Faculty Profile

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Email: abubakr@lums.edu.pk

    Dr. Muhammad Abubakr

    Associate Professor

    Department of Electrical Engineering

    Dr. Abubakr Muhammad does fundamental research at the interface of systems engineering, applied mathematics and applied physics, on various problems in robotics, distributed sensing, network dynamics and quantum information sciences. His interests span the study of connections and complexity in large-scale distributed networks; topological methods for information discovery in massive data sets; and communication, computation & control issues in the physics of information. He has also worked and consulted for the industry on the design of air traffic control systems, radar & sonar systems, communication equipments and medical instrumentation. His current research focuses on the development of cyber-physical systems for development and critical infrastructures in Pakistan, in particular issues related to water.

    Dr. Abubakr received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (2005). As a graduate student, he also got a masters degree in Mathematics (2005) and a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (2002) from Georgia Tech. He completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan (2000). Before joining LUMS, he has taught and done research as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Canada (2007-2008) and at the University of Pennsylvania, USA (2006-2007).

    TitlePublicationAuthorYear
    Socio-Hydrology of Channel Flows in Complex River Basins: Rivers, Canals, and Distributaries in Punjab, PakistanWater Resources ResearchWescoat J.L., Siddiqi A., Muhammad A.2018
    Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant smart water meters for automating large-scale waterwaysProceedings of the 2017 IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, IDAACS 2017Ahmad Z., Pasha M.A., Ahmad A., Muhammad A., Masud S., Schappacher M., Sikora A.2017
    Structural Effects and Aggregation in a Social-Network Model of Natural Resource ConsumptionIFAC-PapersOnLineManzoor T., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A.2017
    Road traversability analysis using network properties of roadmapsIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and SystemsKhan M.M., Ali H., Berns K., Muhammad A.2016
    Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumptionEcological ModellingManzoor T., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A.2016
    Managing river basins with thinking machines2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, 21CW 2016Muhammad A.2016
    Gate Automation for Closed Loop Control of Distributary Irrigation Canals in the Indus BasinProceedings - 2015 13th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2015Ibrahim S., Soban M., Akhtar F., Muhammad A.2016
    IoT Enabled Analysis of Irrigation Rosters in the Indus Basin Irrigation SystemProcedia EngineeringMuhammad A., Haider B., Ahmad Z.2016
    A Smart Metering Approach towards Measuring Flows in Small Irrigation OutletsProcedia EngineeringRiaz W., Ahmad Z., Muhammad A.2016
    Comparative Frameworks for Risk Mitigation in Canal NetworksProcedia EngineeringRehmat C.A., Muhammad A., Hassan N.U.2016
    A framework for aerial inspection of siltation in waterwaysIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and SystemsAnwar H., Muhammad A., Berns K.2015
    An extension of the Kalman Filter for a class of measurement models inspired by wide-baseline stereo2015 European Control Conference, ECC 2015Manzoor T., Muhammad A.2015
    Low power hydrometry for open channel flowsIECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)Ahmad Z., Muhammad A.2014
    Optimal control for sustainable consumption of natural resourcesIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)Manzoor T., Aseev S., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A.2014
    System identification of distributory canals in the indus basinIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)Aleem S.A., Muhammad A., Nasir H.A.2014
    Improving efficiency and reliability of gunshot detection systemsICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ProceedingsAhmed T., Uppal M., Muhammad A.2013
    Sample size reduction in groundwater surveys via sparse data assimilation2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2013Hussain Z., Muhammad A.2013
    Improvements in accuracy of single camera terrain classification2013 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013Abbas S.M., Muhammad A., Mehdi S.A., Berns K.2013
    Development of a Low-Power Smart Water Meter for Discharges in Indus Basin Irrigation NetworksCommunications in Computer and Information ScienceAhmad Z., Asad E.U., Muhammad A., Ahmad W., Anwar A.2013
    Modeling and simulation of surface-and-dive behavior of a bottlenose dolphin2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013Sikandar U.B., Muhammad A.2013
    Disparity as a separate measurement in monocular SLAM2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013Manzoor T., Muhammad A.2013
    System identification of Khaira distributory2013 16th International Multi Topic Conference, INMIC 2013Aleem S.A., Khalid A., Zaheer H., Jabbar S., Muhammad A.2013
    Development of a virtual test bed for a robotic dead man's switch in high speed driving2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2012Ahsan U., Fuzail M., Raza Q., Muhammad A.2012
    Locating leaks & dumps in open channels with minimal sensingProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control ApplicationsNasir H.A., Muhammad A.2012
    Model-driven performance analysis of large scale irrigation networksProceedings - 2012 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2012Tariq M.U., Nasir H.A., Muhammad A., Wolf M.2012