Quality Assurance Manager

Muid Ur Rahman Mufti

***-*, ****** *, *-**/*

Islamabad, Pakistan

Email: ****@*********.***.**

Phone :+92-51-210****, +92-300-*******

KEY AREAS:

Testing and Verification

Simulation

Embedded Systems

W ireless Communication

Image Processing

EDUCATION

09/95 Ph.D. in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta USA.

Thesis: Fault Detection and Identification Using Fuzzy Wavelets.

Fuzzy Logic based algorithm for fault detection in dynamic systems.

U.S. Patent granted on this research

03/94 M.B.A. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA.

Areas of Interest : Management of Technology, International Finance.

03/93 M.S. Electrical/Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA.

Areas of Interest: Signal Processing, Systems and Controls, Optics.

03/93 Management of Technology Certificate, Georgia Institute of Technology.

07/89 B.S. Electrical Engineering, University College of Engineering Taxila, Pakistan.

Project: Design, fabrication and programming of CNC drilling machine.

08/97 Certified Lead Auditor - ISO 9000, BMIQA, Germany.

Work Experience

Manager Overseas Design Center Jan/01 todate

Telematix Corporation U.S.A, Islamabad Office, Pakistan.

Development of Highly optimized Wireless Network processors with firmware and Host (Linux and

Windows) drivers.

Design development and testing of IEEE 802.11e network stack.

Development of Test environment using Testbuilder and SystemC for IEEE 802.11e.

Development of Simulator, Assembler, Linker and Loader for the proprietary RISC processor.

Development of reference design for AES, TKIP, WPA, and WEP security protocols.

Development of an ALL-IP, high throughput integrated Voice/Data network with guaranteed QoS.

Design, simulation and Testing of 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC for Wireless Local Loop application (WLL).

Design and verification of 802.16 Packet Scheduler for guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Successful design and deployment of 802.11(WiFi) wireless stack in Firmware and Silicon Chip

Design, development and productization of next generation OFDMA/Single Carrier Soft Modem.

Streaming Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Networks

Development of Bluetooth Base band and MAC stack.

Management of highly skilled group primarily geared towards Wireless Networks.

Acting as Country Manager on behalf of the Telematix Corporation USA in Islamabad.

Management of Legal, Financial and administrative affairs of the Branch Office.

Manager R&D Feb/00-Jan/01

Mathtech Pakistan Private Limited, Pakistan.

Management of highly skilled group primarily geared towards IT solutions.

High density and terabytes of data archiving

ISO 9000 quality assurance manager for the ISO 9000 certification of the company.

Assistant Professor May/96-Feb/00

Computer Engineering Department, College of EME

National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Rawalpindi.

Compressed Image transmission over long distance point to point wireless networks

Teaching of classes

Curriculum design

Accreditation supervisor

ISO 9000 quality assurance manager

Post Doctorate Research Fellow Mar/98-Oct/98

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA.

Design and deployment of intelligent fault detection and identification algorithm using image

processing, wavelet analysis and feature processing.

Offshore Consultant Jan/96-Jan/97

Client: AT&T Atlanta USA.

Development of systems for quality inspection of fiber optic jumpers for minimum dispersion loss and

low interface attenuation.

System Engineer, Jun/95-Oct/95

AT&T, Atlanta USA.

Development of systems for quality inspection of fiber optic jumpers for minimum dispersion loss and

low interface attenuation.

Design and installation of production line for fiber optic jumper units.

Programming of PLC's and system integration.

Network programming and management of distributed controls in various network topologies.

Manager Sales and Marketing Sep/92-Jun/95

Acculine Machinery Inc. Atlanta, USA.

Custom designing of low tension payoffs for the cable and fiber optic industry.

System Engineer Jul/89-Sep/91

Sales and Marketing Department, Carrier Telephone Industries, Pakistan

(A Siemens Germany s subsidiary).

for prospective customers, coordinating after sales service and pricing and quoting

telecommunication networks

Responsible for technical coordination

Extensive work on interfacing of PCM multiplexes with digital switches.

Customer training on telecom test equipment.

Installation, Commissioning and Field Testing of 8Mbps Digital Radio links (DRS) in various parts

of Pakistan for Telecom networks.

