Faculty Profile

Dr. Madiha Amjad
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Information Technology

  • Madiha Amjad has completed her Ph.D. in Information Technology in 2020 from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). Her Ph.D. research focused on the design and optimization of MAC layer schemes for Visible light communication and Wireless Sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities. During her Ph.D., she won two local Ph.D. scholarships; HEC indigenous Ph.D. Fellowship and NUST ICT Endowment Scholarship. She also qualified for INTACT Ph.D. mobility and Erasmus + Ph.D. mobility grant.
  • During her Erasmus + mobility at Frederick University, Cyprus, she worked on molecular communication and designed a low complexity mechanism for medium range molecular communication.
  • She is interested in designing and optimizing communication schemes to meet ever growing communication needs. Her research interests include design and optimization MAC layer schemes for hybrid VLC/RF networks, WSNs, and molecular Nano-networks.
  • Hobbies
    • Cooking
    • Watching dramas and movies
    • Playing badminton

  • Amjad, M., Lestas, M., Qureshi, H. K., Saeed, T., & Pitsillides, A. (2020, January). Concentration Gradient-based Routing for Molecular Nanonetworks. In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (pp. 336-341). IEEE.
  • Amjad, M., Qureshi, H.K., Hassan, S.A., Ahmad, A. and Jangsher, S., 2020. Optimization of MAC Frame Slots and Power in Hybrid VLC/RF Networks. IEEE Access, 8, pp.21653-21664.
  • Amjad, M., Qureshi, H.K. and Jangsher, S., Reserve before transmit (RBT): VLC MAC layer frame structure for 5G indoor internet applications. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, p.e3491.
  • Amjad, M., Qureshi, H.K. and Jangsher , S., 2019, April. Optimization of Slot Allocation in Hybrid VLC/RF Networks for Throughput Maximization. In 2019 Wireless Days (WD) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  • Amjad, M., Qureshi, H. K., Lestas, M., Mumtaz, S., & Rodrigues, J. J. (2018, June). Energy prediction-based MAC layer optimization for harvesting enabled WSNs in smart cities. In 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Hussain, M., Kim, K. H., Akbar, A. H., Khalid, S., Bang, S. J., Javed, M., & Amjad, M. (2016). A gateway deployment heuristic for enhancing the availability of sensor grids. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 12(8), 7595038.
  • Zafar, S., Akbar, A. H., Amjad, M., Shams, S., Chaudhry, S. A., Seuk, J., ... & Kim, K. H. (2010, October). BRIDGE: Border-node assistance for diffusion through a gating mechanism for collocated WPANs. In 2010 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET) (pp. 76-81). IEEE.

  • Wireless Network, Design and optimization of Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer, Wireless sensor networks/ Internet of Things (IoT), Visible light communication, Molecular Nano-networks

  • HEC indigenous scholarship
  • NUST ICT Endowment scholarship for Ph.D. (Availed)
  • INTACT Ph.D. Mobility grant
  • Erasmus + Ph.D. mobility grant (Availed)

  • IEEE Membership