Dr. Zahid Ullah Assistant Professor and Head of Department

Current Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pak- Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Pakistan Home Address: Rashid Abad # 2 Street # 7 Madina Masjid Madina Colony Charsadda Road Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Contact: +92 333 9183758 / + 92 317 3366666 / (Home Tel #:) +92 91 2601824 WhatsApp: +92 333 9183758, Skype ID: zahidullahh Email: [email protected], [email protected] Total citations: 425, h-index: 12, i-10 index: 13

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electronic Engineering

City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, CGPA = 4.18/4.30, August 2011-July 2014 • Master of Science in Electronic, Electrical, Control, and Instrumentation Engineering Hanyang University, South Korea, CGPA = 3.75/4.00, March 2008-February 2010 • Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer System Engineering (Hons.) University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pakistan, CGPA = 3.73/4.00, January 2002-March 2006 • Faculty of Science (FSc) in Pre-Engineering Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar, Pakistan 844/1100, 1st Division, (Marks in Additional Mathematics =181/200), 2001 • Faculty of Science (FSc) in Pre-Medical Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar, Pakistan 815/1100, 1st Division, (Marks in Biology = 152/200), 2000 • Matric (Science Group) Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar, Pakistan 667/850,1st Division, 1998

WORK EXPERIENCE 1) Assistant Professor and Head of Department (2020 – till date) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Pakistan 2) Assistant Professor (2014 –2017), Associate Professor (2017 – 2020), and Head of Department (2018 –2020) Department of Electrical Engineering, CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan 3) Teaching Assistant (2011 – 2014) Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 4) Lecturer (2010 - 2011) Department of Electrical Engineering, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar Campus, Pakistan 5) Lecturer (2010 - 2010) Peshawar College of Engineering (affiliated with the University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pakistan) 6) Research Assistant (2008 - 2010) Reliable and High-Speed Computing Lab., Hanyang University, Ansan Campus, South Korea. 7) Lab. Engineer (2007 - 2008) Microprocessor and Systems Lab., Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Mardan Campus, Pakistan.

HONORS AND AWARDS 1) OBE-based Accreditation Award: Received on July 30, 2019 from the honorable president of the CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan for the dedicated hard work in OBE-based Accreditation by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). Under my leadership as Head of Department, PEC granted OBE-based accreditation for two batches of Electrical Engineering (EE-2016 and EE-2015). 2) Best Researcher Award: Received on May 2, 2019 of the Year 2018 from the honorable president of the CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. 3) Letter of Appreciation: From the Vice Chancellor, CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan for acknowledging and appreciating my efforts for the OBA-based PEC Re-Accreditation Visit held on March 29, 30, 2019. 4) Best Researcher Award: Received on April 23, 2018 of the Year 2017 from the honorable president of the CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. 5) Outstanding Academic Performance Award: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong for the academic year 2013-2014. 6) Outstanding Academic Performance Award: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong for the academic year 2012-2013. 7) Research Tuition Fee Scholarship: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong from 01-Oct-13 to 31- Jul-2014. 8) Research Tuition Fee Scholarship: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong from 01-Oct-2012 to 30- Sep-2013. 9) Conference Grant: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong for attending International Conference in Porto, Portugal in 2013. 10) Conference Grant: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong for attending International Conferences in Shanghai, China 2012. 11) Postgraduate Studentship: Awarded by the City University of Hong Kong for PhD studies in 2011. 12) MS Engineering Scholarship: Awarded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan under the HEC project titled MS Level Training in Korean Universities/Industry in 2008. 13) Merit Scholarship: Awarded by the University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan in all four years of B.Sc. Engineering.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY/SERVICE • Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Pakistan - Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. - Chair of the Board of Studies of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. - Member of the Board of Academic Council - Member of the Board of Faculty - Member of Admission Strategy Committee - Member of the Logo Design Committee of PAF-IAST • CECOS University Peshawar, Pakistan - Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering - Chair of the Departmental Industrial Advisory Board - Chair of the Board of Studies of the Department of Electrical Engineering - Member of the Board of Faculty - Member of the Board of Academic Council - Member of PhD admission committee - Member of UFM committee - Chair of the departmental course revision committee - Departmental Postgraduate Studies Advisor - Member of the program team for preparation of self-assessment report (SAR) for MS and PhD • Abasyn University, Peshawar Campus, Pakistan - External member of the Board of Studies of the Department of Electrical Engineering • University of Technology (UoT) Nowshera, Pakistan - External member of the Board of Studies of the Department of Information Engineering Technology • External member for MS Thesis Defense examinations - Invited as External member in many MS Thesis defense examinations at University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan and FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar Campus, Pakistan • Reviewer - Reviewer of several peer reviewed International Journals which include IEEE TCAS-I, IEEE TVLSI, IET Electronic letters, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters • Conference Co-organizer - IEEE International Conference of Emerging Technologies, held on 19-20 December 2015 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Member of steering committee, technical program committee, technical session coordination committee, plenary session committee, chair of registration committee, and co-chair of publication committee.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP • Registered Engineer with Pakistan Engineering Council • Member IEEE

SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS • Supervised 1 PhD student • Supervised more than 15 MS students • Currently supervising 2 PhD students

RESEARCH INTEREST FPGA-based CAM design, embedded systems, pattern recognition using CAM, and image processing

PATENETS

1) 이정아, 인야앳울라, 자히드울라 (Zahid Ullah), A Non-Blocking Updateable Ternary Content- Addressable Memory on FPGA (내용기반 검색 및 동시 업데이트 가능한 FPGA 기반 TCAM 구조). Registration number: 1021343150000. Publication date: 9/7/2020. (http://www.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp) 2) Jeong A Lee, Inayat Ullah, and Zahid Ullah, “TCAM architecture where content-based search is conductible”. Patent Application Publication number: US 2020/0185031 A1, Publication date: 11/6/ 2020. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200185031A1/en) 3) Muhammad Irfan, Ray C. C. Cheung, and Zahid Ullah, “An Electronic Memory Device and a Method of Manipulating the Electronic Memory Device”. US patent application number: 16/671,669. Patent application date: 1/11/2019.

4) 이정아, 인야앳울라, 자히드울라 (Zahid Ullah), “SRAM 기반의 TCAM 데이터 맵핑 방법 및 TCAM 주소 생성 장치”. Registration number: 1018823490000. Publication date: 18/4/2018. (http://www.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp)

5) 백상현, 자히드울라 (Zahid Ullah), “SRAM 기반의 계층별 주소 생성 장치 및 그를 포함하는 주소 생성장치", 한양대학교 산학협력단 출"원”. Registration number: 1010744950000. Publication date: 17/10/2011. (http://www.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp) 6) Sanghyeon Baeg and Zahid Ullah, “SRAM-based Address Generator for Each Layer and Address Generator including the same”. Publication number: WO11/071273. Publication date: 16/6/2011. (https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf)

PUBLICATIONS • JOURNAL PUBLICATONS. 7) Azhar Qazi, Zahid Ullah, and Abdul Hafeez, “Fast Mapping and Updating Algorithms for a Binary CAM on FPGA”. Accepted for publication in the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. (IF = 1.530) 8) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, Abdurrashid I. Sanka, and Ray C. C. Cheung, “"Accelerated Updating Mechanisms for FPGA-based Ternary Content-addressable Memory," in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, doi: 10.1109/LES.2020.2999471. (IF = 1.689) 9) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, Mehdi Hasan Chowdhury, and R. C. C. Cheung, "RPE-TCAM: Reconfigurable Power-Efficient Ternary Content-Addressable Memory on FPGAs," in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1925-1929, Aug. 2020. (IF = 2.037) 10) Omer Mujahid and Zahid Ullah, "High Speed Partial Pattern Classification System Using a CAM-Based LBP Histogram on FPGA," in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 87-90, Sept. 2020. (IF = 1.689) 11) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, and R. C. C. Cheung, " D-TCAM: A High-Performance Distributed RAM Based TCAM Architecture on FPGAs," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 96060-96069, 2019. (IF = 3.745) 12) Muniba Ashfaq, Nasru Minallah, Zahid Ullah, Arbab Masood Ahmad, Aamir Saeed, and Abdul Hafeez, "Performance Analysis of Low-Level and High-Level Intuitive Features for Melanoma Detection”, in MDPI Journal of Electronics, vol. 8, no. 6, publication no. 672, 2019. (IF = 2.412) 13) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, and Ray C. C. Cheung,” Zi-CAM: A Power and Resource Efficient Binary Content-Addressable Memory on FPGAs”, in MDPI Journal of Electronics, vol. 8, no. 5, publication no. 584, 2019. (IF = 2.412) 14) Inayat Ullah, Zahid Ullah, Umar Afzaal, and Jeong-A Lee, "DURE: An Energy- and Resource-Efficient TCAM Architecture for FPGAs with Dynamic Updates", in IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1298-1307, June 2019. (IF = 2.037) 15) Hassan Mahmood, Zahid Ullah, Omer Mujahid, Inayat Ullah and Abdul Hafeez, " Beyond the Limits of Typical Strategies: Resources Efficient FPGA-Based TCAM," in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 89-92, Sept. 2019. (IF = 1.689) 16) Inayat Ullah, Zahid Ullah, and Lee Jeong-A, “'EE-TCAM: An Energy-Efficient SRAM-Based TCAM on FPGA”, in MDPI Journal of Electronics, vol.7, no. 9, publication no. 186, 2018. (IF = 2.412) 17) Omer Mujahid, Zahid Ullah, Hassan Mahmood, and Abdul Hafeez, “Fast Pattern Recognition through an LBP driven CAM on FPGA," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp: 39525 – 39531, 2018. (IF = 3.745) 18) Inayat Ullah, Zahid Ullah, and Jeong A. Lee, "Efficient TCAM Design Based on Multipumping-Enabled Multiported SRAM on FPGA," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp.19940-19947, 2018. (IF = 3.745) 19) Muhammad Riaz, Miraj Muhammad Khan, and Zahid Ullah, “A three-dimensional geometrical scattering model for cellular communication environment,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 3443–3454, Feb 2018. (IF = 1.061) 20) Farkhanda Syed, Zahid Ullah, and Manish K. Jaiswal, "Fast Content Updating Algorithm for an SRAM- Based TCAM on FPGA," in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 73-76, Sept. 2018. (IF = 1.689) 21) Muhammad Irfan and Zahid Ullah, "G-AETCAM: Gate-Based Area-Efficient Ternary Content- Addressable Memory on FPGA," in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 20785-20790, 2017. (IF = 3.745) 22) Zahid Ullah, “LH-CAM: Logic-Based Higher Performance Binary CAM Architecture on FPGA," IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 29-32, June 2017. (IF = 1.689) 23) Zahid Ullah, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, and Ray C. C. Cheung, “E-TCAM: An Efficient SRAM-based Architecture for TCAM”, Springer Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (CSSP), vol. 33,