Fault diagnosis and rectification of PCM network equipment.

U.S. Patents

Method and Apparatus for Analyzing an Image to Detect and Identify Defects.

Patent Number: 5,815,198, September 29, 1998

Relevant Industrial Projects:

Wireless MAC Test bench, Telematix Corp. USA. Regression Suite

Development of regression suite for testing of Wireless MAC

based on Testbuilder and System. Testbuilder

Over 1000 test scenario

Parameterized test cases

SystenC Interface

Interchangeable System C and Verilog model of DUT

Cycle accurate C/System C model of DUT

Multiple instance to model a network operation System C Model Verilog Model

Wireless Processor Simulator, Telematix Corp. USA

Development of Cycle exact bit accurate simulation model of company s proprietary RISC

wireless processor (packet Genie)

Exact modeling of register file and special purpose registers

Simulation of processing elements like FIFO s, Security units, CRC unit, DMA units in a

bit and cycle exact manner

Object oriented design and portable across Linux or Windows

QT based GUI

Socket based interface between processors to simulate multiprocessor environment.

WiMax MAC Layer Simulator, Telematix Corp. USA

Development of IEEE 802.16d (WiMax) simulation model in NS2 network simulator

Modeling of QoS by designing a traffic scheduler and admission control

Modeling of Security units like AES.

Uplink and Downlink maps

TCL based scripts

OFDMA / Single Carrier Soft Modem, AirXS Inc, USA. Blackfin

C / Assembly language development, implementation and AD537

Ethernet

testing of soft modem on Analog Devices Black fin Processor

based board.

Highly optimized DSP routines Viterbi decoder, FFT, IF IF

filtering etc. Digitizer Upconverter

Three level regression testing:

Matlab based C only

Offline Visual DSP based Assembly language port AFE

Hardware based Model with embedded kernel

WiFi Security Layer Development, Telematix Corp. USA

Development of TKIP, MIC, and AES algorithms for the IEEE 802.11i protocol implementation.

WPA( Wireless Protected Access) DPAC, USA

Integration and testing of WPA based on CISCO LEAP, Shared Key Authentication and RADIUS

server in IPOS platform on Ubicom IP2K microprocessor and Linux.

ARM9 Based Imaging Board Design, Telematix Corp. USA. CCD

Image

Embedded board design and Gerber files generation in ORCAD. CCD Controller

Sensor

ARM9 microprocessor with CCD image sensor and CCD

Controller.

Network communication over IEEE 802.11 interface connected via ARM

AT91RM9200

USB interface of ARM controller.

Image processing routines on the ARM processor USB

Mini 802.11 access point with controller on ARM.

Embedded Linux. 802.11 wireless

Fiber Optic Jumper Inspection System, AT&T Plant, Norcross Atlanta, USA

Imaging based microscopic imaging system based on interferometry for inspection of fiber optic

jumper ends for quality control.

Surface curvature calculation

Surface polish inspection

Diametric calculations

Eccentricity measument

IEEE 802.11e MAC implementation, Bandspeed Inc, USA.

Highly optimized implementation of IEEE 802.11e MAC on proprietary hardware platform.

Iintegrated ModelSim and TestBuilder Environment.

The product is now WiFi certified.

Regression suite for extensive testing using ModelSim based test model of actual Verilog

code.

IEEE 802.11 Product testing, DPAC, USA.

Compliance Testing of IEEE 802.11 protocol implementation on customer products.

PPP & DHCP Protocol Implementation, DPAC, USA.

Implementation of DHCP and PPP protocol and integration with IEEE 802.11 protocols in an

embedded environment over IPOS platform on Ubicom IP2K microprocessor.

Proxy DHCP development

Interface with Linux PPP port

Test suite on Linux

Woven Fabric Inspection System (WeaveScan), Appalachian Electronics USA,

Algorithm development in C for real time inspection of Motorola

woven fabrics Microcontroller

On line fabric inspection

TI TI TI

Defect detection and classification DSP DSP DSP

Feedback control based on defects Camera External I/O

identified

Distributed control

High speed fast wavelet analysis

Fabric under

Fuzzy classification inspection

Based on US patent

PCI Frame Grabber Card, Intelligent Automation Systems, USA,

Line Scan frame grabber board design with LVDS interface and PCI slave device. Device driver

for NT and processing library.

