Education and Early Career

Muhammad Zubair (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. (‘2015) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His Ph.D. research was carried out at the Antenna and EMC Laboratory (LACE), Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Turin, Italy, where he worked on computational electromagnetics related project funded by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in collaboration with Boston University, USA. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2015-2017) with the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore, where he has been working on various research projects related to fractional methods in electromagnetics funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)/ Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) and the Singapore Temasek Laboratories (TL). Before joining KAUST, he was an Associate Professor (2021-2023), Assistant Professor (2017-2021) of Electrical Engineering at the Information Technology University, Lahore. Also, he has been a Visiting Faculty (2017-2018) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.

Research Interests, Awards and Recognitions

Muhammad Zubair’s broad research interests are in the fractional methods for modeling & simulation of complex and autonomous systems, applied electromagnetics and photonics with a focus on developing models, materials and devices enabling innovative electronic and photonic technologies. Specific areas of interest currently include nanophotonic metamaterials, reconfigurable EM metasurfaces for 6G applications, biomedical imaging for early breast cancer and stroke detection and AI based electromagnetic design among others. His research has been published in more than 160 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is one of the pioneers in developing the space-fractional electromagnetic models for applications in disordered systems arising in electronics and photonics. He is principal author of the pioneering book on “Electromagnetic Fields and Waves in Fractional Dimensional Space” published by Springer, NY (2012). He has been selected for the URSI Young Scientist Award (YSA) in the URSI General Assembly (GASS), in 2021, and was awarded the Punjab Innovation Research Challenge Award (PIRCA), in 2021. He serves on the editorial board of PLOS One and International Journal of Antennas and Propagation and has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation.

Publications

His list of publications is available at Google Scholar Profile.

Education Profile

  • PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2015.