Dr. Umer Farooq Ahmed

Assistant Professor

umer.farooq@cust.edu.pk

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Umer Farooq Ahmed received the B.S. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad, in 2017 and the M.S. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad, in 2019, both with the highest distinction and was a recipient of two gold medals, in each degree. In 2018, he joined as a Research Associate with the Microelectronics and RF Engineering Group, CUST, where he was appointed as a Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering, in 2019. In the following year, he was awarded a Ph.D. Fellowship by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and Cambridge Trust, United Kingdom. He completed his PhD in 2024 from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has published a number of research articles in reputed journals. His research interests include microelectronics, nanowire device fabrication, microwave FETs modeling, and antenna design. He is a Registered Engineer with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Islamabad.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Electrical Engineering	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom	2024
MS	Electrical Engineering	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	2019

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology	Since – 2024

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	High Frequency MESFETs, HEMTs and FinFETs
2.	Simulation and Modelling
3.	Semiconductor Device Fabrication
4.	High Temperature and High Power Microelectronics

SR.	JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
1	Q. U. Memon, U. Munir, U. F. Ahmed, and M. M. Ahmed, “An efficient technique to predict dc characteristics of nano-finfets using a deep neural network,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 230–241, 2023.	2023
2	Q. U. D. Memon, U. F. Ahmed, and M. M. Ahmed, “A schrodinger–poisson model for output characteristics of trigate ballistic si fin field effect transistors (finfets),” International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol. 35, no. 1, p. e2927, 2022.	2022
3	M. M. Ahmed, K. Karimov, and U. F. Ahmed, “An improved model to predict dc characteristics of organic field-effect transistors,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 2342–2349, 2021.	2021
4	U. F. Ahmed, M. M. Ahmed et al., “A unified depletion/inversion model for heterojunction trigate finfets dc characteristics,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 89 768–89 777, 2021.	2021
5	U. F. Ahmed, M. Ahmed, and Q. Memon, “A modified analytical model for algan/gan finfets i–v characteristics,” Semiconductor Science and technology, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 035002, 2020.	2020
6	U. F. Ahmed and M. Ahmed, “A 3-d potential model to assess dc characteristics of si finfets,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 893–905, 2019.	2019
7	U. F. Ahmed and M. Ahmed, “An analytical model to assess dc characteristics of independent gate si finfets,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 2456–2465, 2019.	2019
8	U. F. Ahmed, M. M. Ahmed, and Q. D. Memon, “Non-linear compact model for finfets output characteristics,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1249–1254, 2019.	2019
9	S. U. Rehman, U. F. Ahmed, M. Ahmed, and U. Rafique, “An improved space charge distribution analytical model to assess field-effect transistor’s intrinsic capacitors,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 4502–4517, 2019.	2019
10	M. Khan, U. F. Ahmed, M. Ahmed, and S. Rehman, “Simulation and comparative analysis of the dc characteristics of submicron gan hemts for use in cad software,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 482–491, 2019.	2019
11	S. Fatima, U. Rafique, U. F. Ahmed, and M. Ahmed, “A global parameters extraction technique to model organic field effect transistors output characteristics,” Solid-State Electronics, vol. 152, pp. 81–92, 2019.	2019
12	S.-U. Rehman, U. F. Ahmed, M. M. Ahmed, and M. N. Khan, “Temperature dependent analytical dc model for wide bandgap mesfets,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 49 702–49 711, 2019.	2019
13	M. N. Khan, U. F. Ahmed, M. M. Ahmed, and S. Rehman, “An improved temperature dependent analytical model to predict AlGaN/GaN AC characteristics,” International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol. 32, no. 6, e2648 (1-16), 2019.	2019
14	M. Riaz, M. M. Ahmed, U. Rafique, and U. F. Ahmed, “Assessment of intrinsic small signal parameters of submicron sic mesfets,” Solid-State Electronics, vol. 139, pp. 80–87, 2018.	2018
15	M. Khan, U. F. Ahmed, M. Ahmed, and S. Rehman, “An improved model to assess temperature-dependent dc characteristics of submicron gan hemts,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 17, pp. 653–662, 2018.	2018
16	M. Ahmed, M. Riaz, and U. F. Ahmed, “An improved model for the i-v characteristics of submicron sic mesfets by evaluating the potential distribution inside the channel,” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 514–525, 2017.	2017

SR.	CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
1	U. F. Ahmed, W. Afzal, A. Afaq, and S. Rehman, “Stabilization control for an inverted pendulum on a cart: A terminal sliding mode approach,” in 2021 Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Signals & Systems (ICMSS). IEEE, 2021, pp. 1–6.	2021
2	U. F. Ahmed, Z. Hameed, F. Ahmed, T. A. U’Chong, M. M. A. Asif et al., “Design and development of control system for unmanned ground vehicle and its manipulator,” in 2020 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET). IEEE, 2020, pp. 1–8.	2020
3	S. ur Rehman, H. F. Usman, U. F. Ahmed, M. Asif, and S. Y. Shin, “An improved technique to assess ac performance of a submicron gan hemts,” in 2019 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC). IEEE, 2019, pp. 1104–1109.	2019
4	U. F. Ahmed, S. Rehman, U. Rafique, and M. Ahmed, “Algan/gan finfet: A comparative study,” in 2018 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–6.	2018
5	S. Rehman, U. Rafique, U. F. Ahmed, M. Khan, and M. Ahmed, “Effects of substrate on the ac performance of submicron gan hemts,” in 2017 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). IEEE, 2017, pp. 1–7.	2017
6	S. Saleem, M. Ahmed, U. Rafique, and U. F. Ahmed, “Optimization of linear antenna array for low SLL and high directivity,” in 2016 19th International Multi-Topic Conference (INMIC). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–6.	2016

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