Wafer, South Wire plant in Atlanta, U.S.A.

High voltage cable insulation

measurements by performing image

processing on a wafer slice of cable.

Calculates diameter

Eccentricity of layer

Minimum distance between layers

Accuracy of about 1/10th of a

pixel by performing sub-pixel

processing .

High Speed Yarn Coating Inspection System, Phifer wire, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA,

Device for measuring high

speed yarn coating

machinery.

Four high resolution

hihj speed parallel

cameras

Diameter detection

within 1 mil

Yarn missing alarms

Based on time critical

programming in C++

GUI interface in C++

Statistical

calculations

Interface with factory

data logging and

monitoring system.

VisionY, Mathech, Pakistan.

GIS add-on tool for graphically displaying

seismic data developed in Visual C++ and

OpenGL.

Analyzing the data acquired from oil

exploration.

Complete analysis of the array data

and 3-D representation with multiple

views is available.

Pseudo color enhancement is used

increase visibility.

Efficient disk caching for handling files

up to several GB.

JIT Production Line of Fiber Optic Test Sets, AT&T, Atlanta USA.

Design of workflow and time studies.

Conferences Arranged:

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1. 17 IEEE Conference on Microelectronics (ICM05), December 13-15 2005, Islamabad Pakistan.

2. First International Conference on Wireless technologies, December 12-14 2006, Islamabad Pakistan.

Publications

White Papers

1. Packet Scheduling of QoS traffic for 802.16 WiMax WLL systems.

2. Innovations in Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA)

Journal

3. Muid Mufti, George Vachtsevanos, Lew Dorrity, Fuzzy Wavelets for Feature Extraction and Intelligent

Control, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2003.

4. Hafiz Adnan Habib, Muid Mufti, Efficient Aerial Image Matching Algorithm for Autonomous Navigation

of Aerial Vehicles, WSEAS International Journal, April 2005.

5. Hafiz Adnan Habib, Muid Mufti, Trainable Gesture Recognition Framework for Virtual keyboard,

WSEAS International Journal, Sept, 2005.

6. Hafiz Adnan Habib, Muid Mufti, Video summarization based handout generation from video lectures:

a gesture recognition framework, WSEAS International Journal, Nov, 2005.

Book

1. Muid Mufti, George Vachtsevanos, An Intelligent Approach to Fabric Defect Detection in Textile

Processes, Machine Vision for Natural Products, Edited by Mark Graves, Springer Verlag Ltd.

Chapter 10, 2003

Conferences

1. Muid Mufti, Aasia Khanam, Fuzzy Rule Based Facial Expression Recognition, IEEE the joint

International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation -

CIMCA'2006 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet

Commerce IAWTIC'2006, 29 November - 1 December 2006, Sydney Australia.

2. M. Junaid, Dr Muid Mufti, M.Umar Ilyas, Vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11i Wireless LAN CCMP

Protocol, ICCS 2006: International Conference on Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 -

26 February 2006.

3. Junaid Hussain, Muid Mufti, Imperfect Counter Mode Utlization IEE 802.11i WLAN, IASTED,

International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS 2006), Thailand, 29 -

31March 2006.

4. Mohammad Ali Ch, Muid Mufti, Noman Jaffry, Muhammad Akbar, Optimal; Design of Orthogonal

Wavelet Basis for Texture Discrimination Based Upon Fisher Criteria, IEEE International Conference

on Microeletronics, Dec 2005.

5. Muid Mufti, Fauz Sattar, VLSI Architecture of Rayleigh Fading Simulator Based on IIR Filter and

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Polyphase Interpolator, 16 IEEE Internatinal Conference on Microelectronics, Tunis, Tunisia, Dec

2005.

