTP Bombardier Transportation, Coded Track Circuit, 2006-2008, value £89000. 2005-2007 : External Collaborator on JSPS Grant in Aid for Scientific Research No 17360182 April 2005 : JSPS Fellowship (S05076)
Sep 2004 -- Dec 2004 : Main Investigator (2 member team), UoPE Grant : UoPE04/008 : Investigation in Multilevel Recording using MR Heads : value £5000
Oct 2004 -- Nov 2007 : Principal Investigator, EPSRC Grant : GR/S96128/01 : Multilevel Turbo Codes for Magnetic Recording : value £123668
Aug 2003 -- Jan 2004 : Team Member (5 member team), UoPE TRIX Project : RL6456 : SRT Proof of Concept : value £60241 Creative practice & artistic projects Publications ======================================= o Y. KURIHARA , Y. TAKEDA , Y. TAKAISHI , Y.KOIZUMI , H. OSAWA , M. Z. AHMED , and Y. OKAMOTO "Constructive ITI Coded PRML System Based on Two Track Model for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording", accepted for publication in JMMM
o Emily L. C. Shepard , Mohammed Z. Ahmed , Emily J. Southall, Matthew J. Witt , Julian D. Metcalfe, David W. Sims ‘Diel and tidal rhythms in diving behaviour of pelagic sharks identified by signal processing of archival tagging data’, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 328: 205–213, 2006 o Horan, R., Tjhai, C., Tomlinson, M., Ambroze, M. & Ahmed, M. , ‘Idempotents, Mattson-Solomon Polynomials and Binary LDPC Codes’, IEE Proceedings Communications 153 (2), 256–262, April 2006. o Tjhai, C. , Tomlinson, M., Grassl, M., Horan, R., Ahmed, M. & Ambroze, M. , ‘New Linear Codes Derived from Cyclic Codes of Length 151’. accepted for publication in IEE Proceedings Communications (2006). o C.J. Tjhai, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze and M.Z. Ahmed , "Cyclotomic Idempotent-based Binary Cyclic Codes", IEE Electronic Letters, vol 41(3), pp 341-343, mar 2005 o M. Z. Ahmed , P. J. Davey, and Y. Kurihara, "Constructive inter-track interference codes for perpendicular magnetic recording", J. Magn. Magn. Mater., vol.287, pp.432-436, Feb. 2005.
o M.Z. Ahmed , T. Donnelly, P.J. Davey and W.W. Clegg "Track squeeze using adaptive inter-track interference equalisation" IEEE Tran. Mag. 38(5):2331-2333, sep 2002
o M.Z. Ahmed , T. Donnelly, P.J. Davey and W.W. Clegg "Increased areal density using a 2-dimensional approach" IEEE Tran. Mag. 37(4):1896-1898, jul 2001
Conference Publications ======================================= 2008 o Shah, P.; Ahmed, M. ; Ambroze, M.; Tjhai, C.; Davey, P. J. `Novel Soft-Feedback Equalization Method for Multilevel Magnetic Recording Magnetics', JMMM/Intermag Baltimore
o Peter M. JERMEY, Hazel A. SHUTE, M. AHMED, David T. WILTON, and Des J. MAPPS "Inter-Track Interference Across Three Narrow Tracks", PMRC 2007
o P. SHAH , M.Z. AHMED and Y. KURIHARA "New Method for Generalised PR Target Design for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording", PMRC 2007 o Y. KURIHARA , Y. TAKEDA , Y. TAKAISHI , Y.KOIZUMI , H. OSAWA , M. Z. AHMED , and Y. OKAMOTO "Constructive ITI Coded PRML System Based on Two Track Model for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording", PMRC 2007 o M. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson, C. Tjhai, and M. Ahmed "Analysis of the Distribution of the Number of Correctable Erasures for Turbo Codes with DRP Interleavers", ITW 2007 o M Ahmed, M Ambroze and M Tomlinson, "On Computing Shannons Sphere Packing Bound and Applications" in ‘Proc. 9th International Symposium Communication Theory and Applications’, Ambleside, UK, 16–20 July 2007
