Degree : Ph.D

University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

1983

October 2013- to date,                          

Professor,

Dept. of EEE, University of Asia Pacific (UAP),

Dhaka, Bangladesh

January 2005 – June 2013,                   

Professor,

Telecommunications & ICT, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT),

Bangkok, Thailand

July 1996 – December 2004,

Associate Professor,

Telecommunications, AIT

September 1994 - June 1996,

Visiting Faculty,

Telecommunications, AIT

September 1995, 

Professor (appointed while on leave to AIT),

Dept.  of  Electrical  & Electronic  Engineering,  Bangladesh  University of  Engineering and  Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

March 1987 -  September 1995,

Associate  Professor,  

Dept.  of  Electrical  & Electronic  Engineering,  Bangladesh  University of Engineering and Technology (BUET),  Dhaka, Bangladesh.

July 1984  -  March 1987,                      

Assistant  Professor,

Dept.  of Electrical  & Electronic  Engineering,  Bangladesh University of  Engineering and  Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

March 1984  -  July 1984,          

Assistant  Professor, 

Dept.  of  Applied  Physics &  Electronics,  Dhaka  University,  Bangladesh

Communications Engineering related courses in BUET, AIT and UAP.

Masters’ Theses Supervised:

• 7 Masters' Theses  Supervised in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• 140 Masters' Theses  Supervised in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand

Ph.D. Theses Supervised:

• 13 Ph.D. theses supervised as Chair and Co-Chair in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.

Masters and Ph.D Examination Committee Membership:

• Served as member in more than 200 other Masters Examination Committees in Telecommunications and other related programs.
• Served in about 20 Ph.D. Examinations Committees as member in Telecommunications and other programs.
• Served as External Examiner in many Ph.D. and Masters’ Theses for universities in Thailand, Malaysia, India and Australia.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• 1998 to 2002, Program Coordinator (Head of the Department)  of Telecommunications Program, AIT

• 1999 to 2003, Chair, School of Engineering and Technology (SET) Forum and SET Acting Dean on numerous occasion
• Served as Chair and Member of many institute/school committees .
• 2010-2012, Elected Chair of the Academic Senate, AIT
• Served in SET Faculty Promotion Panel
• Served in AIT Faculty Evaluation and Promotion Panel

Professional Experience

• EEE departmental Coordinator for Research, Testing and Consultancy Services (BRTC) of BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1988- 1992
• Served as a Team member for Multi-purpose Cyclone Shelter Project, Bangladesh.

• Consultant on Fundamental Survey of Satellite Development Requirement in Thailand and Malaysia Project, National Space Development Agency (NASDA), Japan, (through Ably Consulting Ltd.), Japan.
• Organizing Chair, The 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications WPMC 2000 at Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2000
• Project Director, Certificate Course in Information Technology for the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka in 2001
• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Project on Dissemination of Mobile Communication Research in Asia-Pacific Region in 2002.
• Reviewer of IEEE Journal articles consistently, of numerous International Conferences. Served in the Technical Program Committee on numerous occasions. Reviewer of Research Proposals of Swedish Research Council, Sweden
• Member, Advisory Board, WPMC;
• Member, Advisory Committee, New Generation Mobile Projects, Communication Research Lab, MPHPT, Japan.
• Chair, IEEE Communications Society, Thailand Chapter, 2003.  
• Served as Evaluator of Swedish Research Council’s Research Grant Proposals.
• Helped in curriculum development in Telecommunications, ICT and Electronics at various universities in the region, for example, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan, Institute of Technology, Indonesia, BRAC University in Bangladesh, for ITC, Cambodia etc.
• Taught in AIT Extension on Application of  ICT in E-governance

MEMBERSHIP  IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

                        * Member, IEEE, USA.

                        * Member, IEICE, Japan

                        * Fellow, Institution of Engineers (IEB), Bangladesh.

                        * Member, Bangladesh Computer Society.

                        * Founder-Member, Bangladesh Electronic Society.

                  * Member of the Advisory Board, WPMC, Japan

                  * Member of the Advisory Committee of the New Generation Mobile                   Projects, Communications Research Lab, MPHPT, Japan,

                  for 2002-2004

                        * Vice-Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Thailand Chapter,                                   2001-2003

                        * Chair, IEEE Communications Society, Thailand Chapter, 2003-2004

• Wireless Systems and Networks
• Multiple Access Techniques & Protocols
• Disaster Warning and Post-disaster Communications
• Applications of ICT in Sustainable Development
• Mobile Communications
• Satellite Communications
• Signal Processing

Book:    Sawasd Tantaratana and Kazi M. Ahmed, “Wireless Applications of Spread Spectrum Systems”, Selected Readings, IEEE Publications, 737 pages, ISBN 0-7803-2340-8, 1998.

Book-Chapter: Abdur Rahim, Nemai Chandra Karmakar and Kazi M. Ahmed,                     “Blind Channel Estimation in MIMO for MC-CDMA”, Handbook         of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems, Ed. Nemai Chandra            Karmakar, John Wiley, 2010.

            * Over 200 journal and conference papers in various international,             regional and national levels.