Keynote Speaker

Mohammad Tariqul Islam
Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Title: Planar Antenna: Pathways to miniaturization for sensing and communication technology
Abstract: Communication technology has smoothened our lives in the last few years. There are several communication systems applications in a numerous areas such as mobile and personal communications, radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless local area network (WLAN), remote sensing, microwave imaging etc. The scope of this talk is to highlight the research work performed by the speaker on planar antenna technologies. The effect of ground plane in the designing of UWB planar antenna is discussed and a new technique for bandwidth enhancement is presented first followed by the development of monopole and slot antennas for satellite and short distance wireless communication. Metamaterial can successfully miniature the antenna size which is a prime requisite of modern portable communication devices while the modified Vivaldi antenna aims to achieve higher gain and directionality suitable for imaging and remote sensing purposes. Microwave imaging (MI) is a promising candidate for breast tumour detection. We will also address the breast phantom development procedure with the dielectric measurement. The ultra-wideband has the advantage of deep penetration and higher resolution features. In this talk, I will discuss metamaterial loaded patch antenna focusing on imaging sensing capabilities. The presentation also introduces the basic principles of metamaterial loaded patch antennas prototype development and the integration to microwave imaging system to evaluate the unwanted tumor detection in the breast tissue. In this keynote speech, we are going to cover the current state-of-the-art technologies of metamaterial loaded patch antenna to collect backscattered signal and processing for immersive microwave breast imaging applications. After defining the basic requirement for imaging through metamaterial loaded patch antenna design, we will cover the array type imaging system development technique.

Biography: Mohammad Tariqul Islam is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and visiting Professor of Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He is the author and co-author of about 450 research journal articles, nearly 175 conference articles, and a few book chapters on various topics related to antennas, microwaves and electromagnetic radiation analysis with 18 inventory patents filed. Thus far, his publications have been cited 4500 times and his H-index is 34 (Source: Scopus). His Google scholar citation is 6050 and H-index is 38. He is the recipients of more than 40 research grants from the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Education, UKM research grant, international research grants from Japan and Saudi Arabia. His research interests include communication antenna design, radio astronomy antennas, satellite antennas, and electromagnetic radiation analysis.

Dr. Islam currently serves as the Guest Editor, SENSORS Journal, Associate Editor for IEEE Access and IET Electronics Letter. He received several International Gold Medal awards, a Best Invention in Telecommunication Award, a Special Award from Vietnam for his research and innovation, and Best Researcher Awards in 2010 and 2011 at UKM. He is the recipient of 2018 IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Excellent Award. He also won the best innovation award in 2011 and the Best Research Group in ICT niche in 2014 by UKM. He was the recipient of Publication Award from Malaysian Space Agency in 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009 and the Best Paper Presentation Award in 2012 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, (ISAP 2012) at Nagoya, Japan and in 2015 in IconSpace. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Chartered Professional Engineer-CEng, Member of IET (UK) and member of IEICE (Japan).