2006 o Tjhai, C. & Ahmed, M. , Iterative Decoding and Adaptive Equalisation in Two-Track High-Density Magnetic Recording, in ‘Proc. PREP’, Lancaster, UK, 30 Mar–1 Apr 2005, pp. 199–200 o E. Papagiannis, M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson and M.Z. Ahmed , "Improved Decoding of Low-density Parity-check Codes by Reduction of Pseudocodewords", The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Spain 2005 o J. Cai, C.J. Tjhai, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze and M.Z. Ahmed , "An Efficient Solution to Packet Loss : Erasure Correcting Codes", The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Spain 2005 o R Horan, C.J. Tjhai, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze and M.Z. Ahmed , "A Finite Field Transform Domain Construction of Binary Low-Density Parity-Check Codes" ITW 2005, Rotorua, New Zealand o C.J. Tjhai, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze and M.Z. Ahmed , "Near Maximum-Likelihood Performance of some New Cyclic Codes Constructed in the Finite-Field Transform Domain" ISCTA, Ambleside, UK o E Papagiannis, C.J. Tjhai, M.Z. Ahmed , M.A. Ambroze and M. Tomlinson, "Improved Iterative Decoding for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording" ISCTA, Ambleside, UK o I.T. Ntokas, P.W. Nutter, B.K. Middleton, C.J. Tjhai, and M.Z. Ahmed , "Performance Evaluation of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Patterned Media", Intermag 2005, Nagoya, Japan o Y. Kurihara, M.Z. Ahmed , H. Osawa, and Y. Okamoto, "CITI Code Based on PR1 Equalized Level for Perpendicular Recording", Intermag 2005, Nagoya, Japan o X. Xu, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze, and M.Z. Ahmed , "Techniques to provide robust and high capacity data hiding of ID badges for increased security requirements". SETIT, Tunisia, March 2005.
2004 o Y. Kurihara, Y. Koizumi, M.Z. Ahmed , H. Osawa, Y. Okamoto, and T. Ando, "A Study of Constructive Inter-Track Interference Code for PR1 Equalization in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording",2004 Shikoku-Section Joint Convention Record of The Institutes of Electrical and Related Engineers, Tokushima, Japan 13-18, p.208 o A.J. Rogers, M. Tomlinson, M.A. Ambroze and M.Z. Ahmed , "Enhancement of Turbo codes using cyclic redundancy check with interleaver optimisation" ISIT 2004, Chicago, USA o M.Z. Ahmed , P.J. Davey and Y. Kurihara, "Constructive Inter-Track Interference codes for perpendicular magnetic recording", PMRC 2004, Sendai, Japan.
2003 o M.Z. Ahmed , T. Donnelly, P.J. Davey and W.W. Clegg "High rate Low Density Parity Check codes for multi-track recording" Intermag 2003, Boston, USA
2002 o M.Z. Ahmed , T. Donnelly, P.J. Davey and W.W. Clegg "Track squeeze using adaptive inter-track interference equalisation" Intermag 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 o M.Z. Ahmed , T. Donnelly, P.J. Davey and W.W. Clegg "Increased areal density using a 2-dimensional approach" Intermag 2001, San Antonio, USA o Y. Kurihara, H. Osawa, Y. Okamoto, P.J. Davey, D.J. Mapps, M.Z. Ahmed and T. Donnelly "RLL coded PR(1,2,3,4,3,2,1)ML system for double layer perpendicular magnetic recording" Intermag 2001, San Antonio, USA
Reports & invited lectures UK Patent GB2426671 : "Improved Error Correction Decoder", 2007
"Research on Information Storage", IEEE Shikoku Section, April 2005
"Advanced Signal Processing for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording", RIEC, Tohoku University, Japan, April 2005 "Magnetic Recording Research in UK", Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, April 2005 "Interdisciplinary Research for Magnetic Storage", Niihama National College of Technology, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, April 2005
"Signal Processing for Magnetic Recording", University of Ulm, Germany, Jan 2004 Conferences organised Additional information
I am a trustee for PIETY (reg charity 1111026) and hold full colours of the University of Plymouth Students Union. Further information is at http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/mohammed-zaki-ahmed/ Links I am facinated by the greatest engineering accomplishment of the human species, the voyager space missions, and consequently the REAL Greatest Hits of the Earth (that will endure longer than the planet earth) can be found here |
||||||||||||||
