Dr. M. Rezwan Khan

Dr. M. Rezwan Khan

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of EEE & Director, IAR

ROOM: 1012 (A)

PABX: 1004

Email: rezwanm@uiu.ac.bd

Biography

Professor Emeritus, EEE & Executive Director, IAR, UIU

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE-IAS

Education

Degree/Certificate Year Institution   Result
B.Sc.(Elec. Engg.) 1980 BangladeshUniv.of  Engg.
&Tech.(BUET)		 1st class
with hons.
M.Sc.(Microwaves & Modern Optics)  1982 University College London, U.K.
Ph.D.*  1986 University College London, U.K.

 

*Ph.D. dissertation was  titled “A beam steering technique using dielectric wedges“.

Experience

a)  Lecturer: Department of Electrical Engineering,Bangladesh University of Engineering& Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.April 1980 – January 1986.
b) Assistant Professor: Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering  Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.January 1986 – July 1989.
c) Associate Professor: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bahrain, Isa Town, Bahrain Sept. 1992 – August 1994.Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

July 1989 – Sept. 1992 and Sept.1994- July 1996.
d) Professor Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering& Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.July 10, 1996 – March 12, 2005.

Visited Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York,USA, as a visiting faculty member for the Summer Session II, July 3 – Aug. 5, 2000, and taught the summer course on Microelectronics (EE341).
e) Professor and Dean(On leave from BUET) School of Science and Engineering United International University Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh.February 2004 – March 2005 (On leave from BUET)
f) Vice Chancellor United International University, Dhanmondi, Dhaka , Bangladesh.March 16, 2005 –November 13, 2017
g) Professor & Executive Director- Institute of Advanced Research (IAR) United International University, Dhanmondi, Dhaka , Bangladesh.November 14, 2017 – till date

 

Also have experience in part time teaching in the following universities:

  • Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Islamic Institute of Technology,(An OIC run institute),Tongi,Bangladesh.

Awards

AWARDS & MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  1. Received the ‘Dana Chase Memorial Award’ for the best paper “A Novel Dehumidification Technique Using Electric Field” presented at the 45th International Appliance Technical Conference held at Madison, Wisconsin, USA, May 1994. Also received the ‘Best Presentation Award’ in the same conference. The technique involves high electric field to attract water molecules in the air to be removed from a closed room without condensation. It is a well known fact that water has a very high latent heat of condensation. As the process avoids condensation of moisture, it is highly energy efficient and can save significant level of energy consumption in dehumidifiers.
  2. Received Prime Minister’s Award for outstanding contribution in popularizing Solar Home System in Bangladesh under the RERED Project (jointly financed by Govt. of Bangladesh and World Bank) implemented by Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), Bangladesh, September 6, 2005. The author is the Chairman, Technical Standard Committee, IDCOL and is responsible for setting the standards for the components and gadgets to be disseminated in rural Bangladesh. The basic policy of the technical committee was to encourage local products to be incorporated in the solar PV packages along with the imported components like solar PV panels without sacrificing overall quality of the products. Such a policy has encouraged many small entrepreneurs to produce PV system components locally and saved significant amount of foreign exchange for the country, provided incentive to the local producers and ensured easy availability of the local services. The policy adopted by IDCOL has been highly successful and has set a new standard in disseminating solar PV systems in the South Asia
  3. Awarded ‘Gold Medal’ by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in 2005 for outstanding research contribution in the field of Engineering and Technology. Prof. Iaj Udding Ahmed, President, People’s Republic of Bangladesh handed out the award.
  4. Senior Member, IEEE.
  5. Member, the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).
  6. Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
  7. Selected as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, IAS, for the years 2017-18. The topic of lectures are DC applications in renewable energy and DC as the emerging alternative to AC in power system.

Publications

Journals:

  1. M.R.Khan, “Towards the dimension of an electron“, Technical Journal, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, 1980-81, pp133-35.
  1. M.R.Khan, “An artificial dielectric wedge for antenna beam steering“, Journal of Modeling, Simulation & Control (France), vol.18, 1988, pp 59-64.
  1. M.R.Khan, “Generation of cross polar component due to a quarter wave matching layer“, Electrical Engineering Research Bulletin, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, vol.4, no.1, 1988, pp 1-6.
  1. M.R.Khan, C.D.McEwen, “A novel beam steering technique using dielectric wedges“, Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh, vol.16, no.2, April 1988, pp 1-7.
  1. A.N.Khondker, M.R.Khan, A.F.M.Anwar, “Transmission line analogy of resonance tunneling: The generalized impedance concept“, Journal of Applied Physics, vol 63, no. 10, 15 May, 1988, pp 5191-93.
  1. H.D.Griffiths, M.R.Khan, “A pair of dielectric wedges for antenna beam steering“, Proc. of IEE, vol. 136, no. 2, part- H, April 1989, pp 126-131.
  1. A.F.M.Anwar, A.N.Khondker, M.R.Khan, “Calculation of traversal time in resonant tunneling devices“, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.65, no.7, 1 April, 1989, pp 2761-65.
  1. M.Z.Alam, M.R.Khan, S.M.Rahman, “An empirical model for nondestructive metal testing using eddy current“, The British Journal of Nondestructive Testing, vol.32, no.4, April 1990, pp 193-196.
  1. A.Haque, M.Haque, M.R.Khan, “Energy band calculation for periodic potential structure using quantum mechanical impedance“, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.68, no.4, 15 August, 1990, pp 1661-64.
  1. S.M.F.Kabir, M.R.Khan, M.A.Alam, “Application of quantum mechanical wave impedance in the solution of Schrodinger’s equation in quantum wells“, Solid State Electronics, vol. 34, no.12, 1991, pp 1466-1468.
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.R.Khan, “Interference type amplifier using intermodal interference in potential channel structures“, Solid State Electronics, vol.35, no.12, pp 1841-42, 1992.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, M.Fayyaz Khan, “An alternate layer matching technique for dielectric materials“, Journal of Modeling, Measurement & Control, A (France), vol.52, no.3, pp27- 37, 1993.
  1. M.Arif-uz-Zaman, M.Rezwan Khan, A.K.M.Sadrul Islam, M.Fayyaz Khan, “Atmospheric moisture: A potential source of energy“, Renewable Energy, vol.3, no.8, 1993, pp 941-45.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan and Raqibul Mustafa, “Calculation of wave func­tion in the space charge region of a Double-Barrier Resonant Tunneling Diode with Applications“, Solid State Electronics, vol.36,no.11, pp 1619-1622, 1993.
  1. M.Fayyaz Khan, M.Rezwan Khan, “A linearized model for p-n junctions as temperature sensors“, Solid State Electronics, vol.38, no.6, pp 1279-81, 1995.
  1. M.Arif-uz-Zaman, M.Rezwan Khan, A.K.M.Sadrul Islam and M.Fayyaz Khan, “A Novel Dehumidification Technique Using Electric Field”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol.32, no.1, p.36, 1996. Also presented at the 45th International Appliance Conference, May 9-11, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
  1. A.H.M.A.Rahim, A.M.Mohammad, M.R.Khan, ‘Control of subsynchronous resonant modes in a series compensated system through superconducting magnetic energy storage’ , IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, v.11, no.1, March 1996, p 175-180. Also presented at the 1995 IEEE-PES Summer Meeting, July 23-27, 1995, Portland, U.S.A.
  1. K.M. Rahman, M.Rezwan Khan, M.A.Choudhury and M.A.Rahman, ‘Variable-Band Hysteresis Current Controllers for PWM Voltage-Source Inverters’ IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol.12, no.6, Nov. 1997.

