Zafar Iqbal

1. Research Scientist Ford Motor Company, USA Jan 2019 - present

2. Research Assistant Professor Michigan Technological University, USA Nov 2017 - Nov 2018

Architecture design and implementation of convex optimization algorithms on FPGA.
Research on intelligent, reliable, and energy-efficient wireless sensor networks.

3. Research Assistant Gwangju Inst. of Sc. and Tech., Korea Dec 2011–Nov 2017

Design and performance analysis of error correcting codes such as LDPC codes and Raptor codes.
Design of network coding schemes for cooperative and distributed sensor communication systems.
Designed and simulated an indoor wireless sensor network for cooperative sensing and monitoring of industrial and office buildings.
Designed and simulated an underwater wireless acoustic sensor communication network by employing network coding for cooperative communications.

4. R&D Engineer Vieworks Co. Ltd., Seongnam, Korea Feb 2011–Jul 2011

Responsible for the development of the industrial camera communication standard GiGE Vision, including development and implementation on FPGA.
Designed and developed SDRAM and DDR3 SDRAM controllers for FPGA and ASIC based designs.
Debugging of the GiGE Vision system FPGA design and implementation issues and integration with the whole system.

5. Research Assistant Gwangju Inst. of Sc. and Tech., Korea Sep 2008–Jan 2011

Worked on MIMO-OFDM communication system design and its implementation on FPGA.
Designed and implemented a WiMAX based system on FPGA with a reduced-latency interleaver and having low power consumption.

6. Telecom Engineer ZTE Corporation, Shanghai, P.R. China Oct 2005–Mar 2008

Involved in the design and implementation of FPGA based designs that are used in switching and data transmission applications.
Worked on the testing, documentation, and conducted trainings for a number of ZTE network planning and optimization tools and GSM products, BSCs and indoor/outdoor BTSs.
Managed a team of ten testing/documentation engineers and played a key role in documentation and software quality assurance.
Involved in the installation of ZTE GSM BSS equipment for CM Pak Pvt. Ltd., Pakistan.

7. Hardware Engineer RWR Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad, Pakistan Mar 2005–Oct 2005

Designed and implemented a part of the Radar Warning Receiver on Xilinx Spartan III FPGA, for the Pakistan Air Force.
Designed and implemented the mother board of Radar Warning Receiver with Motorola MPC as its main processors.
Implemented high speed data transmission algorithms such as the SMII standard on FPGA.

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Thesis Title: Cooperation and decision-making strategies for harsh communication environments

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Thesis Title: Channel Coding and Interleaving Strategies in MIMO-OFDM Systems

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Thesis Title: Digital QPSK Modulation and Demodulation Implemented on FPGA