Farrukh Waheed

• Part of Control and Optimization group at UCEEB
• Working on SAFEBATT project to design safety alarm features for e-mobility Li-ion batteries as per ISO-26262 standard
• Collaborating with 3 industry partners for model-based design and simulation studies using MATLAB/SIMULINK using SIMSCAPE BATTERY
• Development of early alarm hardware for Li-ion battery modules ensuring robustness and safety.

• Design and development of front end electronics and software solutions for pixel detectors readouts.
• STM32F401RE Microcontroller based solution design and development for stepper motor position monitoring and control for X-Ray source installed at IEAP.
• Design, development and implementation of TimePIX-3 Mini miniature pixel detector and readout module based on TPX-3 Silicon sensor with full-featured USB 3.0 interface.
• Designed a complete 6-layers PCB for the USB3.0 compliant super-speed design keeping in view the EMC of the circuit in consideration. The design was based on Altera Cyclone-10 LP FPGA acting as FIFO master and for necessary pre-processing and FTDI FT601QT as USB-3.0 to FIFO bridge.
• PCB stuffing/ Soldering of PCBs with SMDs, through-hole devices.
• Firmware development for microcontroller based solutions.
• Part of projects INAFYM and MICADO with international collaboration and reputation (http:// www.utef.cvut.cz/micado_en).

• Maintenance of scientific & vacuum equipment.
• Vacuum system design in medium vacuum (MV) and Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) range.
• Instrumentation & controls.
• Vacuum gauge calibration.
• Electronics design & development.
• Designed & development of hardware for the automatic control of vacuum equipment based on LabVIEW and MCU integration.
• Quality documentation as per IEC/ISO 17025 International standard for vacuum gauges calibrations.

• Lead a project for LabVIEW based control of Standard Helium Leak Calibration (SLCS) equipment. From complete panel design, electrification, electronic controls and LabVIEW based HMI design and its integration with microcontroller based hardware.
• Firmware development for microcontroller based solutions.
• Hardware design and development for DAQ based on communication interfaces like SPI, I2C, CAN, RS485, RS232, 1-Wire protocols.

• Served as team member involved in the indigenous design and development of a 60kVA and 90kVA Ground Power Units (GPU) for military aircrafts of Pakistan Airforce (PAF).
• Designed Transformer Rectifier Unit (TRU) electronics (from thyristor's gate drive, current sensing, current limiting, signal conditioning, monitoring and control circuitry) for the 60kVA system. It is capable to deliver 28.5V DC with 1200A starting current provision and with adjustable current limiting of 300A to 1200A and line drop compensation to assure proper voltage at aircrafts.

• Designed & developed temperature indicator for CERN compliant Front End Boards (FEBs) used in Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) of LHC at Geneva, Switzerland. The hardware was based on PIC18F452 MCU and the communication protocol for temperature data logging to PC (using Hyper Terminal in Windows) was through simple serial interface (RS232) using PIC MCU's UART module. The temperature sensor used was Maxim DS18B20 1-Wire Temperature sensor working with 1-Wire protocol. The PCB for the entire hardware was designed and worked out in PCAD software.
• Micro-controller Based DAQ Hardware Design for scientific instrumentation and controls.
• Operation and handling on LabVIEW operated DAQ hardware from CAEN for the Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) based radiation detectors read-out .

• Development of control module cards for PARR-1 nuclear reactor control deck's back-pane.
• The worked out cards were MCU based (PIC18F and ATMega) and also on analog circuitry (such as Op Amps).
• Analog Instrumentation and embedded controls.

• Development of Demo Board for Digital Energy Meter Graphical LCD.
• Firmware development in C using MikroC for PIC as RTOS for PIC18F452 microcontroller based hardware.

• Awarded Rector's Scholarship.
• Thesis Title: Time-Varying MPC of Under-actuated Systems Using Dynamics Decomposition & Exponential Data Weighting
• Published 2 Journal Articles in highly impacted Q1 ranked journal (IEEE Access) and 1 publication in well-reputed and impacted international IEEE conference in held in Poland.
• All publications are indexed in Web of Sciences (WoS), SCOPUS and IEEE Xplore.
• Invited for 4-weeks as a hosted researcher by ACSD Labs at TU Chemnitz, Germany in November 2022.

Courses Studied

• Linear System Theory
• Control Systems Design
• Stochastic Processes
• Non-linear Control Systems
• Robust Control Systems
• Advanced Topics In Control Engineering
• Optimization Techniques
• Sliding Mode Control
• LMI In Control

Thesis: Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Ball on Beam System

Courses Studied

• Microprocessor/ Micro-controller Architecture
• Signals & Systems
• Basic Electronics
• Electronics-1
• Electronics-2
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• Computer Architecture & Organization
• VLSI Design
• Communication Technology-1
• Communication Technology-2
• Digital & Analog Control Systems
• Real-Time Embedded Systems
• Mobile Communications
• Project Planning & Design
• Product Development & Quality Control
• Digital Logic Design

Final Year Project : DSP/ Microcontroller Based ECG Monitor