 

  1. A.Khan, R.Khan, M.F.Khan and F.Khanam, ‘A cluster model explaining quantitatively the anomalous variation of density of water’, Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 266, no.5/6, p. 473, 1997.
  2. Q.D.M.Khasru, M.N.Uddin and M.R.Khan, ‘Effective lifetime of electron trapped in the oxide of a metal-oxide-semiconductor structure’, Applied Physics Letters, vol.75, pp.522-524, 1999.
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.A.Choudhury, M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Frequency modulated PWM for voltage source inverters’, International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, vol. 21, no.2, 2001, pp 74-80.
  1. A.Khan, M.R.Khan, M.F.Khan and F.Khanam, ‘A cluster model that explains the varaition of surface tension of water with temperature’, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol.40 part 1,no.3A, 15 March, 2001, pp.1467-1471.
  1. M.M.Chowdhury, S.Zaman, A.Haque and M.R.Khan ‘Determination of trap distribution in Gate-Oxide Region of Deep Submicron Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Structure from Direct Tunneling Gate Current’, Applied Physics Letters, vol.80, no.12, 25 March, 2002.
  1. M.K.Hasan, M.S.A.Zilany and M.R.Khan, ‘DCT speech enhancement with hard and soft thresholding criteria’, Electronics Letters, vol.30, no.13, 20th June, 2002, p669.
  1. K.Alam, S.Zaman, M.M.Choudhury, M.R.Khan, A.Haque,‘Effects of inelastic scattering on direct tunneling gate leakage current in deep submicron metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors’, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.92, no.2, July 15, 2002, p 937.
  1. S.Salahuddin, S.Z.Al Islam, Md.K.Hasan, M.R.Khan, ‘Soft thresholding for DCT speech enhancement’, Electronics Letters, vol.38, no.24, Nov.2002, p1605.
  1. Syed. S. Islam, M. Rezwan Khan and A.F.M. Anwar, ‘Effects of impurity traps on gate current and trapped charge in MOSFETs’, Solid State Electronics, vol.47, issue 2, Feb. 2003, pp 339-344.
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.Rezwan Khan and Md. Ali Choudhury, ‘Implementation of Programmed Modulated Carrier HCC Based on Analytical Solution for Uniform Switching of Voltage Source Inverters’, IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol.18, no.1, Jan. 2003, pp188-197.
  2. Md. Kamrul Hasan and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Identification of AR Systems at a Very Low SNR Using Cosine Modeling of Autocorrelation Function’, Journal of Signal Processing (Japan), vol.7, no.1, Jan.2003.
  3. M.S.Arefeen Zilany, Md.Kamrul Hasan and M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Signal-Bias Compensated Noise Level For Wavelet Speech Enhancement’, Journal of Signal Processing (Japan), vol.7, no.1, Jan.2003.
  1. Md.Kamrul Hasan, Anowarul Fattah and M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Identification of AR Systems at a Very Low SNR Using damped Sinusoidal Model of Autocorrelation Function’, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.10, no.6, June 2003, p157.
  1. M.K.Hasan, A.K.M.Z.Rahim Chowdhury, and M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Identification of autoregressive signals in colored noise using damped sinusoidal model’, IEEE Trans.on Circuits and Systems – I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol.50, no.7, July 2003, pp966-969.
  1. M.Kamrul Hasan, Sayeef Salahuddin, M. Rezwan Khan, ‘A Modified A priori SNR for Speech Enhancement Using Spectral Subtraction Rules’, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.11, no.4, April 2004, pp 450-453.
  1. M.Kamrul Hasan, Sayeef Salahuddin, and M. Rezwan Khan , ‘Reducing Signal-bias from MAD estimated Noise Level for DCT Speech Enhancement’, Signal Processing (Elsevier) vol.84, 2004, pp.151-162.
  1. Akeed Ahmed Pavel and M. Rezwan Khan,“Exploitation of Density of States and Mobility Difference Between Holes and Electrons for High Efficiency Solar Cells,” WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on ELECTRONICS, Issue 1,Vol. 1, Jan 2004, ISSN 1109-9445,pp 56-59. web: http://www.wseas.org.
  2. Arshad Khan , M. Rezwan Khan, M. Ferdouse Khan and Fahima Khanam,‘A liquid water model: Explaining the anomalous density variation of liquid D2O and shifting of density maximum under pressure’, Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem) vol. 679, 2004, pp 165-170.
  3. M. Rezwan Khan, I Husain and M.F. Momen, ‘Lightly Ferromagnetic Rotor Bars for Three-Phase Squirrel Cage Induction Machines’, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
    Volume 40,  Issue 6,  Nov.-Dec. 2004 Page(s):1536 – 1540.
  1. Fahmida Ferdousi, Ashfiqua Tahseen Connie, Mehtaz Sharmin, M. Rezwan Khan ‘System Identification at an Extremely Low SNR using Energy Density in DCT Domain’, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 12,  Issue 4,  April 2005 Page(s):289 – 292.
  1. A.B.M. H. Rashid, Nasrin Sultana , M. Rezwan Khan and T. Kikkawa, ‘Efficient Design of Integrated Antenna on Si for On-chip Wireless Interconnect in Multi-layer Metal Process’, accepted for publication, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
  1. Ashfiqua Tahseen Connie, Fahmida Ferdousi, Mehtaz Sharmin, M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Identification of AR Parameters at a Very Low SNR using Estimated Spectral Distribution in DCT Domain’, IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing, vol.153, no.2, April, 2006, pp.95-100.
  1. Kazi Jamir Uddin Ahmed, Anisul Haque and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Extraction of features for speaker recognition by inverse filtering’, accepted for publication in the Journal of Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.
  1. Akeed A. Pavel, M. Rezwan Khan and N.E. Islam, ‘On the possibility of improving silicon solar cell efficiency through impurity photovoltaic effect and compensation’, Solid State Electronics, vol.54, issue11, Nov. 2010, pp. 1278-83.
  1. Shahriar A. Chowdhury, Monjur Mourshed, S.M. Raiyan Kabir, Moududul Islam,Tanvir Morshed, M. Rezwan Khan, Mohammad N. Patwary, ‘Technical appraisal of solar home systems in Bangladesh: A field investigation’, Renewable energy, vol.36, Issue 2, February 2011, pp. 772-78.

