Abu Bakar Siddique

Lecturer/Electrical Engineer

Hs-2, St-2, Ahmed Garden, Yazdani Road, Harbanspura Lahore, Pakistan

+92 321 4023534

abubakar@net.edu.pk

Education

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Lahore. Specialization in electronics and communications. (April 2012)

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Lahore. Specialization in electronics and communications. (February 2006)

Master Thesis

Title: Joint brightness control and data transmission for visible light communication systems based on white LEDs.

Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Tahir (UET Lahore).

Description: Designed novel 'Variable Rate Multi-pulse Pulse Position Modulation (VR-MPPM)' codes for visible light communication to independently control brightness while transmitting data on white LED lights.

Publications

• [1] M. A. Anwar, Abu Bakar Siddique, and M. Tahir - "Relative self-calibration of wireless acoustic sensor networks using dual positioning mobile beacon", IEEE Systems Journal, Vol 12, No. 1, March 2018.

• [2] Abu Bakar Siddique and Muhammad Tahir - "Joint Rate-Brightness Control using Variable Rate MPPM for LED based Visible Light Communication Systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol 12, Issue 9, 2013.

• [3] Muhammad Tahir and Abu Bakar Siddique - "Optimal Brightness-Rate Control using VR-MPPM and its Spectral Analysis for VLC System", IEEE Communication Letters, Vol 16, Issue 7, Page 1125 - 1128, 2012.

• [4] Abu Bakar Siddique and Muhammad Tahir - "Bandwidth Efficient Multi-Level MPPM Encoding Decoding Algorithms for Joint Brightness-Rate Control in VLC Systems", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Austin, Texas, USA, 2014.

• [5] Abu Bakar Siddique and Muhammad Tahir - "Joint Error-Brightness Control Coding for LED Based VLC Link", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, 2014.

• [6] Abu Bakar Siddique and Muhammad Tahir - "Joint brightness control and data transmission for visible light communication systems based on white LEDs", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), pages 1026-1030, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2011.

• [7] Abu Bakar Siddique, Saadia Farid, and Muhammad Tahir – "Proof of bijection for combinatorial number system.", arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05794 (2016).

Research Experience

Feb 2015 - Nov 2015

Senior Research Officer, AI-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore.

Project: Multimodal Sensing Enabled Real-time Intelligent Wireless Camera Networks for Secure Spaces: Developed machine learning-based solution for real-time detection and classification of gunshot sounds on STM32F4-Discovery board.

Teaching Experience

Sep 2014 - Present

Lecturer: Rachna College of Engineering and Technology (A constituent college of University of Engineering and Technology Lahore).

Responsibilities: Delivering lectures, setting and grading student assignments, semester projects, and examination papers. Supervising final year student projects.

Courses Taught:

• Spring 2025: Digital Logic Design

• Fall 2024: Programming Fundamentals in C++

• Spring 2024: Digital Logic Design

• Fall 2024: Programming Fundamentals

• Spring 2023: Computer Networks, Digital Logic Design

• Fall 2023: Comp Org and Assembly Language, Data Science

• Spring 2022: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Digital Logic Design

• Fall 2022: Comp Org and Assembly Language, Internet of Things

• Spring 2021: Computer Networks, Digital Logic Design

• Fall 2021: Comp Org and Assembly Language, Information Security

• Spring 2020: Computer Networks, Analog and Digital Communications

• Fall 2020: Comp Org and Assembly Language, Computer Architecture

• Spring 2019: Analog and Digital Communications

• Fall 2019: Electromagnetics, Control Systems

• Spring 2018: Analog and Digital Communications, Circuit Analysis

• Fall 2018: Electromagnetics, Control Systems

• Spring 2017: Analog and Digital Communications

• Fall 2017: Control Systems, Electromagnetic Theory

• Fall 2016: Electromagnetics Theory, Engineering Economy

• Spring 2015: Electrical Technology

• Spring 2014: Object Oriented Programming (JAVA)

• Fall 2014: Applied Electricity (UET Chemical Engineering)

Nov 2012 - Jun 2014

Lecturer, University of Management and Technology Lahore.

Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate students of electrical engineering at UMT Lahore. Delivering lectures, setting and grading student assignments, projects, and examination papers.

Courses Taught:

• Spring 2014: Object Oriented Programming, Microprocessor Systems

• Spring 2013: Data Structures and Algorithms

• Fall 2013: Applied Thermodynamics

• Fall 2012: Electromagnetics Theory

Industrial Experience

Jan 2006 - Feb 2013

Operations Engineer, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL).

Responsibilities: Managed operations of PTCL's Wireless Local Loop (WLL) network in Gujranwala and Lahore. Worked in Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN), Digital Switching Network Development, Optical Fiber Access Network (OFAN) departments in the central zone. Supervised system upgrades, maintained subscriber and system databases, prepared and analyzed network health reports, developed software tools, troubleshooted network problems and subscriber issues, conducted training sessions for junior staff, managed staff duties, installed new sites, and re-homed old nodes for optimized network resource utilization. Conducted and participated in acceptance tests of new equipment installations.

Professional Skills and Tools

Programming: Unix Shell, SQL, R, Matlab, C, Java, Basic, PHP

FPGA: Xilinx Spartan 3E, Verilog, VHDL

Networking: TCP/IP, MGCP/ H.248, SIP, SIGTrans, SS7 Signaling, ISUP

Microcontrollers: Atmel 89S51, PIC 16F84, Texas Instruments MSP430F2013, TMS320C6713 DSP Processor, Embedded C and Assembly Language