no. 10, pp.3123-3144, 2014. (IF = 1.681) 24) Zahid Ullah, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, and Ray C. C. Cheung, “Z-TCAM: An SRAM-based architecture for TCAM,” in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 402–406, 2014. (IF = 2.037) 25) Zahid Ullah, Kim Ilgon, and Sanghyeon Baeg, “Hybrid Partitioned SRAM-based Ternary Content Addressable Memory”, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers, 59(12), pp: 2969-2979, December 2012. (IF = 3.318) 26) Sulaiman Khan, Hazrat Ali, Zahid Ullah, Nasru Minallah, Shahid Maqsood, and Abdul Hafeez, “KNN and ANN-based Recognition of Handwritten Pashto Letters using Zoning Features”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), vol. 9, no. 10, pp.576-583, 2018. 27) Habib Ullah, Zahid Ullah, Shahid Maqsood, and Abdul Hafeez, “Web scraper Revealing Trends of Target Products and new insights in Online Shopping Websites”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), vol. 9, no. 6, pp.427-432, 2018. 28) Masroor Ali, Zahid Ullah, Meharban Khan, and Abdul Hafeez, “Secure and Efficient Routing Mechanism in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks". International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), vol. 9, no. 4, pp.436-441, 2018. 29) Zain Ul Abedin and Zahid Ullah, "Design of a Microstrip Patch Antenna with high Bandwidth and high Gain for UWB & different Wireless Applications". International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), vol. 8, no.10, pp. 379-382, 2017. 30) Farkhanda Syed and Zahid Ullah, “Updating Algorithm for SRAM-based TCAM and its Implementation on FPGA”. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 15, no.

1, pp. 116-120, 2017. 31) Alishpa Khattak, Amjad Ullah Khattak, Zahid Ullah, Kinza Ali, and Usman Yousaf, “Analysis and Optimization of Radial Distribution Network Using GIS and GPS Techniques”. International Journal of

Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 1-6, 2016. 32) Meharban Khan, Zahid Ullah, Qazi Muddussir, and Sarmad Ullah Khan, “Address Resolution Protocol Caching in Optimized RAM-Based CAM”. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 1014-1018, 2016 33) Rizwan Ullah, Abdar Ali, and Zahid Ullah, “Zero Voltage Switched Full Bridge Converters for the Battery Charger of Electric Vehicle”. International Journal of Electrical, Computer, Energetic, Electronic and Communication Engineering, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1046 – 1055, 2016 34) Abdar Ali, Rizwan Ullah, and Zahid Ullah, “DC-to-DC Converters for Low-Voltage High-Power Renewable Energy Systems”, International Journal of Electrical, Computer, Energetic, Electronic and Communication Engineering, vol.9, no.12, pp.1276-1281, 2015. 35) Zahid Ullah and Sanghyeon Baeg, “Vertically Partitioned SRAM-based Ternary Content Addressable Memory”, “International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET)”, 4(6), pp: 760-764, 12/2012.