 

  1. Al-Amin, Tasmiah Fatema Tanni, Md. Habibur Rahman, M. Rezwan Khan, Miah Md. Asaduzzaman, ‘An Efficient and Feasible Solar Irrigation System Including AC Mini-Grid Designed for Bangladeshi Agriculture’, International journal of Scientific and Engineering research (IJSER), Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018.

 

  1. 45. Simon Batchelor, Md. Arifur Rahman Talukder, Md. Raihan Uddin, Sandip
    Kumar Mondal, Shemim Islam, Rezwannul Karim Redoy, Rebecca Hanlin, Rezwan 
    Khan    , ‘Solar e-cooking: A Proposition for Solar Home System Integrated Clean 
    Cooking    ’, Energies2018, 11(11), 2933; https://doi.org/10.3390/en11112933.

 

  1. A.T.M. Golam Sarwar, M. Rezwan Khan and Arshad Khan, ‘A quantum mechanical model for hole transport through DNA: predicting conditions for oscillatory/non-oscillatory behavior’, International Journal of Physics Research and Applications, 2020, 3: 046-057, DOI: 10.29328/journal.ijpra.1001022.

 

  1. M. Rezwan Khan, Intekhab Alam, ‘A Solar PV-Based Inverter-Less Grid-Integrated Cooking Solution for Low-Cost Clean Cooking’, Energies, 2020, 13(20), 5507; doi:10.3390/en13205507.

 

CONFERENCES:

  1. C.D.McEwen, M.R.Khan, “Beam steering method with improved side lobe response using dielectric wedges for satellite TV reception“, Proc. of 14th European Microwave Conference, Liege, Belgium, Sept. 1984, pp 681-85.
  1. S.I.Khan, M.H.Rashid and M.R.Khan, “Generalized circuit model for static converters“, 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE-University of Illinois, Urbana, USA, August 14-16, 1989.
  1. M.Bashir Uddin, M.Akhtar, M.R.Khan, M.A.Choudhury, M.A.Rahman, “Phase shifting by static PWM cycloinverters for starting single phase induction motor“, PCC Yokohama, Japan, 1993.
  1. M.Bashir Uddin, M.Akhtar, M.R.Khan, M.A.Choudhury, M.A.Rahman, “Phase shifting by static PWM cycloconverters and inverters for starting single phase induction motor“, International Power Electronics Conference, Singapore, March 18- 19, 1993.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, Huda M.A. Al-Jenaid, M.Fayyaz Khan, “Duty cycle based Volt/Hertz Inverter Control for Induction Motors“, presented at IEEE-IAS Annual Meeting Conference, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A, October 2-7, 1994.
  1. M.Taleb, A.Kamal, A.J.Sowaied, M.R.Khan, ‘Alternative active power filter’, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems for Industrial Growth, PEDES ’96, part.1, Jan.8-11, 1996, v.1, New Delhi, India.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, “Effect of force field on the thermal equilibrium of an ideal gas”, presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers, Indianapolis, USA, 2-5 May, 1996.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan & A.I.Al-Sammak, ‘A 12-step voltage source inverter control circuit for induction motor drives’, IEEE IA Annual Meeting Conference, October 1996, San Deigo, USA, pp 1605-9
  1. M.Rezwan Khan & M.Azizur Rahman, ‘Simultaneous compensation of reactive and harmonic component of line current using super magnet energy storage’, IPEC’97, Singapore, May, 1997.
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.A.Choudhury, M.Rezwan Khan and M.A.Rahman,”Dual slope carrier injected wide band delta modulator for voltage source inverters”, 32nd University Power Engineering Conference, (UPEC’97), UMIST, Manchester, U.K., 10-12 Sept., pp 814-817, 1997.
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.Rezwan Khan, M.A.Choudhury and M.A.Rahman, ‘Microcomputer based naturally sampled PWM control of static power converters’ , UPEC’97, UMIST, Manchester, U.K., Sept. 10-12, pp 826-829,1997.
  1. M.Rahman, M.A.Choudhury, M.Rezwan Khan and M.A.Rahman, “Dual slope integrator type delta modulator for high performance voltage source inverters”, IEEE-PCC Nagoka’97, Japan, pp 451-455, 1997.
  1. Kazi Mujibur Rahman, M.Rezwan Khan, M.A.Choudhury and M.A.Rahman, “Frequency modulated PWM for voltage source inverters”, UPEC’98, Edinburgh, U.K., 8-10 Sept., 1998.
  1. M.S.Akbar, F.Khan, S.A.Badruddoza and M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Design and Development of an Induction Motor Driven Low Cost Solar PV Irrigation System for Rural Bangladesh’, International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE 2001), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 5-6, 2001. 
  1. K.M.Rahman, M.A.Choudhury, M.Rezwan Khan and M.A.Rahman, ‘Sine PWM Current tracking Controller: A New Uniform switching Current Controller for VSI Fed AC Motor Drives’, accepted for presentation at UPEC 2001, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 12-14 September, 2001.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, ‘A High Frequency Central Inverter for Multi-lamp Solar PV Home System’, International Conference on Renewable Energy for Rural Development, 19-21 January 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. A.K.M.Sadrul Islam, M.Quamrul Islam, M.Rezwan Khan and K.M.Rahman, ‘Developing a Pedaling Generator for House Hold Electricity Supply in Rural Bangladesh : A Feasibility Study’, International Conference on Renewable Energy for Rural Development, 19-21 January 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. S.A.Fattah, M.Kamrul Hasan, M.Rezwan Khan, ‘Identification of AR Systems at a Very Low SNR Using Damped Cosine Model of Autocorrelation Function’, ICASSP 2002, 13-17 May, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  1. M.S.A.Zilany, M.K.Hasan and M.R.Khan, ‘Wavelet speech enhancement using fourth order cumulant’, International Symposium on Communication system, Networks, Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2002), pp. 387-390, July 15-17, 2002, Staffordshire, U.K.
  1. M.K.Hasan, A.K.M.Z.R.Chowdhury, Rubyat Adnan and M.R.Khan, ‘A new method for parameter estimation of autoregressive signals in coloured noise’, Proc. of XI European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2002), Sept. 3-6, 2002, Toulouse, France.
  1. M.S.A.Zilany, M.K.Hasan and M.R.Khan, ‘Efficient hard and soft thresholding for wavelet speech enhancement’, Proc. of XI European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2002), Sept. 3-6, 2002, Toulouse, France.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, and M. Fayyaz Khan, ‘Design Considerations for Solar PV Home Systems in Bangladesh’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2002, Dec 26-28, 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. M.Rezwan Khan, Anisul Haque and M.Q.Huda, ‘A Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Structure for Solar Photo-Voltaic Applications’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2002, Dec 26-28, 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. S.Salahuddin, S.Z.Al Islam, M.K.Hasan, M.R.Khan, ‘Speech enhancement by envelop restoration and soft thresholding in DCT domain’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2002, Dec 26-28, 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. F. Ferdousi, A. Tahseen, M. Sharmin, M.Murshed, I. R. Kabir, N. Jahan, M. Rezwan Khan, Md. Kamrul Hasan, ‘Parameter Estimation of AR Systems at a Very Low SNR Using Prefiltering in the Autocorrelation Domain’, TENCON 2003, Oct. 15-17, 2003, Bangalore, India, pp 1377-1380.
  1. M. Rezwan Khan, I Husain and M.F. Momen, “Paramagnetic rotor Bars for Three-phase Squirrel Cage Induction Machines,” IEEE-IAS Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2003.
  2. A.N.M. Zainuddin, Nasrin Sultana, Md. Ahsanullah and M. Rezwan Khan “Estimation of Vocal System Invariant Poles using Frequency Domain Envelope Function”, Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 112-15.
  1. S M Raiyan Kabir, Rezwanur Rahman, Mursalin Habib and M Rezwan Khan “Person Identification By Retina Pattern Matching”, Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 522-25.
  1. Mursalin Habib, S M Raiyan Kabir, Rezwanur Rahman and M Rezwan Khan “Bangla Digit Detection by separating Edges”, Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 573-76.
  2. N. Jahan, M. Murshed, I. R. Kabir, M. Rezwan Khan, “Data Compression For ECG Signals Using A Combination Of Frequency And Time Domain Analysis”, Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 533-36.
  1. M. Lutful Hai and M. Rezwan Khan “A Perturbation Technique In Time Domain To Identify The Noise Polarity In DCT Domain” Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp.398-401.
  1. Akeed Ahmed Pavel and M. Rezwan Khan, “An MIS Structure With Isotype Hetero-Junction For High Efficiency Solar Cell” Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 498-501.
  1. Mehtaz Sharmin, Fahmida Ferdousi, Ashfiqua Tahseen Connie, M. Rezwan Khan, “Estimation Of Ar Parameters At A Very Low SNR Using Prefiltering And Successive Autocorrelation” Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 84-87.
  2. A.B.M.H. Rashid, M. Rezwan Khan and T. Kikkawa “Efficient Design of Integrated Antenna on Si for On-chip Wireless Interconnect” accepted for presentation in the   International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 15-17 September 2004, (SSDM 2004), Tokyo, Japan.
  1. A.B.M. H. Rashid, Md.Ariful Hoque, Nayan abdullah, Md. Zahidul Islam, Nasrin Sultana and M. Rezwan Khan, “Integrated Antenna on Si for on chip wireless interconnect using UWB transmission”, Proceedings of ICECE 2004, December, 2004, Dhaka, pp. 80-83.
  2. Akeed Ahmed Pavel and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Enhancing Efficiency of a Heteroface Solar Cell’, Proceedings of the 5th Spanish Conference on Electron Devices, 2-4 Feb. 2005, Tarragona, Spain, pp263-266.
  3. M. Shafi Al Bashar, M. Abu Jafar Siddiq, K.M. Feroz Kamal and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Vevicle Classification Using Image Processing’, Proceedings of ICCCE’06, May 9-11, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp1131-1136.
  4. Rezwanur Rahman, Morshed U. Chowdhury, S.M. Raiyan Kabir and M. Rezwan Khan , ‘A Novel Method for Person Identification by Comparing Retinal Pattern’, CAINE – 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Nov.15, 2006.
  5. Kazi Jamir Uddin Ahmed and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Estimation of Pitch of Noisy Speech Using AR Model Based Inverse Filtering’, Proceedings of ICECE 2006, Dec.19-21, 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  6. Nasrin Sultana, A.B.M.H. Rashid and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Effect of Variation of Resistivity and Antenna Distance on Integrated Antenna System in Silicon’, Proceedings of ICECE 2006, Dec.19-21, 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  7. K.M.Farhan Shahil, Md. Nayeem Arafat, Q.D.M.Khasru and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Study of Charge Trapping/detrapping Mechanism in SiO2/HfO2 Stack gate Dielectrics Considering Two-way detrapping’, Proceeding of International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 3-4, 2007, pp 349-352.
  8. Mehjabeen A. Khan, Akeed A. Pavel, M. Rezwan Khan and M. A. Choudhury, ‘Design of a single phase rectifier with switching on AC side for high power factor and low total harmonic distortion’, 2007 IEEE Region 5 Technical Conference, Fayetteville, AR, USA, April 20-21, 2007.
  1. K. M. Farhan. Shahil, Md. Nayeem. Arafat, and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Modeling of Post Soft Breakdown Conduction through Ultrathin High-k Gate Dielectrics’, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC) 2007, Taiwan, December 20-22, 2007 pp-177-180. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4422222&isYear=2007&count=337&page=3&ResultStart=75
  1. K. M. Farhan. Shahil, Md. Nayeem. Arafat, Q. D. M. Khosru and M. Rezwan Khan,  “Quantum mechanical modeling of charge trapping/detrapping phenomena in CMOS structures with high-k dielectric” Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE-2007,Mexico City, September 5-7, 2007, pp-349-352.http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4344970/4344971/04345073.pdf?arnumber=4345073
  1. M. Ryyan Khan, Taufiq Hasan, M. Rezwan Khan, ’Iterative Noise Power Subtraction Technique for Improved Speech Quality’, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2008), Dhaka, December 20-22, 2008, pp 391-4.
  2. M. Rezwan Khan and Md. Fayyaz Khan, ’Energy Cost Calculations for a Solar PV Home System’, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET’09), Dhaka, December 17-19, 2009, pp. 11-14.
  3. Shahriar A. Chowdhury, A.T.M. Golam Sarwar and M. Rezwan Khan, ’Optimized Solar Home System Package Design: Bangladesh Perspective’, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET’09), Dhaka, December 17-19, 2009, pp. 148-152.
  4. A.T.M. Golam Sarwar, M. Rezwan Khan, Arshad Khan, ’A Quantum Model For Charge Transfer in DNA Incorporating Coherent and Incoherent Processes’, the 6th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2010), December 2010,Dhaka.
  5. Mahmudur Rahman Siddiqui, Md. Ryyan Khan, Md. Rezwan Khan, ’A Double Gate Mos Structure for Solar Photo-Voltaic Application’, the 6th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2010), December, 2010, Dhaka.
  6. M. Rezwan Khan, ’Prospect of solar PV based irrigation in rural Bangladesh: A comparative study with diesel based irrigation’, 2nd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2012), January 5-7, 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh pp35-37.
  7. M. Rezwan Khan, Shahriar A. Chowdhury’Reduced battery sizing in a solar home system with respect to the night load and solar panel size’, 2nd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2012), January 5-7, 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh pp248-251.
  8. M. Rezwan Khan, ’A stand alone microgrid for electricity supply in rural Bangaldesh’, 2nd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2012), January 5-7, 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh pp 217-220.
  1. M. Rezwan Khan and Edward E. Brown, ‘DC Nanogrids: A Low Cost PV based Solution for Livelihood Enhancement for Rural Bangladesh’, 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2014), Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 29-31, 2014. Also presented at the International conference on the Innovating energy access to remote areas: Discovering untapped resources’, April 10-12, 2014, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
  1. M. Rezwan Khan and Sufi Iqbal, ‘Solar PV-Diesel Hybrid Mini Cold Storage for Rural Bangladesh’, 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2014), Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 29-31, 2014.
  2. M. Rezwan Khan, Md. Fayyaz Khan, ‘Arc Suppression in Moderate Voltage DC Grid for Solar PV Applications’, 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET 2014), Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 29-31, 2014.
  1. SML Kabir, I Alam, MR Khan, MS Hossain, KS Rahman, N Amin, ‘Solar powered ferry boat for the rural area of Bangladesh’, International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEES 2016),  Putrajaya, Malaysia, 14-16 November, 2016.

