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- M.Ahmed@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Zaki Ahmed
Associate Professor in Information Technology
School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
My current roles/responsibilities include
- Research Coordinator (UoA13 in REF2014)
- I am currently part of the supervision team of several PhD students in collaboration with Prof Tomlinson, Dr Ambroze, Dr Davey and Prof Stengel
- Module Leader for ELEC237, ELEC344, ELEC349, ELEC511, ELEC514 and PROJ508.
Qualifications
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
I am associated with the following professional institutions at member and fellow grades
FJSPS (Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science)
MIEEE (Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 41322016)
MIET (Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology 32194979)
FHEA (Fellow of The Higher Education Academy - 26357)
Roles on external bodies
TPC member Globecom 2008, 2009, 2010
TPC member ICC 2009, 2010
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
Reviewer for IEE Proc. Communications.
Teaching interests
I participate in the delivery of the following modules
Module Code : Level
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ELEC511* Integrated Power Systems (20 credits, Autumn) : MSc
ELEC514* Advanced Power Systems (20 credits, Autumn) : MEng Final StageELEC344* Design and Control of Renewable Energy Technology (20 credits, All Year) : MEng + BEng Stage 3
ELEC349* Design and Control of Renewable Energy Technology (20 credits, All Year) : BSc. Stage 3
ELEC237* Power Electronics and Generation (20 credits, All Year) : BEng. Stage 2
PROJ508* MEng Project (60 credits, All Year) : MEng. Final Stage
* Module Leader
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
This varies, but is generally (loosely) bounded by the following areas
Communication Theory
Digital Signal Processing
Error Correction Coding
Information Storage
I have a strong interest in the use and application of DSP techniques within power electronics and have been involved in numerous industrial projects in this area. As a consequence of this interest and approach, I have set up a spin out company in collaboration with the University and Frontier IP Group looking into novel ways to increase the energy output of solar panels.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Main/Second Supervisor for the following projects
2008/09 Academic Year
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Himanshu Ajmera(MSc)
Hamad Khurshik (MSc)
2007/08 Academic Year
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Mubarak Jibril (MSc)
Bria Okoye (MSc)
Georgios Gianakopoulos (MSc)
Tibault Jamet (MSc)
2006/07 Academic Year
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Dr. Purav Shah : PhD
Dr. Cen Jung Tjhai : PhD
Dr. Xin Xu : PhD
H. M Chu (MSc)
M. Ghazanfar (MSc)
L. Pinson (MSc)
R. Rousseau (MSc)
2005/06 Academic Year
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Dr. Evangelos Papagiannis : PhD
Mohammed Tajuddin (MSc): Investigation on Decoding Computations of Turbo Codes
2004/05 Academic Year
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Vamshi Manchikanti (MSc): Turbo Codes
2004/05 Academic Year
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Mario Lopez-Garcia (MRes): BCH Codes
Emily Shepard (MRes) : Flexible foraging strategies in basking sharks (cetorhinus maximus): adaptations to environmental heterogeneity at fine and seasonal scales
2003/04 Academic Year
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Ismail Isnin (MSc) : Decoding Schedules for Hybrid Concatenated Turbo Codes
2002/03 Academic Year
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Cen Jung Tjhai (MSc) : Turbo Codes for Magnetic Recording
Pierre Mulotte (MSc) : Low Density Parity Check Codes
2001/02 Academic Year
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Evangelos Papagiannis (MSc) : Serially Concatenated Turbo Codes
Andrew Rogers (MSc) : Efficient Speech Coders
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.