• CONFERENCE PAPERS 36) Najib Ur Rehman, Omer Mujahid, Zahid Ullah, Abdul Hafeez, and Tama Fouzder, "Power Efficient FPGA-based TCAM Architecture by using Segmented Matchline Strategy," 2019 International Conference on Advances in the Emerging Computing Technologies (AECT), Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 2020, pp. 1-4. 37) Muhammad Shafeeq, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zahid Ullah, Abdul Hafeez, and Tama Fouzder, "A Wearable Millimeter Wave MIMO Antenna Design For High Frequency Applications," 2019 International Conference on Advances in the Emerging Computing Technologies (AECT), Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 2020, pp. 1-4. 38) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, and Ray C. C. Cheung, "High Performance Power-Efficient Gate-Based CAM for Reconfigurable Computing," 2019 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Shenzhen, China, 2019, pp. 327-331 39) Najib Ur Rehman, Omer Mujahid, Muhammad Irfan, Abdul Hafeez, and Zahid Ullah, "Low Power Pre- comparison Configuration Strategy for a Logic-based Binary CAM on FPGA," 2019 Second International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), Karachi, Pakistan, 2019, pp. 1-5. 40) Omer Mujahid, Zahid Ullah, Abdul Hafeez, and Tama Fouzder, “Design Exploration of LH-CAM with Updating Mechanism”. In proceedings of International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence: IJCCI 2019, Bangladesh, 2019. 41) Zahid Ullah, Nasru Minallah, Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat, Abdul Hafeez, and Tama Fouzder, "Performance Analysis of Cache Size and Set-Associativity using simpleScalar Benchmark," 2019 5th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019, pp. 440-447. 42) Muhammad Irfan, Ray C. C. Cheung, and Zahid Ullah, “High-Throughput Re-configurable content- addressable memory on FPGAs”. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Information Technology and Computer Communications (ITCC 2019), Singapore, 2019, pp. 101-106. 43) Muhammad Irfan, Zahid Ullah, and Ray C. C. Cheung, "Bank-selective Strategy for Gate-based Ternary Content-addressable Memory on FPGAs," 2019 IEEE 30th International Conference on Application- specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), New York, NY, USA, 2019, pp. 288-291. 44) Inayat Ullah, Umar Afzaal, Zahid Ullah, and Jeong-A Lee, “High-Speed Configuration Strategy for Configurable Logic Block-based TCAM Architecture on FPGA”, 2018 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Prague, Czech Republic, 2018, pp. 16-21. 45) Azhar Qazi, Zahid Ullah, Khalid Rehman, Muhammad Hilal Khan, and Muhammad Bilal, "Optimization of access latency in DRAM," IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Quetta, Pakistan, 2016, pp. 163-168. 46) Muhammad Bilal, Rizwan Ullah, Abdar Ali, Muhammad Hilal Khan, and Zahid Ullah, “Wheeling Hybrid Energy System for Industries”, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Quetta, Pakistan, 2016, pp. 169-174. 47) Zahid Ullah, Manish K. Jaiswal, Ray C.C. Cheung, and Hayden K.H. So, "UE-TCAM: An ultra efficient SRAM-based TCAM," TENCON 2015 - 2015 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Macao, 2015, pp. 1-6. 48) Zahid Ullah, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, and Ray C. C. Cheung "Design space explorations of Hybrid- Partitioned TCAM (HP-TCAM)," 2013 23rd International Conference on Field programmable Logic and Applications, Porto, 2013, pp. 1-4. 49) Zahid Ullah, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, Y. C. Chan, and Ray C. C. Cheung "FPGA Implementation of SRAM-based Ternary Content Addressable Memory," 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum, Shanghai, 2012, pp. 383-389 50) Sultan Daud Khan and Zahid Ullah, “An Approach to Block/Sub-Block Level Functional Parallelism for Homogeneous Multiprocessor Architectures”, 2011 International Conference on Computer, Communication and Information Technology (ICCCIT 2011), pp: 17-21, 3/12/2011 - 4/12/2011.