PROFILE SUMMARY

Muhammad Afzal joined CUST in 2015. He previously worked at Bahria University Islamabad and Wah Engineering College, as a visiting Lecturer. Muhammad Afzal did his PhD in acoustics scattering and structural vibrations at Quad-i-Azam University, Islamabad, under the supervision of Prof Muhammad Ayub. His PhD focused on the use of Mode-Matching (MM) technique and Non- Sturm-Liouville systems. He extended MM approach using Galerkin procedure, in collaboration with Dr Jane B Lawrie at Brunel University, London, UK. His recent research interests have focused on the development of effective analytical and computational models for the analysis of guided waves, which has been incorporated the propagation of sound waves in air, but also elastic waves in structures.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	Since – 2022
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	2015 – 2022
Lecturer (Visiting)	Wah Engineering College, Wah Cantt	2013-2015
Lecturer (Visiting)	Bahria University Islamabad	2012-2014

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS

1. Acoustics and Electromagnetic Waves Scattering;
2. Structural acoustic, Diffraction theory;
3. Mode-Matching Technique, Low Frequency Approximation, Symmetries Methods.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1.	MPhil	Acoustic Scattering and Absorption in Discontinuous Waveguide Involving Porosity
2.	MPhil	Acoustic Scattering in Bifurcated Waveguide Containing Porous Material
3.	PhD	Scattering Analysis of Discontinuous flexible panels with different edge conditions(In progress)
4.	PhD	Acoustics Wave Scattering in Trifurcated Waveguide Containing Structural Discontinuities and Change of Material Properties (In progress)
5.	PhD	Analysis of Transmission Loss in Active and Passive Devices using Mode-Matching Technique (In progress)
6.	PhD	Effect of Vertical Flexible Walls of Expansion Chamber in Reactive Silencer: A Tailored Galerkin Approach (In progress)
7.	MPhil	Analysis of Vertical Membrane Bounded Cavity: A Modal Approach (In progress)
8.	MPhil	Scattering analysis in discontinuous Cylindrical Waveguide by using Mode-Matching Approach (In progress)
9.	MPhil	Multimodal analysis of Cavity backed channel (In progress)

BOOK CHAPTER

1. M. Afzal, M. Ayub R. Nawaz and A. Wahab, “Mode-matching solution of a scattering problem in flexible waveguide with abrupt geometric changes” has been published as a book chapter in book title: “Imaging, Multi-scale and High Contrast Partial Differential Equations” the Contemporary Mathematics series of American Mathematical Society: 660: 113-129, (2016/3).