About

Dr. Akhlaqur Rahman (AK) is the Academic Course Coordinator and Lecturer for the school of Industrial Automation at Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT), Melbourne, Australia. AK is also member of IEEE and Engineers Australia (MIEAust). Akhlaqur completed his PhD from Swinburne University of Technology in 2019. Before joining Swinburne, he was a Lecturer and Coordinator for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2013 to 2014. From 2018 to 2019, he was involved as Research Assistant at Deakin University. Overall AK has 8 years of teaching experience in Bangladesh, Australia and Online.

Akhlaqur (AK) is an experienced Electrical and Mechatronics researcher looking to apply my education background, managerial experience and hoping to make a difference in the world. He has over 20+ publication (3 Q1 Journals, 3 top flagship conferences) and is also reviewer for IEEE TII, and MDPI Robotics Journal. AK's research interests include cloud networked robotics, task offloading, Industry 4.0 Automation, energy efficiency, optimization, smart manufacturing and Internet of Things (IoT).

Besides that, AK is a Competent Communicator and effective leader, having received the "Swinburne Emerging Leadership Award" from Swinburne University. He communication aptitude is also backed up by his great IELTS score and being the winner at the "3 Minute Thesis Competition". Akhlaqur has also won the IEEE Travel Grant for IEEE Globecom and was the First Ever MATLAB Student Ambassador in Australia (29 in the world) as an employee of Mathworks, Inc.

Given his experience, AK is looking forward to challenging himself with opportunities in industry as well as academia.

Announcements:

• Akhlaqur is currently looking authors to contribute to the journal Special Issue "Recent Trends in Innovation for Industry 4.0 Sensor Networks" where he is the Guest Editor (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jsan/special_issues/industry_sensor_networks). The deadline is October 2020

• Akhlaqur is looking for academics with expertise in Machine Learning for future collaboration (August 2020)

• Akhlaqur is looking for instructors with expertise in PLC and SCADA (Melbourne and Perth Based) for teaching at EIT in Semester 1, 2021

• Akhlaqur is looking lecturers with expertise in IoT and 5G for collaboration regarding content development (Feb 2021)

News

• Akhlaqur has been elected as "Secratary" for IEEE Victoria for 2022-2023 Term.

• Akhlaqur has been successful in his nomination to join the Engineers Australia Branch Committee of Information, Telecommunications, and Electronics Engineering (ITEE) College Board for the term 2022-2023.

• Akhlaqur has started a new role as the "Secratary for IEEE ComSoc" (Victoria).

• Akhlaqur has received "certificate of appreciation" from IEEE Young Professional Society (VIC) for his contribution in 2021.

• Akhlaqur's paper "Selection of Appropriate Dispatch Strategies for Effective Planning and Operation of a Microgrid" has been published in MDPI Energies (Q2). (Nov 2021)

• Akhlaqur's paper on "Real-time Cloud Empowered Virtual Manufacturing System" has been accepted for publication as a book chapter in "Handbook of Real-time Computing", Springer, 2021.

• Akhlaqur has been selected as the "Secretary for IEEE Young Professionals Executive Committee (VIC Section)" for 2021.

• Akhlaqur's paper on "Industry 4.0 for Medical Service" and "Sensor system latency in VR motion sickness" has been accepted for MDPI JSAN [July 2021]

• Akhlaqur has recently been elevated to "IEEE Senior Member" (SMIEEE) [July 2021]

• Akhlaqur's survey paper on "Resource Allocation for Cloud Robotics" has been accepted at IEEE COMST (IF- 25.2)[March 2021]

• Akhlaqur has recently completed "Professional Certificate of Competency in Specification and Technical Writing" with a grade of "A" (90+) from Engineering Institute of Technology [Feb 2021]

• Akhlaqur has recently been invited to do a Special Talk/speech at the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Electrical and Signal Processing Techniques 2021 (ICREST), Jan 2021

• Akhlaqur has been approved as a member of the technical society: "Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE)", Sep 2020

• Akhlaqur's paper from his master student's thesis "A Magnetic Hybrid Stationary Bicycle Design for Improved Standalone Power Generation " is accepted for publication at International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES 2020), Australia.

• Akhlaqur's paper "Load Profile Segmentation using Residential Energy Consumption Data" has been accepted for publication at International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES 2020), Perth, Australia

• Akhlaqur has been approved as a member for the Institute of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)- August 2020

• Akhlaqur has been invited to join as a member of the "Program Committee board" for SGES conference 2020, Perth, Australia.

• Akhlaqur is starting his new role as the "Acadmic Coordinator" for School of Industrial Automation Engineering , EIT (June 2020).

• Akhlaqur has reached 200 citations for Google Scholar (June 2020)

• Akhlaqur just had a paper titled "An Awareness Study of Smartmeters Radiation on Human Head " accepted at IEEE Greentech 2020, to be held in Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

• Akhlaqur has been invited to join as a member of the "Program Committee board" for IEEE Greentech 2020, OK, USA.

• Akhlaqur recieved the "Best Paper Award" for the paper titled "An Efficient Smart Cane Based Navigation System For Visually Impaired People" at IEEE ISAECT 2019, held in Rome, Italy.

• Akhlaqur presented two papers on PKL and Smart Cane at IEEE ISAECT 2019 in Rome, Italy

• Akhlaqur presented at a seminar at American International University- Bangladesh on Cloud Robotics and EIT (Nov 2019)

• Akhlaqur recently presented at a seminar at North South University (Bangladesh) on Cloud Robotics and EIT (Nov 2019)

• Akhlaqur recently presented at a seminar at Indigo Consultancy (Bangladesh) for prospective students of EIT. (Nov 2019)

• Akhlaqur has been appointed as the "Guest Editor" for MDPI Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (JSAN) in the special issues on "Recent Innovations in Industry 4.0 Sensor Network", to be published in 2020.

• Akhlaqur just got two papers accepted for publications for IEEE ISAECT 2019 in Rome, Italy.

• Akhlaqur has been invited to join the "Course Advisory Committee" for course design for Masters of Electrical Engineering (MEE) at Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT)

• Akhlaqur was appointed as the member of the reviewer board for the MDPI Robotics Journal (CiteScore-1.53 Scopus).

• Akhlaqur just reached 50 paper citations for the year 2019

• Akhlaqur recently was put in-charge of the "Mentors Program" for the Melbourne Campus, EIT.

• Akhlaqur got his paper "Energy-Efficient Optimal Task Offloading in Cloud Networked Multi-Robot Systems " published at Computer Networks Journal (Q1, Impact Factor- 3.030).

• Akhlaqur started a new job as a Full-Time Lecturer at Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) ,Melbourne, Australia.

• Akhlaqur has completed his teaching and research responsibilities at Swinburne and Deakin (May 2019).

• Akhlaqur received "Swinburne Emerging Leadership Award" for contribution in curricular and extra-curricular activities.