Dr. M. Furqan

Assistant Professor

Muhammad.furqan@cust.edu.pk

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Muhammad Furqan is a distinguished expert in the fields of Internet of Things, Information-centric networks (CCN), Coding Techniques, Optimization of future cellular networks, IoT, UAVs, Meta surface materials, Future Internet operations, and mobility management for next-generation computer networks. He received a prestigious Chinese government scholarship to pursue his PhD in Information and Communication Engineering at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.During his doctoral studies, Dr. Furqan actively participated in several significant projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFB1800801, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61720106003, and 61531011. As a Researcher, he made substantial contributions to the successful completion of these projects within the stipulated time frame.Since 2021, Dr. Furqan has served as Head of the Department of Computer Science at Women University of Swabi, where he has also taken on the additional responsibility of overseeing the IT Section. Currently, he holds the position of assistant professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. Dr. Furqan remains deeply engaged in research and policy efforts related to the Internet, demonstrating his commitment to advancing the field.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Information and Communication Engineering	Southeast University, Nanjing China	2021
MS	Computer Science	Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad	2014
BS	Computer Science	IBMS, Peshawar	2009

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology	Since – 2023
Assistant Professor	Women University Swabi	2022 – 2023

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	IoT
2.	Artificial Intelligence
3.	Cellular Networks
4.	Web Engineering

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Jan, Q., Hussain, S., Furqan, M., Pan, Z., Liu, N. and You, X., “Parity-Check-CRC Concatenated Polar Codes SSCFlip Decoder”, Electronics, vol.11, no.23, pp.3839, 2022.
Furqan, M., Ali, Z., Jan, Q., Nazir, S., Iqbal, S. and Huang, Y., “An efficient load-balancing scheme for UAVs in 5G infrastructure” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no.1, pp.780-791, 2022.
Jan, Q., Hussain, S., Furqan, M., Pan, Z., Liu, N. and You, X., “A novel flip-list-enabled belief propagation decoder for polar codes”, Electronics, vol.10, no.18, pp.2302, 2021.
Iqbal, S., Akram, M.R., Furqan, M., Madni, H.A., Khan, M.I. and Shu, G., “Broadband and high-efficiency manipulation of transmitted vortex beams via ultra-thin multi-bit transmission type coding metasurfaces”, IEEE Access, vol.8, pp.197982-197991, 2020.
Furqan, M., Yan, W., Zhang, C., Iqbal, S., Jan, Q. and Huang, Y.,” An energy-efficient collaborative caching scheme for 5G wireless network”, IEEE Access, vol.7, pp.156907-156916, 2019.
Iqbal, S., Liu, S., Bai, G.D., Furqan, M., Madni, H.A. and Cui, T.J., “Dual-band 2-bit coding metasurface for multifunctional control of both spatial waves and surface waves”, JOSA B, vol.36, no.2, pp.293-299, 2019.
Furqan, M., Zhang, C., Yan, W., Shahid, A., Wasim, M. and Huang, Y., “A collaborative hotspot caching design for 5G cellular network”, IEEE Access, vol.6, pp.38161-38170, 2018.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Ali, Z., Furqan, M., & Jan, Q, “Enhancing the Sum Rate in Massive MIMO Optical Wireless Communication System by Using MMSE Precoding”, in 2023 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE, 2023.
Furqan, M., Iqbal, S., Wasim, M. and Huang, Y., “Load Balancing for Future 5G Network Communication: Performance and Trade-off”, in 2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE) (pp. 690-694). IEEE. 2019.

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