Faculty Profile
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).
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| IoT Enabled Analysis of Irrigation Rosters in the Indus Basin Irrigation System | Procedia Engineering | Muhammad A., Haider B., Ahmad Z. | 2016 |
| A Smart Metering Approach towards Measuring Flows in Small Irrigation Outlets | Procedia Engineering | Riaz W., Ahmad Z., Muhammad A. | 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 |
| Optimal control for sustainable consumption of natural resources | IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) | Manzoor T., Aseev S., Rovenskaya E., 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Development of a Low-Power Smart Water Meter for Discharges in Indus Basin Irrigation Networks | Communications in Computer and Information Science | Ahmad Z., Asad E.U., Muhammad A., Ahmad W., Anwar 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 |
| System identification of Khaira distributory | 2013 16th International Multi Topic Conference, INMIC 2013 | Aleem 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 driving | 2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2012 | Ahsan U., Fuzail M., Raza Q., Muhammad A. | 2012 |
| Locating leaks & dumps in open channels with minimal sensing | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications | Nasir H.A., Muhammad A. | 2012 |
| Model-driven performance analysis of large scale irrigation networks | Proceedings - 2012 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2012 | Tariq M.U., Nasir H.A., Muhammad A., Wolf M. | 2012 |
| Semester | Title | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Robot Motion Planning | 1801 |
| Summer Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1703 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Digital Control Systems | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1702 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Optimal Control Theory | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1701 |
| Summer Semester 2016-17 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1603 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Senior Project II | 1602 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Independent Study | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Senior Project I | 1601 |
| Summer Semester 2015-16 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1503 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Digital Control Systems | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Master's Thesis II | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Feedback Control Systems | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Feedback Control Systems | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Independent Study | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Feedback Control Systems Lab | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Feedback Control Systems Lab | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project II | 1502 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Robot Motion Planning | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Master's Thesis II | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Master's Thesis I | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project I | 1501 |
| Summer Semester 2014-15 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1403 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Topics in Systems and Control | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Mobile Robotics | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis II | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Feedback Control Systems Lab | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project II | 1402 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Digital Control Systems | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis II | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis I | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Master's Project | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project I | 1401 |
- Past Courses
Semester Title Code Summer Semester 2013-14 Doctoral Thesis Research 1303 Spring Semester 2013-14 Robot Motion Planning 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Master's Thesis I 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Master's Project 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Feedback Control Systems 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Feedback Control Systems Lab 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Senior Project II 1302 Fall Semester 2013-14 Digital Control Systems 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Doctoral Thesis Research 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Senior Project I 1301 Spring Semester 2012-13 Master's Thesis II 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Doctoral Thesis Research 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Parameter and State Estimation 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Feedback Control Systems 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 MS Thesis II 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Master's Thesis I 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Master's Project 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Senior Project II 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Senior Project I 1202 Fall Semester 2012-13 Master's Thesis I 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 MS Thesis I 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 Senior Project I 1201 Summer Semester 2011-12 Master's Thesis II 1103 Spring Semester 2011-12 Feedback Control Systems 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Geometric Mechanics and Control 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Feedback Control Systems Lab 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 MS Thesis II 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 MS Thesis I 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Master's Thesis II 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Master's Thesis I 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Senior Project II 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Senior Project I 1102 Fall Semester 2011-12 Topics in Robotics & Control: Robot Dynamics & Control 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 MS Thesis I 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 Master's Thesis I 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 Senior Project I 1101 Spring Semester 2010-11 Feedback Control Systems 1002 Spring Semester 2010-11 MS Thesis II 1002 Spring Semester 2010-11 MS Thesis I 1002 Spring Semester 2010-11 Signals and Systems 1002 Fall Semester 2010-11 Introductory Electronics Lab 1001 Fall Semester 2010-11 Topics in Robotics & Control: Robot Motion Planning 1001 Fall Semester 2010-11 MS Thesis I 1001 Fall Semester 2010-11 Senior Project I 1001 Spring Semester 2009-10 Biology 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Advanced Graph Theory 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 MS Thesis I 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Feedback Control Design 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Senior Project II 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Signals and Systems 902 Fall Semester 2009-10 Introductory Electronics Lab 901 Fall Semester 2009-10 Senior Project I 901 Summer Qtr 2008-09 Independent Study 804 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Oscillations and Waves 803 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Independent Study 803 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Information Theory 803 Winter Qtr 2008-09 Electricity & Magnetism 802