About

 

Shahid Masud received BSc Electrical Engineering from EME College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 1990, MEngSc in Electronics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1992 and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, Belfast, UK in 1999. He has been a receipient of prestigious AIDAB EMSS scholarship (Australia) and Commonwealth scholarship (UK). He was a Senior Design Engineer at Amphion Semiconductor Ltd. (later Conexant / NXP Semicondutor) before joining LUMS in 2002. His research interests include design and implementation of DSP Systems and computer architecture. He has published over fifty refereed papers in major international journals and conferences and holds three patents in VLSI design. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IET and a Chartered Engineer.

 

Research

Current research is explained through the following links:

 

• Mentor Graphics Chair in Embedded Systems

• ICT R&D Funded Wavelet Based Video Conferencing Project

• Mixed Signal Designs using FPGAS - Frequency Synthesizer and A/D Converters

• Image Correlation and Template Matching using FPGA based Hardware

• Software Defined Radios

 

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Electronic Systems
• Digital System Design using Verilog and FPGA
• Computer Organization and Assembly Language
• Digital Logic Design
• Digital Signal Processing
• Circuits and Electronics
• Real-time DSP Laboratory
• Electrical Workshop

 

Graduate

• Advanced Computer Architecture
• VLSI Design in CMOS
• VLSI Implementation of DSP Algorithms
• Embedded Systems using RTOS and FPGA

 

Tel: +92 42 3560 8000

Fax: +92 42 3560 8306