2006 : UoPE Core Control investigation on RFID :value £10000
Jun 2006 -- Sep 2006 : Team Member (3 member team), UoPE TRL Project Stage 2: Digital Video Compression with Low Latency : value £35000
Jun 2005 -- Aug 2005 : Team Member (3 member team), UoPE TRL Project : Digital Video Compression with Low Latency : value £24000
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
Research groups
- Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Wolfson Nanomaterials and Devices Laboratory
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'Prior knowledge in mathematics and study success in engineering: informational value of learner data collected from a web-based pre-course'
European Journal of Engineering Education
43,
(6)
911-926
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'The expected security performance of random linear binary codes in syndrome coding'
IET Communications
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Performance of 2D SOVA along and across track in shingled magnetic recording media'
Telfor Journal
9,
(1)
38-42
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'New effective power terms and right-angled triangle (RAT) power theory'
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
88,
133-140
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Using the Structure of Subfields in the Construction of Goppa Codes and Extended Goppa Codes'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
61,
(6)
3214-3224
, DOI
2014
'A Generalized Construction of Extended Goppa Codes'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
60,
(9)
5296-5303
, DOI
2014
'Best binary equivocation code construction for syndrome coding'
IET Communications
8,
(10)
1696-1704
, DOI
2014
'Scaling laws of ambush predator 'waiting' behaviour are tuned to a common ecology'
2013
'A generalised construction and improvements on nonbinary codes from Goppa codes'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
59,
(11)
, DOI
2013
'Some new codes from binary Goppa codes and a method of shortening linear codes'
IET Communications
7,
(3)
270-277
, DOI
2012
'New binary codes from extended Goppa codes'
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
(Special Issue on Coding Theory and Applications)
1-8
, DOI
2012
'New binary codes from extended Goppa codes'
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
n/a,
(Special Issue on Coding Theory and Applications)
1-8
, DOI
2011
'Optimal and Suboptimal Multi Antenna Spectrum Sensing Techniques with Master Node Cooperation for Cognitive Radio Systems'
Journal of Communications
6,
(7)
512-523
Publisher Site
, DOI
2011
'Optimal and Suboptimal Multi Antenna Spectrum Sensing Techniques with Master Node Cooperation for Cognitive Radio Systems'
Journal of Communications
6,
(7)
512-523
Publisher Site
, DOI
2011
'Optimal and Suboptimal Multi Antenna Spectrum Sensing Techniques with Master Node Cooperation for Cognitive Radio Systems'
Journal of Communications
6,
(7)
512-523
Publisher Site
, DOI
2009
'Biorthogonal matrix dirty paper coding for information hiding in still images'
Journal of Digital Information Management
7,
(2)
96-105
2009
'Exploitation of inter-track interference in a shingled replay system'
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
321,
2992-2998
, DOI
2007
'Analysis of the distribution of the number of erasures correctable by a binary linear code and the link to low-weight codewords'
Communications, IET
1,
539-548-539-548
, DOI
2007
'Improved Data Recovery from Patterned Media With Inherent Jitter Noise Using Low-Density Parity-Check Codes'
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
43,
3925-3929-3925-3929
, DOI
2007
'Novel Soft-Feedback Equalization Method for Multilevel Magnetic Recording'
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
43,
2280-2282-2280-2282
, DOI
2006
'Diel and tidal rhythms in diving behaviour of pelagic sharks identified by signal processing of archival tagging data'
Marine Ecology Progress Series
328,
205-213
Publisher Site
, DOI
2006
'Diel and tidal rhythms in diving behaviour of pelagic sharks identified by signal processing of archival tagging data'
Marine Ecology-Progress Series
328,
205-213
2006
'Idempotents, Mattson-Solomon polynomials and binary LDPC codes'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
153,
256-262-256-262
, DOI
2006
'New linear codes derived from binary cyclic codes of length 151'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
153,
581-585-581-585
2006
'Read Channel Designs for Efficient Data Recovery in Storage Systems Employing Imperfect Patterned Media . '
Intermag
51,
4334-4334
2006
'Some results on the weight distributions of the binary double-circulant codes based on primes'
IEE Proceedings
1-5
2005
'Constructive inter-track interference (CITI) codes for perpendicular magnetic recording'
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
287,
432-436
, DOI
2005
'Cyclotomic idempotent-based binary cyclic codes'
Electronics Letters
41,
341-343-341-343
, DOI
2002
'Track Squeeze Using Adaptive Intertrack Interference Equalization'
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