 

  1. Intekhab Alam, Nur-e-Mohammod Rifat, M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar PV-Diesel Hybrid mini cold storage for off-grid areas of Bangladesh’, 5th International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology, ICDRET 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal, March 29-31, 2018.

 

  1. Md. Arifur Rahman Talukder, Rebecca Hanlin, Simon Bachelor and M. Rezwan Khan , ‘Fan Driven Improved Cookstove for Off-grid Rural Areas Using Solar Home Systems’, 5th International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology, ICDRET 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal, March 29-31, 2018.
  2. Simon Batchelor, Md. Arifur Rahman Talukder, Md. Raihan Uddin, Sandip Kumar Mondal, Shemim Islam, Rezwanul Karim Redoy, Rebecca Hanlin, and M. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar e-cooking: Solar Home System Integrated Clean Cooking Using Solar PV’, at the International Conference on Renewable Energy ICREN 2018, Barcelona, Spain, April 25-27, 2018.

 

  1. M. Rezwan Khan, S.M. Lutful Kabir and Md. Ali Choudhury, ‘Resurrection of DC: An Exposition for Future Power System’, Invited paper in ICECE 2018, December 19-21, 2018, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

PUBLICATION OF BOOKS/CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES:

  1. ‘Anomalous Density of Water: The Mystery Unfolded’, M.Ferdouse Khan, A.Khan, Rezwan Khan & Fahima Khanam, Published by M.Rezwan Khan, October, 1996. In this book, a model for water has been proposed where water molecules remain in clustered form while in liquid state. As the temperature is increased, the cluster size gets smaller but inter cluster distance becomes larger. Decreasing cluster size contributes to the increase in density and the inter cluster distance on the other hand contributes towards density reduction. Resultant of these two opposite processes make the density maximum at 4oC and the results presented in the book agree quite closely to the experimental results. Papers on the cluster model explaining density variation and other properties like surface tension has been published in some international journals (see publication list of journal papers; no.19, 22, 36)

 

  1. ‘Local Technology Development for Solar PV Systems’, Rezwan Khan, Ch. 13 of the book ‘Photovoltaic Technology for Bangladesh’, edited by A.K.M.Sadrul Islam and D.G.Infield, jointly published by Mechanical Engineering Dept., BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology, Loughborough, U.K, March 2001. The chapter includes the designs of different Solar PV Components like charge controllers, efficient inverters for DC lamps, fans and pumps for solar PV home systems etc. used rural Bangladesh.

 

  1. ‘A Concept of DC Nano-Grid for Low Cost Energy Access in Rural Bangladesh’,  Rezwan Khan and Edward D. Brown, Part I, Ch.3 of book ,  ‘Decentralized Solutions for Developing Economies – Addressing Energy Poverty Through Innovation’, Edited by Groh S, Straeten J, Edlefsen Lasch B, Gershenson D, Leal Filho W & Kammen DM,  Springer Proceedings in Energy. 2015, XXIV. ISBN 978-3-319-15964-5.

