Dr Zaki Ahmed

My current roles/responsibilities include

1. Research Coordinator (UoA13 in REF2014)
2. I am currently part of the supervision team of several PhD students in collaboration with Prof Tomlinson, Dr Ambroze, Dr Davey and Prof Stengel
3. 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 

ELEC344* 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

Research interests

This varies but is generally (loosely) bounded by the following areas

Communication Theory
Digital Signal Processing 
Error Correction Coding
Information Storage

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

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

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