38,
2331-2333
2001
'Increased Areal Density Using a 2-Dimensional Approach'
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
37,
1896-1898
Conference Papers
2017
'Multi-track 2D joint signal detection and decoding for TDMR system using single parity-check coding'
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'2D BCJR Along Track and Across Tracks Detection for Shingled Magnetic Recording Media'
515-519
2017
'A Novel Topology For Single Phase Active PFC Circuit'
2016
'Utilization of harmonics current in single phase system'
16/10/2016
19/10/2015
IEEE
443-447
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'An Optimum Harmonic Control of induction heating power supply system using multilevel neutral point clamped inverter'
531-536
, DOI
2016
'A New Method to Analyse Eddy Current Loss In an Integrated Magnetic Structure for Boost Converter'
537-542
2016
'An Adaptable Interleaved DC-DC Boost Converter'
2015
'A comprehensive power analysis of induction heating power supply system using multilevel neutral point clamped inverter with optimum control algorithm'
727-731
, DOI
2015
'A new method for grid-tie inverters synchronization based on RDFT with linear approximation'
626-629
, DOI
2015
'Construction of best equivocation codes with highest minimum distance for syndrome coding'
485-490
, DOI
2015
'The benefit of harmonics current using a new topology of hybrid active power filter'
330-336
, DOI
2015
'Using Test Data for Successive Refinement of an Online Pre-Course in Mathematics'
173-180
2014
'THE REASONING PROCESSES FOR SELECTING TEACHING PRACTICES FOR STUDENTS WITH IMPAIRMENTS'
SDPS 2014
2014
'A novel hybrid votage-current fed induction heating power supply system using multilevel neutral point clamped inverter'
189-194
, DOI
2014
'Extension of the parity check matrix to construct the best equivocation codes for syndrome coding'
, DOI
2014
'High power factor single phase rectification technique with reduced line current harmonics'
, DOI
2014
'Prediction-assisted moving objects tracking in severe occlusions and background clutters'
39-44
2013
'Design of single bidirectional switch single phase rectifier with reduced size DC side capacitor'
03/11/2013
06/11/2013
18-23
, DOI
2013
'Reference Model for Configuring Environments which Address Differences in Learning'
Society for Design and Process Science
27/10/2013
31/10/2013
2013
'Moving object tracking in occluded and cluttered backgrounds using adaptive Kalman filtering'
547-558
, DOI
2013
'A Modified McEliece Public Key Encryption System with a Higher Security Level'
China
1-5-1-5
2013
'Scale and Orientation Adaptive Moving Object Tracking in a Sequence of Imageries'
190-195
, DOI
2013
'Inter-turn short circuit detection based on modulation signal bispectrum analysis of motor current signals'
197-202
2012
'Fault detection and diagnosis using Principal Component Analysis of vibration data from a reciprocating compressor'
461-466
, DOI
2012
'University preparation via Self-e-Assessment & Selfstudy: First findings and implications from evaluating an e-Learning-platform'
Beldhuis H
ECEL 2012, 11th European Conference on e-learning
University of Groningen, Netherlands
26/10/2012
27/10/2012
2012
'Fault Detection of Reciprocating Compressors using a Model from Principles Component Analysis of Vibrations'
012133-012133
, DOI
2012
'Orthogonal Signalling in the Gaussian Wiretap Channel in the Wideband Regime'
Vehicular Technology Conference
Yokohoma
06/05/2012
09/05/2012
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2012
'New method for numerical approximations of vector derivatives based on digital signal processing techniques'
, DOI
2011
'Fault classification of reciprocating compressor based on neural networks and support vector machines'
213-218
2011
'Time encoded signal processing and recognition of incipient bearing faults'
289-293
2011
'New optimization method for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks'
54-59-54-59
, DOI
2010
'Improvements On Codes in Non Binary Fields Using Generalised Algebraic Geometry Codes'
202-205
, DOI
2010
'Improvements on codes in non binary fields using generalised algebraic geometry codes'
202-205-202-205
, DOI
2010
'Path loss measurements and comparisons of 433 MHz, 869 MHz and 1249 MHz within multi-floored buildings'
2010
'Probabilities of detection and false alarm in multitaper based spectrum sensing for cognitive radio systems in AWGN'
579-584-579-584
, DOI
2010
'Some New Codes From Generalised Algebraic Geometry Codes'
7-9
2009
'Performance comparison between Hermitian codes and shortened non-binary BCH codes'
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2009
'Performance comparison between Hermitian codes and shortened non-binary BCH codes'
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2008
'Constructive ITI-coded PRML system based on a two-track model for perpendicular magnetic recording'
3140-3143
, DOI
2008
'On the Weight Distribution of the Extended Quadratic Residue Code of Prime 137'
1-6-1-6
2007
'Analysis of the Distribution of the Number of Correctable Erasures for Turbo Codes with DRP Interleavers'
214-217-214-217
, DOI
