Faculty Profile
Dr. Muhammad Abubakr
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Abubakr Muhammad is an associate professor and chair of electrical engineering, the founding director of the Center for Water Informatics & Technology (WIT), and the lead for NCRA National Agricultural Robotics Lab at LUMS. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA winning an institute-wide best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He received master's degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and McGill University. Since 2008, his research group at LUMS is doing applied research in robotics, automation and AI with applications to water, agriculture, and environmental issues. He serves on various advisory panels to government agencies and industry in Pakistan on water, climate and agricultural policy, especially on the use of emerging digital technologies for these sectors.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stability of Leaderless Resource Consumption Networks | Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control | Ruf S.F., Hale M.T., Manzoor T., Muhammad A. | 2019 |
| Spatially distributed water quality monitoring using floating sensors | Proceedings: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society | Ahmad Z., Khalid R., Muhammad A. | 2018 |
| Socio-hydrological assessment of water security in canal irrigation systems: A conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability | Water Security | Siddiqi A., Wescoat J.L., Muhammad A. | 2018 |
| Socio-Hydrology of Channel Flows in Complex River Basins: Rivers, Canals, and Distributaries in Punjab, Pakistan | Water Resources Research | Wescoat J.L., Siddiqi A., Muhammad A. | 2018 |
| Learning through fictitious play in a game-theoretic model of natural resource consumption | IEEE Control Systems Letters | Manzoor T., Rovenskaya E., Davydov A., Muhammad A. | 2018 |
| Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant smart water meters for automating large-scale waterways | Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, IDAACS 2017 | Ahmad 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 Consumption | IFAC-PapersOnLine | Manzoor T., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A. | 2017 |
| Compressive sensing on the sphere: Slepian functions for applications in geophysics | Compressive Sensing of Earth Observations | Khalid Z., Muhammad A. | 2017 |
| Road traversability analysis using network properties of roadmaps | IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems | Khan 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 consumption | Ecological Modelling | Manzoor T., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A. | 2016 |
| Managing river basins with thinking machines | 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, 21CW 2016 | Muhammad A. | 2016 |
| Gate Automation for Closed Loop Control of Distributary Irrigation Canals in the Indus Basin | Proceedings - 2015 13th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2015 | Ibrahim S., Soban M., Akhtar F., Muhammad A. | 2016 |
| A Smart Metering Approach towards Measuring Flows in Small Irrigation Outlets | Procedia Engineering | Riaz W., Ahmad Z., Muhammad A. | 2016 |
| IoT Enabled Analysis of Irrigation Rosters in the Indus Basin Irrigation System | Procedia Engineering | Muhammad A., Haider B., Ahmad Z. | 2016 |
| Comparative Frameworks for Risk Mitigation in Canal Networks | Procedia Engineering | Rehmat C.A., Muhammad A., Hassan N.U. | 2016 |
| A framework for aerial inspection of siltation in waterways | IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems | Anwar H., Muhammad A., Berns K. | 2015 |
| An extension of the Kalman Filter for a class of measurement models inspired by wide-baseline stereo | 2015 European Control Conference, ECC 2015 | Manzoor T., Muhammad A. | 2015 |
| Low power hydrometry for open channel flows | IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference) | Ahmad Z., Muhammad A. | 2014 |
| System identification of distributory canals in the indus basin | IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) | Aleem S.A., Muhammad A., Nasir H.A. | 2014 |
| Optimal control for sustainable consumption of natural resources | IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) | Manzoor T., Aseev S., Rovenskaya E., Muhammad A. | 2014 |
| Improving efficiency and reliability of gunshot detection systems | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Ahmed T., Uppal M., Muhammad A. | 2013 |
| Sample size reduction in groundwater surveys via sparse data assimilation | 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2013 | Hussain Z., Muhammad A. | 2013 |
| Modeling and simulation of surface-and-dive behavior of a bottlenose dolphin | 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013 | Sikandar U.B., Muhammad A. | 2013 |
| Disparity as a separate measurement in monocular SLAM | 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013 | Manzoor T., Muhammad A. | 2013 |
| Improvements in accuracy of single camera terrain classification | 2013 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013 | Abbas S.M., Muhammad A., Mehdi S.A., Berns K. | 2013 |