Representative Publications

Selected Journals:

[J4] Rishad Arfin, Jeongwoo Son, Jens Niegemann, Dylan McGuire, Mohamed H. Bakr, "Adjoint-Driven Inverse Design of a Quad-Spectral Metasurface Router for RGB-NIR Sensing", Nanomaterials 15 (21), 2025.  (Link) 

[J3] Rishad Arfin, Jens Niegemann, Dylan McGuire, Mohamed H. Bakr, “Adjoint-Assisted Shape Optimization of Microlenses for CMOS Image Sensors", Sensors 24 (23), 2024. (Link) [*Featured as Issue Front-Cover: Link] 

[J2] S.K. Biswas, Arfin, R., Habib, A. B., Amir, S. B., Zahir, Z. B., Islam, M. R., Hussain, M., “A Modified Design of a Hexagonal Circular Photonic Crystal Fiber with Large Negative Dispersion Properties and Ultrahigh Birefringence for Optical Broadband Communication", Photonics 6 (1), 2019. (Link)

[J1] Rifat Ahmed, Rishad Arfin, Monir Hossan Rubel, Kazi Khairul Islam, Congxian Jia, Dimitris Metaxas, Brian S. Garra, S. Kaisar Alam, “Comparison of Windowing Effects on elastography images: Simulation, phantom and in vivo studies”, Ultrasonics, Elsevier, 2016. (Link)

Selected Conferences: 

[C7] Rishad Arfin, Jeongwoo Son, Jens Niegemann, Dylan McGuire, Mohamed H. Bakr, "Optimization of Photonic Structures for CMOS Image Sensors using Adjoint Sensitivity" The 15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Torremolinos - Spain , META 2025. (Link) 

[C6] Jeongwoo Son, Rishad Arfin, Mohamed H. Bakr, Jens Niegemann, "Designing a metasurface color router via photonic inverse design",Metasurface and Subwavelength Gratings for Optical Field Manipulation, The 14th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Toyama - Japan, META 2024 . (Link) 

[C5] Shovasis Kumar Biswas, Rishad Arfin, Syed Athar Bin Amir, Zunayeed Bin Zahir, Ashfia Binte Habib, Riasat Khan, "Design of Highly Nonlinear Asymmetric Bored Core Hexagonal Photonic Crystal Fiber with Large Negative Dispersion", 2021 Fourth International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies, IEEE, ICECCT 2021. (Link) 

[C4] Shovasis Kumar Biswas, Rishad Arfin, Zunayeed Bin Zahir, Ashfia Binte Habib, Riasat Khan, Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Syed Athar Bin Amir, Arif Ul Alam,"Ultrahigh Negative Dispersion Compensating Hexagonal Photonic Crystal Fiber with Large Nonlinearity", SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2021, Online, April 19-29, 2021. (Link) 

[C3] Mahmud Elahi Akhter, Ashfia Binte Habib, Rishad Arfin, Fahimul Haque, Syed Athar Bin Amir, Zunayeed Bin Zahir, Md Shahriar Hussain, Rajesh Palit,"An Analysis of Multi-Organ Segmentation Performance of CNNs on Abdominal Organs with an Emphasis on Kidney", International Conference on Medical Imaging and ComputerAided Diagnosis (MICAD), Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, pp 229-241, 2020. (Link) 

[C2] Ashfia Binte Habib, Mahmud Elahi Akhter, Rafeed Sultaan, Zunayeed Bin Zahir, Rishad Arfin, Fahimul Haque, Syed Athar Bin Amir, Md Shahriar Hussain, Rajesh Palit,"Performance Analysis of Different 2D and 3D CNN Model for Liver Semantic Segmentation: A review", International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-AidedDiagnosis (MICAD), Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, pp 166-174, 2020. (Link)

[C1] Rishad Arfin, Ahmed Elsharabasy, Mohamed Bakr, Shirook Ali, Matiar Howlader,"Parameterization Study of Dual Polarized Cross Bowtie Nano Antenna for Energy Harvesting Application", The 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Incheon - Korea, META 2017. (Link) 

Theses & Dissertations (Bachelors, Masters, & Ph.D.) 

[TD3] Rishad Arfin, "Adjoint-Based Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures for Imaging and Sensing Applications", Ph.D. Thesis, McMaster University, Canada, 2026. 

[TD2] Rishad Arfin, "Energy Harvesting of Infrared Radiation using Dual-Polarized Nanoantennas", Master’s Thesis, McMaster University, Canada, 2017.

[TD1] Rishad Arfin, Rifat Ahmed, Monir Hossan Rubel, "A Novel Approach to Improve the Image Quality and Time Computation of Ultrasound Strain Imaging", Bachelor’s Thesis, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, 2012.

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