Keynote/Seminar/Visits

SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & VISITS

  1. Presented paper in the 14th European Microwave Conference, Liege, Belgium, Sept. 1984.
  1. Lectured as a resource person at RONAST (Royal Nepal Academy of Science & Technology), Kathmandu, Nepal in August 1989 on digital electronics.
  1. Attended the Summer College on Physics of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Devices at ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) Trieste, Italy, in April 1990. Presented talks on “Calculation of conduction band for arbitrary periodic potentials using quantum mechanical impedance” and “A new potential channel structure for interference type amplifier” during the stay at ICTP.
  1. Lectured as a resource person in the workshop on NDT (Nondestructive testing) using eddy current at the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) Dhaka, Bangladesh in October, 1990 and in November 1991.
  1. Presented paper titled “A Novel Dehumidification Technique Using Electric Field” at the 45th International Appliance Technical Conference, May 9-11, 1994, Held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The paper was judged to be the best technical paper.
  1. Presented a paper titled ‘Effect of force field on the thermal equilibrium of an ideal gas’ at the APS and AAPT Joint Meeting, May 2-5, 1996, at Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. Also presented talks on the same topic at University of Colorado at Denver, University of South Florida at Tampa and University of Connecticut at Storrs.
  1. Presented the paper titled ‘Simultaneous compensation of reactive and harmonic components of line current using super magnet energy storage’ at the International Power Engineering Conference IPEC’97, May 22-23, 1997, held at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  1. Attended International conference on ‘Renewable Energy Technology for Rural Development’ held at Kathmandu, Nepal, in October 1998.
  1. Visited Centre for Renewable Energy System Technology, Loughborough University, UK, from February 25 to March 7, 2000, under a link programme. Presented a seminar on ‘Premature Blackening of the Fluorescent DC Lamps Used in Solar PV Home Systems’.
  2. Visited Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA, as a visiting faculty member for the Summer Session II, July 3 – Aug. 5, 2000, and taught the summer course on Microelectronics (EE341). Also involved in research regarding the 3D electron transport in generalized potential structure.
  1. Attended training program on ‘Energy Efficiency in South Asia Region’, held in Mumbai, India, December 2002, organized, by Academy for Educational Development, funded by USAID.
  1. Attended South Asian Regional Initiative, Energy (SARI/E) Training Institute Partners (TIP) Meet, Marawila, Sri Lanka, April, 2003.
  1. Attended Institutional Linkage Program Meeting at Purdue University, West Lefayette, In., USA, October 2003 to initiate South Asia Power Pool Model (PPOSA) applications in the SAARC region.
  1. Attended South Asian Regional Initiative, Energy (SARI/E) Training Institute Partners (TIP) Meet, Hyderabad, India, October 2003.
  1. Presented paper ‘Vehicle Classification Using Image Processing’ at the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  1. Visited VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, IIT Kharagpur, India and IIM Calcutta, India, to explore the possible academic collaboration with United International University, Dhaka, May 2007.
  1. Visited University Technology Kebansang, Bangi and Academy Laut Malaysia (ALAM), Melaka, Malaysia, in October, 2008.
  1. Attended workshop on ‘Executive Exchange on the Use and Integration of renewable Energy in the Power Sector’, Madrid, Spain, October 19-23, 2009.
  1. Visited Loughborough University, Staffordshire University, University of Bradford and University of Strathclyde, UK, under a British Council grant (INSPIRE) to develop academic collaboration with UIU, March 6-13, 2010. Later paid an unofficial visit to Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, March 14-20, 2010.
  1. Attended ‘National seminar on Power and Communication’, held on December 30, 2010 at Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal as one of the key note speakers.
  1. Visited Solarland solar PV manufacturing industry in Wuxi, China from September 2-7, 2011. Also visited Wuxi Institute of Technology and Jiangnan University for possible collaboration with UIU.
  1. Attended the kick off meeting of EU funded ‘Strong-Ties’ under Erasmus Mundus Program as a member institution at University of Malaya, Kualalumpur, Malaysia, October 13-15, 2011.
  1. Attended the International Conference organized by LCEDN (Low Carbon Energy Development Network) and presented a poster on ‘Solar PV based DC Micro-grid for Rural Bangladesh’ held at Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, April 4-6, 2012.
  1. Attended the workshop on ‘Energy and International Development: Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions in Developing Countries’, held in Nairobi, Kenya, 12-14 December 2012.
  1. Attended the Selection Committee meeting of ‘Strongties’ programme funded by Erasmus Mundus EU project, Larnaca, Cyprus, March 26-27, 2013.
  1. Attended the British Council’s South Asia Policy Dialogue, June 18-19, 2013, held in Colombo, Srilanka.
  1. Attended the Erusmus Mundus (European Union) Coordinators Meeting as the Joint Coordinator of the INTACT, October 1-2, 2013, Brussels, Belgium.
  1. Attended the kick off meeting of INTACT (Erasmus Mundus, EU), November 7-8, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.
  1. Attended the Kick-off meeting of EPSRC, UK, funded Nanogrid project, December 10-12, 2013, Loughborough University, UK.
  1. Attended the selection committee meeting of INTACT (Erasmus Mundus), March 27-29, 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  1. Presented key note paper titled ‘ Solar PV in Bangladesh: The Way Forward’ at the international conference on ‘Innovating energy access to remote areas: Discovering untapped resources’, 10-12 April, 2014, University of Berkeley, USA.
  1. Attended the workshop on ‘Community Consultation’ for the Solar Nanogrid (SONG) Project funded by EPSRC and DFID, Nairobi, Kenya, May 7-10, 2014.
  1. Attended workshop on ‘Low Carbon Options for South Asian Countries and Sectors’, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 26-27, 2014.
  1. Attended the European Union Funded Erasmus Mundus Coordinators’ Meeting, October 2-3, 2014, Brussels, Belgium.
  1. Attended the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus Mundus ‘LEADERS’ project as the joint coordinator, October 17-18, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand.
  1. Attended the selection committee meeting of Erasmus Mundus ‘INTACT’ and ‘LEADERS’ projects, March 10-13, 2015, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  1. Attended the annual meeting of ‘Solar Nanogrid’ (SONG) project, March 17, 2015, Nairobi, Kenya.
  1. Attended the kickoff meeting of ‘Next generation low-energy products’ project, April 27-28, 2015, Nairobi, Kenya.
  1. Attended 4th International Offgrid Lighting Conference, October 26-28, 2015, Dubai.
  1. Attended the annual meeting of ‘Next Generation low-cost energy efficienct products’, 22-23 February, 2016, Open University, London.
  1. Attended the Selection Committee meeting of Erasmus Mundus ‘INTACT’ and ‘LEADERS’ programs, 12-13 April, 2016, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
  1. Visited National University, San Diego, California USA and met the Dean School of Engineering, June 21, 2016.
  1. Attended the ‘Improved Cookstove Workshop’, Nairobi, Kenya, October 4-6, 2016.
  1. Attended the Extra-ordinary General Meeting of International Council of Science (ICSU), Oslo, Norway, October 24, 2016.
  1. Attended the annual meeting of ‘Next generation low-cost energy-efficient products’, 8-9 March 2017, ACTS, Nairobi, Kenya.
  1. Presented key note paper titled ‘Solar PV based Stand Alone Grid Systems for developing Countries: Advantages of DC systems’, IEEE Hyderabad, March 10, 2017 and Osmania University, Hyderabad, March 11, 2017.
  1. Attended ACBSP workshop and conference, June 23-28, 2017, Anaheim, California USA.
  1. Visited Malaysia from July 4-9, 2017 and held a meeting with Vice President of University Selangor, Malysia regarding the signing of an MoU between UNISEL and UIU.
  1. Attended IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Conference, October 1-5, 2017.
  1. Delivered IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecture on DC power system at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 6, 2017.
  1. Delivered IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecture on ‘Stand-alone solar PV microgrid: Advantages of DC over AC’ and ‘Future of Power system’ on October 8, 2017, at National University of Singapore.
  1. Participated in the stakeholders’ meeting ‘Fostering Growth of Semiconductor Industries in Bangladesh Suggesting Necessary Transformation in Related Teaching and Building Infrastructures’ held at Crowne Plaza, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA, December 8-9, 2017. Also visited University California Davis, CA, USA to explore the possibilities of mutual collaboration with UIU.
  1. Attended ICDRET 2018, held in Kathmandu Nepal, March 29-31, 2018 and presented a key note paper on ‘Solar PV based Stand Alone Grid Systems for developing Countries: Advantages of DC systems’.
  1. Presented paper ‘Solar e-cooking: Solar Home System Integrated Clean Cooking Using Solar PV’, at the International Conference on Renewable Energy ICREN 2018, Barcelona, Spain, April 25-27, 2018.
  1. Presented Seminar titled ‘AC vs. DC: Resurrection of Edison and Westinghouse debate’, University of California San Diego, USA, October 12, 2018, and South Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, October 23, 2018.
  1. Presented IEEE Distinguished Lecture in UTHM, Batu Pahat and University Technology Mara, Malaysia on ‘AC vs. DC: Future of Power system’, Nov.11 and Nov.12, 2018 respectively.
  1. Visited University of California San Diego, USA, on September 17, 2019. Also visited Intel Corporation office at Folsom, California, September 11, 2019 to discuss possible collaboration with UIU on VLSI design.
  2. Attended International Clean Cooking Forum 5-7 November, 2019, Nairobi Kenya.

