Research

Canadian Grants 

• I worked as a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for the Applied Research and Technology Partnership Grants entitled “Implementing the Convergence of Industry 4.0 Technologies” awarded $400, 000 from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, November 2021 - October 2023.  

As a Postdoc Fellow:  May 2017- May 2019

• A Comprehensive Intelligent Monitoring System for Mines, NSERC-CRD project approved in May 2019, $520,000

• A Scalable Wireless Positioning Sensor Network for Industrial Automation, NSERC-CRD project approved in May 2017, $305,000 

• Building a Fully Automated and Descriptive Asset & Inventory Management System for Advanced Manufacturing, OCE-VIP II project approved in March 2017, $380,000

Previous Grants (as a Principal Investigator )  April 2014 – August 2015

• Energy Efficient Multipath Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks, a research project funded by College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, $15,000

• Secure Anonymous Routing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks, a research project funded by College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia $15,000

Lead Researcher  March 2014 – August 2015

• Modeling and Simulation of Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Testbed, a research and development project funded by the National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation, Saudi Arabia, $700,000

Research Assistant (as a Ph.D. Student)  September 2007 – December 2011                                                                                                                                                  Mobile Networks Lab, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

• Design and Development of Medium Access Control (MAC) and Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks, Funded by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Ministry of Knowledge Economy, South Korea

Other Projects Involved   September 2007 – January 2011  

• Development of Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Coexistence in Heterogeneous Systems, funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) June 2010 – January 2011

• Awareness and Cooperation in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation and Sharing, funded by Korea Research Foundation    Jul. 2008–Jun. 2010

• Development of TV Multi-Band Radio Resource Management Scheme for Coexistence, funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) April 2009 – October 2009

• Cognitive Radio Technologies, Mobile/Wireless Communication Network Protocol and Algorithm Research, funded by Korea Research Foundation September 2007 – June 2008

Ph.D. Thesis, February 2012

        Design of a Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

        Department of Electronics Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Master's Thesis, March 2005

        An Algorithm to Extract Rules from Artificial Neural Networks

        Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

Master of Information Technology Security Capstone Project, August 2021 

Securing Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Applications and Challenges of AI and ML in 5G Network

School of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada

Master's Thesis Supervised (Total Two)

T 1. Lyan Alwakeel, Interaction with Public Displays through Smart Phones Department of Software Engineering, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, May 2016

T 2. Md. Anisur Rahman, Performance Analysis of Pulse Shaping Technique for OFDM Peak to Average  Power Ratio (PAPR) Reduction Department of Information   and Communication Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, August 2007

Bachelor’s Project/Thesis Supervised (Total 24) 

At the School of Information Technology, St. Clair College

P1. IT Challenges & Security: Centerline Case Study (2022)

P2. Virtual Training for Staff Members in an IT Environment (2022)

P3. Improving IT Efficiency Using PowerShell (2022)

P4. Organization and System Infrastructure of Jubzi Inc. (2021)

P5. Downtown Mission Charity Donation Marketing Plan (2021)

At the Department of Software Engineering, King Saud University

P6.    Disaster Information Management System

P7.    Cloud-based Backup Service to Android Users

P8.    Health Monitoring System for Epilepsy Patients

 At the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Rajshahi

P9.    Study of Various Routing Protocols in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

P10.    Study of Smart Home: An Application of  Smart Grid

At the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manarat International University

P11.    A Hardware-Software Co-Method for Low Cost EPROM Programmer 

P12.    Comparison of Various Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks 

P13.    Bengali License Plate Recognition using Artificial Neural Networks

P14.    Continuous Data Compression with Neural Network

P15.    An approach to Detect Malapropism for Bangla Spell Checker

At the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong

P16.    Rotation Invariant Face Detection using Wavelet, PCA and Radial Basis Function Networks         

P17.    Automatic Categorization of Paper Abstracts for Conference Management

P18.    Speech Recognition using MFCC-domain Support Vector Machine 

P19.    An Efficient Technique for Text Compression 

P20.    An Enhanced Cell Phone Keypad Layout 

P21.    Optimal Bangla Keyboard Layout using Data Mining Association Rule 

P22.    Web Page Classification using Artificial Neural Networks with Automatic Feature Extraction 

P23.    Text Classification using Association Rule with a Hybrid Concept of Naïve Bayes Classifier and Genetic Algorithm 

P24.    Medical Diagnosis using Neural Networks

At Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Postgraduate Diploma Projects (Total 29) 

PG1. Wireless Vehicle Accident Alert System

PG2.     Design and Development of a Secure Website for a Startup Company

PG3. Network Automation using Ansible and Python

PG4.      Wireless Patient Monitoring System

PG5.      Fuel Theft Prevention System using MBED Controller Module and RFID

PG6.     Design and Implementation of an Enterprise Network Infrastructure

PG7.      Vehicle Theft Prevention System using GPS and GSM Module

PG8.     GPS and GSM tracker using Arduino

PG9.     Design and Implementation of Communication Network Infrastructure

PG10.   Wireless Coverage Experiments using BLINQ’s LTE Fixed Wireless Access

PG11.    Home Security System with GSM using Arduino Microcontroller

PG12.   IoT-based Smart Garage Door Opener using Raspberry Pi

PG13.   Network Automation to Manage Static IP Addresses using Ansible

PG14.   Managing VLAN through Network Automation using Ansible and Python

PG15.   Automatic Car Parking using Arduino and Physical Sensors

PG16.   Automatic Home Appliances Controller

PG17.    Design an Offline Network for Accessing Lecture Materials

PG18.   Humidity and Temperature Monitoring using Arduino with the IoT

PG19.   Humidity and Temperature Monitoring using Raspberry Pi

PG20.  Automatic Car Parking System

PG21.   Wireless Home Security System

PG22.  Network Automation using Python on Cisco Routers/Switches

PG23. Garage Door Opener using Raspberry Pi

PG24. Hotel Management System over Intranet using Packet Tracer

PG25. Wireless Vehicle Theft Alert System

PG26. Socket Programming using Python for Wireless Communication

PG27. Seamless Network Connection in Subway

PG28.   Simulation of DDoS Attack on SDN using Floodlight Controller and Mininet

PG29.   Automatic Parking System using IoT

Diploma Projects (Total 24) 

D1. Design and Implementation of a WiFi-based Home Automation System

D2.        Storage Area Network (SAN) on Demand

D3.        Web Server Security

D4.        Indoor Localization using Raspberry Pi and WiFi

D5.        Bluetooth-based Wireless Home Automation System

D6.       Cyber Attacks and Preventions

D7.        Setting up Virtual Enterprise Network through Site-to-Site VPN

D8.       Enterprise Wireless Network using Wireless Controller

D 9.      Enterprise Network using Routing and Switching

D10.     Secure Storage in a Physical and Virtual Network Environment

D11.      Network Automation using Python

D12.     Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a DNS server and using it as a Network Scanning Tool

D13.     Setting up a Virtual Call Center using Open Source Asterisk

D14.     Introducing Multi-factor Authentication in Setting up a File Server

D15.     Building E-commerce Application using Amazon AWS

D16.    Superbuy: An E-commerce Application using LAMP in Cloud Infrastructure

D17.     Web Application Based Appointment Management System on AWS

D18.    Set up and Configuration of Asterisk

D19.    IT Support Ticketing Application using PHP

D20. E-commerce Application using LAMP in AWS Cloud

D21.    WordPress AWS Project for Creating Personalized Website

D22.   DRUPAL: High Availability on AWS Cloud Services

D23.   Auction based E-commerce Application using AWS Platform

D24.  Creating Apache Webserver and Accessing the Website in Linux