Research

Research Interest - Keywords:

• Wireless Sensor Networks.
• Social Networks.
• Machine Intelligence: Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Pattern classification, Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence.
• Internet of Things.
• Internet Safey.
• Wireless Communications.
• Ubiquitous computing.
• Mobile IP.
• Peer-to-Peer Networks.
• Network Security.
• e-Learning.

Supervised Senior Projects:

• Semester I 2010/2011
  • Smart Mailbox Notification System.
  • Web-camera based 3D Imaging and video system.
• Semester II 2009/2010
  • Sensor Network Collaboration via Twitter.
  • Remote Gas Leak Detection System (continue from S1).
  • Using Webcam for Event Detection (continue from S1).
• Semester I 2009/2010
  • Road Condition Reporting System using Webcam.
  • Classroom Response System (CRS).
  • Using Webcam for Event Detection.
  • Remote Gas Leak Detection System.
• Semester II 2008/2009
  • Towards a Real-time Adaptive Approach for Assessment and Evaluation Models Using Hand-held Devices.
  • Remote Environment Monitoring using Hand-held Devices.

Workshop and Continuous Professional Development

• PCAP: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, York St. John, 2009-Present.
• E-Training, BIPA - Bahrain Institute of Public Administration, 12 to 15 April 2010.
• Executive Space course, International Space University, 7 to 11 March 2010.

Selected Publications:

• M. Baqer. Event Recognition via Energy Efficient Voting for Wireless Sensor Networks. The 3rd Conference on Smart Spaces (ruSMART'10), LNCS, Volume 6294/2010, 148-159, St.Petersburg, Russia, August 23-24 2010.
• M. Baqer. VRNS: a New Energy Efficient Event Recognition Approach via Voting with Random Node Selection. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10), Santa Barbara, USA, June 2010.
• M. Baqer. Enabling Collaboration and Coordination of Wireless Sensor Networks Via Social Networks. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10), Santa Barbara, USA, June 2010.
• M. Baqer and Asad I. Khan, Energy-Efficeint Pattern Recognition for Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Intelligence: Mobile Computing and Computational Intelligence, John Wiley and Sons, January, 2010.
• M. Baqer and Adel Kamal. S-Sensors: Integrating Physical World Input with Social Networks using Wireless Sensor Networks. 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor network, and Information Processing, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2009.
• M. Baqer and Adel Kamal. ACRS: An Advanced Classroom Response System Architecture for Learning Enhancement. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Developments of eSystems Engineering (DeSE). Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2009.
• M. Baqer and A. I. Khan. Energy-Efficient Pattern Recognition Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks. In, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor network, and Information Processing, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2007.
• M. Baqer, Zubair A. Baig, and A. I. Khan. SGSIA - In-Network Data Preprocessing for Secure Grid-Sensor Integration. In, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December, 2006.
• M. Baqer, Zubair A. Baig, and A. I. Khan. A Pattern Recognition Scheme for Detecting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. In, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), Hong Kong, China, August, 2006.
• M. Baqer, A. I. Khan, and Z. A. Baig. Implementing a Graph Neuron Array for Pattern Recognition within Unstructured Wireless Sensor Networks (UISW'05), Japan, LNCS December 2005.