 

Keynote/Invited Papers:

  1. Rezwan Khan, ‘ Promoting Renewable Energy: Sustainable Cooperation’, South Asia Forum for Infrastructure Regulation (SAFIR) meeting May 2012, Organized By Bangladesh Energy regulatory Commission, Dhaka.
  2. Fayyaz Khan, M. Rezwan Khan and Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury, ‘Renewable Energy and Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges’, 6th International Conference on Electical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2012, December, 2012, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  3. Rezwan Khan, ‘ Regulatory Issues in Renewable Energy’, SAFIR meeting March 2014, Organized By Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, Dhaka.
  4. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar PV in Bangladesh: The Way Forward’, the international conference on ‘Innovating energy access to remote areas: Discovering untapped resources’, 10-12 April, 2014, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
  5. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar Energy: Bangladesh Perspective’, Asiatic Society Bangladesh, May 16, 2015.
  6. Rezwan Khan, ‘Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development: Strategic Options for Bangladesh’, BUET, organized by BUET Alumni, May 14, 2016.
  7. Rezwan Khan, ‘AC vs. DC: Resurrection of Westinghouse and Edison Debate’, IEEE-IAS Webinar as IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecturer, February 1, 2017.
  8. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar PV based Stand Alone Grid Systems for developing Countries: Advantages of DC systems’, IEEE Hyderabad, India, March 10, 2017 and Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, March 11, 2017.
  9. Rezwan Khan, ‘AC vs. DC: Resurrection of Westinghouse and Edison Debate’, IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecture, Raleigh, North Carolina State University, USA, October 6, 2017.
  10. Rezwan Khan, ‘Role of Architects, Engineers and Planners in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Affordable and Clean Energy’, BUET Alumni Talk, BUET, Dhaka, October 28, 2017.
  11. Rezwan Khan, ‘Stand alone solar PV microgrid: Advantages of DC over AC’, IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, November 8, 2017.
  12. Rezwan Khan, ‘Future of Power System’, IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, November 8, 2017.
  13. Rezwan Khan, ‘Solar PV based Stand Alone Grid Systems for developing Countries: Advantages of DC systems’, ICDRET 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal, March 29, 2018.
  14. Rezwan Khan, ‘AC vs. DC: Resurrection of Edison and Westinghouse debate’, University of California San Diego, USA, October 12, 2018, and South Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, October 23, 2018.
  15. IEEE Distinguished Lecture in UTHM, Batu Pahat and University Technology Mara, Malaysia on ‘AC vs. DC: Future of Power system’, Nov.11 and Nov.12, 2018 respectively.
  16. Invited paper ‘Resurrection of DC: An exposition for future power system’, ICECE 2018, December 19-21, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  17. Keynote paper ‘Future of Soar PV Applications: Bangladesh Perspective’, IEEE IPRECON 2020, October 30, 2020.

Research Interest

FIELDS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

  1. Renewable Energy
  2. Microelectronics, power electronics
  3. Digital Signal Processing
  4. Electromagnetics and communication.

SUPERVISION OF POST-GRADUATE RESARCH

Master’s Thesis:

Title Completion
Study of nondestructive metal testing using electromagnetic induction-  BUET 1986-87
Quantum mechanical analysis of potential channel structures for current divider amplifiers- BUET 1988-89
Analysis of periodic potential structures by quantum mechanical impedance concept- BUET 1988-89
Quantum mechanical investigation of the resonant tunneling phenomena for multi-barrier potential structures- BUET 1989-90
Analysis of electron flow in potential channel structures discontinuous in the transverse dimension. – BUET 1989-90
Extraction of latent heat from atmospheric moisture using electric field. – BUET 1991-92
Calculation of trapped charge  in the SiO2 layer of an enhancement type MOSFET using impurity trap levels. – BUET 1995-96
Simultaneous compensation of reactive and harmonic components of line current  using superconducting magnet energy storage. – BUET 1995-96
Calculation of gate current due to incoherent scattering of the electrons waves by the trapped impurities. – BUET 2000-01
New hetero-junction structure for high efficiency solar cells. – BUET 2004
Estimation of the AR model for vocal fold for speaker identification and verification. -BUET 2005
Speech enhancement for white noise corrupted speech signals using perturbation technique. – BUET 2005