6. Muid Mufti, Muhammad Abu Baker Ilyas, Analysis of Denial of Service Trends & Countermeasures,

Accepted/In Press in the proceedings of IASTED Conference on Communication Systems and

Networks, CSN-2004, Marbella, Spain

7. Muid Mufti, Muhammad Umar Ilyas, Effects of Fragmentation on IEEE 802.11b WLANs, Accepted/In

Press in the proceedings of IASTED Conference on Communication and Computer Networks, CCN-

2004, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

8. Muid Mufti, Muhammad Umar Ilyas, Empirical Modeling of IEEE 802.11b WLAN, Accepted/In Press

in the proceedings of IASTED Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Optimization, MSO-2004,

Hawaii, USA.

9. Muid Mufti, Muhammad Umar Ilyas, Operational Bounds of IEEE 802.11b Networks, Dependable

Systems and Networks, DSN 2004, Florence, Italy.

10. Muid Mufti, Muhammad Umar Ilyas, Performance Analysis of MAC Layer in IEEE 802.11 Networks,

First IFIP Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Networks, WOCN-2004, Muscat,

Oman, ISSN 1811-3923, pp 90 93.

11. Muid Mufti, Aasia Khanum, Design and Implementation of a Secure Mobile IP Protocol, IEEE

International Conference on Communication and Networks (INCC) 2004, Lahore, Pakistan, ISBN 0-

7803-8325-7, pp 53-57.

12. Muid Mufti, Zaka ul Mustafa, Simulator Design for Bluetooth Technology, International Conference

on Information, Cybernetics and Systems, Dec 14-16, 2003, Taiwan.

13. Muid Mufti, Sabqat Mansoor, Prioritized CSMA for Enhanced QoS in Wireless Networks, IEEE

INMIC Dec 2002, Karachi, Pakistan.

14. Muid Mufti, Sajad Kazmi, Sabqat Mansoor, Optimized Load Balancing for APs in Wireless

Networks, IEEE INMIC Dec 2002, Karachi, Pakistan.

15. Muid Mufti, Sabqat Mansoor, Multihop Routing to Facilitate Mobile Devices in Bluetooth, IEEE ICT,

June 2002, Karachi, Pakistan.

16. Muid Mufti, Imran Ilyas, Herarchical Wavelet Transform for Audio and Video Compression, IEEE

multi topic conference, September 2000, Islamabad, Pakistan.

17. Muid Mufti, Quality Assurance Through Digital Image Processing, IEEE Multi-topic Conference,

Lahore, November 1998.

18. Muid Mufti, George Vachtsevanos, Lew Dorrity Online Characterization of Non-woven Fabrics,

INDATECH 98, Atlantic City, September 1998, USA.

19. Muid Mufti, Quality Assurance of Educational Institutions - Can ISO 9000 be applied ?, Business

Leadership Seminar, July 29 - 30, 1997, Lahore, Pakistan.

20. Muid Mufti, Fault Tolerant Image Transmission over Voice Channels, IEEE Multi-topic conference,

GIK Institute of Technology, April 1997, Topi, Pakistan.

21. Muid Mufti, George Vachtsevanos, Automated Fault Detection and Identification Using a Fuzzy

Wavelet Analysis Technique, IEEE AUTOTESTCON '95, Atlanta, Aug 95,USA (Best Paper Award)

22. Muid Mufti, George Vachtsevanos, An Intelligent Approach to Fault Detection and Identification,

American Control Conference, June 1995, USA.

Courses Taught

1. Digital Communication 9. Digital Communication

2. Advance topics in Computer Networks 10. Artificial Intelligence

3. Wireless Networks 11. Data Structures

4. Embedded System Design 12. Logic Design

5. Computer Networks 13. Signals and Systems

6. Engineering Economics 14. Software Quality Assurance

7. Pattern Recognition and Analysis 15. ISO9000/TQM

8. Digital Image Processing 16. Management Information Systems

Honors and Awards

09/91 Pakistan Science and Technology scholarship for PhD in USA.

07/84 University merit scholarship.

04/83 Gold Medal, best science exhibit in National College Science Competition.

Sports

Golf, Sailing, Squash, Hiking.

References

Dr. George Vachtsevanaos

Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology,

Atlanta GA, USA.

email: ***@***.******.***

Andrei Csipkes

Chief Operating Officer

Micron Optics

Atlanta GA, USA

email: ********@************.***

Dr. Habibullah Jamal

Vice Chancellor

University of Engineering and Technology

Taxila Pakistan

email : ********@*********.***.**

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