Current Position

  • Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, September 2018 - present
  • Assistant Professor, National University, Pakistan


Education 

  • Ph.D., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jun 2011 – Dec 2016
  • M.Sc. in Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2008-2009. Part of European MERIT Masters Double-Degree Program
  • M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, 2008-2009. Part of European MERIT Masters Double-Degree Program
  • B.E. Electronics Engineering, Hamdard University, Pakistan, 2003-2006. 

Research Interests

  • Tracking of Sparse Signals.
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Bayesian Prediction
  • Sparse Recovery
     

Selected Publications

F. Sana, F. Ravanelli, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, and I. Hoteit, “A Sparse Bayesian Imaging Technique for Efficient Recovery of Reservoir Channels With Time-Lapse Seismic Measurements,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 2242–2254, Jun. 2016.
F. Sana, K. Katterbauer, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, and I. Hoteit, “Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Enhanced Recovery of Sparse Geological Structures With the Ensemble Kalman Filter,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1710–1724, Apr. 2016.
F. Sana, T. Ballal, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, and I. Hoteit, “Low-complexity wireless monitoring of respiratory movements using ultra-wideband impulse response estimation,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 10, pp. 192–200, Mar. 2014.
F. Sana, K. Katterbauer, T. Al-Naffouri, and I. Hoteit, “Enhanced recovery of subsurface geological structures using compressed sensing and the Ensemble Kalman filter,” 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Jul. 2015.