 

 

 

Ph.D. Thesis:

Title Completion
Development of a new current controlled pulse width modulator for voltage source inverter 1997-2000

OTHER RESEARCH TOPICS:

Funded projects Funded by US$ Year/duration
Design and construction of low loss semi-electronicballast for fluorescent mercury vapour lamps. BUET 1,000 1989(6 months)
Design and construction of a low cost
battery driven small vehicle		 Grameen Trust  10,000  1997-1999(18 months)
 Design and construction of an
induction type dc motor.		  BUET  1,500  1997-1998 (6 months)
 Investigation to the cause of end blackening
of fluorescent lamps.		 Energy Systems  1,500  1998-1999 (4 months)
 a. Design and development of low cost DC-DC
converter for Solar PV Home systems
b. Design and development of low cost
DC-pump for rural villages using solar PV panels.
c. Design and development of optimum power
tracking charge controller for solar PV systems.		  Grameen Shakti  7,500  1999-2000 (12 months)
Design and implementation of micro-hydro
project at Bamer Chara, Chittagong		  LGED  22,000  2003-2004
A study on awareness and financial models
for energy efficiency in Bangladesh		  AED(USAID)  1,600  2003 (Six weks)
Solar-Wind hybrid (5kW+5kW) renewable
energy system for St. Martin’s Island, Bangladesh		  LGED  200,000  2003-2004
Feasibility study for Solar PV- diesel
Hybrid DC micro-grid for Nuner Tek
and Shonatala Char area		 GIZ (German Technical Assistance) 4,500 2011-12
Design and implementation of solar
PV-Diesel hybrid Micro-grid for rural
Bangladesh in 5 different off-grid area
of Bangladesh (still in progress)		 IDCOL 1,800,000 2012
Solar Nano-grids as an Appropriate Solution to the Limitations of Solar Home Systems in Rural
Communities in Kenya and Bangladesh
(Loughborough Univ.,UK, as the lead partner)		 EPSRC+DFID 720,000 2013-16
The Next Generation of Low Cost Energy-efficient Appliances and devices to Benefit the Bottom of the Pyramid (Open Univ., UK, as the lead Partner) EPSRC+DFID 1,660,000 2014-2017
Solar Ferry Boat for rural Bangladesh IDCOL 52,000 2015-16
Small scale solar refrigeration for rural Bangladesh IDCOL  38,000 2016

 

Other projects:(Done at BUET if not specified otherwise)

Funded projects Year Duration
Effect of electron scattering on the coherent behavior of electron waves in resonant tunneling devices. 1991 (6 months)
Calculation of density of states for solid state electron devices. 1991-92 (6 months)
Real power control of power systems using supermagnet energy storage device. (Done at University of Bahrain) 1993 (6 months)
Dehumidification using electric field. 1991-92 (12 months)
Effect of tunneling of gas molecules on thermal equilibrium   of an ideal gas. 1994-95 (12 months)
Low voltage electrolysis of water for extraction of thermal energy. 1998-99 (12 months)
Design and construction of high starting torque squirrel cage induction motor using magnetic conducting material. 2000-01 (12 months)
Design and development of Pedaling generator for rural home systems. 2001 (4 months)
Modeling of the bonding behaviour of liquid water to explain its physical properties like density variation and surface tension variation with temperature. 1997-2001 (4 years)
Design and development of antennas and repeaters for mobile telecom system in Bangladesh. 2000-01 (6 months)
Estimation of system parameters at a very low SNR by noise pre-filtering 2003-2004
Speech enhancement using small sub-frame sections in DCT domain 2003-2004
Low cost 1D solar tracking system 2003-2004
Person identification using retina pattern 2004-2005
Pattern recognition for vehicle identification (UIU) 2004-2005
Estimation of soft break down parameters in a MOS structure using quantum model (UIU) 2005-2006
Pitch estimation from a voiced segment heavily corrupted by white noise (UIU) 2006-2007
Effect of charge trapping/detrapping in a high dielectric MOS structure using quasi-quantum calculations (UIU) 2006-2007
A residual noise averaging technique for further enhancement of a denoised signal (UIU) 2006-2007
A new power subtraction rule in DCT domain to obtain significant improvement in speech enhancement (UIU) 2006-2007
Quantum model for charge conduction in DNA (UIU) 2009-10
Design and energy cost optimization for Solar Home Systems (UIU) 2009-11
Solar PV-Diesel hybrid based DC microgrid for rural electricity Supply (UIU) 2010-11
A feasibility study of the Solar PV based irrigation system in comparison with diesel based system for rural Bangladesh (UIU) 2010-11

Other

COURSES OFFERED:

a) Undergraduate level – Electrical circuits, Linear System Analysis, Microelectronics, Electromagnetic theory, Electrical Engineering Materials, Data Communications, Microwave Engineering, Signals and Systems.

b) Postgraduate level – Laser theory, Energy Conversion.

 

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE/EXTRA ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

  1. Served as the Provost of the Ahsanullah Hall, the largest students’ hall of residence in Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, September 1996 to January 1998.
  1. Served as the Secretary of the Board of the Undergraduate Studies (BUGS) and the Board of the Post-graduate Studies (BPGS), Department of EEE, BUET.
  1. Served as a member/convenor in different academic and administrative committees like syllabus review committee, development and maintenance of Power electronics and Electronics lab etc.
  1. Involved in different consultancy services provided to the industries organized by the university. A brief list of the important works is given below
  • Estimation of the harmonics injected to the power system by a steel mill
  • Consulting service for the updating and modification of the National Load Dispatch Centre Project, Bangladesh
  • Computer controlled automation for different industries in Bangladesh
  • Earthing design for telecom stations around Bangladesh
  • Consulting services to Unique Power Plant, Meghna Group of Industries, Bangladesh
  1. Served as the Secretary, Technical Committee, International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE 2001), Jan. 5-6, 2001.
  1. Chairman, Technical Standards Committee, the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development Project in Bangladesh implemented by Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) , since 2003.
  1. Served as the Technical Chair, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2002), Dec. 26-28, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  1. Member, Programme Committee, International Conference on Information Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 2003.
  1. Organizing Chair, International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Technology (ICDRET) 2009-2016, Dhaka, Bngaladesh.