2007
'Analysis of the Distribution of the Number of Correctable Erasures for Turbo Codes with DRP Interleavers'
2007-2010
2007
'Biorthogonal matrix dirty paper coding for information hiding in still images'
454-459-454-459
, DOI
2007
'New Method for Generalised PR Target Design for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording'
2006
'Advances in Iterative Decoding and Maximum Likelihood Decoding for the Packet Network with Comparisons to Fountain Codes over the Erasure Channel'
1-5-1-5
2006
'Comparison of Concatenated Reed-Solomon Coding with Hard-decision to Soft-decision LDPC Coding for the Rayleigh Fading Channel'
135-139-135-139
, DOI
2006
'Comparisons of orthogonalisation and writing on dirty paper schemes for high capacity watermarking'
2006
'GF(21<sup>m</sup>) low-density parity-check codes derived from cyclotomic cosets'
2006
'GF(2m) Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Derived from Cyclotomic Cosets'
1-6-1-6
2006
'Novel multi-level magnetic recording using modern error correction'
2-3
2006
'On the Efficient Codewords Counting Algorithm and the Weight Distributions of the Binary Quadratic Double-Circulant Codes'
42-46-42-46
, DOI
2006
'Read Channel Designs for Efficient Data Recovery in Storage Systems Employing Imperfect Patterned Media'
793-793-793-793
, DOI
2006
'Some results on the weight distributions of the binary double-circulant codes based on primes'
2006 10Th Ieee Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems, Vols 1 and 2
343-347
2006
'Some Results on the Weight Distributions of the Binary Double-Circulant Codes Based on Primes'
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2005
'Performance evaluation of LDPC codes for patterned media'
2005
'CITI Code based on PR1 Equaliser Level for perpendicular recording'
2005
'Improved Iterative Decoding for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording'
Ambleside
2005
'Techniques to provide robust and high capacity data hiding of ID badges for increased security requirements'
Tunisia
2005
'A finite-field transform domain construction of binary low-density parity-check codes'
Proceedings of the Ieee Itsoc Information Theory Workshop 2005 on Coding and Complexity
77-81
2005
'A Finite-Field Transform Domain Construction of Binary Low-Density Parity-Check Codes'
72-76
2005
'A finite-field transform domain construction of binary low-density parity-check codes'
5 pp.--5 pp.-
, DOI
2005
'A New Non-Iterative Decoding Algorithm for the Erasure Channel : Comparisons with Enhanced Iterative Methods'
Publisher Site
2005
'An Efficient Solution to Packet Loss : Erasure Correcting Codes'
2005
'Asymmetric map decoding for perpendicular magnetic recording with data dependent noise'
Singapore
2005
'CITI code based on PR1 equalized level for perpendicular recording'
979-980
2005
'GF(2$$textsuperscriptm) Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Derived from Cyclotomic Cosets'
2005
'Improved Decoding of Low-density Parity-check Codes by Reduction of Pseudocodewords'
2005
'Near Maximum-Likelihood Performance of some New Cyclic Codes Constructed in the Finite-Field Transform Domain'
2004
'Constructive Inter-Track Interference codes for perpendicular magnetic recording'
Sendai
2004
'Enhancement of turbo codes using cyclic redundancy check with interleaver optimisation'
508--508-
, DOI
2003
'New high rate low density parity check codes for multi-track recording'
2003
'High Rate Low Density Parity Check Codes for Multi-Track Recording'
Boston
2002
'Track squeeze using adaptive inter-track interference equalisation'
2002
'Track Squeeze Using Adaptive Inter-Track Interference Equalisation'
2001
'Increased Areal Density Using a 2-Dimensional Approach'
San Antonio
2001
'RLL Coded PR(1,2,3,4,3,2,1)ML System for Double Layer Perpendicular Magnetic Recording'
San Antonio
Reports
2009
Report on EBI Track 400 Safety Principles of Coded Transmision System Bombardier Document Number TR580007424A4.
2009
Study of Novel Random Access Methods for Satellite Communications.
2004
Perpendicular Recording (New) Modelling and Detection Methods.
University of Plymouth, UK.
2003
TRIX Proof of Concept.
Patents
2017
Apparatus and method for AC to DC electrical conversion.
US 9742310 B2
2017
CONTROL ARRANGEMENT.
US 9742290 B2
2009
Error Correction System using the Discrete Fourier Transform.
US 12/057,781
2009
Error correction system using concatenated codes.
2008
Password Correction and Confidential Information Access System.
GB2446420
2008
Error correction of passwords using Galois Field elements.
2008
Password error correction and confidential information retrieval system.
2008
Wireless audio information system using speech based commands.
2007
A novel MTR-coded soft-feedback equalisation method for magnetic recording.
2007
Improved Error Correction Decoder.
2004
A system for the correction of missing or deleted symbols.
Other Publications
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Additional information
I am a trustee for PIETY (reg charity 1111026) and hold full colours of the University of Plymouth Students Union.
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