Muhammad Zubair

Dr. Muhammad Zubair is associated with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Information Technology University, Lahore as an Associate Professor, where he leads the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics Group of ITU MicroNano Lab. He has been a visiting faculty King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. Before joining ITU, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore. He received his PhD in Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) at Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. His PhD research was carried out at Antenna and EMC Lab (LACE) of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) in Turin-Italy where he worked on computational EM projects funded by Army Research Lab (ARL) in collaboration with Boston University, USA. During his postdoc, he has been working on various research projects related to fractional methods in electromagnetics funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)/ Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) and Singapore Temasek Laboratories (TL). He is the principal author of his book on Electromagnetic Fields and Waves in Fractional Dimensional Space published by Springer, NY. He has contributed over 50 scientific works in journals and conferences of international repute. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access, and Editorial Board Member for the IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, PLOS One and International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He continues to serve the scientific community as an invited book reviewer for Contemporary Physics (Taylor & Francis). He has been selected for the ‘URSI Young Scientist Award’ (YSA) in the URSI General Assembly (GASS), 2021; and has been awarded Punjab Innovation Research Challenge Award (PIRCA) 2021. Dr. Zubair is a Senior Member IEEE, Member IET, Member SPIE, Member OSA, and has been Advisor ITU SPIE Chapter, Co-Advisor ITU OPTICA Chapter. He also served on the AdCom of the IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Joint Local (ISB) Chapter.